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Writer claims cracks developing in 9/11 Commission Account

The writer Edward Jay Epstein claims in an op ed in the Wall Street Journal that the Spanish judge investigating terrorism has found that Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohamed Atta lied when they claimed they had seen no one else but each other on visits to Spain. Epstein says this suggests that it's possible others were involved in the 9/11 plot than has previously been disclosed, including perhaps, people in Spain, Iran, Hezbollah, Malaysia, Iraq, the Czech Republic or Pakistan.

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