Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd 9/ll Ringleader

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_go_co/sept11_hijackers

WASHINGTON - Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times, a congressman said Tuesday.

During a Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., said the unit — code-named "Able Danger" — also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole. It knew the problem was tied into the port of Aden and involved a U.S. platform, but the ship commander was not made aware of it, Weldon said.

The suicide bombing of the Cole killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.

If anyone had told the Cole's commander that there was any indication of a problem in Aden, "he would not have gone there," Weldon told reporters. "He had no clue."

Weldon would not say who provided evidence of such intelligence to him.

[OKNancy]

1. Hi. T. - need to fix your link

Thanks

[leftchick]

5. Sorry Nancy

I fixed it and Happy V Day! :hi:

[jrw14125]

2. would able danger have prevented the Cole bomber's escape last wk?

[mod mom]

3. wrong link I think.

[seemslikeadream]

4. DO THE MATH

:hi:

BUDDY BUDDY
http://www.gsnmagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/images/aug_05/atta.jpg
DO THE MATH

24 MINUTES

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILITARY ORDER WATCH THIS VIDEO

http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678


DIA Agents were ordered to put yellow Post-its over Atta's face and the face's of 3 other 9/11 terrorists

"We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN."

Intel agents Michael Shaffer and Scott Philpott have confirmed Rep. Weldon's claims that a chart with Atta's face, soon the photos of 3 other members of the 9-11 terror team, were known to DIA team Able Danger by early 2000.

This diary will show that Pete Schoomaker and Philip Zelikow are two of the main Perpetraitors in this scandal, that they deliberately withheld information from the President of the United States that would have prevented 9/11, that they and their neo-con rulers Let It Happen On Purpose.

Of this there can no longer be any doubt.



MUST READ - RE: ABLE DANGER INFO
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4447706

Hopsicker: Able Danger Intel Exposed "Protected" Heroin Trafficking
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x149481


Able Danger: Short Time-line
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4441903

Was Able Danger Shut Down After It Detected Condi-PRC Spy Ring?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4494524



Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing
Thursday, August 25, 2005


Able Danger (search) is the code name for a military-intelligence unit that apparently learned a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta (search) and other terrorists were already in the United States.

One of the central Able Danger claims — that military lawyers blocked the sharing of the Atta information from the FBI in the late summer and early fall of 2000 — will be a focus of the committee's if a hearing takes place, FOX News has confirmed.

Some analysts involved with Able Danger have recently gone public with their findings, saying they were discouraged from looking further into Atta, and their attempts to share their information with the FBI were thwarted, because Atta was a legal foreign visitor at the time.

"This story needs to be told. The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives," said Rep. Curt Weldon (search), R-Pa.

Weldon drew attention to Able Danger by speaking about it on the House floor and publicly calling for the Sept. 11 commission to explain why the intelligence information wasn't detailed in its final report.

Some Able Danger analysts, including Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (search) and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott (search), claim that in October 2003, they told commission staffers of the presence of Al Qaeda operatives in the United States in 2000.


more
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166800,00.html


Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1727804&mesg_id=1727804




Condi in Middle of Able Danger ‘Cover Up’"

Weldon is now saying that the Pentagon cover up of able danger “will shake the country to its roots."

...

If the claims made by the Able Danger participants and Rep. Weldon are confirmed, former National Security Adviser Rice and other Bush Administration officials will face a barrage of questions. First would likely be an inquiry into why the administration unceremoniously axed the Able Danger project in May of 2001.

During an August 20th interview on C-Span’s Washington Journal, Able Danger member Lt. Col. Schaffer posed a question of his own:

"The American public should ask themselves: Why would the leadership of DoD shut down, terminate, a project which was aimed at targeting al-Qaeda offensively? ...

"Why would they shut that down, four months before 9/11? That’s the big question right now, we have to ask that. I don’t know the answer to that question because I know my side of the story, I know that when a 2 star general got in my face and said, “I’m a 2 star general and you are not. You are to stop your support of Able Danger.” That’s what I know personally. But the question has to be: Who told him to do that? ...

"And why did the rest of the project, I’m talking about Special Operations Command and the Army portion of this, why was that terminated?

