“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, […]
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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 […]
8/25/2001
“Two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, had been placed on the [State Department’s] TIPOFF list by the FBI in late August [2001] as the search for them intensified. But the FBI never contacted the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] to place the names on its no-fly list, so their ability […]
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
“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 […]
8/23/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “This [information that future 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar might be in the U.S.] alarmed us sufficiently that on August 23 [2001] an immediate message went out alerting the State Department, FBI, INS [Immigration and Naturalization Services], Customs and others about the pair. …Even though they were […]