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He blew a lot of money on disco records, some he knew, some he knew of, and some that were utterly new to him. Many of them proved quite delightful. And so here's "Hills Of Katmandu" by Tantra. All sixteen minutes and twenty seconds of it.
Here's some background on it. But what you really need to know is that it's got it all. Everything is in this track. Like the 12" cover suggests, it's got skyscrapers and weird mechanical lionfish and the Universe in it. It takes you all the way there and leaves you.
It's a perfect example of how the prog aesthetic infiltrated a lot more in the '70s than anybody is willing to admit. This record derives a lot of its power from being organized like a prog-rock mini-epic, a suite. The hard-charging guitar-driven part that serves as overture and reprise is the only reason the middle part, the dreamy section, works. On its own that dreamy section would have been fairly forgettable. It would have just been a nice poster of the Universe on your bedroom wall. Framed like this, with the rampage of the mechanical lionfish, it transcends: it whispers in your ear that someday we really will build a skyscraper to the Universe. And this will be the elevator music. It will take sixteen minutes and twenty seconds to reach the top floor, and when the doors open

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Get the name of a VM in Hyper-V from inside the VM
Something I discovered today in working on a project – it is possible to find out what the VM is named in Hyper-V from within the guest OS. This is only possible if the IC's are installed. It is a registry key and can be queried in a script.
$Name = Get-ItemProperty -path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters" -Name VirtualMachineName
This may be different than issuing "hostname" at the command line. That would tell you the OS name for the guest machine. The registry key above is specifically looking for the name of the VM in Hyper-V that represents the machine you are on.


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Shame them! Black money held abroad is not just a tax issue
Prof R,Vaidyanathan, IIM, Bangalore
A recent report in The Economic Times suggests that the income tax department has secured at least 17 "voluntary disclosures" from around 700 Indians who are alleged to have had secret accounts with the HSBC Bank in Switzerland.
Says the report: "The amount disclosed ranges from Rs 50 crore to Rs 300 crore. Many in the list have opted to file 'revised return' — a procedure allowed under the Income Tax Act for taxpayers who think they made a mistake while filing the original return. Revised returns are usually filed within a year of filing the original. The IT department has chosen to summon the alleged evaders and ask them to declare their undisclosed offshore deposits rather than initiate prosecution proceedings."
According to the newspaper, this has been done for two reasons. One, the tax department does not have enough manpower to go after all the 700. Moreover, since the HSBC names are from a stolen list, the department is "not in a position" to verify it. "Such a list has to be certified by the Swiss authorities before it can be used as evidence in any court of law. Both the tax office and taxpayers are in a tricky situation."
If this report is right, it reveals two things regarding this government — its duplicity and lies pertaining to the data and also its audaciousness in treating illegal money abroad as simply a revised income tax return issue.
First, the duplicity. The government has always maintained that since this data has been obtained under double taxation treaties, the names cannot be revealed. Now it says since it is stolen data it is not possible to verify with the banks. Stolen data does not come under any double tax treaty. More important is the fact that the government is trying to treat the whole issue as a minor issue and ask the criminals to file revised returns. It is like administering a slap on the wrist for murder.
The government is also claiming that the names will be released once the prosecution starts. But the newspaper report suggests that the government is trying its best to settle all issues by collecting some tax since prosecution can be painful and expensive. It also suggests that the government does not have manpower.
When the floodgates open and hundreds of thousands of names get revealed will the government just keep quiet due to lack of manpower? One hopes the police and other departments do not follow this logic to wink at crimes due to lack of manpower.
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The undeniably perfect rock tones you can get from a Marshall Plexi head have survived the last half-century and live on today in the form of the Marshall 1959SLP. This 100W guitar head has been re-issued to absolute perfection - both visually and audibly.
The only modern addition to the 1959SLP is a Series FX loop for players that use guitar pedals, which is complete with a true bypass switch to ensure that precious tone is preserved.
Get yourself that '60s Super Lead tone, as used by so many famous guitarists of the past.
Once a company reaches a certain stature and achieves a respectable tenure, there are certain products that people expect it to always make. For this reason, Kellogg's will always make cornflakes, Heinz will always make Ketchup, and Marshall will always offer 100 Watt 'Plexi' heads.
The 100 Watt Super Lead head of the late '60s ('68 - '69) with the famed Plexiglas front panel, is reissued here in all its glory. The 1959SLP 'Plexi' head is the amp that defines classic rock tone.
To ensure absolute tonal authenticity, we took a 'Plexi' head from said era, and using it as a template, our R&D experts developed a replica so exact, that sonically we couldn't tell them apart. The 1959SLP truly is the sound of rock.
The only modern addition to this reissue is a tonally transparent Series FX Loop, complete with a True Bypass switch.
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You do not have a VPN yet? Here are 6 good reasons why YOU should use one!
Did you know that your Internet service provider monitors all your activities on the Internet? In the US, it even goes so far that Internet service providers make sure certain websites load faster than others. You don't want to be constantly observed while surfing? You don't want to have someone else decide which services load quicker or slower? Then register for SpyOFF VPN now and surf safely, independently, and anonymously!
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Restrictive regimes such as Iran or North Korea are known to filter content on the Internet. Certain content is targeted by the state to be censored. Less well known is that this happens in nearly every country not just in restrictive regimes - if not so extensive. However, we believe that a citizen of a free country should always have the opportunity to learn about anything. SpyOFF VPN helps you regain your freedom!
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It's winter in the UAE which means, home-sickness aside, Dubai dwellers are a little bit happier than usual. We can walk around outside, we can have our windows open, we can wear hats without getting super sweaty heads. Happy days.
Bella and Lily have been sporting their beautiful matching collars, made for us by the wonderfully talented and awesome to work with Claire Emeleus. I gave Claire a Pinterest board of arabic inspiration and she did the rest of the work. I love how these two look when we walk out together now. They may be from the rescue centre but my pups are still the smartest in town.
