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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9/12/2001
“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 […]
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On September 12, 2001, Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) head General Mahmud Ahmad, who was visiting Washington, “was summoned to the State Department to see Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. According to [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf’s account of the meeting, Mahmud was told either Pakistan cooperated with the United States against al Qaeda or the […]
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“On September 12, 2001, the Saudis put on the market an extra nine million barrels of oil, going mostly to the United States. As a result, oil prices stayed low, and U.S. inflation spiked marginally in spite of the single most devastating terrorist attack in history.” – Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Page xxvi […]
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“NATO–The alliance declared that the terrorist attacks could be considered an attack on the whole alliance if they were directed from abroad, and invoked Article 5 of the charter, mandating joint defense, for the first time [on September 12, 2001].” – “After the Attack, Reaction From Around the World,” The New York Times, Sep. 13, […]
9/12/2001
“On September 12 [2001], the CIA said it was certain al-Qaeda in Afghanistan had launched the [9/11] attacks, but that very day [former CIA director and Defense Advisory Board member] James Woolsey told [journalist] James Fallows that ‘no matter who proved to be responsible for this attack, the solution had to include removing Saddam Hussein.’ […]
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On September 12, 2001, “America was grounded…for forty-eight hours, virtually no one could fly. No one, that is, except for the Saudis. …Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, was orchestrating the exodus of more than 140 Saudis scattered throughout the country. They included members from two […]
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Regarding the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘Don’t ever let this happen again,’ President Bush told…[Attorney General] John Ashcroft, during a National Security Council meeting on September 12, 2001.” – Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, Pages 74-75 […]
9/12/2001
In a principals meeting on September 12, 2001, Secretary of State Colin “Powell countered [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld’s argument that now was the time to ‘get Iraq,’ but Rumsfeld responded that the targets in Afghanistan were not significant enough to bomb and that therefore targets in Iraq should be considered.” – Ian S. Lustick, […]