On October 15, 2001, “Nicolò Pollari, the newly appointed chief of SISMI [Italy’s national military intelligence agency], made his first visit to his counterparts in the CIA in the United States. Under pressure from conservative Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to turn over information that would be useful for America’s Iraq war policy, Pollari net […]
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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 […]
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 […]