I'm wrapping up things at the Stitch Shop, with just one more event before Christmas. Then I need to make a decision on where it goes next. It's been a fun project, but I don't want to keep going until I hate the sight of felt. Spring could be an opportunity for some new lines or just a break. I don't think I can make that decision until I've had a few weeks of time out.
I'm getting crazy excited about Christmas, I'm busy decking the halls and ding-donging merrily. I shared this morning's project on instagram… I just love this time of year.


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Federal Judge Declares Much of DOMA Unconstitutional
A district court judge has issued a ruling that could have wide ramifications for the question of same-sex marriage.
Via the WSJ's Law Blog: Federal Court Hands Major Victory to Gay Couples:
U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal government from giving pension and other benefits to same sex couples, is unconstitutional, reports the Associated Press.
Tauro wrote that the 1996 law ran afoul of the Constitution's Tenth Amendment. "The federal government, by enacting and enforcing DOMA, plainly encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state, and in doing so, offends the Tenth Amendment," Tauro wrote.
Tauro also concluded that DOMA violates the Constitution's equal protection clause.
The AP story has more detail:
In a ruling in a separate case filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Tauro ruled the act violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
"Congress undertook this classification for the one purpose that lies entirely outside of legislative bounds, to disadvantage a group of which it disapproves. And such a classification the Constitution clearly will not permit," Tauro wrote.
Well, I have been predicting since DOMA was passed and in signed back in 1996 that it would eventually be challenged in court and that it would likely be overturned and assumed the ruling would be based on some combination of the Full Faith and Credit clause in Article IV and the Equal Protection clause of the XIVth Amendment.
The Xth Amendment inclusion is interesting, as on one level it strictly places public policy over marriage in the hands of the states, which could, if it was the only ruling, have the effect of reinforcing the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans that exist in many states.
Ultimately, however, the XIVth Amendment ruling will, I think, be the more consequential of the two for the long haul.
The entire process is an interesting one in terms of understanding how our system works and how long issues can be active before they are finally solves (and this is one is far from solved).
1) In 1996 Congress creates legislation that: a) allows states to ignore same-sex marriage from other states, and b) declares for federal purposes (e.g., taxes, benefits, etc) that marriage is only between a man and a woman. This was done before any state actually allowed same-sex marriage. As such, it was an attempt at political preemption with most people knowing that what it would do, probably, was create speed bumps on the inevitable road to same-sex marriage rather than stopping it. This was a set of law suits waiting to happen.
2) For any actual movement to happen, however, states had to start allowing same-sex marriage, which eventually happened. Then, someone had to ask for federal benefits based on their martial status and have them denied. That denial had to lead to a lawsuit.
3) Eventually such a lawsuit was likely to result in a ruling like this one. Judge Tauro is quite right when he states that Congress was purposefully disadvantaging a specific group, and so it has always seemed obvious to me that it violated the Equal Protection clause.
4) Now we have to wait for several other shoes to drop:
a) What will the appeals court say (as an appeal is inevitable)? They could end this node of the debate.
b) Will is make it all the way to SCOTUS?
5) The next step in the process is for a gay couple to move from a state that allows gay marriage to one that does not, attempt to have that marriage recognized only to have the new state evoke the other portion of DOMA. This will lead to another set of lawsuits, which will likely results in more Equal Protection arguments coupled with full faith and credit ones, and at that point we will likely come out of the process with a right to gay marriage.
Of course, this could take quite a few years. Back in 1996 I remember telling classes that it would take at least a dozen years for it play out once a state made same-sex marriage legal. It may, ultimately, take longer than that start-to-finish.
It is an interesting study in federalism and the role of the courts.
It should be noted that Jack Balkin believes that the cases demonstrate judicial overreach and are likely to be overturned on appeal.


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Land O'Lakes - Communications Specialist
The Corporate division encompasses the core operational support for all Land O'Lakes businesses. It includes Corporate Strategy, Corporate Communications, Land O'Lakes Foundation and Community Relations, Finance, Law, Member Relations, Facilities, Event Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Information Technology, Corporate Marketing, Land O'Lakes International Development and Government Relations.
Job Description and Qualifications
Position Purpose:
The Communication Specialist will be creating original written and visual content, and improving the work of others through careful review and editorial input. This position will create content - primarily written - for a wide variety of audiences and publishing platforms (web, intranet, digital signage, email, social, presentations, proposals/reports, etc.), so must be able to adapt their voice and style accordingly. They must be first and foremost a storyteller. They must be a stickler for detail and have a healthy respect for timelines and process. They need to manage multiple projects simultaneously and diplomatically address competing timelines and priorities. They should be curious, interested in learning, and unafraid to voice an opinion. They need to be able to use data to make informed decisions and to continually improve the impact of our team's work.
Research, conduct interviews and write stories that support the Communication department's editorial goals of growth, talent and trust; write to specific audiences/objectives/outcomes, for publication on a wide variety of platforms (internal, external); secure appropriate review of all writing before publication (Legal, subject-matter experts, peer, etc.)
Provide publishing assistance and troubleshooting (with IT) on owned platforms, including Land O'Lakes websites, intranet, email and social platforms.
Independently, and in collaboration with Communications design, enhance storytelling using high-impact visuals and graphics. Improve presentations and other material (reports, collateral, proposals, etc.) through smart and innovative design and layout. Ensure compliance to brand guidelines.
Provide editorial support through the review of colleagues' work, improving story impact, ensuring accuracy (facts, grammar/spelling, AP compliance, etc.).
Analyze and report impact of work, using a combination of objective and subjective measures. Use learning to continually improve the impact of personal and team work.
Required Experience & Education:
Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, PR, Advertising, Marketing or related field.
2+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Experience & Education:
Experience as a professional writer (journalist, public relations, marketing), writing to a variety of audiences (general public, professional, internal/employee).
Required Competencies:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to write to a variety of audiences.
Strong project management, and organizational skills.
Able to articulate and be persuasive when communicating complex issues and formulate creative recommendations to reach a wide variety of audiences.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects to successful outcomes in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, and highly collaborative environment.
Preferred Competencies:
Experience with Photoshop, InDesign and/or other design platforms.
