CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank interviewed former British army officer Peter Jouvenal on August 23, 2005. Jouvenal discussed the battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, which occurred in December 2001. ” ‘America’s special forces are very good generally, but the mistake they made [at Tora Bora] was they relied on Afghans for information. And so it […]
12/15/2001
An article in The New York Times on May 6, 2004, revealed a suspicious action taken by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official. “Shortly after the [9/11] attacks, air traffic controllers who handled two of the hijacked flights recorded their experiences on tape. But the tape cassette was deliberately destroyed [sometime between December 2001 and […]
12/15/2001
In 2005, head of German intelligence, August Hanning, said “his agency learned that Bin Laden had been able to elude capture at Tora Bora [Afghanistan, in December 2001] by paying ‘a lot of money’ to the very same militias of the Afghan warlords to whom the United States had delegated…the task of capturing him, and […]
12/15/2001
“Lutfullah Mashal, a senior spokesperson for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry, confirmed in 2005…that Bin Laden had paid for his escape from Tora Bora into Pakistan [in December 2001]. …the recipients of the money…[were] Afghan commanders loyal to Maulvi Yunus Khalis. Khalis was a top mujahedin leader during the Afghan-Soviet War whose family compound Bin Laden, […]
12/15/2001
In December 2001, “the American military learned that Bin Laden was hiding in Tora Bora, a dense mountain range in southeastern Afghanistan. …Instead of sending thousands of American soldiers to go into the mountain range to capture or kill Bin Laden, [President] Bush did not send one single American soldier. He only dispatched forty American […]
12/14/2001
“SIGINT [signals intelligence] coming out of NSA [National Security Agency] and intercepts collected by frontline U.S. military intelligence units proved that bin Laden was indeed at Tora Bora [in Afghanistan, in December 2001]. The official history of the U.S. Special Operations Command indicates that U.S. Special Forces continued to collect hard ‘all-source’ intelligence, most of […]
12/13/2001
“The [Bush] administration’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal [from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia] on December 13, 2001, marked the first time in the nuclear era that the United States had unilaterally abandoned a major arms-control pact. ‘I have concluded that the ABM Treaty hinders our government’s ability to develop ways to protect our […]
12/12/2001
Ali Saleh “al-Marri, a student from Qatar…was arrested in December [12] 2001 at his home in Peoria, Illinois, for allegedly being a ‘sleeper’ agent: an inactive terrorist who, once activated, would help others launch attacks. President Bush, invoking war rules, has declared both men [al-Marri, as well as Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen associated with […]
12/12/2001
“On December 12 [2001], a defining moment came in the Tora Bora [Afghanistan] battle, and al-Qaeda would swiftly exploit it. Haji Zaman Gamsharik, one of the Afghan warlords leading the attack against al-Qaeda, had opened negotiations with members of the group for a surrender agreement. ‘They talked on the radio with Haji Zaman,’ an Afghan […]
12/12/2001
According to a Der Spiegel article which was quoted in The Washington Post on December 12, 2001, Saudi interior minister Prince Nayef said, regarding 9/11: ” ‘so far we’ve received no evidence or documents from the U.S. authorities that justify the suspicion or accusation’ that Saudis were involved.” – Jonathan Randal, Osama, Page 274 […]