FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote: “In hindsight, the Bureau might have been more responsive to the July [10] 2001 memo sent by one of our agents in Arizona [Kenneth Williams], raising a red flag about the number of Middle Eastern men enrolled in U.S. flight schools and suggesting the Bureau query civil aviation schools around […]
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7/10/2001
“Because of a leak, it became known that in July [10] 2001 FBI Agent Kenneth Williams of the Phoenix field office sent a memo to Washington headquarters recommending that the FBI investigate the possibility that Islamist radicals were receiving training at American flight schools. On the basis of his investigation of an Arizona flight school, […]
7/9/2001
On July 9, 2001, “Phoenix FBI Agent Ken Williams sent a memo to FBI headquarters. He reportedly identified eight Middle Eastern men studying at Arizona flight schools, and urged that the Bureau do background checks. Williams suggested that the pilots-in-training were associated with a London Islamic group with close ties to Osama bin Laden. The […]
7/6/2001
When asked if he would be discussing the situation in Iraq with the Russian President, Putin, President George W. Bush stated: “We left some — you know, I told him [Putin] I’d stay in touch with him. I want to talk to him about Iraq. So to answer your question, yes, I’m going to talk to […]
7/6/2001
On July 6, 2001 counterterrorism czar Richard “Clarke chairs a meeting of the National Security Council’s Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) and orders a suspension of all nonessential travel by staff.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, (Timeline) Page 30 […]
7/6/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent an email to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on July 6, 2001, which covered details from their meeting on the previous day. “One senior administration official said Mr. Clarke wrote that several agencies, including the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Pentagon, had been directed to develop what the official said […]
7/6/2001
Meeting with members of an unidentified Middle Eastern military on July 6, 2001, Director of the Counterterrorist Center Cofer Black said: ” ‘We know something terrible is going to happen… We don’t know when and we don’t know where. We do know it’s going to be against U.S. interests and it’s going to be big, […]
7/6/2001
On July 6, 2001, the CIA released an analytic report titled, ‘Expanding Links Between Alien Smugglers and Extremists: Threats to the United States.’ It read: “Though the vast majority of US-bound alien smuggling activity abroad is geared to serve migrants looking for a better life, occasionally such networks abet the movement of extremists, including those […]
7/5/2001
On July 5, 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice organized a meeting with counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, “to discuss how the FBI and other domestic agencies were prepared to deal with what the CIA believed was an imminent terrorist strike.” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 301 […]
7/5/2001
“On July 5 [2001], he [counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke] assembled officials from a dozen different federal agencies–the Coast Guard, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and others–in the White House Situation Room. ‘Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon,’ Clarke told them.” – Craig […]