Clearly, this result is not proof of the cited assertion.
The letter states: "Even to cite assertions by Israelis that 'there was no Palestinian identity until the Arabs invented it' is absurd.
He cited recent assertions by Pakistani officials that key Taliban leaders had never been in Pakistan and that the Taliban insurgency was part of a domestic uprising inside Afghanistan by the Pashtun ethnic group.
Judge Mukasey cited Government assertions in court papers that Mr. Elbarasse is "a Hamas operative" and other evidence that he shared a bank account with Mohammed Abu Marzook, the Hamas political leader jailed in New York during an extradition battle with Israel before he was released to Jordan last year.
The report cited similar assertions by Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, including one that was published in City Journal this year: Mr. Kerik said he had encountered "inexcusable rudeness" and a "warped idea of what it means to be a public servant" among some officers.
He has cited the assertion that Mr. Atta met with Ahmed al-Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer, just five months before the attacks as possible evidence of such cooperation.
The judge also cited an assertion from the L.A. Unified School District, the nation's second-largest, that it would like to fire 350 teachers, but restrictions got in the way.
Mack cited an assertion in the Washington Post Co.'s motion last year: "The allegation that it 'mandate[d]... predatory and deceptive recruitment and enrollment practices' is unsupported, and the isolated abuses alleged are, in any event, immaterial".
He cited the assertion of social critic Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that the American public could retain huge amounts of detailed information when it came to sports but not on international affairs or domestic problems.
Contradictions in Mr. Zimmerman's story abound, they said, citing these assertions from the defendant: How could Mr. Martin have grabbed for the gun and not left DNA on it?
