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DIARY: August 10, 2005 05:24 AM Wednesday; Rod Welch

US Knew of Al Qaeda cell before attack on September 11, 2001.

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3332 - Summary/Objective
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333301 - Follow up ref SDS 2 0000, ref SDS 1 0000.
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333303 - New reporting today supports first impressions on 010911 that
333304 - information was on file for a year about the people who attacked the
333305 - World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ref SDS 1 YNGH
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3336 - Progress
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333701 - Reuters reports in an article dated yesterday 050809 that...
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333703 -        A U.S. military intelligence team identified four Sept. 11
333704 -        hijackers, including ringleader Mohammed Atta, as likely
333705 -        members of an al Qaeda cell in the United States over a year
333706 -        before the 2001 attacks, a former team member and a Republican
333707 -        congressman said on Tuesday. ref OF 1 0001
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333710 -        The classified eight-member team, code-named "Able Danger,"
333711 -        produced a chart with photographs of Atta and three other
333712 -        hijackers in 2000 and unsuccessfully sought to pass the
333713 -        information on to the FBI. ref OF 1 KV5G
333715 -         ..
333716 -        "Able Danger," now disbanded, was a small classified military
333717 -        operation engaged in data-mining analysis of "open source"
333718 -        information including media reports and public records through
333719 -        the use of massively powerful computer systems. ref OF 1 6U9G
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333722 -        The former military official said his unit recommended that
333723 -        information identifying Atta and fellow hijackers Marwan
333724 -        al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi as part of an
333725 -        al Qaeda cell they called "Brooklyn" be forwarded to the FBI.
333726 -        ref OF 1 IY4I
333728 -         ..
333729 -        "They were in the country at least a year before 9/11," said
333730 -        the former military intelligence official, who asked not to be
333731 -        identified because of the sensitivity of the information.
333732 -        ref OF 1 1Y4N
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333735 -        But government lawyers advised the military's Special
333736 -        Operations Command, which oversaw "Able Danger," not to forward
333737 -        the information apparently because the four were in the United
333738 -        States legally on visas and should not be subject to a military
333739 -        operation. ref OF 1 405J
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