“President [Bill] Clinton as reported in USA Today (November 12, 2001) reflected his frustration by noting ‘I tried to take bin Laden out…the last four years I was in office.’ ” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 204 […]
11/12/2001
Former FBI antiterror official John O’Neill “explains the failure [to confront Saudi Arabia over Osama bin Laden] in one word: oil.” – Ethan Bronner, “Oil Diplomacy Muddled U.S. Pursuit of bin Laden, New Book Contends,” The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2001 […]
11/11/2001
“United States officials said that intelligence reports of possible cyanide gas production at the Derunta [Afghanistan] site have been received for at least a year, and suggest an intense effort by Al Qaeda to experiment with virtually any poison it can obtain. The officials added, however, that they have no evidence that any other countries, […]
11/10/2001
“After US troops intervened in Afghanistan, Osama made a speech at the Islamic Studies Centre in Jalalabad on November 10 [2001], before retreating to the Afghan-Pakistan border. According to those present he said ‘the Americans had a plan to invade, but if we are united and believe in Allah, we’ll teach them a lesson, the […]
11/10/2001
“On November 10, 2001, [Vice President Dick] Cheney chaired a small group at the White House that authorized the president [Bush] to detain anyone who had ‘engaged in, aided or abetted, or conspired to commit acts of international terrorism.’ Those detainees were not presumed to be innocent nor were they entitled to a public trial.” […]
11/10/2001
“On Saturday, November 10 [2001], at a small White House meeting on the subject [of how to treat prisoners captured in the war on terror] chaired by [Vice President Dick] Cheney, a directive was approved for [President] Bush’s signature. It authorized the military to detain anyone the president or his representative determined had ‘engaged in, […]
11/10/2001
On November 10, 2001, Vice President Dick “Cheney had chaired a small White House meeting in which the participants approved a directive on what to do with prisoners of the Afghan war. …The November 10 directive authorized the United States to detain anyone suspected of terrorism, allowed them to be held indefinitely, and stripped them […]
11/10/2001
In an interview with Osama bin Laden on November 10, 2001, in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, journalist Hamid “Mir asked bin Laden if he could justify the deaths of ‘innocent people,’ including hundreds of Muslims, in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Mr. bin Laden called this a ‘major point of jurisprudence,’ […]
11/10/2001
“A leading Pakistani newspaper published an interview with Osama bin Laden today [November 10, 2001] in which he said, ‘We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them.’ ” – Tim Weiner, “Bin Laden Asserts He Has Nuclear Arms,” The New […]
11/9/2001
Regarding the battle that started to dissipate the Taliban in Afghanistan, George Tenet said: “On the morning of Friday, November 9 [2001], Pentagon officials again briefed the White House that things were not going well in Mazar-i-Sharif. …Mazar fell the next day, and Taliban resistance quickly began to dissipate elsewhere in the country…” – George […]