“The terrorist network, [President Bush] asserted in a resolute, hard-hitting speech [on September 20, 2001], includes thousands of operatives in more than 60 countries, which suggests the awesome scope of the task that the president has set for the United States and for those who stand beside it.” – R.W. Apple Jr., “A Clear Message: […]
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9/20/2001
When addressing the Joint Session of the 107th Congress, President George W. Bush stated: “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 like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used […]
9/19/2001
In a message to combatant commanders in the counterterrorism campaign, on September 19, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he was looking for three objectives: ” ‘1. Targets worldwide, such as UBL [Usama bin Laden] Al Qaida cells in regions outside Afghanistan and even outside the Middle East. …It will be important to indicate […]
9/19/2001
“Soon after 9/11, the President [Bush] had declared that the war [on terror] was not directed against Islam. In reiterating that point, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld [in a memo written on September 19, 2001] explored the idea that the war on terrorism was, in part, a civil war within the world of Islam: ‘The […]
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 […]