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- "9/11
Panel Members Ask Congress to Learn if Pentagon Withheld Files on Hijackers
in 2000." ... "Members of the independent commission
that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks called on Congress to determine
whether the Pentagon withheld intelligence information showing that a secret
American military unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers
as potential threats more than a year before the attacks." ... "In a final
report released last summer called the authoritative history of the attacks,
the commission of five Democrats and five Republicans made no mention of
the secret program or the possibility that a government agency had detected
Mr. Atta's terrorist activities before Sept. 11." ... "Mr. Weldon went
public with his information after having talked with members of the unit
in his research for a new book on terrorism. He said in a telephone interview
on Tuesday that he had spoken with three team members, all still working
in the government, including two in the military, and that they were consistent
in asserting that Mr. Atta's affiliation with a Qaeda terrorism cell in
the United States was known in the Defense Department by mid-2000 and was
not acted on." (1, 2)
-By Philip Shenon and Douglas Jehl
-NYTimes
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- "U.S.
knew of al Qaeda cell before 9/11-lawmaker." ...
"Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican who is vice chairman of both
the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, said the information
was provided to the staff of the Sept. 11 commission but some commissioners
were never briefed on the material." ... ""Able Danger," now disbanded,
was a small classified military operation engaged in data-mining analysis
of "open source" information including media reports and public records
through the use of massively powerful computer systems." ... "Both Weldon
and the former military official, who spoke to Reuters in the congressman's
office, are actively encouraging intelligence officials to consider a resumption
of the activity, which could mean as much as $30 million in new business
for defense and intelligence contractors." (1, 2)
-By David Morgan -Reuters
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York
- "Congressman:
Defense Knew 9/11 Hijackers." ... "The Sept. 11 commission
will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified
ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of
an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward
the information to law enforcement." ... "Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. and vice
chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees,
said Tuesday the men were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence
unit known as ``Able Danger.'' If true, that's an earlier link to al-Qaida
than any previously disclosed intelligence about Atta." ... "According
to Weldon, Able Danger identified Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdar
and Nawaf al-Hazmi as members of a cell the unit code-named ``Brooklyn''
because of some loose connections to New York City." -By
Kimberly Hefling with contribtions by John J. Lumpkin
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
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- "Hijackers
'identified pre-9/11': A year before the 9/11 attacks
a secret US intelligence unit had identified four of the hijackers as likely
linked to al-Qaeda, a US congressman says.PennsylvaniaBut the unit's request
for the FBI to be informed was turned down, according to [Pennsylvania]
Representative Curt Weldon." ... "He spoke publicly about the issue on
27 June in a little-noticed speech on the house floor, and to a local paper
in his Pennsylvania constituency." ... "He says the unit prepared a chart
that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to Special
Operations Command that the FBI be informed." ... "The course of action
was said to have been rejected in part because the men were in the US on
valid entry visas."-BBC
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