Then-President George W. Bush recalled: “By the afternoon of 9/11 [2001], the intelligence community had discovered known al Qaeda operatives on the passenger manifests of the hijacked planes.” – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 134 […]
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9/11/2001
Despite warnings such as the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Briefing which claimed Osama bin Laden planned to attack the United States, President “Bush did not publicly mention al Qaeda between August 6 [2001] and September 11.” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 31 […]
9/11/2001
At 9:32 a.m. [on September 11, 2001] the FAA’s [Federal Aviation Administration’s] Cleveland Center received a transmission from one of the hijackers on Flight 93: ‘Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board.’…Nine minutes later, the center lost the plane’s transponder signal. Indecisiveness at the ATC [Air Traffic Control] Command Center, in Herndon [Virginia], […]
9/11/2001
FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote: “I regret that I was never able to convince Congress to fully fund our technological initiatives. I’m embarrassed that on the afternoon and evening of September 11, 2001, FBI agents had to send photos of the suspected terrorists via express mail service because they still lacked the computing power to […]
9/11/2001
“Six hours before the first crash in New York [on September 11, 2001], the Interfax news agency reported that the police in the Moscow area had been alerted ‘in connection with a large-scale operation to prevent terrorism.’ …the coincidence of the terrorist warning here suggested that Russia’s intelligence services might have been alerted to a […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “The 19 hijackers were Marwan Al Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Al Shehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Al Ghamdi on United Airlines Flight 175 which destroyed the World Trade Centre; Waleed M Al Shehri, Wail Al Shehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami on American Airlines Flight 11, which also […]
9/11/2001
“At 9:44 [on September 11, 2001], NORAD reported to the Air Threat Conference Call [held by the Pentagon] that Delta 1989 might be a hijacked plane based on the information NEADS [NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector] had received from the FAA’s [Federal Aviation Administration’s] Boston Center. Four minutes later, a caller from the White House […]
9/11/2001
“According to the Washington Post and al Ha’aretz, the Hebrew-language Israeli daily, [at 6:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001] at least two workers of Odigo, an Israeli-owned instant messaging company with offices two blocks from the Twin Towers, receive warnings about the impending attack two hours before the first plane hits the North Tower. The […]
9/11/2001
“In the five-and-a-half years between his [Osama bin Laden’s] return to Afghanistan and September 11, 2001, his training camps processed up to twenty thousand militants from around the world. Only a fraction received advanced terrorist training; it was from those ranks that he drew suicide bombers for overseas assignment, troops for his own protective unit […]
9/11/2001
“Responding to news reporting that the Taliban had aided the 9/11 plotters, Taliban leaders issued a cynical statement [on the evening of September 11, 2001]. ‘Mullah Omar condemns this act,’ it said. ‘Mullah Omar says Osama is not responsible. We have brought peace to this country [Afghanistan] and we want peace in all countries.’ ” […]