“Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, said law enforcement officials had decided before Sept. 11 that they lacked legal authority to obtain a court-approved intelligence warrant, known as a F.I.S.A. warrant, to search [potential terrorist] Mr. [Zacarias] Moussaoui’s laptop computer [following his arrest on August 16, 2001]. It was later found to contain data […]
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8/16/2001
“Working with the FBI, federal immigration officers in Minneapolis arrested Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16, 2001. Based on his bizarre behavior at a local flight school FBI agents were convinced Moussaoui, who held a French passport, was a Muslim extremist interested in hijacking a commercial jet.” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 138 […]
8/16/2001
On August 10, 2001, potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui left Oklahoma for Minnesota, where he began flight simulator training at Pan Am. “His conduct, however, raised the suspicions of his flight instructor. It was unusual for a student with so little training to be learning to fly large jets without any intention of obtaining a pilot’s […]
8/16/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “A French national, [Zacarias] Moussaoui was arrested on August 16, 2001, by the FBI. …Moussaoui had enrolled in flight school in Minnesota and paid for his training in cash. He was interested in learning to fly 747s, but not in taking off or landing. He was interested to learn […]
8/16/2001
“Police in Minnesota had arrested [potential terrorist] Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16 [2001], 26 days before the attack. Moussaoui had come from London and had violated visa regulations for entering the country. His flight instructor had raised a red flag about him because he was interested only in practicing turns, not takeoffs or landings.” Although […]
8/15/2001
” ‘We are going to be struck soon,’ [CIA Counterterrorist Center Director] Cofer Black told the Pentagon’s classified annual conference on counterterrorism [on August 15, 2001] nine days later [than the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing]. ‘Many Americans are going to die, and it could be in the U.S.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, […]
8/15/2001
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “We documented the increased threat in the intelligence analysis that we provided to senior policymakers. We cited plots in the Arabian Peninsula and Europe, and ultimately in August 2001 we warned about Bin Ladin’s desire to conduct […]
8/15/2001
“In August [15] of 2001, FBI headquarters denied its Minneapolis field office permission to search the laptop computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, an Al Qaeda operative training for a second wave of attacks.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 17 […]
8/15/2001
In August 2001, potential hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui raised concerns at his flight school in Egan, Minnesota, “after attempting to rush his flight training, calling his desire to fly a jumbo jet an ‘ego-boosting thing,’ and asking instructors how much damage a hijacker could do flying a fully loaded 747. Fortunately, an alert flight manager…contacted the […]
8/15/2001
“[I]n August [2001], the Central Intelligence Agency issued a secret report warning senior policy makers that Al Qaeda, Mr. bin Laden’s network, hoped to launch a strike against the domestic United States. The report combined both new and older intelligence gathered by the C.I.A. and other American intelligence agencies to depict Mr. bin Laden’s long-term […]