At a CIA dinner on September 12, 2001, Deputy Chief of MI5 (U.K.’s counterintelligence and security agency) Eliza Manninghan-Buller said: ” ‘I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan, and not launch any attacks against Iraq.’ …Their message…reflected deep concern that the Bush Administration might be subject to…the exploitation of the […]
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9/12/2001
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke was interviewed by Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004. “Speaking of White House meetings after the 9/11 attacks [on September 12, 2001], Clarke said that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were all but lost in the shuffle: ‘[Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld was saying that we […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard “Clarke has written that on the evening of September 12 [2001], President Bush told him and some of his staff to explore possible Iraqi links to 9/11. ‘See if Saddam did this,’ Clarke recalls the President telling them. ‘See if he’s linked in any way.’ While he believed the details of Clarke’s […]
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FBI agent Ali Soufan was in Yemen, investigating the bombing of the USS Cole when 9/11 occurred. He had been requesting information from the CIA, but was not receiving it, on account of ‘the wall.’ On September 12, 2001, the CIA eventually showed him three surveillance photos of the terrorist summit held in Malaysia in […]
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Regarding the terrorist attacks on 9/11, on September 12, 2001, “Saddam Hussein himself said that Americans got what they deserved. ‘Those who do not want to harvest evil should not plant evil,’ he said. ‘The American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page xix […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke recalled being in the Situation Room on the evening of September 12, 2001, when President Bush approached him. ” ‘Look, I know you have a lot to do and all,’ the president said, according to Clarke’s account. ‘But I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, […]
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“…Iraq alone among the twenty-two members of the Arab League failed to condemn the atrocities of September 11.” According to a September 12, 2001, article on CNN.com, “Saddam’s government issued a statement, quoted widely in Al-Iraq and other state-run papers, which said America deserved the attacks.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 239 […]
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On September 12, 2001, “NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time in its history, which meant that the nineteen member states of the alliance considered the 9/11 attacks as an attack against all of them, to be responded to with force.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 59 […]
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“The next day [September 12, 2001] at the inner circle of [President] Bush’s war cabinet, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked if the terrorist attack did not present an ‘opportunity’ to launch against Iraq.” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 25 […]
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“At 10 p.m. on the evening of September 12 [2001], a high-ranking CIA official–according to Newsweek magazine, it was probably CIA Director George Tenet–phoned [Saudi ambassador Prince] Bandar at this home and gave him the bad news: Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 4 […]