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9/11: Destroying the Evidence. Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders of
Pentagon
by Associated Press
September 16, 2005
Associated Press
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Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders
Sep 15, 9:09 PM (ET)
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050916/D8CL1MH83.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents
that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001
attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary
Committee and was expected to name the person who ordered him to destroy
the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.
Weldon declined to name the employee, citing confidentiality matters.
Weldon described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" - as much as one-fourth
of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.
A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for Wednesday's
hearing had not been finalized and could not confirm Weldon's comments.
A message left Thursday with a Pentagon spokesman, Army Maj. Paul
Swiergosz, was not immediately returned.
Weldon has said that Atta, the mastermind of the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, and three other hijackers were identified in 1999 by a classified
military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," which determined they
could be members of an al-Qaida cell.
On Wednesday, former members of the Sept. 11 commission dismissed the
"Able Danger" assertions. One commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade Gorton,
R-Wash., said, "Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's the conclusion
of all 10 of us."
Weldon responded angrily to Gorton's assertions.
"It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program
just didn't exist," Weldon said Thursday.
Pentagon officials said this month they had found three more people who
recall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist prior to the
Sept. 11 attacks.
Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott
Phillpott, have come forward to support Weldon's claims.
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