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Able Danger: Trouble In River City [IMPORTANT]
Captains Quarters [blog] ^ | 8/27/05 | Edward Morrissey

Posted on 08/27/2005 10:16:03 PM PDT by Enchante

What the team leader found that Sunday morning was nothing less than a complete documented record of operational ties between Iran and al-Qaeda for the critical months just prior to September 11. "The documents showed Iran was facilitating the travel of al-Qaeda operatives, ordering Iranian border inspectors not to put telltale stamps on their passports, thus keeping their travel documents clean," the team leader told me. "The Iranians were fully aware that they were helping operatives who were part of an organization preparing attacks against the United States." ... Most troubling among the seventy-five documents the team read that Sunday morning in July were masses of reports on Iranian intelligence operative Imad Mugniyeh, who is described in the 9/11 Commission Report as "a senior Hezbollah operative." The raw reporting showed that well before 9/11, the United States had hard intelligence that the Tehran regime had appointed Mugniyeh as the point man for operational contacts with Bin Laden's men. That coincided with the information Zakeri brought to the CIA in Baku four months before the attack. ....

In fact, not much of this material makes it into the report at all. Mugniyeh didn't make the cut, despite evidence that he facilitated more than half of the muscle hijackers' entry during the late spring of 2001 into the United States for their 9/11 attacks. This, the CIA rationalized, only proved that the hijackers traveled through Iran, and not to Iran. However, that still leaves an open question about why their passports did not reflect those visits -- a question that the Commission never bothers to bring up, let alone answer.

(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911commission; abledanger; alqaeda; atta; binladen; gorelick; gorelickswall; iran; mugniyah; mugniyeh; terror
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To: n-tres-ted

Understand back in 2001...but why leave it out of the fairly recent commission report..makes you wonder what the point of that report was?


21 posted on 08/27/2005 10:55:45 PM PDT by Dat Mon (still lookin for a good one....tagline)
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To: Enchante

bump


22 posted on 08/27/2005 11:01:15 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: Enchante
The only reason I can come up with for a legitimate suppression of this information would be for national security purposes, recognizing that action against Iran (other than nuking them off the face of the planet) would first require the elimination of Saddam so he could not open up a second front and so we'd have Iraq as a staging point.
23 posted on 08/27/2005 11:03:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: Enchante
Yossef Bodansky's Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America has a lot on Iran and Al Qaeda.
24 posted on 08/27/2005 11:04:41 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: peyton randolph

He aint dead he's hiding.


25 posted on 08/27/2005 11:12:40 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

WPtG!

There's the Mugniyah link I told you about 2 yrs ago!


26 posted on 08/27/2005 11:28:19 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: roses of sharon

"What??? They have completely erased the entire decade of the 90's from the public consciousness."

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If that isn't the truth...! Take a look at this re-writing of history -- according to the following article, at some point before May of 2000, Condi Rice who was NOT at that time SOS, was considered a security risk and identified as such -- there's some serious spinning here.

Who was clinton's last SOS? It was certainly not Condi Rice. Wasn't it Mad Maddie? What kind of nonsense are they trying to foist on us?

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MILITARY 'SPIED' ON RICE (More Able Danger leaks from Specter staffers)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471803/posts

Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The Post has learned.

The private contractors working for the counter-terrorism unit Able Danger lost their jobs in May 2000. The firings following a series of analyses that Pentagon lawyers feared were dangerously close to violating laws banning the military from spying on Americans, sources said.


27 posted on 08/27/2005 11:30:29 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: NonValueAdded

Good point - now we could stage from at least 270 degrees around Iran: Iraq, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, and Afghanistan! We've got the buggers surrounded!! Of course, there would be huge political problems in the region, but we may just have to do what we have to do..... I don't think we need involve troops and Marines, though -- can't we take out enough of their military and Revolutionary Guards that the citizens could do the rest? Well, that seemed to be the thinking about Iraq in 1991 and look what happened there.... but we stopped short of really crushing Saddam properly.....


28 posted on 08/27/2005 11:35:05 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Enchante
There is a movement in Iran right now for democracy. They've been protesting, but not much news has come from it. I have no idea what % of the people are for it, though. It's reeeeeeally late here, and it would take some searching to find out.
29 posted on 08/27/2005 11:41:51 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Enchante; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

1/17/02: U.S. Traces Iran's Ties to Terror Through a Lebanese

NOT JUST IRAN... IRAQ & ZARQAWI

CNN 8/13/03: New terror alliance suspected in Iraq

8/20/90: TERRORISM: ANOTHER WEAPON FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN?

Mugniyah served as "a liaison officer with Dr. Zawahiri and with commanders of other fundamentalist organizations

1/3/03: Osama bin Laden "modeled himself" after Imad Mugniyah... It was Mugniyah, among others such as right-hand man and former Egyptian Islamic Jihad head Ayman al-Zawahiri, who made Osama a terrorist... Ramsi Binalshibh (Mohammed Atta's roommate in Hamburg) this year met with Imad Mugniyah in the Tri-Border. Binalshibh, having been charged with logistics in September 11, was a relatively high figure in al Qaeda before his September capture in Pakistan. If he met with Mughiyah it could be a signal for a very large attack jointly concerted between the two groups against U.S. citizens.

30 posted on 08/27/2005 11:43:00 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Enchante; Pokey78
And another little-read article posted here on FR on Oct. 26, 2001.

Al-Qaeda and Argentina

And here is what is reported to be an updated picture of Mugniyah.


31 posted on 08/27/2005 11:51:41 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Dat Mon

see posts #30 & 31 in the thread.


33 posted on 08/27/2005 11:59:37 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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cross-reference:

New 9/11 Probe Could Spotlight Iraq Link

34 posted on 08/28/2005 12:30:09 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: concerned about politics
Day by day, more information comes out to buttress the conclusion that the fix was on in the 9/11 Commission. Having watched the news coverage for the last two days, subtracting the Hurricane, this is the most mentioned single story. More than Cindy and our larger, counter demonstration. More than Aruba.

Because of the blogosphere, including the likes of Captain Ed, FR, and the rest of the usual suspects, the story has just reached critical mass in the MSM. That means there will be hearings.

We have to look ahead, and push for the congressional hearings to take place in any other committee, House or Senate, than in Senate Judiciary run by Arlen ("Scottish law") Spector. He could screw up a two-car funeral.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "NY Post: Better a Bad Story than None as All (Able Danger)"

35 posted on 08/28/2005 12:40:41 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (I'm on the road, now. Contact me at John_Armor@aya.edu.net.)
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To: Enchante

BUMP


36 posted on 08/28/2005 12:56:43 AM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: Enchante

The Omission Commission, another terror operative plotting against US! That's US as in ALL OF US! Flat out treason.


37 posted on 08/28/2005 2:25:01 AM PDT by Waco
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To: ladyinred
Yup... you are right, before 9/11, no American flags on cars, then, after 9/11, no one could not even find one and buy one for their cars because they were sold out.
Now ? how many cars do you see with American flags flying ?
You are right, it's as if 9/11 never happened, and those ignorant brain dead SHEEPLE think it was just a bad dream.
They believe what ever the MSM tells them, and what ever Cindy Sheman tells them.
38 posted on 08/28/2005 3:18:22 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: texasbluebell
Yup.. more evidence of them ( the MSM and the Liberals ) dumbing down the Sheeple and relying on the brain dead sheeple not to make a effort to find out the truth.
39 posted on 08/28/2005 3:24:01 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Enchante

b


40 posted on 08/28/2005 3:24:41 AM PDT by MoralSense
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