“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 […]
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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 […]
8/16/2001
“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 […]
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 […]
8/15/2001
“In a classified chronology submitted to Congress in early 2002, the CIA stated that it had tracked terrorists Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi to the United States in early 2001, but failed to notify the FBI and other government agencies about the connections of the two men to al Qaeda. …the CIA had said it […]
8/15/2001
“Israeli intelligence services reportedly met with CIA and FBI officials in August [2001] and warned of an imminent large-scale attack on the U.S. There ‘were strong grounds for suspecting Iraqi involvement,’ a senior Israeli official later told London’s Sunday Telegraph [on September 16, 2001].” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
8/15/2001
“Two Pakistani nuclear scientists [Sultan Bashir-Ud-din Mahmood and Chaudiri Abdul Majeed] have admitted that in August 2001 they met with Osama bin Laden, [al Qaeda second-in-command] Ayman al-Zawahiri, and other al Qaeda officials and had long discussions about nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Both men were ‘long beards’–Pakistani scientists but also dedicated Islamic fundamentalists who […]
8/15/2001
“Fox News has reported many examples of “missed leads” that the Bush administration was given prior to Sept. 11. …Based on its own intelligence, the Israeli government provided ‘general’ information to the United States in the second week of August [2001] that an Al Qaeda attack was imminent. French intelligence echoed the ‘general’ information in the […]
8/15/2001
In mid-August, 2001, CIA director George Tenet received reports from the FBI mentioning the arrest of potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. “Tenet figured that since it was an FBI domestic case, surely the FBI had it under control.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 361 […]