Mohammed Atta : Entrepeneur

I am continously amazed at the reports of Daniel Hopsicker's bizarrely named "Mad Cow Morning News" on Mohammed Atta. First of all, he ignores the fact that he is not the only person named Mohammed, secondly his claims have absolutely no consistency nor credible evidence.

I found his new claims rather amusing, he is now alleging that Atta was listed as the President of a corporation named Karam LLC in Orlando in 2001, according to the state of Florida, listing his address as Florida.

Government records in Florida reveal that Mohamed Atta was the President of a company in Orlando with a business partner whose web of dummy shell companies appear characteristic of the type used in terrorist financing and illicit money laundering, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

The website run by the Florida Department of State shows none of this, so I am not sure where he is getting his documents, but this whole thing is just silly. For starters, we have nothing at all to show this is the same Atta, he even spells his name differently, and if this were some suspicious activity, why would he continue to be using his name on official filings, even after September 11th? Not like that name doesn't stand out... just a bit.


A search of the business database Hoover's actually does show this company, they run an IHOP franchise in Orlando.

















Those are some pretty ominous pancakes.

Update: It doesn't show up under its name, or if you search for Atta, but the paperwork Hopsicker cites does show up if you search for Erroudani. Interestingly enough it still shows "Mohamed Atta", at the IHOP as of last year. I hear Elvis works there as a dishwasher too.

Deniers Try to Dig Up Dirt on Stephen Lemons

This is actually pretty funny. Turns out the kooks are trying to get Stephen Lemons fired. Utilizing their usual crack (pipe) investigative skills, they discovered that one Stephen Lemons of Clinton, Massachusetts had recently served 3.5 years for molesting a 15-year-old boy. Of course, to the 9-11 Deniers, there could only be one Stephen Lemons in the world. That the Stephen Lemons in question looks nothing like our guy (for starters, he appears to be 20 years older or so) is a mere bagatelle, a distraction to throw them off the scent. That the Massachusetts pervert story is from January 29, 2007, and that our man penned his initial column on Eric D. Williams' Holocaust Denial on February 1, 2007 simply shows that he had his escape to Phoenix planned well beforehand.

Failing in this, the Deniers have taken to writing letters to the editor regarding his treatment of Bob McIlvaine, the father of a 9-11 victim, but that isn't going to work either.

BTW, on the subject of people with the same names, an emailer sent me some information that seems pertinent in this regard. Turns out there are at least two Mohammed Attas living in Norway, one in Sweden, and astoundingly five in the United States. Boy, it must suck to have that name here in the USA!