“When Republican congressmen attacked [CIA director George] Tenet in the days after 9/11, [President] Bush swiftly came to his aid. ‘We cannot be second-guessing our team,’ the President told a group of angry congressmen aboard Air Force One on September 27 [2001], ‘and I’m not going to. The nation’s at war. We need to encourage […]
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9/27/2001
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [of Iran], condemned terrorism and called the fight against it ‘a holy war.’ But he also charged that the United States was trying to open a foothold in Central Asia and to take revenge on supporters of the Palestinian cause.” – Nazila Fathi, “Iran Won’t Join U.S. Campaign, Leader Says,” The New […]
9/27/2001
A senior Bush Administration official said: ” ‘We know that Al Qaeda has exploited the war in Chechnya, may have even helped to provoke it.’ ” – James Dao and Patrick E. Tyler, “Military Called Just One Element in War on Terror,” The New York Times, Sep. 27, 2001 […]
9/27/2001
“The first CIA officers entered Afghanistan on September 27 [2001] and were joined on October 17 by a twelve-man Special Forces A-team. Ultimately 110 CIA officers and 316 Special Forces personnel would serve in the combat phase of the Afghan war.” – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 71 […]
9/27/2001
“In response to an inquiry from the most senior Muslim chaplain in the U.S. army, a group of leading Islamic scholars issued a fatwa on 27 September 2001, declaring that American Muslims were obliged to serve in the armed forces of their country, even when the United States was at war with a Muslim nation. […]
9/26/2001
President Bush “was not interested in creating a government to replace the Taliban should it fall as a result of American military strikes or internal unrest. ‘We’re not into nation building,’ he said. ‘We’re focused on justice.’ ” – Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker, “Bush Steps Up Appeal to Afghans to Rid Their Country of […]
9/26/2001
CIA Chief George “Tenet dispatched the CIA’s covert paramilitary team, code-named Jawbreaker, into Afghanistan 15 days after the [9/11] attacks [September 26, 2001]. Bombing began 11 days later, on October 7, 2001. The campaign represented some of the CIA’s finest moments after 9/11…” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 78 […]
9/26/2001
In a speech at CIA headquarters on September 26, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We are on a mission to say to the rest of the world, come with us–come with us, stand by our side to defeat the evil-doers who would like to rid the world of freedom as we know it.’ ” – […]
9/26/2001
“The first Americans into Afghanistan, Gary Schroen’s seven-man CIA team, code-named JAWBREAKER, touched down on the afternoon of September 26 [2001].” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 59 […]
9/26/2001
” ‘We are not into nation building, we are focused on justice,’ he [President Bush] said as late as September 26 [2001].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 74 […]