“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 […]
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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?’ […]
11/13/2001
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, […]
11/13/2001
“The day that Kabul [Afghanistan] fell [November 13, 2001], a radio intercept caught the Taliban’s leader, Mullah [Mohammad] Omar, broadcasting a message from Kandahar exhorting what was left of his troops to stand and fight, telling them, ‘I order you to obey your commanders completely and not to go hither and thither. Any person who […]
11/13/2001
Former President George W. Bush wrote: “On November 13, 2001, I signed an executive order establishing military tribunals to try captured terrorists. The system was based closely on the one created by FDR in 1942, which tried and convicted eight Nazi spies who had infiltrated the United States. The Supreme Court had unanimously upheld the […]