” ‘Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago [late August 2001] that he would attack American interests in an unprecedented attack, a very big one,’ said Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, an Arabic-language weekly news magazine. ‘Personally, we received information that he planned very, very big attacks against American interests. We received […]
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8/25/2001
“In late August [2001], Mr. bin Laden boasted in an interview with the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi that he was planning an unprecedentedly large strike against the United States.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Andrew Gumbel, “Bush did not Heed Several Warnings of Attack,” The Independent, Sep. 17, […]
8/25/2001
In Iraq in late August 2001, “SADDAM HUSSEIN put his troops on their highest military alert since the Gulf war two weeks before the [9/11] suicide attacks on America in the strongest indication yet that the Iraqi dictator knew an atrocity was planned. …Saddam has remained out of the public eye in his network of […]
8/25/2001
Regarding an FBI agent’s unsuccessful search for 9/11 attackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, Attorney General John Ashcroft said: ” ‘We know this for a fact: for two and a half weeks in late August and early September [2001], we knew the names of at least two al Qaeda terrorists who were here to kill […]
8/24/2001
On August 24, 2001, future 9/11 hijackers Khalid “Almihdhar and [Nawaf] Alhazmi were placed on the TIPOFF watchlist, alerting INS [Immigration and Naturalization Services] in case they tried to enter the country. By then, they had already been here for nearly two years.” – James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Pages 244-245 […]
8/24/2001
Per the request of ‘Mary,’ an FBI analyst assigned to the CIA’s Bin Ladin unit, a cable was drafted that put 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar on the “[TIPOFF] watchlist on August 24 [2001].” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 270 […]
8/24/2001
On August 24, 2001, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith summarized his thoughts on Afghanistan to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz: ” ‘The Taliban regime presents several threats to US national interests in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia and beyond: *Harboring and supporting Usama bin Laden; *Sponsoring insurgency in Uzbekistan; *Opium […]
8/24/2001
According to a CIA Intelligence Report on August 24, 2001: “As of late August 2001, there were indications that an individual associated with Al-Qa’ida was considering mounting terrorist operations in the United States. [Redacted] No further information is currently available on the timing of possible attacks or on the alleged targets in the United States.” […]
8/23/2001
“In the middle of August [2001], prompted by repeated warnings that al Qaeda was about to strike, CIA director George Tenet ordered investigators to scour their files for any clues to possible upcoming attacks. At that point, the CIA apparently remembered [future 9/11 hijackers Khalid] al-Midhar and [Nawaf] al-Hazmi, and after checking with INS [Immigration […]
8/23/2001
“On August 23 [2001], DCI [Director of Central Intelligence George] Tenet was briefed about the [potential terrorist Zacarias] Moussaoui case in a briefing titled ‘Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly.’ ” The FBI had arrested Moussaoui for overstaying his visa, but Tenet, seeing this as an FBI case, “did not discuss the matter with anyone at […]