On October 30, 2001, “At the Pentagon, a covert Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), with a staff of fifteen, was established to plant helpful ‘news,’ some of it phony, with foreign media. The office was headed by Brigadier General Simon Worden of the air force, who reported to Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for […]
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10/29/2001
“According to one report [Harvard Professor Matthew Bunn’s ‘Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Theft and Sabotage,’ published on October 29, 2001], the Taliban tried to recruit a former Soviet nuclear weapons expert, but Russian authorities disrupted the scheme.” – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?, Page 87 […]
10/29/2001
“…on the morning of October 29, 2001, [President] Bush and his senior advisers were bombarded with a new wave of intelligence reporting, much of it deemed credible, that suggested that terrorists were likely to strike the United States again the following week. The reporting indicated that terrorists might use conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material, […]
10/29/2001
On October 29, 2001, CIA Director George “Tenet briefed the president [Bush] and his senior advisers about a supposedly credible threat that terrorists might blow up a radiological bomb in Washington or New York. Following Tenet’s briefing, [Vice President Dick] Cheney, who had spent decades involved in ‘Continuity of Government’ exercise designed to ensure that […]
10/28/2001
“Since Sept. 11, the FBI’s manhunt has rounded up more than 800 people, but only 10 have been linked in any way to the hijackings–and those 10 are not talking. (Most of the suspects probably will turn out to be innocent.)” – “Bin Laden’s Invisible Network,” Newsweek, Oct. 28, 2001 […]
10/28/2001
A lot of criminal information on the 9/11 hijackers was uncovered by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, Germany’s version of the FBI), following a tip on October 28, 2001, to a suitcase full of papers written in Arabic. “In the six weeks following the attack, American and German investigators had established the money trail and for the […]
10/28/2001
In a Washington Post article on October 28, 2001, former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke wondered,” ‘How can a man in a cave [Osama bin Laden] outcommunicate the world’s leading communications society?’ ” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 377 […]
10/27/2001
“A senior Israeli official said today [October 26, 2001] that the country’s intelligence services had not come up with any evidence linking Iraq to those [9/11] attacks, or to the anthrax scare in the United States. ‘We don’t see any evidence of Al Qaeda in Iraq,’ the official said. ‘Not as a base, not as […]
10/26/2001
“Brian Ross, a highly respected investigative reporter for ABC News, led the newscast that night [October 26, 2001] stating that he had learned from ‘three well-placed but separate sources’ that initial tests had found the chemical additive bentonite in the anthrax, and that the only country known to have used this substance to produce biological […]
10/26/2001
“Assistant FBI director David Szady…said the passage into law in October [26] 2001, of the USA Patriot Act, helped agents solve problems with the Justice Department, which had turned down important requests for electronic surveillance. …The new law made it easier to obtain court permission for wiretaps or searches…and easier for FBI criminal investigators and […]