“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 […]
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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 […]
11/13/2001
“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 […]
11/13/2001
On November 13, 2001, Osama bin Laden “and his forces left the city of Jalalabad [Afghanistan] in a convoy of Toyota pickup trucks just ahead of advancing American and Northern Alliance forces and moved into prepared defensive positions in the Tora Bora mountains, thirty miles southwest of Jalalabad.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, […]