“When [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid] Almihdhar’s visa expired, the State Department, not knowing any better, simply issued him a new one in June 2001–even though by then the CIA had linked him to one of the suspected bombers of the USS Cole in October 2000.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
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6/15/2001
In a tape released in June 2001, “Mr. bin Laden seemed to gloat as he spoke in Arabic of future attacks on American targets that he said would dwarf those he has directed in the past. ‘With small capabilities, and with our faith, we can defeat the greatest military power of modern times,’ he said […]
6/15/2001
“It is clear that [American-born al Qaeda member John Walker] Lindh was able to acquire information on bin Laden’s future plots. At one point in June [2001], Walker Lindh was told by one of his instructors that ‘bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United […]
6/15/2001
“He [FBI Director Thomas Pickard] gave [Attorney General John] Ashcroft the first of his weekly briefings in June [2001]. Before the meeting, Pickard sent an agenda to Ashcroft’s office of the issues to be discussed. Terrorism was the number one item on the list… Ashcroft listened, but he seemed far more intrigued by other items […]
6/15/2001
During a videotaping in June 2001, Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud spoke with his Washington advocate and lobbyist Otilie English. “The Arabs and the Pakistani Taliban were the key to the war’s outcome, he [Massoud] continued. ‘It is a totally separate story whether Osama is a popular figure outside Afghanistan or not, but inside […]
6/15/2001
“In June [2001], only 18 out of 298 classified Senior Executive Intelligence Briefs sent to Bush administration officials referred to bin Laden or al Qaeda.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 568 […]
6/15/2001
” ‘Sunni extremists associated with al Qaeda are most likely to attempt spectacular attacks resulting in numerous casualties,’ warned a classified threat advisory issued in June [2001] by the Intelligence Community Counterterrorism Board. It mentioned Italy, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula as the most likely targets.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
6/15/2001
“…if a twenty-year-old Islamic convert from California, John Walker Lindh, was able to join the Taliban [in June 2001], why is it that the CIA did not have a single agent or case officer working inside Afghanistan, let alone in the Taliban, or in al Qaeda?” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
6/15/2001
After picking up warnings that an al Qaeda attack was imminent, “CIA head George Tenet was frantically trying to communicate the same [terrorism] warnings in June and July 2001 to [President] Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and that he was blown off.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
6/15/2001
“Fox News has reported many examples of ‘missed leads’ that the Bush administration was given prior to Sept. 11. …German intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain’s MI-6 intelligence service, Israel’s Mossad in June 2001 that Middle Eastern terrorists were training for hijackings and targeting American and Israeli interests.” [The 15th of the month used for […]