rol, they restrict -- in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society" (ibid.).
"Czechs Confirm Iraqi Agent Met With Terror Ringleader" trumpets a headline in the New York Times on October 27, 2001 with a by-line by Patrick Tyler (New York Times 10/27/01). The story asserts that 9/11 hijacking leader Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April of 2001 -- thus neatly providing the Saddam Hussein-Al Qaeda connection so desperately sought by Bush Administration hawks as the smoking gun to clinch their argument for pre-emptive war. As the Times so usefully put it for the neocons beating the drums of war: "aafter weeks of speculation and conflicting reports about Iraqi contacts with a cell leader who plotted the attacks, today's confirmation raised fresh questions about whether Iraq's foreign intelligence arm in recent years established ties with Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's organization" (ibid.).
Except this never happened. A year later the Times published an article reporting that Czech President Vlaclav Havel "concluded that there is no evidence to confirm earlier reports" concerning the alleged Iraqi-Atta meeting, without acknowledging the paper's responsibility in dissemhnating misinformation that played into the hands of the War Party (New York Times 10/21/02
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