“On October 17 [2001], U.S. Special Forces arrived on the ground [in Afghanistan].” – George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, Page 215 […]
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10/17/2001
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 […]
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 […]
10/16/2001
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
Commenting on Iraq’s status to the press on October 15, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘Iraq is Iraq, a wasted society for 10 years. They’re sad. They’re contained…’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 101 […]
10/15/2001
“According to Western intelligence sources, which vary quite alarmingly in their estimates, between 10,000 and 110,000 recruits graduated from Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan between 1989 and October 2001.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 8 […]
10/15/2001
"On October 15, 2001, a potentially lethal anthrax-laced envelope had arrived in the Capitol Hill mail, and had been delivered to the offices of then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle [D-SD]. Authorities shut down the entire building until Daschle's suite of offices and those nearby could be fumigated." – John Ashcroft, Never Again, 185 […]
10/15/2001
“In the early 1990s Afghanistan replaced Lebanon as the major centre of international terrorist training, and by October 2001, forty foreign terrorist groups were operating there.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 167 […]
10/15/2001
In an interview conducted by Taysir Alouni of Al Jazeera during October 2001, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘Abu Ubaidah al Banjshiri established the training camps for our mujahideen against Russia’s terrorism during the 1980s. We used to call the training camp al Qaeda. And the name stayed.’ “ [The 15th of the month used […]