Author “Laurie Mylroie, a darling of the neocons who had falsely reported that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, turned in an opinion piece that was published in the Wall Street Journal the next day [September 12, 2001], blaming the Iraqi dictator for 9/11 as well. Intelligence analysts had already begun to […]
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9/12/2001
“We have the sworn testimony of the president’s [Bush’s] White House head of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, that on the day after the attack, September 12 [2001], the president wanted to connect the attacks to Saddam.” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 107 […]
9/12/2001
“In the seventy-two hours before 9/11, four more NSA [National Security Agency] intercepts suggested that a terrorist attack was imminent. But NSA did not translate or disseminate any of them until the day after 9/11 [September 12, 2001]. In one of the two most significant, one of the speakers said, ‘The big match is about […]
9/12/2001
“President Bush chaired two more meetings of the NSC [National Security Council] on September 12 [2001]. In the first meeting, he stressed that the United States was at war with a new and different kind of enemy. The President asked principals to go beyond their pre-9/11 work and develop a strategy to eliminate terrorists and […]
9/12/2001
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 […]
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 […]
9/12/2001
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 […]
9/12/2001
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 […]
9/12/2001
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 […]
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 […]