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TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.

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