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Mohammad Atta's Request For A Loan: Hoax Or Real?Some questioned whether Mark Steyn's account of Mohammad Atta's meeting with a Florida bureaucrat named Johnelle Bryant was real or if it's been debunked. It comes down to how much credence you put on a passport. Did Atta have multiple passports? The FBI says no, but as Steyn points out, the FBI also wants to debunk the alleged Prague visit based on the fact that Atta's cell phone made a call from the US at that time. As if he couldn't have left it with a confederate when he jetted over to Prague. Not like the cell phone would have worked there, anyhow. Anyway, Steyn, I'm guessing, recounted a story he had heard and didn't realize had been challenged, and does his best to rehabilitate that story. It does appear that this story is officially doubted. But, as Snopes would say, I'm putting it in the "undetermined" category. Thanks to Arthur. posted by Ace at 12:31 PM
CommentsWhat does Johnelle Bryant say about the episode? Wouldn't she be the best source for confirming or disputing Steyn's account? Has anyone even tried to follow up with her? Blogger preferred, of course. Posted by: Pat on August 1, 2005 01:05 PM
If there is some truth to this, that assumes the entry dates were wrong, and god knows how many 10's of millions went into tracking and reconstructing the movements of the hijackers that failed to place Atta or the other hijacker in the April-May timeframe that Bryant claims. The other thing a lot rests on is Johnelle Bryant's story that Atta totally broke cover and became A Raging Islamoid Madman dropping clues right and left of his nefarious intent. This is the same guy that lived amidst Germans for years without drawing suspicion and was described as "the quiet neighbor" while here in the US. The only story the breaks from the "nice, but women-phobic" Atta cover was his being a prick and leaving an airplane rental in the wrong place and walking away. If the two meetings with Atta - the raving Atta and the Atta in unclever disguise - are true, and that assumes what we know of his movements is all wrong, the possibility still exists that Ms. Johnelle Bryant is a bit of a fabulist - inventing an exchange to juice up the story and give her GS-9 humdrum life some pizazzz! No one else was in the room, no one else in her office recollects Bryant talking about the wild conversation she had, the subsequent "in disguise" visit. Brant herself has been "unavailable for interviews" since her ABC day in the sun two years ago. No co-worker will comment on her stability or reputation for veracity. Bryant has been reassigned to the Boonies. Odds are Steyn was had. Posted by: Cedarford on August 1, 2005 02:23 PM
Any doubts I had about Steyn's story have now been removed. Posted by: BrewFan on August 1, 2005 02:27 PM
If it was a Cingular or T-Mobile phone (GSM) the phone could work from Prague. I've used mine in Kuwait, Bahrain, Italy and England. Just my 2 cents. Posted by: Kevin on August 1, 2005 02:48 PM
Steyn's recounting isn't the first place I heard this story. I remember hearing it at least two years ago, and perhaps not that long after 9/11...for whatever that's worth. Posted by: Ken Hall on August 1, 2005 03:24 PM
Hmm...don't you think this story has a resonance? Does to me. Case closed. Posted by: bobonthebellbuoy on August 1, 2005 05:28 PM
Ken Hall, I too heard the story first about two years ago, but it wasn't quite as wild as the story that Steyn related. As I heard it Atta was still somewhat gynophobic but after that the stories diverged. In the story I heard he presented as straight-forward business plan to open up a crop dusting business and seemed quite rational about the whole thing. Frankly, as a civil service employee, anyone acting like he was proported to in the article would have been escorted off the premises and possibly under guard. We're not that stupid. Posted by: rabidfox on August 2, 2005 11:50 AM
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Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.
One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate.
Antisemitism? In the anti-Nazi Democrat Party? Sounds crazy, I know, but apparently the anti-Nazi Party wants to eliminate Jews. Henry Rosoff Oh my Totenkopf Tattoo, that is a DRUBBING! I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!
Democrat Senator Rueben Gallego, who served his wife with divorce papers when she was nine months pregnant so that he could marry his side-piece, counsels us that we should not judge Graham Platner for his infidelity because these things are personal matters, Racists:
Sahil Kapur I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into." Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign. And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life: ![]()
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Thanks to Joyenz The rocket's enormous engines are fueled by "the volcanic heterosexual lust between James Talarico and his Neighbor With a Uterus 'girlfriend'" I hope Amazon's rocket works better than the Amazon Prime app does as far as allowing people to watch the black and white version of "Spider-Noir" From the CA Post: Thanks to beckster
Just like "Spartacus" Corey Booker, now that James Talarico is running for a higher office, he unveils his previously-unknown "girlfriend" and hooboy, it just so happens she used to work for him, and, get this, likes to "dance the night away" at gay bars
Gee I wonder where they might have met Oh and she's a vegan When Corey Booker needed a "girlfriend," he conjured up known LGBTQ activist Rosario Dawson. How convenient that when these guys need a girlfriend to show off to the normies that just happen to find an activist with a strong history of and interest in Supporting Gay Men But seriously, this James Talarico romance with a Neighbor with a Uterus is a love story for the ages. The passion of their lovemaking is hotter than a blue star with a core of Primordial Sex Atoms created in the Big Bang
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"Teen" charged with five counts of attempted murder after attempting to run down police officers with his car in yet another "teen takeover" permitted by woke racist incompetent Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson
Johnson's response to the "teen takeovers" of streets and businesses that he refuses to make arrests to stop is to go after social media companies for not deleting messages to coordinate the "teen takeovers." Um, they're supposed to find these messages and delete them in real time? It makes no sense but he has to offer an "alternative" plan to just arresting lawbreakers -- which he absolutely refuses to do, saying we "can't arrest our way out" of rampant crime.
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James Talarico He's referring to three mass attacks committed by white men in, oh, the past six or eight years. There were a huge number of mass shootings and bombings he had to skip over to cherry pick three committed by white men. Which kind of makes me think that "white men" are not the greatest terrorist threat in our country. No, I doubt he'll be a guest on Tucker Carlson. The only thing that Tucker clings to that he claims makes him "conservative" is a palpable hatred of gays. Any time there's a communist enslaving their population and executing dissenters and conservatives, Tucker praises that dictator by saying "at least he represses the homos!"
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