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] […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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“Less than 36 hours after the terror attacks, the German police received a list from the F.B.I. of 13 people suspected of links to the terror. Since the early hours of Thursday [September 13, 2001], some 100 German investigators–joined late last week by an unknown number of F.B.I. agents–have scoured 14 Hamburg apartments and detained […]
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Then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “Within hours of [Deputy Secretary of State Richard] Armitage’s delivering his ultimatums [at a meeting with Pakistani officials on September 13, 2001], and despite some violent internal opposition, [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf agreed to them. In this period, Pakistan had done a complete about-face and become one of our most […]
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“On September 13, 2001, one of the leading Muslim scholars, Yusuf al-Qardawi, issued a fatwa that condemned Al Qaeda’s ‘illegal jihad’ and expressed sorrow and empathy with the American victims: ‘Our hearts bleed because of the attacks that have targeted the World Trade Center, as well as other institutions in the United States.’ Qardawi, who […]
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“The stunning loss of life in Tuesday’s [September 11, 2001] terrorist attacks and the sense, expressed by President Bush, that these were ‘acts of war,’ have freed the administration to broaden potential retaliation beyond the low-risk, unmanned cruise missile strikes of the past, military and civilian officials said today [September 13, 2001]. …’The constraints have […]
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Former CIA Director George Tenet described the terrorism response needed in Afghanistan: ” ‘We need to go in fast, hard, and light,’ we told the president [Bush]. ‘Everyone, including al-Qa’ida and the Taliban are expecting us to invade Afghanistan the same way the Soviets did in the 1980s.’ …Ours was a strategy unlike any other […]
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On September 13, 2001, “a cabinet meeting in Washington concluded that if Pakistan did not help the United States, ‘it would be at risk of attack.’ ” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 28 […]