"Those are the questions that need to be asked."


more...

http://www.theinternationalpost.com/z30082005.html

Congressman Weldon -- Why now? Why ever?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4500623

Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader By Will Dunham

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 (news, bio, voting record), vice chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, also went public with the allegations.

Pat Downs, a senior policy analyst in the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, told reporters that as part of the review, the Pentagon interviewed 80 people.

Downs said that three more people, as well as Phillpott and Shaffer, recalled the existence of an intelligence chart identifying Atta by name. Four of the five recalled a photo of Atta accompanying the chart, Downs said.

Pentagon officials declined to identify the three by name, but said they were an analyst with the military's Special Operations Command, an analyst with the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center and a contractor who supported the center.

Downs said all five were considered "credible people."

But officials said an exhaustive search of tens of thousands of documents and electronic files related to Able Danger failed to find the chart or other documents corroborating the identification of Atta. Phillpott has said Atta was identified by Able Danger by January or February of 2000.

"We have not discovered that chart," Downs said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/security_attacks_pentagon_dc


Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1744982&mesg_id=1744982

Specter Wants Answers About 'Able Danger'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1796658&mesg_id=1796658


NYT/Reuters: Pentagon Blocks Testimony at Senate Hearing on Terrorist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1795221&mesg_id=1795221

NOW - ON CAPITOL HILL - Able Danger Inquiry CSPAN3 9:30am et
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4836496

Able Danger ties Condi Rice to Chinese espionage! (really!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4846388&mesg_id=4846388

VIDEO-the Senate Judicial Committee ABLE DANGER saga
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?

Official: (Curt Weldon) Attack on Cole foreseen (ABLE DANGER)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1915365&mesg_id=1915365

New 9/11 Timeline update, with new Able Danger page
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?

Weldon seeks Defense testimony on al-Qaida
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1931300

Weldon rips 9/11 commission over intelligence failures
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1959226

General gave OK for Able Danger (confirms al-Qaida mission prior to 9/11)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1973724

[leftchick]

6. Excellent Links SLaD!

:hi:

Happy V Day!

:loveya:

[flyarm]

7. and with my voice screaming..it was just a coinsidence that ATTA

was at John's Pass, Treasure Island fla on one of Jack Abramoff's casino boat with a couple other so called hijackers a week before 9/11 gambling...

they just happened to pick Jack abramoffs boats to go gambling..in a little tourist village..not that far from where * was going to be the morning of 9/11

i just wonder..DID ATTA WIN ??

screaming here..............

retired flight attend of one of the airlines involved..

fly

[dubya_dubya_III]

9. The Anthrax "secure-the-site" murder gave the whole plot away.

Anthrax - The Perfect CIA Weapon


Not really, "Poppy" Andropov did

[dubya_dubya_III]

16. Where on earth?

How or where did you come across this most valuable and interesting bit of trivia?

[flyarm]

19. i live near it now..and my co-workers were killed 9/11 imiss nothing!

i live near it now!!


>http://www.sptimes.com/News/092701/news_pf/TampaBay/Hij ...
>
>JOHNS PASS TREASURE ISLAND WEST COAST FLA..NEAR ST PETE..
>
>Why were Atta and 9/11 muslim hijackers on Abramoff's casino
>boat?
>
>St. Petersburgh Times
>St. Petersburg Times, published September 27, 2001
>
>snip
>TREASURE ISLAND -- Employees on a SunCruz gambling ship that
>sails from John's Pass think some of the hijackers in the
>Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were gambling on the ship the week
>before the attacks.
>TREASURE ISLAND -- Employees on a SunCruz gambling ship that
>sails from John's Pass think some of the hijackers in the
>Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were gambling on the ship the week
>before the attacks.
>
>The FBI is investigating. SunCruz Casinos has turned over
>security videotapes and documents to FBI investigators.
>

fly

[leftchick]

27. I lived there 13 years ago

I remember Sun Cruz way back then. This is incredible! :wow:

[stop the bleeding]

8. SLaD - the Able Danger cover up is one the golden links to bring this

whole WH circus down, I could on forever but I am sure based on past research that you are well aware of what I am talking about.

Thanks for posting! :beer:

[dubya_dubya_III]

10. How would someone get into a Whitehouse meeting with no invite?

Abramoff was 'not on the guest list' eh?

When Presidents make a deliberate outright lie there's usually a LARGE reason.

