“Nine of the 19 hijackers would have their bags subjected to close scrutiny that morning [September 11, 2001]–six of them because a computerized screening system singled them out for enhanced security checks, and three others because of irregularities in the identification documents that two of them held. Their knives, if discovered, had blades less than […]
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9/11/2001
Speaking to the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘America was targeted for attack…because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 264 […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “On Air Force One, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, who was taking notes, recorded at 10:20 a.m. that the president [Bush] had told him–Fleischer–that he had authorized a shoot-down [of a plane approaching Washington D.C.].” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xiv […]
9/11/2001
On the evening of September 11, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world. The people who perpetrate it have no regard whatsoever for the sanctity or value of human life, and we the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and […]
9/11/2001
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney recalled his actions from the Presidential Emergency Operations Center beneath the White House, during the terrorist attacks on the morning of September 11, 2001: “At about 10:15, a uniformed military aide came into the room to tell me that a plane, believed hijacked, was eighty miles out and headed for D.C. […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “Upon hearing the second message [from the cockpit of Flight 11], the [air traffic] controller concluded that Flight 11 had been hijacked. He consulted his supervisors; at 8:37 a.m., [the Federal Aviation Administration’s] Boston Center bypassed the prescribed protocol and contacted NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS). Two […]
9/11/2001
“The earliest written confirmation of President Bush’s shoot-down order for any hijacked plane headed toward the capital came at 10:20 a.m. [on September 11, 2001] when White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, on Air Force One, recorded that the president had issued the directive. That was a full 17 minutes after Flight 93’s demise concluded […]
9/11/2001
Regarding reactions following the hijackings on September 11, 2001, “The 9/11 Commission’s report adds, ‘In sum, the protocols in place on 9/11 for the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and NORAD to respond to a hijacking presumed that the hijacked aircraft would be readily identifiable and would not attempt to disappear; there would be time to […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “Ten out of the 19 hijackers (including 9 out of 10 on the two American Airlines flights) were identified by the CAPPS [Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System] system.” This was an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)-approved, automated system which was “created to identify passengers who should be subject to […]
9/11/2001
“…in the early morning of 9/11, the FBI intelligence agent who was searching for [9/11 hijackers Khalid al] Mihdhar and [Nawaf al] Hazmi forwarded a request to the Los Angeles field office. He had learned that Hazmi had arrived in Los Angeles in January 2000. He asked for assistance now in tracking Hazmi and Mihdhar. […]