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Just how damning are allegations by Congressman Curt Weldon that a secret Pentagon intelligence operation pegged hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat nearly two years before he led the 9/11 attacks? When Weldon first made the charge in a new book and in a June speech on the House floor, it met with little attention, but perhaps due to the August heat or the approaching fourth anniversary of the attacks, the accusation ignited controversy last week...
...book, Countdown to Terror, the Pennsylvania Republican described personally handing to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, just after Sept. 11, an Able Danger chart produced in 1999 identifying Atta. But Weldon told TIME he?s no longer certain Atta?s name was on that original document. The congressman says he handed Hadley his only copy. Still, last week he referred reporters to a recently reconstructed version of the chart in his office where, among dozens of names and photos of terrorists from around the world, there was a color mug shot of Mohammad Atta, circled in black marker...
...June. A CNOOC source who was trying to make the deal happen said this argument was "simply preposterous. I mean, it just wasn't true. But for three weeks this was the line. And every time someone would say it, I'd be talking to some Senator or Congressman and his opposition to [the deal] would only increase...
...didn't say nuke anything. I just said, 'Take out their holy sites.'" TOM TANCREDO, U.S. Republican Congressman, clarifying his comments last month on how the U.S. should respond to a nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists...
...TANCREDO, G.O.P. Congressman from Colorado, clarifying his comments on how the U.S. should respond to a nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists...