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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9/12/2001
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 […]
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 […]
9/12/2001
On the evening of September 12, 2001, “White House officials finished draft legislation to authorize force and faxed it to Capitol Hill. The draft declared ‘that the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force’ against those linked to the attacks and to ‘preempt any related future acts of terrorism or aggression against […]
9/12/2001
“On Friday, September 21 [2001], Robert Jordan, the Baker Botts attorney who had been nominated earlier as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, finally testified in confirmation hearings before the Senate…Jordan testified that the day after the attack of September 11 [September 12, 2001], ‘Saudi Arabia released a statement in which it declared Saudi oil exports to […]
9/12/2001
On September 12, 2001, Australian Prime Minister John “Howard, in a conscious decision to join with the Bush administration early in the war on terror, announced that he was invoking the Australia, New Zealand, and United States Security Treaty (ANZUS). In fact, under ANZUS, Australia and the United States had an agreement that called for […]