[Dinger]

23. Could Someone Simplify This For Me?

At first, I was under the impression that Weldon wanted to pin this on Clinton (unfairly), and now this hurts bu$hCo? How, please tell me.

[sattahipdeep]

24. The defense has subpoenaed Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.

The defense has subpoenaed Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., the House Armed
Services Committee vice chairman, who in a House speech on pre-9/11
intelligence failures revealed that a secret military data-mining
operation code-named Able Danger had identified four of the
19 hijackers, including leader Mohammed Atta, as al-Qaida operatives
a year and half before the attacks

"The congressman is inclined to cooperate and is consulting his
attorney and the House general counsel," Weldon's spokesman, John
Tomaszewski, said Friday. "No final decision has been made."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/04/ap/national/mainD8FHV3PG6.shtml

Weldon asked to testify about what U.S. knew before attacks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2081573

:hi:

~Only time will tell~

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06277189.htm

[mirandapriestly]

12. "let it happen" UNLESS Atta and the other hijackers

were working for them under cover, which according to Stanley Hilton, is the case.

[MissWaverly]

11. I so glad we have surveillance to protect us from terrorists

What is the purpose of having surveillance if you DO NOTHING with it, so now we have
increased our intelligence gathering so we can have more information to DO NOTHING with.

[dubya_dubya_III]

17. The fact that the NME(DoD) didn't use it's own DIA intel is murder.

Ok, I can see where they may have been worried about sharing semi-illegal wiretap intelligence with supposedly untainted 'legal authorities' like the FBI's counter-intelligence mob (not really) but failing to share that intelligence internally to Naval intel and the Commander of the USS Cole, is simply outright criminal negligence if not treason.

Unfortunately not sharing it with the CIA is perfectly understandable since it was most probably the CIA Mafia that they were spying on.....


"Sorry I made you murder well over 30,000 innocent people and destabilize the entire Muslim world because of our phony, flawed and completely false intelligence on Iraq Mr. President"

"Silly goose! Give that man a medal!"

[MissWaverly]

28. If they knew about Atta, they should have prevented 9-11

[lovuian]

13. Great articles and links Everyone Thanks... There are NO

coincidences and Everything is Connected!!!

[Scout1071]

14. All I can say is

Holy shit. This is big.

[dubya_dubya_III]

15. Zbignew Brzezinski put it this way:

(Following a major attack).. "Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve it's political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under surveillence and control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits."

Zbigniew Brzezinski - Far sighted CIA Mafia/State Dept. 80's "Fight for your God, your God will protect you!" Mujihadeen-plotting madman, also credited with the much more excellent, brilliant and ingenious idea of promoting a certain Polish guy to be Pope, which completely destabilized and fatally wounded Marxist fascism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

[TheModernTerrorist]

18. probably true

"Able Danger" probably fingered Cheney as te ringleader, so they decided to scrap the program. :shrug:

[dubya_dubya_III]

20. It's too large and insidious to just have a single leader

Remember that since Eisenhower (and Senator LBJ) screwed it up before the Kennedy admin, the CIA Mafia has controlled (or murdered) the President, and mislead and corrupted the Congress, not the other way around. Today Mullah Falwell's commanders and soldiers are everywhere, but the real brass are all sycophants of Poppy.

U remember, the guy who put a tyrant back on an illicit throne in a stolen city

[magellan]

21. K&R (nt)

[reprehensor]

22. Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd 9/ll Ringleader

Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd 9/ll Ringleader
By KIMBERLY HEFLING - 2/14/06

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times, a congressman said Tuesday.

During a Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the unit - code-named "Able Danger" - also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole. It knew the problem was tied into the port of Aden and involved a U.S. platform, but the ship commander was not made aware of it, Weldon said.

The suicide bombing of the Cole killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.

If anyone had told the Cole's commander that there was any indication of a problem in Aden, "he would not have gone there,'' Weldon told reporters. "He had no clue."

continued at link

[midnight]

25. Port at Yemen put an American Ship at risk?

American secret unit "Able Danger" knew. Makes me wonder why we have recently given six major American ports to the Arab Emigrant to watch over us?

[JNelson6563]

26. Was amazed to see this on CNN earlier

Finally! :toast: Look's like this is getting somewhere!

Julie

[Wilms]

29. K&R n/t