Experience publishing content to websites and a variety of social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.).
Percentage Travel:
5-10%; potential for International travel.
EOE M/F/Vets/Disabled. Land O'Lakes, Inc. enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce, including pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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The individual owning this blog works for Oracle in Germany. The opinions expressed here are his own, are not necessarily reviewed in advance by anyone but the individual author, and neither Oracle nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.
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The LKSF book
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During my first couple of trips to Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, I was so smitten with all of the birds that I forgot to appreciate the beauty of the landscape. It wasn't until my trip last fall that I finally began to really take notice. I will be more attentive next time.
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QR codes – scan to win prizes!
Quick response codes gained popularity in 2011, making contests and sweepstakes even more accessible for those with smartphones. We expect the trend to continue in 2012.
The year 2011 has seen a number of high-profile publicity campaigns by companies using QR codes. Customers can scan these two-dimensional bar codes with the camera in their smartphones and connect to websites with special offers or competitions. Examples like Ralph Lauren's marketing using QR codes for its "Polo" clothing range and Heinz connecting with customers via QR codes on its ketchup bottles were demonstrations of the attraction that these "next-generation barcodes" can have when combined with the fun of a contest or a sweepstake.
With the increased awareness of QR codes, companies are continuing to explore possibilities to use QR codes for contests and sweepstakes. Want something for free? We've collected several links for various QR code driven contests. Some of the contests from 2011 won't last further than Christmas, but here are a few that will last into the first days of 2012:
Getting back in shape after the festive season?
Applied Nutriceuticals QR Code Monthly Contest may have an answer for you. Get further instructions at: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=136758561&page=1
Long Island Wine Tours monthly giveaways
You'll have to wait and see what's being given away. As Long Island Wine Tours says, "the mystery of not knowing is half the fun!" Here's where to get in on the act: http://blog.longislandwinetours.com/2011/09/long-island-wine-tours-qr-code-contest/
A Samsung Galaxy Tablet, anyone? Con Agra has a bunch to give away
By scanning ConAgra "Scan It Score It" QR Codes on specially marked marketing materials in stores wherever ConAgra Products are sold. Find out more here: http://www.scanitscoreit.com/
Free Trip for Four to the 4th of July Fireworks 2012 in Washington D.C.
Rubber band manufacturer Alliance Rubber Company is offering this one, although you'll have to wait till the New Year before entering. Scan the QR codes on the Alliance product packaging and find out more at: http://www.rubberband.com/new-a-events/press-releases/315.html
QR Pal from Android for "Points and Prizes"
Win monthly cash prizes for scanning and sharing QR codes with the QR Pal app. You can register here:
(All web pages were current at the time of writing.)
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Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in history and science. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Newton's Notebook, Great Scientists, Mad Science and The Doomsday Book. He has also written features and articles for the national press, and has appeared on national television and numerous local and national radio shows. A long-term student of the history of science and medicine, Joel has a BSc in Biological Sciences and an MA in Psychology.
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Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating and beautifully presented guide to the arms and armaments that have had the greatest impact on the development of human civilization.


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The traditional wooden junk, Halong Phoenix Cruiser is well designed and balances traditional and luxurious styles to provide a comfortable cruise on the tranquil waters of Halong Bay. Launched in May of 2013, Halong Phoenix Cruiser, sister of Halong Phoenix Cruiser 1 and 2, provides a pioneering new generation of vessel with uncomprising quality and luxurious standards. The vessel brings travelers 4 star, reasonably priced, cruise services to comfortably experience Halong Bay.
Halong bay is natural wonder of the world and one of Vietnam's five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, magnificent Halong Bay lies 160km to the east of Hanoi. Over three thousand jagged limestone islands emerge from the emerald green waters of Halong Bay. While some islands are no more than large rocks others are much more substantial and contain huge cathedral-like caves of stalactites and stalagmites. Most of the islands are clothed in thick green vegetation and ring with the sound of bird song in the early morning. Secluded sandy coves are everywhere and in the summer months the warm waters of the bay are ideal for swimming. Upon arrival, transfer to a shared wooden junk for a 2 day cruise among the 3, 000 spectacular limestone islands. The boat is one of the more traditional varieties that sail through the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage Site.


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SE Asia online travel spending to hit $50b
Hong Kong – 12 December 2017 –
Southeast Asia's internet economy, spanning online travel to ride-hailing, will reach US$50 billion this year, putting it on a solid trajectory to grow fourfold by 2025, according to a joint research report by Google and Temasek Holdings.
As more consumers buy airline tickets and book hotels through smartphones, the region's online travel market expanded from US$19.1 billion in 2015 to US$26.6 billion in 2017, according to a report the two companies. The research covered four key sectors of the internet economy: travel, media, ride-hailing and e-commerce.
Bloomberg reported that online shopping and ride-hailing have come into focus as Grab, Uber and Go-Jek capture consumer preferences with evolving business models. Of the US$12 billion of capital invested in Southeast Asian internet companies since 2016, US$9 billion was raised by its unicorns or startups with more than US$1 billion valuations. The region, which includes Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, raised just $1 billion in 2015.
"This shows how global and regional investors have favoured the largest and most established internet companies," the report said.
The growth is being driven by a surging number of new smartphone users. Southeast Asia will have 330 million monthly active internet users by the end of 2017 – equivalent to the size of the US population – after adding more than 70 million users since 2015.
E-commerce sales of new goods will reach US$10.9 billion in gross merchandise value in 2017, almost double their level in 2015, according to the report.
Southeast Asia's ride-hailing market, which is fiercely contested by Grab, Uber and Go-Jek, is expected to double from 2015 to US$5.1 billion in 2017, before reaching US$20.1 billion in 2025.
"Millions of users transact and play on their platforms on a daily basis, giving them a head start as they aim to build digital payment services accepted by online and offline merchants," the report said.


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Re "…testing of granular theories", in the lasts para my query is what constitutes an adequate _test_ of a CMO? How do we know when it has failed?
