In a speech to military personnel at Travis Air Force Base in California on October 17, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘America’s new war [is] against terrorism and against evil. …The evil ones have tried to hijack a religion to justify their murder…we fight against evil people.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 139 […]
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10/17/2001
” ‘We are not waging war against the United States outside Iraq,’ said Iraqi vice premier Tariq Aziz, at a press conference in Baghdad on October 17, 2001. ‘We don’t believe in that. …We are prepared to resist continuous American aggression against Iraq within the territory of Iraq. We don’t need bin Laden for that […]
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, […]
10/16/2001
Head of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, wrote an article in The Washington Post on October 16, 2001. “Harking back to the Gulf War of 1991, he asserted that if the United States had gone on to Baghdad [Iraq], ‘Our Arab allies…would have deserted […]
10/16/2001
On October 16, 2001, “the first U.S. Special Forces team arrived near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif and linked up with one of the leaders of the Northern Alliance, the Uzbek general Abdul Rashid Dostum. …Within twenty-four hours of their arrival the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Taliban front lines, using their […]
10/15/2001
During a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney in October 2001, former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft said, in reference to the 9/11 attacks: ‘ “My God, it emerged from Afghanistan…just about the most backward, forgotten country on the planet. It shows how little we know about where the threats are coming from.’ “ [The […]
10/15/2001
In an interview conducted by Al Jazeera during October 2001, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘Our goal is for our nation to unite in the face of the Christian Crusade. This is the fiercest battle. Muslims have never faced anything bigger than this. [President] Bush said it in his own words: *crusade.* When Bush says […]
10/15/2001
In October 2001, “Jamil Qasim Saed Mohammed, a Yemeni microbiology student studying at Karachi University [Pakistan], and alleged to be a serious al-Qaeda asset, was arrested by Pakistan’s ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] in connection with the bombing of the [USS] Cole and handed over, under great secrecy, to U.S. authorities.” [The 15th of the month used […]
10/15/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “Tribal leaders [in Afghanistan] were asked, ‘Can we count on you to help drive al-Qa’ida and their Taliban protectors out of Afghanistan?’ If the answer was yes, food, medical supplies, military equipment and weapons would soon be air-dropped to them. Between mid-October and mid-December 2001, U.S. aircraft delivered 1.69 […]
10/15/2001
On October 15, 2001, “aides to Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat who had become majority leader six months earlier, opened a second letter with anthrax. The police shut down the Capitol mail delivery system and suspended all public tours as the FBI investigated whether bin Laden or a deranged American was behind the […]