"Curt Weldon 9/11 tale 'unravels'...also says bin Laden died in Iran"

[shance]

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But Weldon's story, which unleashed a wave of national media attention as well as probes and congressional hearings, is unraveling.

He now says that he's not sure the chart had a picture of Atta, as he has sometimes maintained, and that he has been relying on the memory of an intelligence analyst who helped produce it.

Meanwhile, other key players in the story, including Hadley, contradict Weldon, saying they never saw Atta's picture. Moreover, several government investigations have failed to find any documentation so far that the program had identified hijackers before the attacks, and Weldon has begun to allow that there are parts of his story that may not be proven.

Yet even as his story triggers more and more questions, Weldon is making explosive new allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding.
He also maintains that the Bush administration suppressed information about the Able Danger program out of concern it might be embarrassed by disclosures that it failed to follow up leads that might have helped avert the plot.

"Am I going to take on something that is a challenge? Absolutely," Weldon said in a lengthy interview last week. "I'm not here to kiss people's butts. I'm here to do what's right. And if sometimes that means I have to push someone, well what are we here for?"


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/1409...

[HuffleClaw]

1. bwahhahhahhaaaaa

i KNEW they'd try to implicate IRAN somehow. this guy's had his fifteen minutes of fame, but he's trying for more i guess.

[JackBeck]

2. If the Freeper's heads haven't yet exploded over the UAE deal,

this just may be the thing to do it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. high-level source, or is that a source that is high?

[Bucky]

4. Bin Laden in Iran? Now that's a joke. Iran hates OBL, & helped US vs him

Iran provided intelligence to the US in 2001-2002 to try and help us nab bin Laden and round up the Teliban. I guess if he went to Iran he'd be dead by now, but he wouldn't ever go there. Jeeze these people love to weave tales.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

5. Weldon's key source "Ali" is basically a cutout for Manucher Ghorbanifar

Indeed Ali (real name Fereidoun Mahdavi) apparently has two people he sends all the Iranian terrorism stuff he receives to - Weldon & Michael Ledeen.