Able Danger & Atta: A Link to the Anthrax Attacks?

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[wm_tate]

A flawed assumption prevented the 9/11 Commission from pursuing leads which would tie together the leader of the terrorists, the anthrax attacks that closely followed 9/11, and Iraq.

[beebuster2000]

wow. astounding , if true. but how do we know if it is true? at this point can only be classified as a interesting conspiracy theory a la grassy knoll. i hope more facts become known. IMHO

[atomicpossum]

With the sudden disclosure of Able Danger, most of the things that we have known to be true, or been told were true, need to be questioned.

[wm_tate]

True. But it turns out that the 9/11 Commission Report was based on THEIR theories. Yet the MSM acted like like it was writ in stone. And why did the MSM stop covering the anthrax story?

[bvw]

Perhaps it is the 911 Commission's report which is "grassy knoll". That report is certainly an attempt to co-opt the history books.

[wm_tate]

So much of what the commission did is tied to the 2004 election. Bush was right in wanting to wait until AFTER the election to investigate. Although there still could have been a whitewash.

[seastay]

not only hasn't any body been caught for the 9/11 anthrax but there still has been no word as to who did it, unless the perpratrators are known and it is classified, if not keystone cops could have done a better job?

[exnavychick]

With the sudden disclosure of Able Danger, most of the things that we have known to be true, or been told were true, need to be questioned.

I wonder if this is good news or bad for Steven Hatfill.

Hmmmm...

I don't know a lot about the case, truthfully, but this Wikipedia entry at the following link lays things out pretty well, as far as I can tell.

http://www.answers.com/topic/2001-anthrax-attacks

*I can't get the link to work, sorry.

[mtbopfuyn]

Remember the beheaded Nicholas Berg? He knew one or more of the highjackers. I haven't seen that angle being investigated by the msm.

[TexasCajun]

I'm surprised the 911 Commission didn't try to sell us on the Single Plane Theory

One Plane, One Terrorist.

Plane Slams into Tower-1, ricochets to Tower-2, clips The Pentagon before crashing into an open field.

[exnavychick]

Remember the beheaded Nicholas Berg? He knew one or more of the highjackers.

Seriously? Do you have a source for that? I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that I'd not heard that before. Thanks.

[bitt]

Friday, May 14, 2004 Posted: 8:01 AM EDT (1201 GMT)

The grisly execution of Nicholas Berg prompts outrage and brings vows to hunt down the hooded killers responsible.


WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father.

Michael Berg said the FBI investigated the matter more than a year ago. He stressed that his son was in no way connected to the terrorists who captured and killed him.

Government sources told CNN that the encounter involved an acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

According to Berg, his son was taking a course a few years ago at a remote campus of the University of Oklahoma near an airport. He described how on one particular day, his son met "some terrorist people -- who no one knew were terrorists at the time."

At one point during the bus ride, Berg said, the man sitting next to his son asked if he could use Nick's laptop computer.

"It turned out this guy was a terrorist and that he, you know, used my son's e-mail, amongst many other people's e-mail who he did the same thing to," Berg said.

Government sources said Berg gave the man his password, which was later used by Moussaoui, the sources said.

The sources said the man who used Berg's e-mail knew Moussaoui, now awaiting trial on federal charges that could bring a death sentence. But the sources would not disclose details of how the men were connected.

Moussaoui, 36, was arrested in August 2001 after he aroused suspicion at a Minnesota flight school when he arrived for 747 simulator training without holding a pilot's license. A French national of Moroccan descent, Moussaoui has admitted in open court that he belonged to al Qaeda, the radical Islamic group behind the September 11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

But Moussaoui has fiercely denied being involved in the September 11 plot, and the prosecutors' theory of his role has shifted from being a possible 20th hijacker that day to possibly piloting a fifth hijacked jetliner targeting the White House.

Berg said his son cooperated fully with an FBI investigation into the matter.

"He was happy to cooperate, and that was never an issue," he said. He emphasized that the individual was not a friend of his son's or even an acquaintance -- "just a guy sitting next to him on the bus."

"Whoever was next to my son was treated with great respect and friendship. Like I said, he knew no dangers from people. The FBI were satisfied with that."

CNN Justice correspondent Kelli Arena contributed to this report.

[exnavychick]

Thank you!

[jpl]

And why did the MSM stop covering the anthrax story?

Mostly because they want people to forget the significant role they played in pointing the finger at the wrong guy, who is now involved in several lawsuits to try to clear himself once and for all.