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WASHINGTON — A military intelligence team investigating al-Qaeda identified four members of the terrorist organization a year before they became 9/11 hijackers, according to an officer on the intelligence team. But he says that the FBI did not get the information and that the 9/11 Commission failed to expose the lapse.
The officer, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a specialist in human intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview Wednesday that the team, called Able Danger, collected information on al-Qaeda, including links between members and the activities of terrorist cells worldwide.
Posted by Richard at August 17, 2005