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What Did The Pentagon Know, And When Did It Know It? Another 9/11 Jacksonville connection? Michelle Malkin writes today about the Pentagon's refusal to allow folks involved in Able Danger to testify before Congress. Able Danger was the program that may have spotted Mohammed Atta and other of the 9/11 hijackers a year or so before their evil deed. Read Michelle's latest and the comments of others she quotes. I've been thinking about something that happened here in Jacksonville. It was the summer of 2001. The St. Johns River flows northward from central Florida towards Jacksonville, and on the south side of town it passes NAS Jacksonville - an active Naval Air Station. Extending far out into the river are some old docks that were once used to refuel ships. They have not been used by the Navy in decades. The old docks attracted a lot of fish, and civilian fishermen have fished around them for many, many years. But suddenly in the summer of 2001, without giving any warning, the Navy began forcing fishermen away from the docks. A small Navy boat containing sailors brandishing arms would order the fishermen away. The boat began enforcing a restricted area that had not been in effect in years. Folks wondered what was going on. Was it simply a case of a new base commander deciding to be a hard-ass? Or was it something else? I've always wondered if it had something to do with 9/11. After all, a local dive shop reported that one of the 9/11 hijackers had been in his shop asking questions about the purchase of SCUBA gear that summer, too. |
