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 […]
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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 […]
9/12/2001
According to CIA Director George Tenet, on September 12, 2001, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle said to him: ” ‘Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility.’ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 104 […]
9/12/2001
“After meeting with his national security team on September 12 [2001], [President] Bush said, ‘The American people need to know that we’re facing a different enemy than we have ever faced. This enemy hides in shadows.’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 32 […]
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 […]