“On May 1, 2002, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus followed up on the [April 28, 2002] Newsweek story [of a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer] by citing a senior [Bush] administration official. Pincus wrote that ‘there is no evidence’ of the Prague meeting, something […]
4/30/2002
“On April 30, 2002, Khalid al-Attash, a Yemeni wanted for the bombing of USS Cole, was arrested along with five Pakistani militants in a Karachi safe house.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 225 […]
4/29/2002
” ‘[T]his is a period not just of grave danger, but of enormous opportunity,’ says [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice [in a speech to Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on April 29, 2002]. ‘…a period akin to 1945 to 1947, when American leadership expanded the number of free and democratic states–Japan and Germany […]
4/29/2002
Day of Terror bombing conspirator ‘Blind Sheikh’ Omar Abdel Rahman’s “close relationship with [Afghani warlord Gulbuddin] Hekmatyar would be underscored in an April [29] 2002 FBI affidavit that offers probative evidence linking bin Laden and al Qaeda directly to both attacks on the World Trade Center.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 20 […]
4/28/2002
Regarding the possible visit between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague, Czech Republic, an April 28, 2002, Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff “quoted a ‘senior U.S. law enforcement official’ saying, ‘We looked at this real hard because, obviously, if it were true, it would be huge. But nothing had […]
4/28/2002
“In early May [2002], officials…from within the U.S. intelligence community put out word through Newsweek magazine that there was nothing to the Iraqi [-al Qaeda] connection. The magazine reported in its April 28, 2002, edition that the Czech government had backed away from initial conclusions about the meeting between [lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed] Atta and […]
4/22/2002
Regarding Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld…infuriated [Senator Joseph] Biden [D-DE] and other senators, and the Afghans, by saying [at a Department of Defense news briefing on April 22, 2002] that the warlords should share power with the government: ‘How ought security to evolve in that country depends on really two things; one is what […]
4/19/2002
“Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco seven months after 9/11 [on April 19, 2002], [FBI Director Robert] Mueller insisted that ‘the hijackers left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper–either here in the U.S. or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up […]
4/19/2002
“Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco seven months after 9/11 [on April 19, 2002], he [FBI Director Robert Mueller] insisted that ‘the hijackers left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper–either here in the U.S. or in the treasure trove of information that has turned […]
4/17/2002
“Until April 2002, [President] Bush was firmly committed to ‘no nation building’ in Afghanistan. Then, on April 17 [2002], in a speech given at the Virginia Military Institute…Bush surprised everyone by calling for a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Afghanistan, referring to the plan the United States provided Europe after World War II. Bush promised to rebuild […]