In October 2001, former CIA officer Robert Baer said: ” ‘Saudi Arabia is completely unsupportive as of today… The rank-and-file Saudi policeman is sympathetic to bin Laden. They’re not telling us who these people were on the planes.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Craig Unger, House of […]
10/15/2001
“According to one poll conducted in October 2001, 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of twenty-five and forty-one support bin Laden.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Pages 202-203 […]
10/15/2001
In testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI for Investigations, Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, said: ” ‘By September 11 we certainly should have known that we were the principal target of a terrorist campaign unlike any we had ever faced. …And yet we totally failed to […]
10/15/2001
“Oliver B. ‘Buck’ Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI for investigations, lost friends in the September 11 attacks and says the strikes should have been expected. ‘I wish that I could tell you,’ Revell said in detailed testimony before the House of Representatives in October 2001, ‘that the attacks could not have been […]
10/15/2001
In an interview conducted by Taysir Alouni of Al Jazeera during October 2001, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘Abu Ubaidah al Banjshiri established the training camps for our mujahideen against Russia’s terrorism during the 1980s. We used to call the training camp al Qaeda. And the name stayed.’ “ [The 15th of the month used […]
10/15/2001
"On October 15, 2001, a potentially lethal anthrax-laced envelope had arrived in the Capitol Hill mail, and had been delivered to the offices of then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle [D-SD]. Authorities shut down the entire building until Daschle's suite of offices and those nearby could be fumigated." – John Ashcroft, Never Again, 185 […]
10/15/2001
Commenting on Iraq’s status to the press on October 15, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘Iraq is Iraq, a wasted society for 10 years. They’re sad. They’re contained…’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 101 […]
10/14/2001
“In an Al Qaeda video released on October 14, 2001, [spokesman] Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said: ‘[Secretary of State Colin] Powell and other members of the US administration know that when Al Qaeda promises, it delivers, and the information is what we see not what we hear. The storm of airplanes will not be calmed, if […]
10/14/2001
“Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a television appearance this morning [October 14, 2001], said law enforcement officials were convinced that Al Qaeda members remained at large in the United States and were actively planning additional attacks on American soil… ‘I believe that it’s very unlikely that all of those individuals that were associated with or […]
10/14/2001
Osama “bin Laden’s training camps in Afghanistan have been a key tool in expanding the group’s [al Qaeda’s] power and reach, attracting 15,000 to 20,000 radicals from Muslim countries around the world, according to United States intelligence estimates.” – James Risen and Stephen Engelberg, “Signs of Change In Terror Goals Went Unheeded,” The New York […]