Following the attack on the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, on October 12, 2000, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) specialist Kie “Fallis was disgusted. For the past year he had been tracking the al Qaeda terrorist network and found that the group was intimately linked to the government of Iran. …Fallis was angry that his repeated […]
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10/12/2000
“On the day the [USS] Cole bombing was carried out [October 12, 2000], NSA [National Security Agency] produced a top secret intelligence report warning that terrorists were planning an attack on an American target in the Middle East. But the NSA report was not dispatched until several hours after the bombing.” – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, […]
10/12/2000
On October 12, 2000, author Jonathan Randal recalled “the BBC World Service radio account of the near-sinking of the USS Cole, a billion-dollar missile destroyer, in a terrorist attack during a refueling stopover in Aden, Yemen’s premiere port. Piloted by two kamikazes, a speeding fiberglass skiff loaded with high explosives, arranged in a shaped charge […]
10/12/2000
” ‘We had data just days before the [October 12, 2000] [USS] Cole bombing,’ says Lt. Col. [Anthony] Shaffer, ‘that Aden [Yemen] was a hot spot. I communicated this information to SOCOM [U.S. Special Operations Command] and they reportedly passed it on to CENTCOM [U.S. Central Command], but for unknown reasons the threat assessment was […]
10/12/2000
” ‘We’ve got to change the rules,’ the CIA’s [unidentified] bin Laden unit chief argued in the aftermath [of the USS Cole bombing on October 12, 2000]. It was time for the agency to try to break the policy stalemate about the Taliban. Al Qaeda was growing, and its sanctuary in Afghanistan allowed ever more […]
10/12/2000
On October 12, 2000, “the same day that the attack on the [USS] Cole occurred, NSA [National Security Agency] issued an intelligence report based on intercepts (most likely calls coming in and out of [al Qaeda operative] Ahmed al-Hada’s home in Sana’a [Yemen]) warning that terrorists were planning an attack in the region. However, the […]
10/12/2000
“A Navy inquiry into preparations aboard the [USS Cole] destroyer [which was attacked on October 12, 2000] determined that the commander had failed to apply the most basic security procedures. No one was on the bridge, and those on watch had not been briefed on their responsibilities. According to Vice Admiral C.W. Moore, Jr., commander […]
10/12/2000
“After al-Qaeda bombed the USS Cole in Aden’s harbor [Yemen] on October 12, 2000, bin Laden told [journalist] Ahmad Zaydon, ‘I knelt to thank God for this heroic operation that damaged the prestige of the United States and served as a warning for them to leave the Arab world and the [Arabian] peninsula according to […]
10/11/2000
In a debate between presidential nominees Al Gore and George Bush at Wake Forest University on October 11, 2000, “Based on the previous [Clinton] administration’s failed attempt at nation building in this case [Somalia] and its inconclusive efforts in Haiti, Bush said, ‘I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. […]
10/11/2000
In a debate between presidential nominees Al Gore and George Bush at Wake Forest University on October 11, 2000, “When moderator Jim Lehrer brought the debate around to international issues and asked, ‘How would you project us around the world, as president?’ Bush said, ‘It really depends upon how our nation conducts itself in foreign […]