Columnist Ann Coulter wrote an article that appeared in the National Review on September 13, 2001. ” ‘We should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,’ she wrote.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 257 […]
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9/13/2001
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 […]
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 […]
9/12/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke recalled his meetings at the White House on September 12, 2001: ” ‘Later in the day, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets. At first, I thought Rumsfeld was […]
9/12/2001
At a meeting of the UN Security Council on September 12, 2001, “A unanimous UN resolution [1368] condemned the [9/11] attacks, describing them as ‘a threat to international peace and security.’ The council expressed its condolences and sympathy to the American people and government and appealed to ‘all states to work together urgently to bring […]
9/12/2001
“Only one regime openly gloated about the [9/11] attack. ‘The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world,’ Saddam Hussein declared from Baghdad [Iraq, on September 12, 2001].” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 345 […]
9/12/2001
According to counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, on September 12, 2001: “[President] Bush, pulled him aside in the White House Situation Room and asked him to look for evidence that Saddam had staged 9/11. When Clarke replied, ‘Mr. President, al-Qaeda did this,’ Bush said, ‘I know, I know, but…see if Saddam was involved. Just look.’ ” […]
9/12/2001
On September 12, 2001, “NATO invoked Article 5 of its charter, declaring the attacks on America to be against all nineteen member-states of the alliance.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 39 […]