Future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, which summed up future President Bush’s foreign policy. The article “was unusually critical of the Clinton administration for deploying American forces in conflicts like Haiti, and questioned the moral impulse to spread American democracy when what really mattered, […]
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1/15/2000
In January 2000, Ambassador for Counterterrorism Michael Sheehan phoned Taliban foreign minister Wakil Muttawakil and “read him an unambiguous statement from [President Bill] Clinton: ‘We will hold the Taliban leadership responsible for any attacks against US interests by al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups.’ Muttawakil, who was privately one of bin Laden’s most bitter […]
1/15/2000
In an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: ” ‘Saddam Hussein’s regime is isolated, his conventional military power has been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore determined to develop WMD. […]
1/15/2000
“In a Foreign Affairs article in [January/February] 2000 that presented the Republican foreign policy manifesto for the upcoming presidential election, [future National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice chided the Clinton team for having failed to implement ‘a disciplined and consistent foreign policy that separates the important from the trivial.’ By contrast, Rice promised, a Republican administration […]
1/15/2000
Future National Security Advisor “Condoleezza Rice had set the tone for the [Bush] administration in her [January/February] 2000 Foreign Affairs article, in which she argued, ‘Using the American armed forces as the world’s *911* will degrade capabilities [and] bog soldiers down in peacekeeping roles.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
1/15/2000
“…the CIA learned that [future 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-] Hazmi had flown to Los Angeles on January 15, 2000. Had it checked the flight manifest, it would have noticed that [fellow hijacker] Khaled al-Mihdhar was traveling with him. The agency neglected to inform either the FBI or the State Department that at least one well-known […]
1/15/2000
From the list of Operational Opportunities: “January 2000: the CIA does not develop a transnational plan for tracking [Khalid al] Mihdhar and his associates so that they could be followed to Bangkok and onward, including the United States.” [The 15th of the month is used for date sorting purposes only.] – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 […]
1/15/2000
The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) was “set up from January 2000 in a way that excluded spies by ensuring that all the staff were employed by the UN and paid by a charge made on the Oil for Food programme, which was funded by Iraqi oil. Iraq had an interest in […]
1/15/2000
“In early March 2000, [CIA intelligence in] Bangkok [Thailand] reported that [future 9/11 hijacker] Nawaf al Hazmi…had departed [from Bangkok] on January 15 [2000] on a United Airlines flight to Los Angeles. As for [fellow hijacker] Khalid al Mihdhar, there was no report of his departure even though he had accompanied Hazmi on the United […]
1/15/2000
“Of all the 9/11 hijackers, these two Saudis [Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi] had the longest records of al Qaeda involvement, and beginning in January 2000, they soon became the most visible of the nineteen operatives. In fact, these two failed pilots appeared on the radar of the NSA [National Security Agency], the CIA, and […]