“When the Hamburg [Germany] pilots [Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan el-Shehhi] returned to Florida [from the training camps in Baluchistan, Pakistan] in January [2001] their focus shifted from the general job of learning to fly airplanes to the specifics of preparing for the [9/11] attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
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1/15/2001
When future 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah returned to Florida in January 2001, he pursued further flight training. “He practiced extensively on a simulator in Miami. He had not finished the required work the year before to get his commercial license, as [fellow hijackers Mohamed] Atta and [Marwan] el-Shehhi had done. [At the same time,] Atta […]
1/15/2001
In January 2001, “in Phoenix, Arizona, [future 9/11 hijacker] Hani Hanjour enrolled at JetTech Flight School. Instructors there worried about his poor language skills. …Hanjour held a commercial license, but his English was so bad the staff wondered how he got it and whether it was legitimate. They called local FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] inspectors, […]
1/15/2001
“It is still not clear exactly what bin Laden’s role in the [October 12, 2000 USS] Cole explosion was, but the glee he took in the attack is undeniable. In Afghanistan in January 2001, at the wedding celebration for one of his sons, bin Laden declaimed an extraordinary poem about the Cole to hundreds of […]
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 […]