On October 21, 2001, Osama bin Laden was interviewed by Taysir Allouni of Al Jazeera. “The interview began with bin Laden acknowledging al Qaeda’s culpability [for 9/11] but insisting that the attacks were a form of self-defense, designed to defend the Palestinian people and religious sites in Saudi Arabia. He continued, ‘And if inciting for […]
Category: quotes
10/21/2001
“At an economic conference in Shanghai, [President] Bush said one goal of the terrorists who brought down the World Trade Center was to cause a collapse of international markets. For that reason, he said, businesses had to join this American-led fight, even if it meant new security measures and tighter border controls that put a […]
10/21/2001
“Altogether, 830 people have been arrested in the United States, but officials said no evidence has been developed to suggest that anyone now in custody–including at least 10 members of Al Qaeda–took part in the conspiracy that led to last month’s [9/11] attacks.” – Clyde Haberman, “Oct. 20, 2001, War on the Ground, Allies Around […]
10/20/2001
U.K. Prime Minister Tony “Blair, quoting from Al Jazeera’s [October 20, 2001] interview [with bin Laden], said that bin Laden declared that ‘the battle has been moved inside America, and we shall continue until we win this battle, or die in the cause and meet our maker.’ He also quotes Mr. bin Laden as saying […]
10/19/2001
“On October 19, 2001, the Pentagon announced that a handful of American Special Forces had slipped into Afghanistan.” This started the ground campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda. – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 285 […]
10/19/2001
“On October 19 [2001], the first of our Special Forces A-Teams made it into Afghanistan, and the twelve men successfully linked up with the ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum south of Mazar-e-Sharif. Later that day, two hundred U.S. Army Rangers descended onto a dusty airstrip designated Objective Rhino in southern Afghanistan.” – Donald […]
10/18/2001
In a speech in New York on October 18, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We are dealing here with evil people who dwell in the shadows, planning unimaginable violence and destruction. We have no alternative but to meet the enemy where he dwells. Sometimes that means doing business with people you would not […]
10/18/2001
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney wrote, on October 18, 2001: “There had been an initial positive test result indicating a botulinum toxin attack on the White House. If the result was confirmed, it could mean the president [Bush] and I, members of the White House staff, and probably scores of others who had simply been in […]
10/17/2001
“United Nations inspectors who later studied the Iraqi [chemical weapons] program said Baghdad did not manage to produce dry anthrax that could be delivered as an aerosol though it did buy specialized nozzles for its fleet of crop-dusters. In the years since, United Nations officials say, Iraq has acquired the capability to produce the high-grade, […]
10/17/2001
“The discovery of expertly processed anthrax [sent to Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD)], one former scientist said, casts serious doubt on the theory advanced by some investigators that the germ attacks were the work of a lone amateur with a smattering of knowledge about biology. ‘I do think in one form or another, a state was […]