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Iraq is a secular regime. Although intelligence services have added Islamic terrorist groups that target Western interests, there is no evidence to indicate that Iraq has supported Al Qaeda . Iraq’s support for Islamist and other secular terrorism as well criminal organizations increased during and after the Gulf War. Through their various intelligence agencies , using diplomatic facilities such as the DPL mailbag , they moved money , arms and explosives to countries ranging from Thailand to the Philippines and Sri Lanka with the intention of attacking U.S. and allied targets. It is believed that Osama approached the Iraqi government twice in Turkey and in Egypt before Baghdad responded. Although it was suspected that meetings between Al Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence officers took place in Prague ( between Mohammed Atta and Ahmad Ibrahim Samir al0Ani, a veteran espionage practitioner who operated under diplomatic cover) this had now been denied by the Czech authorities. Atta’s last deperature point for the U.S. before 9/11 was Prague which he left on June 3, 2000. After failing to enter the Czech Republic, through Prague’s Ruzyne airport on May 30, 2000 due to inadequate documentation , he entered by bus , this time with correct papers on June 2 . A year later , in June 2001 , the Czechs expelled al-Ami for keeping in regular contact and perhaps sponsoring Islamists planning to blow up the Prague headquarters of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.

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