“It’s been similarly quiet the past 10 days at Jacksonville Municipal Airport [Illinois], where air traffic is entirely made up of private pilots and flight lessons. The ban on private planes was just lifted this week. ‘Nothing was going on at all until two days ago [September 20, 2001], when the private pilots were allowed […]
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9/20/2001
While visiting New York on September 20, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘I can only imagine what it must have been like for the people of New York for the past nine days. My father’s generation went through the Blitz. They know what it is like to suffer this deep tragedy and […]
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 […]
9/19/2001
In an unclassified memo on September 19, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “laid out in considerable detail his philosophy of alliance cooperation in the coming battle [in Afghanistan]. ‘The legitimacy of our actions does not depend on how many countries support us. More nearly the opposite is true: the legitimacy of other countries’ opinions […]
9/19/2001
Speaking before the Defense Policy Advisory Board on September 19, 2001, Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi “suggested that the United States avoid the distraction of an attack on Afghanistan in favor of going for Iraq right away. Touting a scheme he had been advocating since 1993, he explained how armed insurgents under his command […]
9/19/2001
By September 19, 2001, more than 140 Saudis were flown out of the U.S. This included relatives of Usama bin Laden. “For nearly three years, the White House and other agencies insisted that these flights never took place, confirming their existence only under investigation by the independent 9/11 Commission.” – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, […]
9/19/2001
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “Aware of the public’s impatience [in responding to the 9/11 attacks], I urged the President [Bush] to try to adjust the American people’s expectations away from quick, decisive results. [On September 19, 2001] I stressed that the war on terrorism would be ‘a marathon, not a sprint.’ ” – […]
9/19/2001
“In the early afternoon of September 19 [2001], a call came from Logan Emergency Operations Center saying that the private charter aircraft was going to pick up members of the bin Laden family. ‘We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history,’ [director of aviation at Boston’s Logan Airport, Tom] Kinton said. […]
9/19/2001
“On September 19 [2001], [President] Bush declares war: ‘Our war on terror…will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.’ However, the Visa Express program, through which Saudis are allowed to get a visa without even appearing at a consulate, is allowed to continue.” – Craig Unger, House […]
9/19/2001
In a session convened by Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle on September 19, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said: “It was important to topple the Taliban as quickly as the U.S. could, but that would not be enough. The United States needed to do more to demonstrate that there were serious […]