From the
AP:
During a Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the unit — code-named "Able Danger" — also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole. It knew the problem was tied into the port of Aden and involved a U.S. platform, but the ship commander was not made aware of it, Weldon said.
The suicide bombing of the Cole killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.
If anyone had told the Cole's commander that there was any indication of a problem in Aden, "he would not have gone there," Weldon told reporters. "He had no clue."
I think there is a very good possibility that ABLE DANGER could have prevented a number of attacks against this country. The problem is that America wasn't fighting the war that was already in progress... And given the stance of some on the NSA intercepts, one has to wonder if we are still fighting that war as diligently as we should be...
