“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 […]
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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 […]
10/15/2001
Future President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai spoke about the Taliban with journalist Ahmed Rashid in October 2001. ” ‘They were good people initially, but the tragedy was that very soon after they were taken over by the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] and became a proxy. …Later the Taliban were to come under the influence of […]
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 […]
10/15/2001
In testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI for investigations, said: “The laundry list of crimes committed against Americans by Islamic terrorists linked to al Qaeda was long and included attacks on American forces in Somalia in 1992, the first World Trade […]
10/15/2001
In October 2001, former CIA officer Robert Baer said: ” ‘Saudi Arabia is completely unsupportive as of today… The rank-and-file Saudi policeman is sympathetic to bin Laden. They’re not telling us who these people were on the planes.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Craig Unger, House of […]