“The first CIA officers entered Afghanistan on September 27 [2001] and were joined on October 17 by a twelve-man Special Forces A-team. Ultimately 110 CIA officers and 316 Special Forces personnel would serve in the combat phase of the Afghan war.” – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 71 […]
9/27/2001
A senior Bush Administration official said: ” ‘We know that Al Qaeda has exploited the war in Chechnya, may have even helped to provoke it.’ ” – James Dao and Patrick E. Tyler, “Military Called Just One Element in War on Terror,” The New York Times, Sep. 27, 2001 […]
9/27/2001
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [of Iran], condemned terrorism and called the fight against it ‘a holy war.’ But he also charged that the United States was trying to open a foothold in Central Asia and to take revenge on supporters of the Palestinian cause.” – Nazila Fathi, “Iran Won’t Join U.S. Campaign, Leader Says,” The New […]
9/27/2001
“When Republican congressmen attacked [CIA director George] Tenet in the days after 9/11, [President] Bush swiftly came to his aid. ‘We cannot be second-guessing our team,’ the President told a group of angry congressmen aboard Air Force One on September 27 [2001], ‘and I’m not going to. The nation’s at war. We need to encourage […]
9/27/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “On September 27 [2001], sixteen days after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been hit, we inserted our first covert teams into Afghanistan.” – George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, Page 187 […]
9/26/2001
“After the National Security Council meeting that morning [September 26, 2001], [President] Bush asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to stay behind. The two talked alone in the Oval Office. ‘I want you to develop a plan to invade Iraq,’ Bush said. ‘Do it outside the normal channels. Do it creatively so we don’t have […]
9/26/2001
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote of a meeting he had with President Bush on September 26, 2001. “The President leaned back in the black leather chair behind his desk. He asked that I take a look at the shape of our military plans on Iraq. …He wanted the options to be ‘creative,’ which I […]
9/26/2001
“An edict from the Taliban’s ruling council of clerics requesting that Osama bin Laden should leave Afghanistan was delivered to the Saudi-born fugitive yesterday [September 26, 2001]. The fatwa, delivered by hand by a messenger, confirmed that America’s prime suspect behind the recent terrorist attacks is still in hiding in Afghanistan, contradicting reports over the […]
9/26/2001
” ‘We are not into nation building, we are focused on justice,’ he [President Bush] said as late as September 26 [2001].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 74 […]
9/26/2001
“The first Americans into Afghanistan, Gary Schroen’s seven-man CIA team, code-named JAWBREAKER, touched down on the afternoon of September 26 [2001].” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 59 […]