“In intensive talks here [Pakistan] and in Washington over the last 72 hours, American officials have demanded that Pakistan agree if necessary to allow American ground troops and special forces units to operate from this country, senior officials said. Pakistan’s ruling generals have also been told that they must allow Pakistan’s airspace and its military […]
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9/15/2001
“The Knight Ridder newspaper group reported today [October 12, 2001] that senior Pentagon officials authorized [former CIA director R. James] Woolsey to fly to London last month [September 2001] on a government plane, accompanied by Justice and Defense Department officials, on a mission to gather evidence linking Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks.” [The 15th […]
9/15/2001
“In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the nation’s largest airlines, including American, United and Northwest, turned over millions of passenger records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, airline and law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday [April 30, 2004]. A senior official with the F.B.I. said the airlines cooperated willingly. …’There was […]
9/15/2001
“Only a few days after September 11 [2001], [CIA Director George] Tenet writes, a CIA analyst attended a White House meeting where he was told that [President] Bush wanted to remove Saddam. The analyst’s response, according to Tenet: ‘If you want to go after that son of a bitch to settle old scores, be my […]
9/15/2001
“In a press conference immediately following 9/11 [2001], FBI director Robert Mueller said categorically that the FBI had no knowledge of Arabs attending American flight schools.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 197 […]
9/15/2001
While discussing a response to the 9/11 attacks at Camp David on September 15, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld turned the table over to [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz, who began making the case for going after Saddam Hussein. He declared that there was a 10 percent to 50 percent chance that Hussein […]
9/15/2001
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Chief operations deputy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Greg Newbold “assured [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith that we were working hard on Afghanistan. Feith told me, *Why are you working on Afghanistan? You ought to be working on Iraq.* ‘ “ [The 15th of the […]
9/15/2001
A September 2001 article in The Atlantic Monthly quoted a former CIA Near East Division operative, who said: ” ‘The CIA probably doesn’t have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no […]
9/15/2001
While discussing a response to the 9/11 attacks at Camp David on September 15, 2001, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton mentioned military options against Afghanistan. “Before Shelton could even get to his third option, [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz interrupted. ‘But we really need to think broader than that right now,’ he said. […]
9/14/2001
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said, regarding retaliation for 9/11: “There was pressure on the President [Bush] to ‘go soon,’ he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] told us [on September 14, 2001], but this created a danger that we might do ‘something hollow, ineffective, embarrassing.’ Because our first action would likely be ‘moderately […]