In an October 3, 2001, letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden “claimed that if the United States invaded Afghanistan, the military conflict ‘will impose great long-term economic burdens, leading to further economic collapse, which will force America, God willing, to resort to the former Soviet Union’s only option: withdrawal from Afghanistan, disintegration, […]
10/3/2001
According to testimony of former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI Oliver ‘Buck’ Revell before the House Committee on International Relations on October 3, 2001: ” ‘I was in charge of Bureau operations at the time [of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] and I never received any information that the assassin of [Rabbi] Meir […]
10/3/2001
A recovered document from bin Laden to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, dated October 3, 2001, read: ” ‘A U.S. campaign against Afghanistan will cause great long-term economic burdens [on the United States] which will force America, to resort to the former Soviet Union’s only option: withdrawal from Afghanistan, disintegration, and contraction.’ ” – Peter […]
10/3/2001
According to the October 3, 2001, testimony of former CIA Chief of Counterterrorism Vincent Cannistraro before the House International Relations committee: “a Saudi government audit of the National Commercial Bank, the kingdom’s largest, showed that at least $3 million had flowed from its accounts to bin Laden. One of Saudi Arabia’s largest charities, the International […]
10/3/2001
“J. T. Caruso, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, told the House Intelligence Committee on October 3, 2001, that ‘media reports’ that the FBI had advance warnings, dating back to 1995, of a plot to hijack U.S. airliners were untrue. ‘The FBI had no warnings of any hijack plots,’ Caruso said.” – Bill […]
10/2/2001
“…the agency [CIA] had opened up its own channel to the Taliban. In great secrecy, it had sent Robert Grenier, the Pakistan station chief, to Quetta to meet with Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Usmani, the Taliban’s senior military commander. Grenier urged Usmani to persuade [Taliban leader Mullah] Omar to give up bin Laden, but there was […]
10/2/2001
“On October 2, 2001, a tabloid photo editor named Bob Stevens was admitted to a Florida hospital with a high fever and vomiting. When doctors examined him, they discovered that he had inhaled a lethal bacteria, anthrax. Three days later, he was dead. More employees at the tabloid turned up sick, along with people who […]
10/2/2001
” ‘It’s a campaign in many parts and pieces all working to go after a common enemy,’ Secretary [of State Colin] Powell said [on October 2, 2001]. ‘That enemy’s name is terrorism. And in its most ambitious manifestation it goes by the name Al Qaeda and the head of that awful holding company is bin […]
10/2/2001
On October 2, 2001, “NATO’s secretary general, Lord Robertson, referring to the evidence presented by Frank X. Taylor, the United States ambassador at large, as ‘classified,’ said…’We know that the individuals who carried out these [9/11] attacks were part of the worldwide terrorist network of Al Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden and his key […]
10/2/2001
“Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in an interview today [October 2, 2001] with The New York Times, said [Bush] administration officials had been briefing allies on what he called ‘pretty good information’ establishing the link between the airplane attacks and bin Laden. But, he added, ‘it is not evidence in the form of a […]