Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between hijacking suspect Mohamed Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place in April just before the Iraqi was expelled for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status.

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However, the talks are being boycotted by Abdel-Wahid al-Nur, the leader of the largest faction of the SLM, as well as by the leader of the other main Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim.

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