“Special Agent Ken Williams would eventually go down in history as the man who wrote the infamous ‘Phoenix Memo,’ suggesting that the FBI monitor flight schools for suspicious Middle Eastern pilots. He sent the memo to Bureau headquarters and the New York office on July 10, 2001…” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page […]
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7/10/2001
In the summer of 2001, “the warnings [of an impending terrorist attack] continued to build at such a rate that the CIA’s counterterrorism team, led by Cofer Black, felt compelled to consolidate the threats into a single, strategic assessment for [CIA Director George] Tenet. On July 10 [2001], Black presented his findings to the CIA […]
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
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 […]
7/6/2001
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 […]
7/5/2001
After being pulled over for a traffic citation in Florida on April 26, 2001, lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was scheduled for a court appearance a month later. He skipped, and “Now his name was entered into the computer for all Florida police precincts.” When he was pulled over again, on July 5, 2001, the […]
7/5/2001
“On July 5 [2001], President Bush asked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to assess the al Qaeda threat. Later, after 9/11, Rice admitted that the threat-reporting at the time ‘had become sufficiently robust–not again very specific, but sufficiently robust. There was a lot of chatter in the system.’ ” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]