My second query is how you aggregate evidence relating to the presence of a particular causal mechanisms, relating to a given CMO


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"Sonic wave / You're favorite noise" croons John Harlan Norris against a massive reverbed twang on "Daffodil," the first song on Night Loop, the third full-length album for his band Harlan. It sounds like a complete vision for the record, like one of those novelty gel-capsules that turn into a dinosaur or monster when you add water.
Harlan rolls like that. The band started as an independent study project at LSU for painting student John Harlan Norris, a desire to transfer a young man's obsessions with Nick Lowe and Lloyd Cole and the Go-Betweens into something of his own. This class bore the self-played, self-released The Still Beat, a record so good that area musicians flocked to him to reverse engineer the vision into a band.
Night Loop finds a comfortable brainspace between The Still Beat's fannish idolatry and its follow-up, Spiderette's meticulous, baroque pop. Night Loop's music is very electro — Norris enlisted drummer/keyboard/electronics whiz Scott Campbell (Placebot, Liquidrone, Bones, the New Orleans Bingo! Show and also a celebrated poster designer) in this outing — but remains very warm, close to the moody admissions of one's thirties.
It's like he's become a bigger fan of his own music and is running that through his process. The stripped quietude of "Death in the Living Room" and "You're a Teenager" evoke the colors of his previous work while showing fewer of the brush strokes. "Sending Your Positions" is hardly there at first, but it opens like a time-lapse blooming into Spectoresque majesty.
The core of the record is found in "I Aim To Be Your Modern Man." "Everybody gets what they want sometimes / I've only seen your shadow once," Norris plaintively offers as the scene shifts with bemused grace. A few washes of synth, a subtle drum crash, and errant guitar swoops convey the modern condition of a person with all new tools setting to work up some classic pop.


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Herkimer Diamond Studs
14k gold-fill or sterling silver herkimer diamonds claw set studs. Sterling silver posts.
Open Fire
To be the wind that feeds the open fire.
Canadian designer Fran Miles seeks to find balance between delicate and rough with Open Fire jewellery. Each piece is created to bring intention to the lives of those who wear it.
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Hi there, and welcome to my blog. I aim to create this blog to run alongside the creation of my magazine flash & cinder, so both you and I can keep up-to-date with what's happening.
So why flash & cinder? A bit of an odd name, no? flash & cinder came to me as a great way of describing the fragments of smaller writings that leave a huge impact. 'Flash', of course, is a reference flash fiction itself, while 'cinder' is a small, discarded piece of unburnt coal that still has the potential to combust at any moment. I think the same can be said of both flash and poetry, much of which has the same origin story but same volatile power. The title, once in my head, got stuck.
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On the right border, you'll see the category, "bloggy love". I made a Pinterest board with all my favorite blogs. If you click on it here, you'll find all my favorite blogs, which I think is pretty cool. At a glance, you can see the best (as I see it).
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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event September 14, 2005: Former 9/11 Commission Members Dismiss Able Danger Evidence. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
Future 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, al-Qaeda operatives Said Bahaji and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, and others in the al-Qaeda Hamburg cell move into a four bedroom apartment at 54 Marienstrasse, in Hamburg, Germany, and some of them stay there until February 2001. Investigators will later believe this move marks the formation of the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell. (McDermott 1/27/2002; Bernstein et al. 9/10/2002) Up to six men at a time live at the apartment, including, at times, 9/11 hijacker Marwan Alshehhi and cell member Zakariya Essabar. Alshehhi moves out after the first month; it is unclear why. (Erlanger 9/15/2001) During the 28 months Atta's name is on the apartment lease, 29 Middle Eastern or North African men register the apartment as their home address.
Surveillance of Bahaji - From the very beginning, the apartment is under surveillance by German intelligence, because of investigations into businessman Mamoun Darkazanli that connect to Bahaji. (Eggen 10/23/2001) The Germans also suspect connections between Bahaji and al-Qaeda operative Mohammed Haydar Zammar. (McDermott 9/1/2002) Bahaji is directly monitored for at least part of 1998, but German officials will not disclose when the probe began or ends. This investigation is dropped for lack of evidence (see (Late 1998)). (Associated Press 6/22/2002; McDermott 9/1/2002) Bahaji moves out in July 1999 and gets married a few months later (see October 9, 1999). (Stark 8/29/2011)
Surveillance of El Motassadeq - German intelligence monitors the apartment off and on for months, and wiretaps Mounir El Motassadeq, an associate of the apartment-mates who will later be convicted for assisting the 9/11 plot, but apparently it does not find any indication of suspicious activity (see August 29, 1998). (Crewdson and Simpson 9/5/2002)
Surveillance of Zammar - Zammar, a talkative man who has trouble keeping secrets, does not live at the apartment, but he is a frequent visitor to the many late night meetings there. (Miller, Stone, and Mitchell 2002, pp. 259-60; McDermott 9/1/2002; Crewdson and Simpson 9/5/2002) He even lives in the apartment for a time in February 1999 (see February 1999). Zammar is the focus of an investigation that began in 1997 and continues until early 2000 (see March 1997-Early 2000). Interest in monitoring him increases in late 1998 (see October 2, 1998).
Surveillance of Atta - The CIA also allegedly starts monitoring Atta in early 2000 while he is living at the apartment, and does not tell Germany of the surveillance (see January-May 2000). Atta leaves Germany to live in the US in June 2000 (see June 3, 2000).
No Direct German Surveillance of the Apartment? - Yet, even though people like Zammar who frequently phone and visit the apartment are monitored, German officials will later claim that the apartment itself is never bugged. An unnamed senior German security official will later say that some surveillance of associated people gives "the impression that the people living there were fanatical believers. At the BfV [Germany's domestic intelligence agency], we had to decide whether to ask permission to place a wiretap on the line at 54 Marienstrasse itself. We discussed this every day." But he will claim that they ultimately decide they will not be able to get legal permission for a wiretap because there is no evidence that the apartment's occupants are breaking any laws. (Zeman et al. 11/2004) This claim that the apartment was not directly monitored seems contradicted by reports that Bahaji was the target of a surveillance investigation when he was living in the Marienstrasse apartment in late 1998 (see (Late 1998)).
