Terrorist Khalid “Almihdhar first emerged as an important figure when it was disclosed that he was one of two hijackers put on a United States government watch list of suspected terrorists on Aug. 21 [2001]. The other, Nawaf Alhamzi, was added simply because he flew from Bangkok to Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000, along […]
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8/21/2001
“On Aug. 21 [2001], the C.I.A. went to the Immigration and Naturalization Service and asked officials to put [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid] Almihdhar on their watch list of suspected terrorists. The State Department immediately revoked his visa. Two days later, realizing their suspect had arrived in New York on July 4, the C.I.A. alerted the […]
8/21/2001
A declassified CIA email, sent from ‘Mary to John’ on August 21, 2001, focused on future 9/11 hijacker Khalid Al-Mihdhar and his presence in the U.S. It read: “[Redacted] as I was reviewing all the cables on Khalid Al-Mihdhar, I noticed he had a U.S. Visa in his passport. I asked INS [Immigration and Naturalization […]
8/19/2001
“An FBI field agent e-mailed his supervisors on August 19, 2001, that flight-school attendee Zacarias Moussaoui was ‘an Islamic extremist preparing for some future act in furtherance of radical fundamentalist goals.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 179 […]
8/18/2001
On August 18, 2001, two days after potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was detained by the FBI in Minnesota, “the [Minneapolis] field office applied, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for a warrant that would have allowed the agents to examine his notebook computer. FBI headquarters, however, blocked the application for the warrant, concluding that there […]
8/17/2001
In an August 17, 2001, letter to New York Times reporter John Burns, journalist Peter Bergen described the details of a recently released bin Laden tape: “Clearly, al-Qaeda was and is planning something. No one has thought to put the videotape in the context of al-Qaeda’s modus operandi which is to subtly indicate a plot […]
8/17/2001
“On August 17 [2001], agents in Minneapolis sent a detailed memo to FBI headquarters describing [potential terrorist Zacarias] Moussaoui and his roommate Hussein al-Attas. The memo stated that the office had reason to believe Moussaoui, al-Attas, ‘and others yet unknown’ were conspiring to seize control of an airplane. When Moussaoui refused to let agents search […]
8/17/2001
“…French intelligence had warned the FBI about the terrorist connections and on-going flight training in the United States of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called ’20th hijacker’ who was arrested on a visa violation in Minnesota on August 17, 2001.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page xv […]
8/16/2001
“August 16, 2001: The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] issues a warning about disguised weapons. Officials cite reports that the terrorists have made breakthroughs in using cell phones, key chains and pens as weapons.” – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 192 […]
8/16/2001
Potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was in Minnesota for “a week before he was arrested, on Aug. 16 [2001]. He had a host of suspicious items, two knives, binoculars, flight manuals for a Boeing 747-400, a flight simulator computer game, fighting shields, shinguards, a piece of paper referring to a G.P.S. receiver, a notebook with telephone […]