“On September 24, 2001, President Bush issued a new Executive Order [13224] targeting terrorist financing. He stated: ‘…because of the pervasiveness and expansiveness of the financial foundation of foreign terrorists, financial sanctions may be appropriate for those foreign persons that support or otherwise associate with these foreign terrorists. I also find that a need exists […]
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9/24/2001
Following President Bush’s Executive Order 13224 targeting terrorist financing on September 24, 2001, “the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blocked terrorist assets and added new terrorist front, cover and sympathetic organisations to its existing list. …Within a month, US and foreign financial institutions froze nearly $100 million worth of terrorist assets, mostly associated with […]
9/23/2001
“Muslim leaders throughout the world were quick to label the attacks [of 9/11] contrary to the Koran and Islamic teachings. Only Iraq withheld sympathy.” – Elaine Sciolino, “Aftermath: Invaders; Who Hates the U.S.? Who Loves It?,” The New York Times, Sep. 23, 2001 […]
9/23/2001
“While American officials have blamed Osama bin Laden for the attacks, they are still struggling to connect him directly to the plot. Investigators believe there were many more conspirators, but despite the efforts of thousands of law enforcement and intelligence agents, the authorities have arrested only a handful of suspects in the United States.” – […]
9/23/2001
“The Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] said U.S. crop-duster planes could fly again after they were grounded for two days because of concern they could be used in a chemical or biological attack. The FAA had grounded all crop-duster planes since Sunday [September 23, 2001] after the FBI received information about the possibility of attacks using […]
9/23/2001
In his paper titled ‘Using Special Forces on ‘Our Side’ of the Line,’ written on September 23, 2001, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz’s list of the strategic benefits of his proposal [to ally with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban] concluded: ‘*It would demonstrate to the American people and to the […]
9/23/2001
Regarding a response to the 9/11 attacks, “The wider argument, put forth by Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul D. Wolfowitz, pressed for broadening the [anti-terrorism] campaign to include other state sponsors of terrorism, especially Iraq.” – Jane Perlez, David E. Sanger, and Thom Shanker, “From Many Voices, One Battle Strategy,” The […]
9/23/2001
President “Bush told her [National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice] that the assault on terrorism would come in phases, opening with a more focused attack on Osama bin Laden, his operation and his Afghan protectors, but eventually encompassing any terrorist operations with the ‘global reach’ to harm the United States, and the countries that sponsor them.” […]
9/23/2001
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld likes to say that if a problem cannot be solved, it should be enlarged. That may explain his advocacy for defining terrorism broadly and bringing the widest spectrum of American power to the campaign.” – Jane Perlez, David E. Sanger, and Thom Shanker, “From Many Voices, One Battle Strategy,” The […]
9/22/2001
“Eleven days after the attacks of 9/11 [September 22, 2001], in an address to a joint session in Congress and the American people, President Bush said, ‘Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.’ ” – Raymond Ibrahim, ed./trans., The Al Qaeda Reader, Page 288 […]