Deadly Tale of Incompetence (Mohamed Atta and Able Danger)

[paulthompson]

Note to administrators: I am reposting this thread because it just got locked and moved to the Editorials by someone who mistakenly thought this is an editorial. It is not. It contains new and exclusive and very important information from an interview the reporter had with the Able Danger whistleblower. Note for instance this sentence from the article: "The former Able Team member I interviewed told a depressing story of that cooperation that never took place."

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The New Jersey Star-Ledger has some startling new info about the recent story that the top secret Pentagon team Able Danger knew about Mohamed Atta and three other hijackers back in 2000 but weren't allowed to do anything with that knowledge. Some snippets:

Here, on Route 23 (in New Jersey, north of Newark), bathed in the August morning sun and only a short drive from Route 80 and the Willowbrook Mall, a roadside motel bears silent witness to a police bust that might have been.

For a year before the 9/11 attacks, the Wayne Inn was home to Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaida mastermind behind the hijacking plot that killed almost 3,000 people.

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The connect-the-dots tracking by the (Able Danger) team was so good that it even knew Atta conducted meetings with the three future hijackers. One of those meetings took place at the Wayne Inn. That's how close all this was - to us and to being solved, if only the information had been passed up the line to FBI agents or even to local cops.

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2...

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The author of this article was able to speak with one of the whistleblowers from the Able Danger team, and much more is revealed here. Meanwhile most newspapers are carrying stories unquestioningly repeating the 9/11 Commission's recent claims that they were justified in ignoring this Able Danger info. For instance, one of the articles is titled "Able Danger Disabled." Let's not let the media sweep this under the rug!

[Moderator]

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It was moved to Editorials and OTHER ARTICLES.
This is not breaking news and in the rules, it states "mainstream sources when possible"

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