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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
9/18/2001
“On September 18, 2001, the House and Senate approved Joint House Resolution 23, authorizing the president to use all ‘necessary and appropriate force’ against those whom he determined ‘planned, authorized, committed, or aided’ the [9/11] attacks. In doing so, Congress effectively abdicated its war-declaring powers and conferred them on the president [Bush]. Since it is […]