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 […]
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10/15/2001
“The first sketchy report on the Iraq-Niger uranium sale was cabled by SISMI [Italy’s national military intelligence agency] to the CIA’s operations directorate on October 15, 2001. Initially, American intelligence analysts were not impressed by the report. CIA, Energy Department, and DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] analysts all considered the allegation ‘possible,’ though short on details. […]
10/15/2001
In a mid-October 2001 interview with Al Jazeera, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent civilians: “AL-JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT: How about the Twin Towers? BIN LADEN: The towers are an economic power and not a children’s school. Those that were there are men that supported the biggest economic power in the world. They have to […]
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 […]
10/14/2001
Osama “bin Laden’s training camps in Afghanistan have been a key tool in expanding the group’s [al Qaeda’s] power and reach, attracting 15,000 to 20,000 radicals from Muslim countries around the world, according to United States intelligence estimates.” – James Risen and Stephen Engelberg, “Signs of Change In Terror Goals Went Unheeded,” The New York […]
10/14/2001
“Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a television appearance this morning [October 14, 2001], said law enforcement officials were convinced that Al Qaeda members remained at large in the United States and were actively planning additional attacks on American soil… ‘I believe that it’s very unlikely that all of those individuals that were associated with or […]
10/14/2001
“In an Al Qaeda video released on October 14, 2001, [spokesman] Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said: ‘[Secretary of State Colin] Powell and other members of the US administration know that when Al Qaeda promises, it delivers, and the information is what we see not what we hear. The storm of airplanes will not be calmed, if […]