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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9/12/2001
“…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 […]
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 […]
9/12/2001
“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 […]
9/12/2001
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 […]
9/12/2001
“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 […]
9/12/2001
“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.’ […]
9/11/2001
“At the World Trade Center (WTC) site in Lower Manhattan, 2,753 people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were intentionally crashed into the north and south towers, or as a result of the crashes. Of those who perished during the initial attacks and the subsequent collapses of the […]