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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
8/15/2001
“FBI and CIA officials were advised in August [2001] that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning ‘a major assault on the United States,’ a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday [September 19, 2001]. The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. It cautioned that it had […]