MZOUDI

Thomas Nephew has a good post on this already (and he's been following this case for a while), but WaPo has a story on Abdelghani Mzoudi today, here. It appears that there is some late-breaking evidence released by German authorities that looks bad for Mzoudi (accused of aiding in the 9/11 WTC and Pentagon plot) -- if the facts alleged are true. An Iranian intelligence agent is reported to have connected Mzoudi to the plot and to have contended that he (Mzoudi) was the target of leak-preempting al-Qaeda assassination designs after he was picked up by German police. The intelligence is not sourced very well, though.

One part of the story is potentially quite important, however. Here is the key quote:

By the [unidentified] man's account, a department of the Iranian intelligence service had worked with al Qaeda, but he gives little or no explanation of what such cooperation entailed. Mzoudi at one point spent time in Iran, the man reportedly said. The source close to the defense denied he had been there.

I am surprised that the hawks in and around the administration are not all over this one.