“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 […]
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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 […]
4/9/2001
“The [9/11] Commission’s staff believed that it had debunked, once and for all, the widely circulated intelligence report about the so-called Prague meeting–a supposed encounter in the Czech capital between a senior Iraq spy and Mohammed Atta, the 9/11 ringleader, on April 9, 2001. The report had been circulated by the Czech intelligence service and […]
4/9/2001
On October 26, 2001, “Stanislav Gross, whose agency oversees the Czech intelligence service, made a statement to reporters about [9/11 hijacker Mohamed] Atta’s activities in Prague… ‘We can confirm now that during his next [spring [April 9] 2001] trip to the Czech Republic he did have contact with an officer of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. […]
4/9/2001
In a CNN interview on November 10, 2001, “Czech prime minister Milos Zeman confirmed the meeting [of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence officer Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani in Prague, on April 9, 2001], but added to the confusion by claiming knowledge of its contents. ‘Atta contacted some Iraq agent, not to prepare […]
4/6/2001
“Five months before Sept. 11, the government warned airlines that Middle Eastern terrorists could try to hijack or blow up a U.S. plane and that carriers should ‘demonstrate a high degree of alertness.’ The warning, obtained Saturday [May 18, 2002] by the AP [Associated Press], came out after the April 6, 2001, conviction of Ahmed […]
4/6/2001
“On April 6, 2001, the US closed its diplomatic missions in Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador following intelligence that an Al Qaeda attack was likely.” – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 165 […]