According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief titled, ‘Terrorism: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in the US’ on August 7, 2001: “His [Bin Ladin’s] attacks on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 show that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled the Embassies […]
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8/7/2001
According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief titled, ‘Terrorism: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in the US’ on August 7, 2001: “Al-Qa’ida members, including some US citizens, have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure here. Two al-Qa’ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to […]
8/7/2001
According to a Top Secret report from the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, on March 19, 2004: “A SEIB [Senior Executive Intelligence Brief] article on August 7, 2001, ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US,’ underscored Bin Ladin’s desire to conduct terrorist attacks in the US homeland. It noted that the Millennium plot to […]
8/7/2001
In a discussion with the press about the situation with Iraq, President George W. Bush had this to say: “As I said, Saddam Hussein is a menace, he’s still a menace and we need to keep him in check, and will.” Followed by a question from the press: “Are they ratcheting it up, though? We’ve had a […]
8/7/2001
“Although the [August 7, 2001] SEIB [Senior Executive Intelligence Brief] repeated the title of [the August 6] PDB [Presidential Daily Brief, titled ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.‘], it did not contain the reference to the hijackings, the alert in New York, the alleged casing of buildings in New York, the threat phoned in […]
8/6/2001
“During the spring and summer of 2001, President Bush had on several occasions asked his briefers whether any of the threats pointed to the United States. Reflecting on these questions, the CIA decided to write a briefing article summarizing its understanding of this danger. Two CIA analysts involved in preparing this briefing article believed it […]
8/6/2001
“President Bush would later claim that the [August 6, 2001] PDB [President’s Daily Brief] contained no ‘actionable intelligence’: ‘There was not a time and place of an attack. It said Osama bin Laden had designs on America. Well, I knew that. What I wanted to know was, is there anything specifically going to take place […]
8/6/2001
The August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing was titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.‘ Though it was a classified document, NBC reported that chemical and biological weapons were discussed. “Over the next 30 days, President Bush had no further meetings about terrorism.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page […]
8/6/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet commented on possible al-Qa’ida strikes in the U.S.: “Whenever a PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] contained information about possible al-Qa’ida attacks, the president [Bush] would ask his PDB briefer, Mike Morell, what information we had that might indicate an attack could come inside the United States. …That was the origin of […]
8/6/2001
“[O]n August 6 [2001], the president’s [Bush’s] daily brief began with the headline ‘Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.’ The warning beneath the headline was a very weak piece of reporting. The freshest intelligence in it dated from 1999.” – Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Page 554 […]