“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 […]
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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 […]
10/13/2001
Former Chief of Counterterrorism Operations for the CIA Vincent Cannistraro said, regarding assistance from the Saudis in tracking the perpetrators of 9/11: ” ‘We’re getting zero cooperation now… There is a whole pile of Saudi businessmen who have been providing regular contributions to Al Qaeda.’ …Cannistraro said he believes the amount of money flowing from […]
10/13/2001
Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar “has recently denied that members of the royal family have sent money to Bin Laden. But Bandar also has said that Saudi citizens over the years have paid ‘religious’ taxes to charitable organizations and that proceeds were, in turn, funneled to Afghanistan.” – David Willman and Greg Miller, “Saudi Aid to […]
10/13/2001
“According to the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. now imports about 60% of its oil–with 23% coming from Persian Gulf countries and 14.7% from Saudi Arabia specifically.” – David Willman and Greg Miller, “Saudi Aid to War on Terror Is Criticized,” The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 13, 2001 […]
10/13/2001
According to the Bush Administration: “the Saudi-based charitable organization, Muwafaq Foundation…has transferred millions of contributions to bin Laden, with much of that money coming from a select group of Saudi businessmen with high level connections.” – Joseph Kahn and Judith Miller, “Saudi and Pakistani Assets Cited for Ties to bin Laden, “The New York Times, […]
10/12/2001
A New York Times article on October 12, 2001, quoted Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “Since the 9/11 attacks, leading members of the Bush administration have spoken of the attacks as…(in Donald Rumsfeld’s words) ‘the kind of opportunities that World War II offered, to refashion the world.’ ” – Peter Dale Scott, The Road to […]
10/12/2001
“A tight-knit group of Pentagon officials and defense experts outside government is working to mobilize support for a military operation to oust President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as the next phase of the war against terrorism, senior [Bush] administration officials and defense experts said. The group, which some in the State Department and on Capitol […]
10/12/2001
According to the plans to invade Iraq set forth by the ‘Wolfowitz cabal,’ “American troops would also seize the oil fields around Basra, in southeastern Iraq, and sell the oil to finance the Iraqi opposition in the south and the Kurds in the north, one senior [Bush Administration] official said. ‘The takeover would not be […]
10/12/2001
” ‘If we don’t use [the 9/11 attacks] as the moment to replace Saddam after we replace the Taliban, we are setting the stage for disaster,’ Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and a member of the group [Defense Policy Board], said in an interview.” – Elaine Sciolino and Patrick E. Tyler, “Some […]