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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
10/14/2001
“Among the more than 600 people arrested in the F.B.I.’s investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks are followers of Al Qaeda and other extremist groups, but the authorities have refused to call the arrests a roundup. Privately, however, some senior law enforcement officials are saying the large number of arrests is part of Attorney General […]
10/14/2001
“Perhaps most important to bin Laden’s growth and development as a major threat was his decision to act as a franchiser of terrorism, providing crucial financial and logistical assistance to locally sponsored plots brought to his organization by Islamic extremists. This new approach gave his group a much broader range of possible targets.” – James […]
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 […]