On September 12, 2001, “Senator Richard C. Shelby, an Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee…said the failure to penetrate the [9/11] plot in advance constitutes ‘an intelligence failure.’ ” – James Risen and David Johnston, “Officials Say They Saw No Signs of Increased Terrorist Activity,” The New York Times, Sep. […]
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9/12/2001
In a meeting in the Situation Room on the evening of September 12, 2001, “Even though [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke declared that ‘we have looked several times for state sponsorship of al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq,’ [President] Bush insisted that Clarke look again. ‘See if Saddam did this. See if […]
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On “September 12, 2001, James Woolsey, who had been [former President Bill] Clinton’s first CIA director, told me [journalist James Fallows] that no matter who proved to be responsible for this attack, the solution had to include removing Saddam Hussein, because he was so likely to be involved next time.” – James Fallows, “Blind into […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke attended a series of meetings at the White House on September 12, 2001, where he expected to deal with the al Qaeda threat. ” ‘Instead, I walked into a series of discussions about Iraq. At first I was incredulous that we were talking about something other than getting Al Qaeda. Then […]
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Following 9/11, “Mainstream media and governments all over the world condemned the attacks. Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Libya, were among them. Iraq, however, did not denounce the terrorists’ actions. In a barbed reaction [on September 12, 2001], the official newspaper, Al-Iraq, described the attacks as ‘a lesson for all tyrants, oppressors and criminals.’ […]
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UN Security Council Resolution 1368, adopted on September 12, 2001, “condemned the [9/11] terrorist attacks in the strongest terms and described those acts as a threat to international peace and security, recognizing an inherent right of individual or collective self-defense in accordance with the United Nations Charter.”] – Yonah Alexander, ed., Combating Terrorism, Page 185 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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.’ ” […]