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 […]
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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 […]
11/15/2001
“In November 2001, President Bush issued a skeletal order, under his authority as commander in chief and the power given to him by Congress in the AUMF [Authorization for Use of Military Force], that military commissions would be used to try only non-U.S. citizens involved with al Qaeda or other terror groups that threatened the […]
11/15/2001
In November 2001, al-Qaeda military commander Mohammed “Atef was killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike. Atef, a former Egyptian policeman, was one of the most hard-line members of al-Qaeda. …The loss of al-Qaeda’s military commander was a blow to the organization, since it was Atef who had performed as bin Laden’s chief executive officer, […]
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?’ […]
11/14/2001
“…Al Qaeda’s Emir and military commander, Muhammad Atef, was killed by a US airstrike in Kabul [Afghanistan], on November 14, 2001. A founder member, Atef had responsibility for both Al Qaeda’s domestic Afghan operations as well as the day-to-day running of the organization. In addition to being Osama’s brother-in-law, he planned all the major Al […]