“On September 21 [2001], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld received from [Central Command leader] General [Tommy] Franks the first draft of a battle plan [for attacking Afghanistan], Operation Enduring Freedom. On October 2, [President] Bush approved the four-phase plan that would lead to the defeat of the Taliban regime. There was no commitment to reconstruct […]
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9/21/2001
“…on September 21, 2001, the foreign ministers of Latin America adopted a resolution calling for Organization of American States (OAS) members to ‘take effective measures to deny terrorist groups the ability to operate within their territories.’ They called on countries to work together to pursue those responsible for the attacks and bring them to justice, […]
9/21/2001
“President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing [on September 21, 2001] that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda… the few credible reports of contacts […]
9/21/2001
“Although the CIA found scant evidence of collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda [according to the President’s Daily Brief on September 21, 2001], the agency reported that it had long since established that Iraq had previously supported the notorious Abu Nidal terrorist organization, and had provided tens of millions of dollars and logistical support to […]
9/21/2001
“President Bush approved military plans to attack Afghanistan in meetings with Central Command’s General [Tommy] Franks and other advisers on September 21 [2001] and October 2 [2001].” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 337 […]
9/21/2001
In response to reports of an alleged pre-9/11 meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi agents, CIA Director George Tenet explained to President Bush during the daily morning intelligence briefing of September 21, 2001: ” ‘Our Prague office is skeptical about the report. It just doesn’t add up.’ He […]
9/21/2001
When interviewed by the Voice of America radio network on September 21, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was asked if he would ever give up bin Laden. He replied: ” ‘No. We cannot do that. If we did, it means we are not Muslims; that Islam is finished. If we were afraid of attack, […]
9/20/2001
President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on September 20, 2001. ” ‘When Blair asked about Iraq,’ the 9/11 Commission reported, quoting from an NSC [National Security Council] summary of the two leaders’ conversation, ‘the president replied that Iraq was not the immediate problem. Some members of his administration, he commented, had expressed […]
9/20/2001
“In his address to a joint session of Congress on September 20 [2001] he [President Bush] stated: ‘Americans are asking: How will we fight and win this war? …This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20, 2001, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick announced that the Bush administration would be ‘countering terror with trade.’ In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Zoellick argued that ‘free trade’ and ‘freedom’ are inextricably linked and that trade ‘promotes the values at the heart of this protected struggle.’ In the name of fighting terror, he […]