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, […]
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11/15/2001
On November 15, 2001, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo sent a memo to Senior Associate Counsel John Bellinger, titled, ‘Authority of the President to Suspend Certain Provisions of the ABM Treaty.’ In reference to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty with the USSR, Yoo wrote that the President had the constitutional power to terminate and […]
11/15/2001
According to author Rohan Gunaratna’s interview with an Al Qaeda member in November 2001: “Al Qaeda believes that until US troops are ejected from Saudi Arabia, Muslim society will be ‘living a life of sin.’ As one fighter put it, ‘Until the US troops are removed from all lands of the Muslims, no Muslim is […]
11/15/2001
From the Chilcot inquiry, the British public inquiry into their involvement in the war in Iraq: “For the first time, the inquiry yesterday [January 19, 2011] released evidence from MI6 [UK’s foreign intelligence service] officers spelling out their warnings, as early as November 2001 as the Bush administration was already preparing for war, of the […]
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, […]
11/14/2001
“…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 […]
11/14/2001
In a speech to the Foreign Policy Relations Institute in Philadelphia on November 14, 2001, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle said: ” ‘The question on my mind…is: Do we wait for Saddam and hope for the best? Do we wait and hope he doesn’t do what we know [sic] he […]
11/14/2001
On November 14, 2001, “the UN Security Council approved Resolution 1378 endorsing [UN representative] Lakhdar Brahimi’s efforts to bring the Afghan factions together and form a new government in Kabul [Afghanistan].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 83 […]
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, […]