From an article on prominent Saudis who had financed al Qaeda: “Last January [2001], the United Nations Security Council identified five of them and ordered members to impound their assets. They are: Sad al-Sharif, Mr. bin Laden’s brother-in-law; Bilal bin Marwan, a senior lieutenant of Al Qaeda; Amin al-Haq, an Afghan-born doctor thought to be […]
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1/15/2001
Chevron board member Condoleezza “Rice resigned…on January 15, 2001, less than a week before she became national security adviser.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 109 […]
1/15/2001
“In Bamiyan Province [Afghanistan], home to the minority Hazaras, the Taliban massacred at least 170 innocent civilians in January 2001.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Pages 186-187 […]
1/15/2001
From the 9/11 Commission Report’s list of Operational Opportunities: “January 2001: the CIA does not inform the FBI that a source had identified Khallad, or [a.k.a.] Tawfiq bin Attash, a major figure in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, as having attended the [January 2000] meeting in Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] with [future 9/11 […]
1/14/2001
” ‘His [Osama bin Laden’s] arrest, which we dearly hope for, is only one step along the road of the many things we need to do to eliminate the network of organizations,’ said Richard A. Clarke, the top White House counterterrorism official.” – Stephen Engelberg, “One Man and a Global Web of Violence,” The New […]
1/10/2001
“Early in [January 10] 2001, [Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George] Tenet and Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt gave an intelligence briefing to President-elect Bush, Vice President-elect [Dick] Cheney, and [incoming National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice; it included the topic of al Qaeda. Pavitt recalled conveying that Bin Ladin was one of the greatest […]
1/10/2001
“[O]utgoing secretary of defense, William Cohen, released a Pentagon report in January [10] 2001 asserting that Iraq had rebuilt factories used to produce chemical and biological warfare agents.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 33 […]
1/10/2001
On January 10, 2001, “a Department of Energy advisory group chaired by former Senate majority leader Howard Baker [R-TN] and former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler concluded that the ‘most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable material in Russia could be […]
1/10/2001
“In a report released January 10, 2001, the outgoing U.S. secretary of defense, William S. Cohen, warned that Iraq had rebuilt at least its weapons infrastructure and might have begun covertly producing some chemical or biological agents. A spokesman at the British Foreign Office said they shared the U.S. suspicions (which were not new) regarding […]
1/10/2001
“An editorial in the Washington Post [on January 10, 2001] ten days before [President Bill] Clinton left office noted: ‘Yemeni officials say they have developed substantial evidence that the [October 12, 2000, USS Cole] bombing was ordered by the Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, and financed and coordinated by Muhammad Omar al-Harazi, a bin Laden […]