“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
“Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI for investigations, lost friends in the September 11 attacks and says the strikes should have been expected. ‘I wish that I could tell you,’ Revell said in detailed testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, ‘that the attacks could not have been […]
10/15/2001
“Unhappy with the intelligence community it had, the Pentagon leadership created its own intelligence cell in October 2001. The Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (CTEG) was created as a two-person unit to review intelligence on terrorism within Douglas Feith’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; the members were prominent neoconservatives–David Wurmser, a former fellow […]
10/15/2001
In testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI for Investigations, Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, said: ” ‘By September 11 we certainly should have known that we were the principal target of a terrorist campaign unlike any we had ever faced. …And yet we totally failed to […]
10/15/2001
“…in October 2001, Washington sought the surrender of six Algerian men in Bosnia. At first, the U.S. government followed law-enforcement rules and secured the men’s arrest. But then, after a three-month investigation, Bosnia’s Supreme Court ordered the suspects released for lack of evidence. Instead of providing additional evidence, however, Washington simply switched to war rules. […]
10/15/2001
“According to one poll conducted in October 2001, 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of twenty-five and forty-one support bin Laden.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Pages 202-203 […]