“The White House inserted a far-reaching sentence [making a case to pursue military action against Iraq] into a letter from Ambassador John D. Negroponte, the chief United States envoy to the United Nations, to the Security Council last Sunday [October 7, 2001], senior [Bush] administration officials said. …The letter put the Security Council on notice […]
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10/7/2001
A videotape of Osama bin Laden aired on October 7, 2001, the same day the U.S. launched its bombing campaign against Afghanistan. He said “that the Americans and the British ‘have divided the entire world into two regions–one of faith, where there is no hypocrisy, and another of infidelity, from which we hope God will […]
10/7/2001
” ‘It has been called to my attention that if you go back and sift through the intelligence reporting that was there before Sept. 11, that it is now clear that there are some things that should have rung bells a little bit louder,’ a senior intelligence official said. ‘There are a few fragmentary reports. […]
10/7/2001
Iran’s spiritual leader, “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned the American strikes [against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001]. ‘America is lying when it propagates the aims of its attacks against Afghanistan to be a struggle against terrorism,’ he said. ‘But this is not a struggle against terrorism. Why do they lie to the people of the world? […]
10/7/2001
Saddam Hussein’s response to the U.S. attacks in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001: ” ‘The true believers cannot but condemn this act, not because it has been committed by an America against a Muslim people but because it is an aggression perpetrated outside international law.’ ” – John Kifner, “Muted Response From Arab Governments,” The […]
10/7/2001
In a videotaped message on October 7, 2001, Osama bin Laden “condemned the Muslim leaders who have sympathized with Americans over the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” – Susan Sachs, “Bin Laden Images Mesmerize Muslims,” The New York Times, Oct. 9, 2001 […]
10/7/2001
On October 7, 2001, “At 1 p.m. in the Treaty Room at the White House, the president [Bush] began his third major address to the nation since the [9/11] attacks: ‘Good afternoon. On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in […]
10/7/2001
” ‘On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,’ [President] Bush said in a televised statement from the White House at 1 P.M. [on October 7, 2001], a little more than a half hour after the first explosions […]
10/7/2001
“…social scientist Chalmers Johnson has commented, ‘Support for this enterprise [the dual oil and gas pipelines [through Afghanistan]]…appears to have been a major consideration in the Bush administration’s decision to attack Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.’ Political commentator Kevin Phillips has agreed that ‘plans were discussed in the spring and summer of 2001–well before the […]
10/7/2001
Addressing the nation as the war against Afghanistan commenced on October 7, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘Today we focus on Afghanistan, but the battle is broader. Every nation has a choice to make. In this conflict, there is no neutral ground. If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, they have become […]