“In April [2001] the U.S. intelligence community learned from a source with terrorist connections that Osama bin Laden was interested in using commercial pilots in future attacks. The source said that law enforcement investigators should consider the possibility of ‘spectacular and traumatic’ attacks akin to the first WTC bombing. No time frame for an upcoming […]
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4/15/2001
In April 2001, “al Qaeda cells were raided in Milan, Frankfurt, and London. The FBI’s John O’Neill was quoted as saying, ‘we are getting a lot of intel from each one.’ But the raids only confirmed the unsettling truth: ‘al Qaeda cells [were] everywhere.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
4/15/2001
” ‘If President Bush doesn’t help us,’ he [Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud] told a press conference in Strasbourg [France] a few days later [following his April 2001 meeting in Paris with American diplomats], ‘then the terrorists will damage the United States and Europe very soon–and it will be too late.’ ” [The 15th […]
4/15/2001
“President Bush’s Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that ‘Iraq remains a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East’ and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US ‘military intervention’ is necessary. Vice-president Dick Cheney, who chairs the White House Energy Policy Development Group, commissioned a report on […]
4/15/2001
“When the National Security Council of the new Bush administration held its first deputies meeting on terrorism in April 2001, Richard Clarke, then the White House counterterrorism adviser, talked about the urgent need to go after bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan, according to Clarke’s memoirs. [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz was […]
4/15/2001
“By April [2001] State Department diplomats believed Pakistan simply did not intend to cut off aid to the Taliban.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 565 […]
4/15/2001
“Iraq’s role in September 11 is still a question mark. There are signs that Baghdad was involved. A key indicator was the meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2001, between al Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Atta, the key figure in the September 11 attacks, and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the second secretary of the […]
4/15/2001
Lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed “Atta, it was alleged [by the Interior Ministry of the Czech Republic], had even tried to enter Prague in the summer of 2000 but had been turned away because he did not have a valid visa. The Czechs were now reporting that, having acquired the proper travel documentation, Atta had returned […]
4/15/2001
According to the April 2001 report, ‘Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,’ which was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney: ” ‘Iraq remains a destabilizing influence…to the flow of oil to international markets from […]
4/15/2001
“The Czech interior minister said today [October 27, 2001] that an Iraqi intelligence officer [Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani] met with Mohammed Atta…[in April 2001] just five months before the synchronized hijackings and mass killings were carried out. The official confirmation of the meeting, the details of which remain a mystery, does not amount to […]