On September 13, 2001, retired Tampa cop turned private investigator Dan Grossi escorted Saudi students to the airport for a flight out of the U.S. “As far as private planes were concerned, America was still grounded. Then one of the pilots arrived. ‘Here’s your plane,’ he told Grossi. ‘Whenever you’re ready to go.’ …[Grossi] waited […]
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9/13/2001
According to the 9/11 Commission’s Staff Statement #10, which was declassified and released on April 10, 2004: ” ‘No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into, out of, or within the United States until September 13, 2001. After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed […]
9/13/2001
“…on September 13 [2001], [Saudi ambassador] Prince Bandar meets President Bush for a private conversation on the Truman balcony in the White House. At the same time, a massive operation to evacuate 140 Saudis, including about two dozen members of the bin Laden family, has begun. The first flight leaves Tampa, Florida for Lexington, Kentucky, […]
9/13/2001
“At a meeting of the NSC [National Security Council] held on the morning of September 13, 2001, President Bush ordered Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld to begin preparing a plan to attack the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, including a range of options up to and including an actual invasion. The name eventually given to the […]
9/13/2001
“When the query [from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to create an Iraq war plan] arrived, [Third Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas] Reilly and his team of five planners were summoned to a windowless room in the bowels of the Third Army headquarters that was reserved for the most sensitive communications. …The Third Army planners had […]
9/13/2001
On September 13, 2001, “National Review‘s Web edition disseminated a call from the professional provocateur Ann Coulter to invade the hijackers’ countries, ‘kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 28 […]
9/13/2001
On September 13, 2001, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin met with President Pervez Musharraf regarding a list of 18 key military demands. She asked him, at President Bush’s request: ” ‘Are you with us in this fight?’ When he said, ‘I am, without conditions,’ she got up and left. That night [Secretary of State Colin] […]
9/13/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled: “On September 13 [2001], [Secretary of State] Colin [Powell] called [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf and made clear he had to decide whose side he was on. He presented a list of nonnegotiable demands, including condemning the 9/11 attacks, denying al Qaeda safe haven in Pakistan, sharing intelligence, granting us […]
9/13/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “On September 13 [2001], [Deputy Secretary of State] Rich Armitage invited Pakistani ambassador Maleeha Lodhi and Mahmood Ahmed, the Pakistan intelligence chief…over to the State Department and dropped the hammer on them. …Pakistan was either with us or against us. Specifically, Armitage demanded that Pakistan begin stopping al-Qa’ida agents at […]
9/13/2001
“After September 11, 2001, cooperation and coordination between the European police and security services naturally increased. Nonetheless, tensions remained: the French were especially annoyed by the breaking up by Belgian and Dutch authorities of two interlinked Al Qaeda cells in which cell members were arrested and weapons, identity documents and propaganda material seized on September […]