On September 29, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “instructed his incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Myers, to begin preparing military options for Iraq, including plans for an invasion with a much smaller force than the army of five hundred thousand that had taken Kuwait back from Saddam following his 1990 invasion […]
9/29/2001
On September 29, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘Our war on terror will be much broader than the battlefields and beachheads of the past. The war will be fought wherever terrorists hide, or run, or plan.’ ” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 183 […]
9/29/2001
“In a small meeting in his office on September 29, 2001, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked General [Richard] Myers (just two days away from becoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) to begin preparing military options for Iraq. The Secretary identified two objectives. One of these related to weapons of mass destruction: Rumsfeld asked for […]
9/28/2001
“On September 28 [2001], the [UN] Security Council adopted Resolution 1373, authorizing the use of force against terrorists. The resolution demanded that all 189 member states of the UN shut down financing, support, and safe havens for terrorists. President Bush ordered a freeze on all assets in the United States held by twenty-seven terrorist entities […]
9/28/2001
Osama bin Laden was interviewed by Islamist newspaper Ummat on September 28, 2001. ” ‘I have already said that we are not hostile to the people of the United States… We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. The […]
9/28/2001
In an interview with Islamist newspaper Ummat on September 28, 2001, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘Terror is the most dreaded weapon in the modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against their own people. …You can understand what the performance in war [will be] of the nation which suffers from fear […]
9/28/2001
“Security chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic repeatedly turned down the chance to acquire a vast intelligence database [from Sudan] on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network in the years leading up to the 11 September attacks, an Observer investigation has revealed. They were offered thick […]
9/28/2001
“The following are excerpts of bin Laden’s interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat published on September 28, 2001. Bin Laden states that U.S. government efforts to seize his financial resources following the 9/11 attacks are futile. ‘God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for […]
9/28/2001
During a meeting with the National Security Council on September 28, 2001, ” ‘Many believe Saddam is involved [in terror attacks against the U.S.],’ he [President Bush] said. ‘That’s not an issue for now. If we catch him being involved, we’ll act. He probably was behind this in the end.’ ” – Bob Woodward, Bush […]
9/27/2001
“In response to an inquiry from the most senior Muslim chaplain in the U.S. army, a group of leading Islamic scholars issued a fatwa on 27 September 2001, declaring that American Muslims were obliged to serve in the armed forces of their country, even when the United States was at war with a Muslim nation. […]