“On November 13 [2001], U.S. warplanes bombed a building in Kabul [Afghanistan] thought to be a Taliban or al Qaeda headquarters. After the bombs completely leveled the building, a senior military official recalled, ‘Some cell phone intercepts [contained] some excited or angry exchanges between Taliban and al Qaeda members’ indicating that one or more al […]
11/13/2001
“According to intelligence reports that have since been released to the public, a convoy of about a thousand Taliban and al Qaeda fighters escaped to Tora Bora from Jalalabad [Afghanistan] on November 13, 2001, the same day that Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance. Osama bin Laden was thought to be in the convoy.” – […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13 [2001], [Vice President Dick] Cheney brought a four-page text of the directive [detailing how to treat prisoners of war on terror] to his weekly private lunch with the president [Bush], who signed it later that day in the Oval Office without even taking time to sit down. Almost no one else saw […]
11/13/2001
On November 13, 2001, “President Bush issued an executive order which stated: ‘International terrorists, including members of al Qaeda, have carried out attacks on United States diplomatic and military personnel and facilities abroad and on citizens and property with the United States on a scale that has created a state of armed conflict that requires […]
11/13/2001
“The United States planned not only to detain Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at GTMO [Guantanamo] but also, as President Bush announced on November 13, 2001, to try some of them in military commissions. Military commissions lack a jury and other procedural protections that accompany ordinary civilian trials. They are traditional wartime tools used to […]
11/13/2001
“In November [13] 2001, despite the fact that Al-Jazeera had given the U.S. military coordinates of its office in Kabul [Afghanistan], U.S. war planes dropped two five-hundred-pound bombs on Al-Jazeera’s bureau there, destroying it. [According to an article that ran that day in News Alert] The United States claimed the office was ‘a known Al […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a sweeping and highly controversial Military Order for the purpose of creating military commissions with exclusive jurisdiction to try certain designated foreign nationals ‘for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws’ relevant to any prior or future ‘acts of international terrorism.’ The Order reached far […]
11/12/2001
On November 12, 2001, “the UN Security Council unanimously adopted this declaration [Security Council Resolution 1377] proclaiming international terrorism ‘one of the most serious threats to international peace and security in the twenty-first century’ and urging a ‘sustained, comprehensive’ international effort to combat it.” – Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 266 […]
11/12/2001
“…on the night of November 12 [2001], the [Taliban] regime fled the [Afghan] capital, Kabul.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 44 […]
11/12/2001
According to a November 12, 2001, article in USA Today: “President [Bill] Clinton reiterated that same Justice Department opinion on bin Laden. ‘We couldn’t indict him then [in February 1996] because he hadn’t killed anybody in America,’ the former president said. ‘He hadn’t done anything to us.’ ” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 222 […]