“An edict from the Taliban’s ruling council of clerics requesting that Osama bin Laden should leave Afghanistan was delivered to the Saudi-born fugitive yesterday [September 26, 2001]. The fatwa, delivered by hand by a messenger, confirmed that America’s prime suspect behind the recent terrorist attacks is still in hiding in Afghanistan, contradicting reports over the […]
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9/26/2001
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote of a meeting he had with President Bush on September 26, 2001. “The President leaned back in the black leather chair behind his desk. He asked that I take a look at the shape of our military plans on Iraq. …He wanted the options to be ‘creative,’ which I […]
9/26/2001
“After the National Security Council meeting that morning [September 26, 2001], [President] Bush asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to stay behind. The two talked alone in the Oval Office. ‘I want you to develop a plan to invade Iraq,’ Bush said. ‘Do it outside the normal channels. Do it creatively so we don’t have […]
9/25/2001
“According to Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who served as associate deputy attorney general under [President] Ronald Reagan, the new domestic spying program that eventually emerged from this [September 25, 2001] authorization [by Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo] flouted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) by directing the […]
9/25/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled: “In late September [2001], FBI Director Bob Mueller…told me there were 331 potential al Qaeda operatives inside the United States.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 154 […]
9/25/2001
In late September 2001, “Boeing executives met with Darlene Druyun, then deputy assistant secretary of the air force for acquisition. Boeing was facing severe financial difficulties in the wake of the airline slump that followed 9/11 and was looking for a bailout. It was therefore agreed at this and subsequent meetings that the air force […]
9/25/2001
“Weeks after the 9/11 attacks [on September 25, 2001], Interpol issued an arrest warrant for [al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman] al-Zawahiri, alleging he ‘masterminded several terrorist operations in Egypt’ and accusing him of ‘criminal complicity and management for the purpose of committing premeditated murder.’ ” – “Al-Zawahiri has a Long History with Osama bin Laden, Terror,” […]
9/25/2001
“On September 25, 2001, the Office of Legal Counsel issued another in a series of secret legal memos. …The memo, like [President] Bush’s address of a few days earlier, unapologetically crossed the line that Congress had drawn. …Some of the arguments that [Office of Legal Counsel Deputy Chief John] Yoo made…were astounding. …that Congress had […]
9/25/2001
“A senior law enforcement official said that 17 of the 19 hijackers were not known to intelligence or law enforcement officials before the Sept. 11 attacks. Two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf alhamzi, were placed on the government’s official watch list for suspected terrorists before the attacks.” – Lowell Bergman and Don Van […]
9/25/2001
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz is said to be wedded to the position that Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network could not have carried out the [9/11] attack without Saddam Hussein’s help, the [senior Bush Administration] officials said.” – Elaine Sciolino, “U.S. Prepares to Brief NATO on Strategy to Fight bin Laden,” […]