“On October 21, 2002, the New York Times reported in a front-page piece that Czech president Vaclav Havel ‘quietly told the White House he has concluded that there is no evidence to confirm earlier reports’ of the meeting [in Prague between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer]. The Czechs continue to deny Havel telephoned the White House to distance his government from the controversy. ‘The phone call never happened,’ says a senior Czech official. ‘It never happened.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 149