Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named Before Attacks

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" Lori R. Price " <lrprice

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Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named Before Attacks

 

 

 

 

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23 August 2005

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Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named Before Attacks 23 Aug 2005

An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to

come forward publicly to say that a secret intelligence program tagged

the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more

than a year before the attacks. The officer, Scott J. Phillpott, said

in a statement on Monday that he could not discuss details of the

military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its

analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name

by early 2000.

 

'Able Danger' Shut Down In February 2001 (Can't blame Bill Clinton,

folks!) 13 Aug 2005 Ten days before publication of the 9/11 Commission

report, commission staff discounted information from a military

officer linking Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta to a terror cell

believed to be operating in New York City more than a year before the

terrorist attacks. According to a statement released Friday by The

9/11 Public Discourse Project, the two commission staff members who

interviewed the officer in July 2004 concluded his story about a

Defense Department intelligence counterterrorism program, called Able

Danger, that worked to identify and target al-Qaida and other

terrorists, was not credible. As a result, the information was not

included in the commission's final report published July 22, 2004... A

small group of Defense Intelligence Agency employees ran the Able

Danger operation from fall 1999 to February 2001 - just seven months

before the terrorist attacks - when the operation was unceremoniously

axed, according to a former defense intelligence official familiar

with the program. The former official asked not to be identified.

 

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