Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Sappho

Don’t miss this report on Reuters, you can see that Reuters is the source for many stream media but an arti­cle like this one was totally blacked out.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Three more peo­ple asso­ci­ated with a secret U.S. mil­i­tary intel­li­gence team have asserted that the pro­gram iden­ti­fied Sep­tem­ber 11 ring­leader Mohammed Atta as an Al Qaeda sus­pect inside the United States more than a year before the 2001 attacks, the Pen­ta­gon said on Thurs­day.
The Pen­ta­gon said a three-week review had turned up no doc­u­ments to back up the asser­tion, but did not rule out that such doc­u­ments relat­ing to the clas­si­fied oper­a­tion had been destroyed.
Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott and Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaf­fer last month came for­ward with state­ments that a secret intel­li­gence pro­gram code-named “Able Dan­ger” had iden­ti­fied Atta, the lead hijacker in the attacks that killed 3,000 peo­ple, in early 2000. Penn­syl­va­nia Repub­li­can Rep. Curt Wel­don, vice chair­man of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tee, also went pub­lic with the allegations.

Three more assert Pen­ta­gon knew of 9/11 ring­leader.

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5 Responses to Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader

  1. Nadia_4iraqis says:
    September 2, 2005 at 14:19

    U.S peo­ple have a lot of things to take care of inside their own coun­try, that thing is very clear.

  2. CMAR II says:
    September 2, 2005 at 14:40

    Yep. I’m not cer­tain any par­tic­u­lar per­son dropped the ball, but there were def­i­nitely insti­tu­tional and pol­icy defects in the FBI and CIA.

    I wish I could feel cer­tain they were fixed now.

  3. Nadia_4iraqis says:
    September 3, 2005 at 11:03

    There were def­i­nitely insti­tu­tional and grave pol­icy defects and lies in the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. They just pick what they wanted to hear.

  4. Hank says:
    September 3, 2005 at 14:10

    On this anniver­sary of the uni­lat­eral dec­la­ra­tion of war by Eng­land against Nazi Ger­many, it was inter­est­ing to lis­ten to the Speaker of the Geor­gian par­lia­ment speak­ing warmly on Chi­nese TV of the great sup­port received from the United States for its reform and the con­struc­tion of democ­racy in her coun­try and of the provo­ca­tions of the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment led by a for­mer KGB oper­a­tive. The anglo-democracies, whose friends have now been extended to include many east­ern Euro­pean coun­tries, have always stood against total­i­tar­i­an­ism and they will con­tinue to do so wher­ever the threat — whether from islamo-fascists or unre­con­structed red-fascists pos­ing as democ­rats or the com­mon or gar­den vari­ety. The fact that an indi­vid­ual polit­i­cal mur­derer may have been iden­ti­fied by freedom’s forces some time before an attack on one of our democ­ra­cies is pif­fling. Don’t bother us with pif­fle or you’ll have even fewer read­ers than the bare min­i­mum you presently entertain.

  5. Hank says:
    September 3, 2005 at 14:33

    Inci­den­tally, for those read­ers of this blog (all four of you) who are won­der­ing why Com­rade Michael has been largely silent over the past 48 hours, this is because on hear­ing the news he leapt on to a flight to New Orleans where he is oping to be invited to organ­ise his nat­ural con­stituency, the vic­tims of cap­i­tal­ism and racism who are presently loot­ing the city in armed gangs.