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Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti

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Tahir Jalil Habbush al Takriti (Arabic: a former Iraqi intelligence official who ) is served under the regime of Saddam Hussein. He is currently a fugitive.[1]

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1 Forged 2003 Habbush letter 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Forged 2003 Habbush letter

Main article: Habbush letter According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Mohamed Atta is mentioned in a letter allegedly discovered in Iraq handwritten by Tahir Jalil Habbush al Takriti, former chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Habbush's July 1, 2001, memo is labeled "Intelligence Items" and is addressed: "To the President of the Ba'ath Revolution Party and President of the Republic, may God protect you." It continues: Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian national, came with Abu Ammer [the real name behind this Arabic alias remains a mystery] and we hosted him in Abu Nidal's house at al-Dora under our direct supervision. We arranged a work program for him for three days with a team dedicated to working with him...He displayed extraordinary effort and showed a firm commitment to lead the team which will be responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy. [2] The memo is believed to be a forgery. According to Newsweek, "U.S. officials and a leading Iraqi document expert [say] the document is most likely a forgery, part of a thriving new trade in dubious Iraqi documents that has cropped up in the wake of the collapse of Saddam's regime."[3] In The Way of the World, author Ron Suskind alleges that the Bush administration itself ordered the forgery. Habbush then supposedly signed the letter, having already been resettled in Jordan with $5 million from the US.[4]

See also
Mohamed Atta's alleged Prague connection

References
1. ^ [1] (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/US_Government_mostwanted_Iraqi_playing_cards.jpg) 2. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200312150842.asp 3. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3741646/ 4. ^ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html
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External links
Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1079769,00.html) As war loomed, Iraq offered deal (http://www.iht.com/articles/116629.htm) US 'rejected Iraqi concessions' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3247461.stm) Last-minute Iraq offer cited (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/06/last_minute_iraq_offer_cited/) Did Saddam accept exile offer before invasion? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9864433/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tahir_Jalil_Habbush_al-Tikriti&oldid=483404334" Categories: Iraqi generals People of the Iraq War IraqUnited States relations Causes and prelude of the Iraq War Living people This page was last modified on 22 March 2012 at 18:32. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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