Thread by @gumby4christ

The CIA and the FBI weren't the only ones keeping suspiciously close tabs on Al Qaeda in the lead-up to 9/11. The Pentagon had a special unit called DO5, which produced numerous reports on the movements of OBL and identified KSM's house. truthout.org/articles/new-d…

DO5 was tasked with monitoring Bin Laden and other suspected terrorists in Afghanistan between 1998 and 2000 and constructing possible terrorism scenarios.

DO5 also worked domestically and even created fictional terrorist orgs used for "exercises." truthout.org/articles/repor…

According to a Pentagon whistleblower codenamed Iron Man, high-level DOD officials held discussions between Summer 2000 and June 2001 in which they determined that Al Qaeda was "likely to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon." truthout.org/articles/new-d…

Despite this eerily prescient warning, DO5 was instructed to stop tracking Bin Laden, and the division was realigned to fall under the NORAD-associated Intelligence Watch Center. truthout.org/articles/repor…

Additionally, during one DO5 briefing, a Navy commander told a NORAD commander that concerns about Bin Laden were unfounded, saying, "If everyone would just turn off CNN, there wouldn't be a threat from Osama bin Laden." truthout.org/articles/exclu…

DOD officials scrubbed details about its activities tracking OBL and Al Qaeda from official reports submitted to Congress as part of its inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. DOD also withheld information it had collected on OBL and AQ. truthout.org/articles/new-d…

The reason we know all of this is thanks to a whistleblower complaint submitted by a top military analyst known only as "Iron Man," who wrote letter's to the Pentagon's Inspector General in May 2006, which were subsequently provided to @jeff_kaye. truthout.org/articles/repor…

Iron Man wrote that this knowledge weighed heavily on him. “I and the deputy of that team, [redacted], especially carried the burden of knowledge of how close DoD came to bin Ladin and perhaps being able to reduce the number of lives lost on 9/11." truthout.org/articles/exclu…

The redacted name is Kirk von Ackermann, a former Air Force captain who was working for a Turkish-run security contractor in Iraq in October 2003, when he mysteriously disappeared from a road between Tikrit and Kirkuk after calling for help. truthout.org/articles/a-yea…

His vehicle was found an hour later. In it, there was a laptop, a satellite phone, and a briefcase containing $40,000 in cash. As his colleague put it, "It was as if he had been abducted by aliens." web.archive.org/web/2006081605…

According to his wife's blog, while in the military, von Ackermann predicted the means used to carry out the USS Cole bombing and helped foil the Millennium Plot.
1: missinginiraq.blogspot.com/2006/03/gettin…
2: missinginiraq.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-ap…

Von Ackermann and his team (referring to DO5, I believe) also suggested that aircrafts could be hijacked to carry out a terrorist attack and even predicted the most likely targets. This, of course, mirrors the info in Iron Man's complaint. missinginiraq.blogspot.com/2006/03/gettin…

In August 2006, three months after Iron Man's complaint, the Army informed von Ackermann's wife that he'd been kidnapped and likely killed as part of a simple opportunistic crime. (Guess the kidnappers overlooked that briefcase full of cash.) nbcnews.com/id/wbna27157617

Von Ackermann's body has never been found and no suspect in his kidnapping has ever been named. Two months after von Ackermann's disappearance, his contractor colleague Ryan Manelick was gunned down after leaving a US military base near Balad. web.archive.org/web/2007030305…

Since revealing his information to @jeff_kaye, which sparked a FOIA request for the related IG Report by @JasonLeopold, Iron Man has been (AFAIK) completely silent. And the information he revealed remains oddly unmetabolized, even by people who question the official story of 9/11