“At the Pentagon today [September 21, 2001], Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed a second deployment order, meaning that nearly 100 bomber and support airplanes are now being sent to the Persian Gulf. About 175 warplanes were already based in the gulf region, primarily to enforce the no-flight zone over southern Iraq.” – David E. […]
9/21/2001
“Major airlines, corporate jets, crop dusters, even aircraft involved in skydiving are back in service. But 10 days after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington [September 21, 2001], many flight training schools are still closed for business. The Federal government has prohibited most flight training exercises, effectively grounding operations at more than 1,500 […]
9/21/2001
When interviewed by the Voice of America radio network on September 21, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was asked if he would ever give up bin Laden. He replied: ” ