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 […]
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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 […]
1/15/2000
“The sole purpose for setting up [the CIA’s] Alec Station was to keep track of bin Laden and members of Al Qaeda–and most important, to keep them out of the United States. Yet after NSA [National Security Agency] managed to pick up the first clue, and after a successful worldwide operation that tracked [future 9/11 […]
1/15/2000
“The agency’s [CIA’s] ‘lapse’ in [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid] al-Mihdhar’s case, [CIA Director George] Tenet said later [in his testimony to the Joint Inquiry Committee on October 17, 2002], ‘was caused by a combination of inadequate training of some of our officers, their intense focus on achieving the objectives of the operation itself, determining whether […]
1/15/2000
“…there are clear signs that Iran helped al Qaeda, including providing lodging for two key al Qaeda operatives at the Iranian Embassy in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, during a January 2000 meeting of al Qaeda terrorists there.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page 165 […]
1/15/2000
Defense Intelligence Agency specialist Kie Fallis wrote a highly classified report in May 2000, which said: ” ‘I obtained information in January of 2000 that indicated terrorists were planning two or three major attacks against the United States,’ he said. ‘The only gaps were where and when.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for […]