Mohammed Atta and Able Danger...

[wildbilln864]

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Now, almost exactly four years after 9/11, the facts appear to have been turned upside down. We now learn that Atta was also connected to a top secret operation of the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the US. According to Army reserve Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a top secret Pentagon project code-named Able Danger had identified Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as members of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the attacks.

Able Danger was an 18-month highly classified operation tasked, according to Shaffer, with “developing targeting information for al-Qaida on a global scale”, and used data-mining techniques to look for “patterns, associations, and linkages”. He said he himself had first encountered the names of the four hijackers in mid-2000.

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Schaffer’s decision to expose Operation Able Danger has given rise to some difficult questions, not the least of which concerns the role of Atta in the top secret operation. It also raises the question of whether anyone in the Pentagon knew in advance what Atta was planning on 9/11.

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According to Schaffer, when he informed the FBI and urged them to arrest Atta, the Pentagon’s lawyers intervened and protected Atta for reasons that remain unclear.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050827&articleId=867]

[wildbilln864]

1. this from...

Daniel Hopsicker...

http://www.madcowprod.com/08172005.html

[mirandapriestly]

2. Connected "how" to the SOCOM operation?

is he saying Atta was working for the US? I know he had lived or someone with his name had lived at an air base, isn't that right? I can't believe this doesn't get more attention, oh wait, yes, I can...
Thanks for posting this.