SoCom Officer Says Intelligence Project Found Sept. 11 Leader (Tampa Trib

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http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGB7OXF3VDE.html

Sep 21, 2005
SoCom Officer Says Intelligence Project Found Sept. 11 Leader
By RICHARD LARDNER
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TAMPA - The flight path from Washington to Tampa had become a familiar one for Tony Shaffer.

From October 1999 to January 2001, Shaffer, an Army Reserve officer, figures he shuttled between his office at the Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Command a dozen times.

On the southbound leg of one of those trips early in 2000, Shaffer said he carried a computer-generated chart showing the names and photographs of several Middle Eastern men believed tied to an al-Qaida cell in New York.

One of the men identified was a young Egyptian named Mohamed Atta, he said.

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Opportunity Lost?

Since then, Able Danger has largely been a story of missed opportunity: If federal law enforcement authorities had known what Able Danger knew, Atta and his cohorts might have been arrested and the attacks prevented, Weldon and Shaffer have contended.

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Also covers him being told not to talk to Congress.....

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1. Thank you for catching this one....n/t