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Pentagon Report to Refute 'Able Danger' Claim

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A new Pentagon report knocks down the idea that a secret military unit had garnered intelligence a year before the Sept. 11 attacks that might have stopped the hijackers, a senior defense official said Thursday.

Lawmakers were supposed to be briefed Thursday on the Defense Department inspector general’s report, and officials hoped to post a redacted version of the report on the Pentagon’s Web site as early as Thursday afternoon, two officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not yet been released, declined to provide further details about the study’s conclusions.

The report was ordered following the assertion that four of the 19 hijackers were identified in 2000 by a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger."

posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2006 12:56:00 PM