Pentagon: Secret Unit Didn’t ID 9/11 Leader
A Pentagon report rejects the idea that intelligence gathered by a secret military unit could have been used to stop the Sept. 11 hijackings.
The Pentagon inspector general’s office said that a review of records from the unit, known as “Able Danger,” found no evidence it had identified ringleader Mohamed Atta or any other terrorist who participated in the 2001 attacks.
The report was ordered after the assertion last year that the unit had identified four of the 19 hijackers in 2000. That claim was made by a former intelligence officer who worked on Able Danger, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, and by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.
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