According to an April 15, 2002, article in The Washington Post, a tape of bin Laden was discovered in Afghanistan in November 2001. On the tape, “He accurately listed the nationalities and sometimes the names of the nineteen-man suicide squad, all but four his Saudi compatriots. Osama confirmed the existence of four hijacking teams, rejoiced […]
11/15/2001
“Later, in November 2001–as Northern Alliance forces, with U.S. help, were capturing Afghanistan’s main cities one after another–[Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld worked to produce an up-to-date war plan for Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 219 […]
11/15/2001
According to a November 15, 2001, interview with CIA Islamabad (Pakistan) station chief Milton Bearden: “for the first time came complaints from some Afghan fighters to the CIA about a rising force in their jihad: Arab volunteers. Thousands of them were arriving in Afghanistan. …Bearden recalled the thrust of the very early reports arriving from […]
11/15/2001
” ‘This war is fundamentally religious,’ bin Laden said in November 2001. ‘Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. For, the enmity is based on creed.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Michael Scheuer, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, Page 19 […]
11/15/2001
Osama bin Laden discussed the events of September 11 in a video which was recorded in November 2001: ” ‘We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four […]
11/14/2001
On November 14, 2001, “the UN Security Council approved Resolution 1378 endorsing [UN representative] Lakhdar Brahimi’s efforts to bring the Afghan factions together and form a new government in Kabul [Afghanistan].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 83 […]
11/14/2001
In a speech to the Foreign Policy Relations Institute in Philadelphia on November 14, 2001, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle said: ” ‘The question on my mind…is: Do we wait for Saddam and hope for the best? Do we wait and hope he doesn’t do what we know [sic] he […]
11/14/2001
“…Al Qaeda’s Emir and military commander, Muhammad Atef, was killed by a US airstrike in Kabul [Afghanistan], on November 14, 2001. A founder member, Atef had responsibility for both Al Qaeda’s domestic Afghan operations as well as the day-to-day running of the organization. In addition to being Osama’s brother-in-law, he planned all the major Al […]
11/14/2001
“As early as November 14, 2001, Richard Perle, the exotic superhawk connected with the Pentagon, said that the most compelling argument for going to war with Iraq was that with enough time Saddam would be capable of attacking the U.S. with a nuclear weapon. ‘Do we wait for Saddam or do we take preemptive action?’ […]
11/14/2001
On November 14, 2001, Vice President Dick “Cheney spoke before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Asserting that terrorists were not the same as lawful combatants, Cheney declared, ‘They don’t deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war. They don’t deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going […]