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 […]
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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 […]
8/16/2001
“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 […]
8/15/2001
On August 15, 2001, two FBI agents interviewed suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and asked FBI headquarters for a warrant to inspect Moussaoui’s laptop. “But headquarters refused the request because there was no ‘probable cause’ foundation that a crime had been committed.” – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Pages 30-31 […]
8/15/2001
“The United States received intelligence a month before Sept. 11 [August 2001] that bin Laden’s right-hand man, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, was receiving medical treatment at a clinic in San’a, Yemen… The Bush administration rejected a plan to capture him as officials could not be 100 percent sure the patient was Al-Zawahiri, sources said.” [The 15th of […]
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 […]