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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, the FBI “created an investigative operation, the Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombings Investigation, or PENTTBOM.” According to a report by the Office of the Inspector General on April 29, 2003, “One week after the attacks, the program had yielded ninety-six thousand leads. …Leads emerged from an unsavory stew of sources, […]
9/11/2001
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith “was flying back from Europe the day of the attacks [September 11, 2001] with a group of senior Pentagon officials. On the flight Feith broached the idea of overthrowing Saddam. General John Abizaid, the Arabic-speaking four-star general who two years later would assume responsibility for U.S. military operations […]
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: “Within minutes of the [second World Trade Center] tower collapsing, I was told that another plane headed in the direction of Washington had hit the ground on […]