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, […]
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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 […]
11/14/2001
“On November 14, 2001, he [Saudi crown prince Abdullah] convened the grand ulema [religious scholars] to tell them that they needed to get a grip on the inflammatory preaching in the mosques that justified the September 11 attackers and, by implication, questioned the Saudi right to rule.” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Age […]
11/14/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet noted: “When Kabul [Afghanistan] fell, on November 14 [2001], we figured that Bin Ladin and his cohorts would be even more likely to try to flee Afghanistan, perhaps for the ungoverned regions of Pakistan. CIA rushed to set up counterterrorist pursuit teams, made up of Northern Alliance fighters with U.S. advisors, […]
11/14/2001
“In a passage setting out bin Laden’s own justification for the destruction of the World Trade Center, the intelligence dossier [released by U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair on November 14, 2001] quoted him as saying, ‘It was in revenge for our people killed in Palestine and Iraq. So if avenging the killing of our people […]
11/14/2001
On November 14, 2001, Vice President Dick “Cheney spoke before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Asserting that terrorists were not the same as lawful combatants, Cheney declared, ‘They don’t deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war. They don’t deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going […]
11/14/2001
“As early as November 14, 2001, Richard Perle, the exotic superhawk connected with the Pentagon, said that the most compelling argument for going to war with Iraq was that with enough time Saddam would be capable of attacking the U.S. with a nuclear weapon. ‘Do we wait for Saddam or do we take preemptive action?’ […]