Editing Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta (section)

==Biography==
A naturalized [[United States|US]] citizen, Mahmoud Atta arrived at [[Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela)|Simon Bolivar Airport]], Venezuela's main international airport in June 1987. He was coming from [[Mexico]], and was monitored by the DISIP Venezuelan Counterintelligence Service. Mahmoud Atta was responsible for [[Abu Nidal Organisation|Abu Nidal]] clandestine terrorist operations in [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]] countries. From the airport, Atta took a taxi to the city of [[Valencia, Carabobo|Valencia]], State of Carabobo, Venezuela, where he had high level Abu Nidal officials contacts.

After seven days of surveillance and monitoring his calls, the apartment was raided by the DISIP commandos unit, and Atta was arrested, and transferred to Caracas, Venezuela. With all the information collected by the surveillance, Atta was interrogated by the Venezuelan DISIP Counterintelligence Department. 
Venezuelan Counterintelligence officials found a false bottom in his suitcase, finding two false US passports, and letters hand-written by Atta. Addresses, telephone numbers, names, and countries of the Abu Nidal Terrorist Organization were found in the false bottom of his suitcase. Atta was deported by the government of Venezuela to the U.S. and arrested by the FBI. 
After that, Atta was extradited to Israel in 1990, tried and sentenced to [[life in prison]].<ref>Jerusalem Post: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001002751/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/89293132.html?dids=89293132:89293132&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+8,+2001&author=ARIEH+O%27SULLIVAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=03&desc=Internet+rumors+aside,+WTC+attacker+not+held+by+Israel Internet rumors aside, WTC attacker not held by Israel], November 8, 2001</ref>