What Would More Surveillance Have Uncovered? - It will later be clear that investigators could have found evidence if they looked more thoroughly. For instance, one visitor will recall Atta and others discussing attacking the US. (Rubin and Dorgan 9/9/2002) 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is in Hamburg several times in 1999 and comes to the apartment. However, although there is a $2 million reward for Mohammed since 1998, the US apparently fails to tell Germany what it knows about him (see 1999). (Hosenball 9/4/2002; Butler 11/4/2002) 9/11 Hijacker Waleed Alshehri also apparently stays at the apartment "at times." (Stafford 9/14/2001; Washington Post 9/16/2001) Remarkably, shortly after 9/11, the German government will claim it knew little about the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell before 9/11, and nothing directed it towards the Marienstrasse apartment. (Helm 11/24/2001)
A report commissioned in mid-1999 by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) looks into possible Chinese front companies in the US seeking technology for the Chinese military. Dr. Eileen Preisser and Michael Maloof are commissioned to make the report. Dr. Preisser, who runs the Information Dominance Center at the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) and will later become closely tied to Able Danger, uses LIWA's data mining capabilities to search unclassified information. According to Maloof, their results show Chinese front companies in the US posing as US corporations that acquire technology from US defense contractors. When the study is completed in November 1999, the General Counsel's office in the Office of the Defense Secretary orders the study destroyed. Weldon complains about this to Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, and apparently delays the destruction of the report. Weldon also writes a letter to FBI Director Louis Freeh requesting an espionage investigation into these Chinese links, but Freeh never responds to this. (Maloof 10/9/2005) As part of this report, LIWA analysts had produced a chart of Chinese strategic and business connections in the US. But this data mining effort runs into controversy when the chart apparently shows connections between future National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, former Defense Secretary William Perry, and other prominent US figures, and business deals benefiting the Chinese military. (Lathem 8/27/2005; Gertz 9/22/2005) The China chart was put together by private contractor James D. Smith, who will come forward in August 2005 to corroborate revelations about the Able Danger unit and its findings (see August 22-September 1, 2005). The New York Post later says there is "no suggestion that Rice or any of the others had done anything wrong." (Lathem 8/27/2005) However, articles first appear one month later and through 2001 in the conservative publications WorldNetDaily and NewsMax, which connect Perry and Rice to Hua Di, a Chinese missile scientist and possible spy, and question the nature of their relationship with him. (Smith 12/21/1999; Smith 4/5/2000; Smith 1/24/2001) Di defected to the US in 1989 and worked most of the 1990s at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, which was co-directed by Perry. Di later returned to China and is subsequently sentenced to ten years in prison for writing influential articles said to reveal vital Chinese state secrets. (Trei 2/7/2001) However, other accounts claim that he was in fact passing on disinformation through these articles, successfully misleading the US military for a couple of years about the abilities of certain Chinese missile programs. (Smith 12/21/1999) Additionally, Hua Di teamed in 1994 with Stanford professor Dr. John Lewis and William Perry to buy an advanced AT&T fiber-optic communications system for "civilian" use inside China that instead is used by the Chinese army. The General Accounting Office later criticized the sale. In 1997, Stanford University investigated Dr. Lewis for his role in it, but Condoleezza Rice, serving as a Stanford provost at the time, apparently stopped the investigation. (Smith 4/5/2000; Smith 1/24/2001) Able Danger and LIWA's data mining efforts will be severely proscribed in April 2000 as part of the fallout from this China controversy (see April 2000), and the destruction of their collected data will follow shortly thereafter (see May-June 2000).
According to some reports, 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta is put under surveillance by the CIA while living in Germany during this time. (Agence France-Presse 9/22/2001; Elflein et al. 9/24/2001; Forster 9/24/2001) He is "reportedly observed buying large quantities of chemicals in Frankfurt, apparently for the production of explosives [and/or] for biological warfare." "The US agents reported to have trailed Atta are said to have failed to inform the German authorities about their investigation," even as the Germans are investigating many of his associates. "The disclosure that Atta was being trailed by police long before 11 September raises the question why the attacks could not have been prevented with the man's arrest." (Bright et al. 9/30/2001) A German newspaper adds that Atta is able to get a visa into the US on May 18. According to some reports, the surveillance stops when he leaves for the US at the start of June. However, "experts believe that the suspect [remains] under surveillance in the United States." (Forster 9/24/2001) A German intelligence official also states, "We can no longer exclude the possibility that the Americans wanted to keep an eye on Atta after his entry in the US." (Elflein et al. 9/24/2001) This correlates with a Newsweek claim that US officials knew Atta was a "known [associate] of Islamic terrorists well before [9/11]." (Klaidman, Isikoff, and Hosenball 9/20/2001 ) However, a congressional inquiry later reports that the US "intelligence community possessed no intelligence or law enforcement information linking 16 of the 19 hijackers [including Atta] to terrorism or terrorist groups." (US Congress 9/20/2002) In 2005, after accounts of the Able Danger program learning Atta's name become news, newspaper accounts will neglect to mention this prior report about Atta being known by US intelligence. For instance, the New York Times will report, "The account [about Able Danger] is the first assertion that Mr. Atta, an Egyptian who became the lead hijacker in the plot, was identified by any American government agency as a potential threat before the Sept. 11 attacks"(see August 9, 2005) . (Jehl 8/9/2005)
James D. Smith is working for the private company Orion Scientific Systems on a contract that assists the Able Danger project. Smith will later claim that around March or April 2000, armed federal agents come into Orion and confiscate much of the data that Orion had compiled for Able Danger. Orion's contract stops at this time and Smith has no further involvement with Able Danger. However, Smith happens to have some unclassified charts made for Able Danger in the trunk of his car when the agents raid his office. The chart with Mohamed Atta's picture on it will thus survive and be remembered well by Smith, though it will be destroyed in the summer of 2004 (see August 22-September 1, 2005). Smith will later state, "All information that we have ever produced, which was all unclassified, was confiscated and to this day we don't know who by." (US Congress 9/21/2005; US Congress 2/15/2006)
