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"Able Danger": is Defense Department report a whitewash?(INSIDER REPORT)
On September 21, the Defense Department's inspector general issued a long-awaited report dismissing claims by military officers and defense contractor employees that a secret intelligence operation known as "Able Danger" had identified and tracked Mohamed Atta and many of his confederates more than a year before the 9/11 terror attacks. According to Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, in September 2000 the Able Danger team initiated at least three separate efforts to get its information on the hijackers to the FBI "so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists."
Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Schaffer, one of the principal members of Able Danger, stated that Able Danger had identified five al-Qaeda cells, including two of the three cells that ultimately would be used to pull off the 9/11 attacks. Schaffer said he had set up one meeting with the FBI only to have it canceled. All of his successive efforts were thwarted by Pentagon superiors.
The new report disputes both ...
- Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have...
- Magazine article from: National Review September 26, 2005 700+ words
...Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have said that Mohamed Atta was identified as a potential terrorist...lost Atta? Prior to 9/11, the Defense Department strictly interpreted regulations forbidding...
- Looking For a Link.(Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz tries, but fails,...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Isikoff, --Michael August 19, 2002 700+ words
...him on claims by Czech intelligence that 9-11 hijacker Mohamed Atta had met last year in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence agent...account for Atta's whereabouts on the day in question. A Defense Department official says Wolfowitz wasn't trying to pressure the...
- MOHAMED ATTA - SOLDIER OF TERROR Profiles the Odyssey of an Assassin Who Hid in...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 8, 2002 700+ words
...attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. MUGSHOTS: MOHAMED ATTA - SOLDIER OF TERROR, premieres on Sunday, January 13 at...with other radicals, eventually began developing his plan. MOHAMED ATTA - SOLDIER OF TERROR was produced by Parco International for...
- Friends recall Mohamed Atta as a quiet, modern Muslim.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rosenberg, Carol September 22, 2001 700+ words
CAIRO _ As a young man, Mohamed Atta was a modern Muslim, well educated and from a comfortable...Trade Center. "I saw the picture. I said, That's not Mohamed Atta _ that's Mohamed Mohammed al Amir. I couldn't believe...
- Atta chart surfaced soon after Sept. 11.(Mohamed Atta)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Crewdson, John September 27, 2005 700+ words
...by the project the year before included Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, whose name and photo had quickly become recognizable around...Shaffer said he has no doubt the face in the picture was Mohamed Atta the hijacker. "No," he said. "Same guy." Within days...
- Race for security: Government reorganizes to stop the next Mohamed Atta.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) August 29, 2002 700+ words
...honed it into a management tool that got the job done. When Mohamed Atta went about the secret planning and execution of the Sept...study in the United States. In hopes of stopping the next Mohamed Atta, the nation is on the verge of its most comprehensive government...
- German couple recalls life with terror suspect Mohamed Atta.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 6, 2003 700+ words
...hijackers were beamed around the world, the couple recognized the man with the impassive stare as their former houseguest, Mohamed Atta, who piloted the first plane to hit the World Trade Center. The couple's anguish over their efforts to bring Atta to...
- Iraq rejects insinuations.(intelligence services contact with Mohamed...
- Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest September 28, 2001 700+ words
...Affairs Minister Naji Sabri said on 19 September. He was commenting on reports attributed to unnamed US officials saying that Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers of the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre, had met an Iraqi intelligence...
