Explaining the details of the Patriot Act in a New Yorker article on November 5, 2001, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote: ” ‘…there is a lower standard to getting FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] taps. You don’t have to show probable cause; you basically just have to ask for them. And, unlike a law enforcement […]
11/5/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet noted: “By early November [2001], our intelligence reporting was indicating that UBL [Usama bin Ladin] had fled to the Tora Bora region [of Afghanistan].” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, Pages 225-226 […]
11/4/2001
On November 4, 2001, “…Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using [al Qaeda double agent Ali] Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States. In Johnson’s words, ‘It’s possible that the FBI thought […]
11/3/2001
In a video released by Osama bin Laden on November 3, 2001, he “described at length all the political problems suffered in Islamic lands in the last century, and said many of them could be traced back to the United Nations. He referred to its secretary general, Kofi Annan, as a ‘criminal.’ He used one […]
11/3/2001
“Mr. bin Laden, while praising what he called ‘great strikes’ made against New York and Washington on Sept. 11, said the United States had failed to produce any evidence for its attacks against Afghanistan. ‘This is a matter of religion and creed; it is not what [President] Bush and [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair maintain, […]
11/3/2001
“Osama bin Laden portrayed the American military campaign in Afghanistan as a war against Islam, saying in a videotaped speech broadcast today [November 3, 2001] that the Afghan people had done nothing to deserve such an onslaught. In addition, bin Laden used his first statement in nearly a month to denounce as infidels Muslim leaders […]
11/2/2001
In the Christian Science Monitor on November 2, 2001, former National Security Advisor under the Carter administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski said in reference to the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan: ” ‘When we started out, we were going to smash Al Qaeda and punish the Taliban. Now we seem to be getting engaged in an Afghan civil […]
11/1/2001
“Like earlier bin Laden criticisms of the West, [a handwritten letter sent to various news organizations on November 1, 2001] called the attacks on Afghanistan’s Taliban government a modern-day Crusade. The letter also alluded to the intense bombing of Afghanistan in the last month [October 2001]. ‘The heat of the crusade against Islam has intensified, […]
11/1/2001
“Western and Arab news organizations today [November 1, 2001] received copies of a letter handwritten in Arabic, carrying Osama bin Laden’s signature, that urges Pakistan’s Muslims to defend Islam against what it called a Christian crusade. The message accused the Pakistani government of ‘standing under the banner of the cross while Muslims are being slaughtered […]
10/31/2001
“Attorney General John Ashcroft disclosed for the first time today [October 31, 2001] that the government had apprehended suspects who were believed to have had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 hijackings. Mr. Ashcroft said that three Arab men who lived in Michigan had been found in possession of airport diagrams, as well as false […]