“In June [13] 2002, Afghans gathered for a second loya jirga [grand council] to select a transitional government. This time security was good enough to host the conference in Kabul. The delegates chose [Hamid] Karzai to head the new government, and he appointed cabinet ministers from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds.” – George […]
6/13/2002
Al Qaeda member Abd-Al-Halim Adl wrote a letter to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on June 13, 2002, which decried the state of al Qaeda following the American reaction to the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘…we must completely halt all external [terrorist] actions until we sit down and consider the disaster we caused. The East Asia, […]
6/10/2002
“The Justice Department announced today [June 10, 2002] that they had broken up a plot by Al Qaeda to detonate a radioactive bomb inside the United States with the arrest of a Brooklyn-born American citizen in the case. ‘We have captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological […]
6/10/2002
On June 10, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft made an announcement from Moscow: “I am pleased to announce today a significant step forward in the war on terrorism. We have captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or ‘dirty bomb,’ in the United States. …Yesterday, […]
6/10/2002
On June 10, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Abdullah al Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen associated with al Qaeda who planned on domestic attacks. Ashcroft said: “The safety of all Americans and the national security interests of the United States require that Abdullah al Muhajir be detained by the […]
6/10/2002
“…commandeering television cameras during a routine trip to Moscow [on June 10, 2002], [Attorney General John] Ashcroft announced that FBI agents had captured ‘a known terrorist’ planning to explode a ‘dirty bomb’ in the United States–Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who in fact had been in custody since May 8…” – Frank Rich, […]
6/10/2002
“…SIGINT [signals intelligence] reporting led to the arrest in June [10, 2002] in Morocco of al Qaeda’s Saudi-born chief of operations, Fowzi Saad al-Obeidi, whose cover name within al Qaeda was Abu Zubair al-Haili.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 233 […]
6/10/2002
On June 10, 2002, “Speaking from a studio in Moscow, [Attorney General John] Ashcroft informed the world that the United States had detained a U.S. citizen, Jose Padilla, as an ‘enemy combatant.’ Officials believed that Padilla, who had been arrested at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, was planning to obtain a ‘dirty bomb’ that would use […]
6/9/2002
“FBI officials have now prepared a detailed chart showing how agents could have uncovered the [9/11] terrorist plot if they had learned about [hijackers Khalid] Almihdhar and [Nawaf] Alhazmi sooner, given their frequent contact with at least five of the other hijackers. ‘There’s no question we could have tied all 19 hijackers together,’ the [unidentified] […]
6/8/2002
On June 8, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee sent a memo to Attorney General John Ashcroft titled, “Determination of Enemy Belligerency and Military Detention.” In it, Bybee determined that U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, as an associate of al Qaeda, could be captured as a prisoner by the U.S. Armed Forces in an international armed […]