Report: Hijackers Not ID'd Pre-9/11

Internal DOD Report Rejects Military Intelligence Unit’s 2000 Claim

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2006

(AP) A Pentagon report rejects the idea that a secret military unit had gathered intelligence a year before the Sept. 11 attacks that might have stopped the hijackers, a senior defense official said Thursday.

The Pentagon inspector general's office said Thursday that a review of records from the unit, known as Able Danger, found no evidence it had identified ringleader Mohamed Atta or any other terrorist who participated in the 2001 attacks.