“…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 […]
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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 […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a sweeping and highly controversial Military Order for the purpose of creating military commissions with exclusive jurisdiction to try certain designated foreign nationals ‘for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws’ relevant to any prior or future ‘acts of international terrorism.’ The Order reached far […]
11/13/2001
“In November [13] 2001, despite the fact that Al-Jazeera had given the U.S. military coordinates of its office in Kabul [Afghanistan], U.S. war planes dropped two five-hundred-pound bombs on Al-Jazeera’s bureau there, destroying it. [According to an article that ran that day in News Alert] The United States claimed the office was ‘a known Al […]
11/13/2001
“The United States planned not only to detain Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at GTMO [Guantanamo] but also, as President Bush announced on November 13, 2001, to try some of them in military commissions. Military commissions lack a jury and other procedural protections that accompany ordinary civilian trials. They are traditional wartime tools used to […]
11/13/2001
On November 13, 2001, “President Bush issued an executive order which stated: ‘International terrorists, including members of al Qaeda, have carried out attacks on United States diplomatic and military personnel and facilities abroad and on citizens and property with the United States on a scale that has created a state of armed conflict that requires […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13 [2001], [Vice President Dick] Cheney brought a four-page text of the directive [detailing how to treat prisoners of war on terror] to his weekly private lunch with the president [Bush], who signed it later that day in the Oval Office without even taking time to sit down. Almost no one else saw […]
11/13/2001
“According to intelligence reports that have since been released to the public, a convoy of about a thousand Taliban and al Qaeda fighters escaped to Tora Bora from Jalalabad [Afghanistan] on November 13, 2001, the same day that Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance. Osama bin Laden was thought to be in the convoy.” – […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13 [2001], U.S. warplanes bombed a building in Kabul [Afghanistan] thought to be a Taliban or al Qaeda headquarters. After the bombs completely leveled the building, a senior military official recalled, ‘Some cell phone intercepts [contained] some excited or angry exchanges between Taliban and al Qaeda members’ indicating that one or more al […]