“On November 21 [2001],–nine days after the fall of Kabul [Afghanistan] had sent thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters and supporters fleeing south–[President] Bush took aside [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, and asked him to draw up a fresh war plan for Iraq and to keep it a […]
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11/21/2001
” ‘Afghanistan is just the beginning on the war against terror,’ the president [Bush] said [on November 21, 2001] to thousands of members of the storied 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, which already has troops deployed in Pakistan. ‘There are other terrorists who threaten America and our friends, and there are other nations willing […]
11/20/2001
After the CIA was briefed by Italian intelligence about the possible sale of yellowcake uranium from Niger to Iraq, “the State Department directed the U.S. embassy in Niger to check out the alleged uranium deal. On November 20, 2001, the U.S. embassy in Niamey, the capital of Niger, disseminated a cable reporting on a meeting […]
11/19/2001
“Stanley Bedington, a senior analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center until 1994, said in an interview [on November 19, 2001], ‘The Iraqis were active in Sudan giving bin Laden assistance. A colleague of mine was chief of operations for Africa and knew it extremely well. He said the relationship between Sudan and the Iraqis was […]
11/18/2001
“The United States has concluded that North Korea, Iraq and at least three other countries are developing germ weapons, and has decided to accuse them of violating a treaty they ratified banning such weapons, [Bush] administration officials said this weekend [November 16-18, 2001]. The others to be cited include Iran, Libya and Syria.” – Judith […]
11/18/2001
“On November 18 [2001], one thousand Taliban in one hundred pickup trucks drove up through the rough mountainous road from Kandahar [Afghanistan] toward Tarin Kot. On the last ridge…they were hit by precision bombs from U.S. aircraft guided by U.S. SOF [Special Operations Forces] spotters. At least thirty vehicles were destroyed. The rest fled back […]
11/17/2001
In a New York Times article on November 17, 2001, “reporter James Risen quoted ‘a senior American law enforcement official’ as saying ‘al Qaeda is on the run in Afghanistan, the noose is tightening around bin Laden, and I think what will happen is that Al Qaeda is going to fragment and that it will […]
11/16/2001
“…a second anthrax-laced letter, addressed to Senator Patrick Leahy [D-VT], had been intercepted by investigators on November 16, 2001.” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 185 […]
11/16/2001
“According to the Israeli intelligence news service DEBKAfile [on November 16, 2001], in mid-November [2001] the Northern Alliance was reinforced with two thousand men from the Russian Spetznaz special forces and six thousand men from special Uzbek units, transferred on the orders of President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, before a second attempt at Mazar-i-Sharif [Afghanistan]. […]
11/16/2001
“One of the strongholds of the Taliban and al Qaeda before the U.S.-led invasion was Tora Bora, a network of man-made caves in the White Mountains in eastern Afghanistan, on the edge of Pakistan’s autonomous frontier. Tora Bora became a target in the early phase of the air campaign, and the United States started bombing […]