PROGRESS OF A DIFFERENT NATURE.

Al-Ani's capture has been considered key to U.S. efforts to try to link Iraq with al Qaeda - and possibly the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults.

While both the CIA and FBI have been unable to prove the April 2001 meeting between al-Ani and Atta took place, some top Czech officials have insisted it occurred - and they say the pair also powwowed a year earlier.

Al-Ani was a vice consul at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague at the time.

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