On three occasions, military lawyers force members of Able Danger to cancel scheduled meetings with the FBI at the last minute. Able Danger officials want to share information about the Brooklyn al-Qaeda cell they believe they've discovered which includes Mohamed Atta and other hijackers (see January-February 2000). The exact timing of these meetings remains unclear, but they appear to happen around the time military lawyers tell Able Danger they are not allowed to pursue Mohamed Atta and other figures (see September 2000) . (Goodwin 9/2005) In 2005, it will be reported that Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer contacted FBI agent Xanthig Magnum in attempts to set up these meetings. Magnum is willing to testify about her communications with Shaffer, but apparently she has not yet been able to do so. (Fox News 8/28/2005) Shaffer will later elaborate that the meetings were set up around early summer. Col. Worthington, then head of Able Danger, is one of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) officials scheduled to meet with FBI Counterterrorism agents. Shaffer ater claims the meetings were cancelled because "SOCOM lawyers would not permit the sharing of the US person information regarding terrorists located domestically due to 'fear of potential blowback' should the FBI do something with the information and something should go wrong. The lawyers were worried about another 'Waco' situation (see April 19, 1993). The critical counterterrorism information is never passed from SOCOM to the FBI before 9-11; this information did include the original data regarding Atta and the terrorist cells in New York and the DC area." (US Congress 2/15/2006 ) Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA), who in 2005 helps bring to light the existence of the program, says, "Obviously, if we had taken out that cell, 9/11 would not have occurred and, certainly, taking out those three principal players in that cell would have severely crippled, if not totally stopped, the operation that killed 3,000 people in America." (Goodwin 8/2005)
Global Objectives, a British banking compliance company, identifies fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers as high-risk people and establishes profiles for them. The hijackers are regarded as high-risk for loans because they are linked to Osama bin Laden, suspected terrorists, or associates of terrorists. The list of high-risk people maintained by Global Objectives is available to dozens of banks and the hijackers' files contain their dates and places of birth, aliases, and associates. It is unclear which fifteen hijackers are considered high-risk. It is also unknown if any Western intelligence agencies access this database before 9/11. (Wilson 2/21/2002) According to the 9/11 Commission, US intelligence is only aware of three of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Alhazmi, Salem Alhazmi, and Khalid Almihdhar, before the attacks. (9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 181-2) However, media reports will suggest US intelligence agencies may have been aware of another six: Ziad Jarrah (see January 30, 2000); Marwan Alshehhi (see March 1999 and January-February 2000); Mohamed Atta (see January-May 2000 and January-February 2000); and Ahmed Alghamdi, Satam al Suqami, and Hamza Alghamdi (see September 2000 and Spring 2001).
Dr. Eileen Preisser testifies before a congressional briefing. Dr. Preisser was one of four analysts in the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) supporting Able Danger in late 1999 and 2000 (see Fall 1999). While her testimony remains classified, the next day, Representative Christopher Shays (R-CT) gives a brief summary: "In a briefing we had yesterday, we had Eileen [Preisser], who argues that we don't have the data we need because we don't take all the public data that is available and mix it with the security data. And just taking public data, using, you know, computer systems that are high-speed and able to digest, you know, literally floors' worth of material, she can take relationships that are seven times removed, seven units removed, and when she does that, she ends up with relationships to the bin Laden group where she sees the purchase of chemicals, the sending of students to universities. You wouldn't see it if you isolated it there, but if that unit is connected to that unit, which is connected to that unit, which is connected to that unit, you then see the relationship. So we don't know ultimately the authenticity of how she does it, but when she does it, she comes up with the kind of answer that you have just asked, which is a little unsettling." (US Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations 10/12/2001) Note that according to some media accounts, the CIA monitored Mohamed Atta purchasing large quantities of chemicals in Germany in the spring of 2000 (see January-May 2000). Atta also sends a series of e-mails to the US in the spring of 2000, inquiring about flight school opportunities for himself and a "small group" of his associates (see January-March 2000). Dr. Preisser is apparently willing to testify about her role in how Able Danger uncovered Atta's name, but in September 2005 she is prohibited from publicly testifying before Congress (see September 21, 2005).
A former high-ranking CIA officer named David Edger says that the CIA had tracked "some of the people responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center" in Germany, but failed to stop them. Between 1997 and 2001, Edger was CIA station chief in Berlin, Germany, and thus directed CIA surveillance and infiltration attempts against the Hamburg cell of 9/11 hijackers, and other cells in Germany (see May 1997). In August 2001, Edger retired and moved to Oklahoma to teach (see August 2001), and on this day he makes some intriguing comments to the Norman Transcript, a newspaper in Norman, Oklahoma. According to the Norman Transcript: "Up until his appointment with [the University of Oklahoma] six months ago, Edger's work with the CIA focused on terrorist groups in Germany. One of the three cells he was tracking included some of the people responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He said although officers knew members of the cell and some of what they were doing, they had no idea that they would meet in London and go to different parts of the US, where they would learn to fly planes to crash into the World Trade Center. 'In that case, we failed,' Edger said." (Watson 2/12/2002)
What Did the CIA Know? - While it is clear that the CIA was monitoring some members of the al-Qaeda Hamburg cell containing a few of the 9/11 hijackers (see December 1999 and Spring 2000), it is unclear just what it might have known of the hijackers in Hamburg before 9/11 (see January 31, 1999, March 1999, 2000, and September 2000-July 24, 2001). According to some reports, the CIA monitored 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta for six months in early 2000 (see January-May 2000).
Edger's Knowledge Remains a Mystery - Although Edger would seem to be in a prime position to know just what the CIA might have known about the hijackers and their Hamburg associates before 9/11, there are no signs he is interviewed by the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry or 9/11 Commission. He also will not make any similar comments to any newspaper except for the obscure Norman Transcript.
Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, along with two members of the commission's staff and an unnamed "representative of the executive branch," meets at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with three individuals doing intelligence work for the US Defense Department. (CNN 8/17/2005; Rosen 11/24/2005) Among these is Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, an Army intelligence officer who worked closely with a military intelligence unit called Able Danger, which between fall 1999 and spring 2001 was tasked with assembling information about al-Qaeda networks around the world (see Fall 1999 and January-March 2001). According to Shaffer's own later account, he gives the commission staff a detailed account of what Able Danger was, and tells them, "We found two of the three cells which conducted 9/11, to include [Mohamed] Atta." At the end of the meeting, Philip Zelikow approaches him and says, "This is important. We need to continue this dialogue when we get back to the states." (Goodwin 9/2005) Following the meeting, Zelikow calls back to the 9/11 Commission's headquarters in Washington to request that staff draft a document request, seeking information on Able Danger from the Department of Defense. (Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton 8/12/2005 ) According to Anthony Shaffer, "My understanding from talking to another member of the press is that [Zelikow's] call came into America at four o clock in the morning. He got people out of bed over this." (Goodwin 9/2005) Shaffer subsequently tries contacting Philip Zelikow in January 2004 (see Early January 2004). After it is revealed in the press that the commission, which includes no mention of Able Danger in its final report, had been briefed on the unit, spokesmen for commission members will insist that while they were informed of Able Danger at this time, they were not informed that it had identified Mohamed Atta or any other hijackers as threats. (Shenon and Jehl 8/10/2005) Head commissioners Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton will later say in an official statement that a memorandum prepared by the commission staff after the meeting "does not record any mention of Mohamed Atta or any of the other future hijackers, or any suggestion that their identities were known to anyone at [Defense Department] before 9/11. Nor do any of the three Commission staffers who participated in the interview, or the executive branch lawyer, recall hearing any such allegation." (Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton 8/12/2005 )
Ten days before the 9/11 Commission releases its final report, a senior member of its staff, Dietrich Snell, accompanied by another commission staff member, meets at one of the commission's Washington, DC offices with a US Navy officer who worked with a US Army intelligence program called Able Danger, which had been tasked with assembling information about al-Qaeda networks around the world. This officer, Captain Scott Phillpott, tells them he saw an Able Danger document in 2000 that described Mohamed Atta as part of a Brooklyn al-Qaeda cell. He complains that this information about Atta, and information about other alleged members of the Brooklyn cell, was deleted from the document soon after he saw it, due to the concerns of Department of Defense lawyers. However, despite having this meeting with Phillpott, and having met previously with an Army intelligence officer who was also involved with Able Danger (see October 21, 2003), the 9/11 Commission makes no mention of the unit in their final report. The commissioners later claim that Phillpott's information "[does] not mesh with other conclusions" they are drawing from their investigation. Consequently, the commission staff conclude "that the officer's account [is] not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation." Able Danger is not mentioned in their final report, they claim, because "the operation itself did not turn out to be historically significant." (Associated Press 8/11/2005; Jehl 8/11/2005; Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton 8/12/2005 ; Jehl 8/13/2005; Eggen 8/13/2005; Shenon 8/22/2005) Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer additionally claims, "Captain Phillpott actually told the 9/11 Commission about the fact that Able Danger discovered information regarding the Cole attack.… There was information that Able Danger found that related to al-Qaeda planning an attack. That information unfortunately didn't get anywhere either. So that is another clue that was given to the 9/11 Commission to say, hey, this [Able Danger] capability did some stuff, and they chose not to even look at that." (Shaffer 9/20/2005)
A front page article in the New York Times reveals the existence of a highly classified military intelligence unit called Able Danger, which had identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as likely members of an al-Qaeda cell operating in the United States more than a year before the attacks. (Jehl 8/9/2005) Members of the unit had recommended that the FBI be called in to take out the cell, but Pentagon lawyers had blocked their request (see September 2000). The incident was first described in a June 2005 speech on the House floor by Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA), and in an interview with Weldon around the same time in the Norristown Times Herald, neither of which had garnered much attention. (Phucas 6/19/2005; US Congress. House 6/27/2005) Weldon, who is vice chairman of both the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee, claims he only recognized the significance of the incident after contacting members of the Able Danger unit during research for a book about terrorism. (Shenon and Jehl 8/10/2005)
A US Army intelligence officer comes forward, saying he was involved with a secret military intelligence unit, which had identified Mohamed Atta and three other future 9/11 hijackers by mid-2000. He says the unit, called Able Danger, had tried to meet with agents at the FBI's Washington field office that summer to share its information, but was prevented from doing so by military lawyers (see September 2000). Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who served as a liaison officer between Able Danger and the Defense Intelligence Agency, is the first military officer associated with Able Danger to publicly acknowledge his involvement with the unit. Shaffer says that, had they been allowed to alert the FBI to Mohamed Atta being in the US, they might have been able to prevent 9/11. (Shenon 8/17/2005; Borger 8/18/2005; Orin 8/18/2005) A week prior to Shaffer's coming forward, Able Danger was brought to the public's attention in a New York Times front page article (see August 9, 2005). Shaffer says he met privately with staff from the 9/11 Commission in Afghanistan in October 2003, and explicitly mentioned Atta as a member of the "Brooklyn" al-Qaeda cell (see October 21, 2003).
