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'''Able Danger''', according to [[Curt Weldon]], Republican Congressman and Representative of Pennsylvania, and former defense intelligence official, was a "small, highly classified military intelligence unit" which identified [[Mohammed Atta]] and "three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of [[Al Qaeda]] operating in the United States ... more than a year before the [[terrorist]] attacks of [[September 11, 2001]].
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'''Able Danger''', according to [[Curt Weldon]], Republican Congressman and Representative of Pennsylvania, and former defense intelligence official, was a "small, highly classified military intelligence unit" which identified [[Mohammed Atta]] and "three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of [[Al Qaeda]] operating in the United States ... more than a year before the [[terrorist]] attacks of [[September 11, 2001]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ei=5090&en=bc4d02afa0a46012&ex=1281240000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all]
  
 
==According to Weldon==  
 
==According to Weldon==  
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"In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's [[Special Operations Command]] that the information be shared with the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]," Weldon said August 15, 2005.
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"In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's [[Special Operations Command]] that the information be shared with the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]," Weldon [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ei=5090&en=bc4d02afa0a46012&ex=1281240000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all said] August 15, 2005.
  
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"The recommendation was rejected and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas."  
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"The recommendation was rejected and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ei=5090&en=bc4d02afa0a46012&ex=1281240000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all]
  
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The ''New York Times'' reported that [[Al Felzenberg]], former spokesman for the [[National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States]], "confirmed that members of its staff, including [[Philip Zelikow]], the executive director, were told about the program on an overseas trip in October 2003 that included stops in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]. But Mr. Felzenberg said the briefers did not mention Mr. Atta's name. ... The [http://www.whitehouse.gov/wmd/index.html report] produced by the commission last year does not mention the episode."
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The ''New York Times'' reported that [[Al Felzenberg]], former spokesman for the [[National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States]], "confirmed that members of its staff, including [[Philip Zelikow]], the executive director, were told about the program on an overseas trip in October 2003 that included stops in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]. But Mr. Felzenberg said the briefers did not mention Mr. Atta's name. ... The [http://www.whitehouse.gov/wmd/index.html report] produced by the commission last year does not mention the episode." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ei=5090&en=bc4d02afa0a46012&ex=1281240000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all]
  
 
==Curiousities==
 
==Curiousities==

Revision as of 19:10, 24 August 2005

Able Danger, according to Curt Weldon, Republican Congressman and Representative of Pennsylvania, and former defense intelligence official, was a "small, highly classified military intelligence unit" which identified Mohammed Atta and "three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States ... more than a year before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. [1]

According to Weldon

"In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Weldon said August 15, 2005.

"The recommendation was rejected and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas." [2]

The New York Times reported that Al Felzenberg, former spokesman for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, "confirmed that members of its staff, including Philip Zelikow, the executive director, were told about the program on an overseas trip in October 2003 that included stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But Mr. Felzenberg said the briefers did not mention Mr. Atta's name. ... The report produced by the commission last year does not mention the episode." [3]

Curiousities

"On a related subject, former 9/11 commissioner Tim Roemer thinks there's something screwy about the Able Danger timeline. Supposedly, the Able Danger team produced a chart that included Mohamed Atta's name and picture, but according to Fox News, Roemer wondered 'how Able Danger got a photo of Atta in 2000 for its alleged chart of terrorists when he had not yet applied for a U.S. visa.'" [4]

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