On October 7, 2001, “Osama bin Laden issued a statement on the 9/11 attacks. ‘There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that. There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God […]
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10/7/2001
In a videotape released by Al Jazeera on October 7, 2001, “Osama gloated that America ‘has been filled with horror north to south, and east to west, and thanks be to God that what America is tasting now is the copy of what we have tasted.’ ‘Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion,’ he […]
10/7/2001
Following the attacks of 9/11, Osama bin Laden said, in a statement on October 7, 2001: ” ‘What the United States tastes today is a very small thing compared to what we have tasted for tens of years. Our nation has been tasting this humiliation and contempt for more than eighty years. Its sons are […]
10/7/2001
“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 […]
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 […]
10/6/2001
In an October 6, 2001, article in the National Journal, according to former Saudi Ambassador Chas W. Freeman: ” ‘Al Qaeda is directed first and foremost at the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy. You can be damn sure that any al Qaeda operative is on the Saudi wanted list and that any senior operative is […]
10/5/2001
“Shortly after the death of the first anthrax victim [on October 5, 2001], the [Bush] administration ordered an intense, secret investigation to explore any possible link to Iraq, and continued to do so even after scientists determined that the form of anthrax sent through the mail was an American strain of the germ. Scientists scoured […]