Several individuals come forward and corroborate claims made about a military intelligence unit called Able Danger that, by mid-2000, allegedly identified Mohamed Atta and three other future 9/11 hijackers. Days previously, a US Army intelligence officer called Anthony Shaffer made claims about the unit (see August 17, 2005). On August 22, Scott J. Phillpott, an active-duty Navy captain who managed the Able Danger program for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command, comes forward and corroborates Shaffer's claims. He says, "My story is consistent. Atta was identified by Able Danger in January-February of 2000." Phillpott states that he was the officer who met with staff from the 9/11 Commission in July 2004, and told them about the program (see July 12, 2004). (Shenon 8/22/2005) Claims about the program are further corroborated when a former employee of a defense contractor who says he worked on the technical side of the unit, also comes forward. James D. Smith, who worked for Orion Scientific Systems (Phucas 9/22/2005) , states that in 2000 he helped create a chart for Able Danger. He says, "I am absolutely positive that he [Atta] was on our chart among other pictures and ties that we were doing mainly based upon [terror] cells in New York City." (Fox News 8/28/2005) Furthermore, the Pentagon admits that they have found three others, apart from Anthony Shaffer and Scott Phillpott, associated with Able Danger who assert that the program identified Mohamed Atta as an al-Qaeda suspect inside the US more than a year before 9/11. An official says that the five individuals associated with the program (including Shaffer and Phillpott) were all considered "credible people," and that four of them recalled a photo of Mohamed Atta accompanying the chart they produced. (Dunham 9/1/2005) Eleven people ran Able Danger. (Kelly 8/14/2005) The Pentagon interviewed a total of 80 people who had some kind of association with the Able Danger program. (Shanker 9/1/2005)
Former members of the 9/11 Commission dismiss recent allegations regarding a secret military intelligence unit called Able Danger, which had been set up in 1999 to bring together information about al-Qaeda. Several former members of the unit have come forward claiming the program identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks (see August 17, 2005; August 22-September 1, 2005). The 9/11 Commission has been criticized for not mentioning Able Danger in its final report. In response, its former chairman, Thomas Kean, claims there is no evidence that anyone in the government knew about Mohamed Atta before 9/11, and there are no documents that verify the claims made by former members of the unit. However, the Pentagon has recently confirmed that documents associated with Able Danger were destroyed in accordance with regulations about gathering intelligence on people inside the US. Another former commissioner, Slade Gorton, says, "Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's the conclusion of all 10 of us." But a spokesman for Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA), who helped bring to light the existence of the program, says that none of the commissioners met with anyone from Able Danger, "yet they choose to speak with some form of certainty without firsthand knowledge." (Barrett 9/15/2005; Fox News 9/16/2005) The commission's claim that no one in the US knew about Mohamed Atta before 9/11 is further contradicted by reports stating that the CIA had been tracking him while he was still in Germany, early in 2000 (see January-May 2000). And soon after 9/11, Newsweek reported US officials stating that Atta "had been known as [an associate] of Islamic terrorists" well before 9/11. (Klaidman, Isikoff, and Hosenball 9/20/2001 )
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, an Army intelligence officer who worked closely with a military intelligence unit called Able Danger, has his security clearance revoked. (Stirland 9/21/2005; Phucas 9/22/2005) Shaffer alleges that Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta and three other future 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks (see August 17, 2005). Shaffer's lawyer, Mark Zaid, states, "I specialize in security clearance cases.… Based on years of experience I can say categorically that the basis for the revocation was questionable at best." (US Congress 9/21/2005) Shaffer is due to testify two days later in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Able Danger, though he is subsequently prohibited from doing so by the Defense Department (see September 21, 2005). His security clearance had been suspended 18 months previously (see March 2004).
The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), holds a public hearing to investigate an intelligence program called Able Danger, to explore allegations that it identified Mohamed Atta and three other hijackers more than a year before 9/11, and to learn why the Pentagon disbanded it and destroyed the information it had gathered. (Wait 9/21/2005; Shenon 9/21/2005; Waterman 9/21/2005) The committee is seeking testimony from several former Able Danger members. Among these are Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, Dr. Eileen Preisser, and civilian analyst James D. Smith; all but Preisser have recently come forward with allegations about the unit (see August 17, 2005; August 22-September 1, 2005). However, the day before the hearing, Defense Department lawyers ordered them and other former Able Danger members not to testify. (Shaffer 9/20/2005; Waterman 9/21/2005) Shaffer says in an interview, "I was told by two [Defense Department] officials today directly that it is their understanding that [Defense Secretary Rumsfeld] directed that we not testify…" (Shaffer 9/20/2005) The Defense Department's only reason for doing so, offered by a spokesman, is that they have "expressed [their] security concerns and believe it is simply not possible to discuss Able Danger in any great detail in an open public forum open testimony of these witnesses." (Shenon 9/21/2005) Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter says, "That looks to me like it may be obstruction of the committee's activities, something we will have to determine." He complains that the Pentagon only delivered hundreds of pages of documents related to Able Danger late on the eve of the hearing, leaving no time for committee staff to review the material. (Morgan 9/21/2005) Furthermore, the Pentagon's representative at the hearing, William Dugan, admits that he has very limited knowledge of Able Danger. Specter tells him, "You were sent over—perhaps with the calculation you wouldn't have the information." (Associated Press 9/21/2005; Wait 9/21/2005)
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Kaiserallee 11, 76133 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49-8966060060
GDS-Code: FKB
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08:30 - 19:00
08:00 - 12:00
The SIXT branch is directly in the west part of the city on the Mühlberger Tor, near Europaplatz, opposite the townhall west (Rathaus West). Near the SIXT branch you will find hotel Rio, Sandkorn theatre, different companies and 2 Aral petrol stations.
Take the motorway exit towards Karlsruhe and, subsequently, the exit 48-Karlsruhe-Süd towards Rheinstetten/Landau/Ettlingen. Turn left onto the federal motorway B3. Take the exit towards Landau/Neureut and, subsequently, the exit B36 towards Rastatt/Daxlanden/Mühlburg. Turn right into "Am Entenfang". Follow the course of the road and drive straight into Rheinstrasse. Continue onto Kaiserallee. Keep right to stay on Kaiserallee, where our Sixt branch is located.
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The SIXT branch is reachable by different trams, exit "Mühlburger Tor".
Please park the SIXT vehicle on the designated parking lots in the car park Magdeburger Haus (level -1). The entry is 5m next to the SIXT branch. Please drop the keys into the key box next to the entrance door of the SIXT branch.
49.010345, 8.385122
Pick-up out of opening hours is possible for an additional charge. This service is bookable on request. Please provide credit card, e-mail address and mobile number.
For return between midnight and 0600 a.m. and on Sundays, the SIXT vehicle can be parked in the parking lots in front of the SIXT branch or in one of the surrounding side streets and drop the keys into the key box next to the entrance door of the branch.
Kaiserallee 11, 76133 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49-8966060060
GDS-Code: FKB
08:30 - 19:00
08:00 - 12:00
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