Was 9/11 preventable? Redux

This is incredible. Two years before 9/11 we knew that Mohamed Atta, the mastermind behind the most vicious attack on US soil was a terrorist.

Did the people in charge act on the information? Sort of. They ordered it destroyed. Well, that was smart! Such incompetence hopefully won't go unpunished. Almost 3,000 people lost their lives also because of that mistake.

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 described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" as much as one-fourth of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.

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.

What else is there that we still don't know? One thing is sure, the person that gave the order to destroy information so important has the 9/11 victims' lives on his conscience forever.

Was 9/11 preventable? I feel for the families of victims' of that tragedy. Finding out information like this must be terrible.