(Newsweek) Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball - Eight months before the September 11 terror attacks, top conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh received a four-week visa to Iran and then flew to Tehran - an apparent stop-off point on his way to meet with al-Qaeda chiefs in Afghanistan, according to German law-enforcement documents. A U.S. intelligence analysis indicates that Iranian border inspectors were instructed not to stamp the passports of al-Qaeda members entering and exiting their country.
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