“On October 17 [2001], U.S. Special Forces arrived on the ground [in Afghanistan].” – George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, Page 215 […]
10/17/2001
“The discovery of expertly processed anthrax [sent to Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD)], one former scientist said, casts serious doubt on the theory advanced by some investigators that the germ attacks were the work of a lone amateur with a smattering of knowledge about biology. ‘I do think in one form or another, a state was […]
10/17/2001
“United Nations inspectors who later studied the Iraqi [chemical weapons] program said Baghdad did not manage to produce dry anthrax that could be delivered as an aerosol though it did buy specialized nozzles for its fleet of crop-dusters. In the years since, United Nations officials say, Iraq has acquired the capability to produce the high-grade, […]
10/16/2001
On October 16, 2001, “the first U.S. Special Forces team arrived near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif and linked up with one of the leaders of the Northern Alliance, the Uzbek general Abdul Rashid Dostum. …Within twenty-four hours of their arrival the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Taliban front lines, using their […]
10/16/2001
Head of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, wrote an article in The Washington Post on October 16, 2001. “Harking back to the Gulf War of 1991, he asserted that if the United States had gone on to Baghdad [Iraq], ‘Our Arab allies…would have deserted […]
10/15/2001
In testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI for investigations, said: “The laundry list of crimes committed against Americans by Islamic terrorists linked to al Qaeda was long and included attacks on American forces in Somalia in 1992, the first World Trade […]
10/15/2001
“…in October 2001, Washington sought the surrender of six Algerian men in Bosnia. At first, the U.S. government followed law-enforcement rules and secured the men’s arrest. But then, after a three-month investigation, Bosnia’s Supreme Court ordered the suspects released for lack of evidence. Instead of providing additional evidence, however, Washington simply switched to war rules. […]
10/15/2001
“Unhappy with the intelligence community it had, the Pentagon leadership created its own intelligence cell in October 2001. The Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (CTEG) was created as a two-person unit to review intelligence on terrorism within Douglas Feith’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; the members were prominent neoconservatives–David Wurmser, a former fellow […]
10/15/2001
Future President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai spoke about the Taliban with journalist Ahmed Rashid in October 2001. ” ‘They were good people initially, but the tragedy was that very soon after they were taken over by the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] and became a proxy. …Later the Taliban were to come under the influence of […]
10/15/2001
“In the early 1990s Afghanistan replaced Lebanon as the major centre of international terrorist training, and by October 2001, forty foreign terrorist groups were operating there.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 167 […]