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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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 […]
9/13/2001
“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 […]
9/13/2001
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 […]
9/13/2001
“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 […]
9/12/2001
On September 12, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.’ ” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Page 7 […]
9/12/2001
On September 12, 2001, “FBI director Robert Mueller…warned at a high-level meeting that irregular methods for apprehending, detaining, or interrogating terrorism suspects might taint evidence. [Attorney General John] Ashcroft dismissed Mueller’s doubts, directing that Mueller ‘stop the discussion right here… The chief mission of U.S. law enforcement…is to stop another attack and apprehend any accomplices […]
9/12/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke appeared on 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004. He said, on September 12, 2001: ” ‘The president [Bush] dragged me into a room…shut the door, and said, *I want you to find whether Iraq did this.* …We got together all the FBI experts, all the CIA experts. They all cleared the […]
9/12/2001
Author “Laurie Mylroie, a darling of the neocons who had falsely reported that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, turned in an opinion piece that was published in the Wall Street Journal the next day [September 12, 2001], blaming the Iraqi dictator for 9/11 as well. Intelligence analysts had already begun to […]
9/12/2001
“We have the sworn testimony of the president’s [Bush’s] White House head of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, that on the day after the attack, September 12 [2001], the president wanted to connect the attacks to Saddam.” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 107 […]