“On November 16 [2001], the bombing campaign [in Afghanistan] scored its first big victory. Mohammed Atef, bin Laden’s military commander, died in a Predator [drone] missile attack in Gardez, just south of Kabul.” – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 72 […]
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11/15/2001
In an article in the November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, regarding the response to the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘This is a new kind of war, a new kind of battlefield, and the United States will need the help of Arab and Muslim countries,’ …The Palestinian issue, he added, […]
11/15/2001
From “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “51. In November 2001, the [UK] JIC [UK Joint Intellegence Committee] assessed that Iraq had played no role in 9/11 attacks on the US and that practical co-operation between Iraq and Al Qaida was ‘unlikely’. There was no ‘credible evidence of covert transfers of WMD-related technology […]
11/15/2001
Osama bin Laden discussed the events of September 11 in a video which was recorded in November 2001: ” ‘We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four […]
11/15/2001
” ‘This war is fundamentally religious,’ bin Laden said in November 2001. ‘Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. For, the enmity is based on creed.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Michael Scheuer, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, Page 19 […]
11/15/2001
According to a November 15, 2001, interview with CIA Islamabad (Pakistan) station chief Milton Bearden: “for the first time came complaints from some Afghan fighters to the CIA about a rising force in their jihad: Arab volunteers. Thousands of them were arriving in Afghanistan. …Bearden recalled the thrust of the very early reports arriving from […]
11/15/2001
“Later, in November 2001–as Northern Alliance forces, with U.S. help, were capturing Afghanistan’s main cities one after another–[Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld worked to produce an up-to-date war plan for Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 219 […]
11/15/2001
According to an April 15, 2002, article in The Washington Post, a tape of bin Laden was discovered in Afghanistan in November 2001. On the tape, “He accurately listed the nationalities and sometimes the names of the nineteen-man suicide squad, all but four his Saudi compatriots. Osama confirmed the existence of four hijacking teams, rejoiced […]
11/15/2001
“Mohammed Atef, the terrorist network’s [al Qaeda’s] chief of operations, had been killed in Afghanistan (in November 2001)…” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – James Risen, State of War, Pages 21-22 […]
11/15/2001
“During the November 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, CIA Predator drones attacked a high-level al Qaeda meeting in Kabul, missing Osama bin Laden but killing his military chief, Mohammed Atef.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 49 […]