Able Danger by itself is explosive in that it has the potential to destroy most of the credibility of the 9/11 Commission especially in the crucial areas of the Atta timelines. Remember that those timelines were used to explain that the Czech Foreign Office was mistaken in believing that Atta had met with Iraqi Consul in Prague, Ahmed al-Ani. The 9/11 Commission claimed that their time line had Atta in Florida and not in Prague, its worth noting that the Czech Foreign service not only has stuck to its story but has also produced the Iraqis Consul’s appointment book that shows a meeting with the Hamburg Student during the time the Czech Foreign Service claimed that Atta met Ahmed al-Ani. Atta was known as the Hamburg Student. The main players of the hijackers all came out of the Hamburg cell.
Destroying the 9/11 Commissions timelines and putting Atta in Prague during the time period that the Czech Foreign Service shows he met Ahmed al-Ani won’t do a lot of favors to those who were against the war. Obviously if Saddam was in the loop of 9/11 then any arguments against the war would fall flat. You would think that this might be of some importance to the Bush Administration. But then again there has always been enough information to tie the Iraqis directly to the sort of Terrorism that would force us to act and yet the Bush administration never saw fit to exploit them. For instance it is absolutely proven that Ahmed al-Ani was in the process of an attempt to use Islamic Radicals to blow up Radio Free Europe and yet the Bush administration has never made as big an issue out of this as could have been made.
In addition to the explosive nature of the ABLE DANGER reports, the implications of incompetence inside of our intelligence apparatus and the refusal to correct the biggest problems show that in the face of the most terrible terrorist attack in history our Government Agencies are still unwilling to correct past practices. Given the terrible nature of emerging threats this should terrify you.
http://www.papadoc.net/2005/08/why-able-danger-story-is-important-and.html
Meanwhile, in a February 24 letter to James Beasley, Jr., the attorney in the aforementioned lawsuit, Czech U.N. Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek affirms an October 26, 2001 statement by Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross: "In this moment we can confirm, that during the next stay of Mr. Muhammad Atta in the Czech Republic there was the contact with the official of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Al Ani, Ahmed Khalin Ibrahim Samir, who was on 22nd April 2001 expelled from the Czech Republic on the basis of activities which were not compatible with the diplomatic status." Atta flew from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Prague on April 7, 2001. Car-rental records place him in the Czech capitol the next day. He flew home to Florida that April 9.
"The administration does not want the victims of Sept. 11 interfering with its foreign policy," says Peter M. Leitner, director of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice (WCPJ). Leitner says the Bush administration may be concerned that if other victims of the Sept. 11 attacks also filed lawsuits and won civil-damage awards it would reduce Iraqi resources that the administration wants to use to rebuild the country. Leitner and others say this explains Bush's reticence at this time to report the convincing evidence linking Saddam and al-Qaeda that has been collected by U.S. investigators and private organizations seeking damages. "The [Bush] administration is intentionally changing the topic," claims Leitner, and sidestepping the issue that "Iraq has been in a proxy war against the U.S. for years and has used al-Qaeda in that war against the United States."
But for the life of me, I can't figure out why they don't come clean now that Iraq is immune from such lawsuits.