President Bush addressed the nation on September 20, 2001: ” ‘Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.’ At this point there was applause. ‘From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by […]
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9/20/2001
In a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them against one another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. […]
9/19/2001
“Sep 19, 2001: Late on this day, the agency [Federal Aviation Administration] permitted limited resumption of general aviation Part 91 operations under Visual Flight Rules (VFR). Exceptions included flight in Enhanced Class B (ECB) airspace, meaning that VFR flying was not allowed over, through, or ‘under the shelf’ of the Class B airspace category surrounding […]
9/19/2001
According to an article in The New York Times on September 19, 2001: “All of bin Laden’s statements [following 9/11] received wide dissemination around the world, yet in the Middle East a commonly held view remains that the Trade Center attacks were not the work of Arab terrorists, but the work of–you guessed it–the Jews. […]
9/19/2001
“[A] hard-line Islamic cleric in Karachi [Pakistan] who condemned the terrorist attacks in the United States as ‘wrong’ for killing innocent people changed tack abruptly and issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for a ‘holy war’ against an American military operation from Pakistan and against [President] General [Pervez] Musharraf. ‘It is un-Islamic for any […]
9/19/2001
“Plans by Saudi Arabia to fly a group of its citizens home from Washington this week [mid-September 2001] have raised early concerns among some law enforcement officials about Saudi cooperation in the investigation of last week’s terrorist attacks. The tension has arisen because some of the 19 hijackers named in the attacks appear to have […]
9/19/2001
“On September 19, 2001, [FBI] agents conducting a PENTTBOM [Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombings] investigation of an apartment-mate of [Pakistani/Canadian citizen Shakir] Baloch’s arrested Baloch, who lacked a lawful immigration status in this country and also had false immigration documents. Baloch was ultimately cleared of any terrorist ties. While in detention, according to Baloch, he was beaten […]
9/19/2001
On September 19, 2001, “At a meeting of the Defense Policy Board, Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi and the Mideast scholar Bernard Lewis address the group, arguing for U.S. action against Iraq.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 230 […]
9/19/2001
On September 19, 2001, a team of CIA officers was dispatched from Washington to “northeastern Afghanistan where the Northern Alliance continued to hold out against the Taliban. Before they left they met with [Counterterrorist Center head] Cofer Black at Agency headquarters for their final marching orders. They were unambiguous. Black told them, ‘I want bin […]
9/19/2001
“On September 19, 2001, bin Laden announced that…if it [the United States] did launch an invasion [of Afghanistan], ‘the United States would face a crushing defeat.’ “ – Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Page 129 […]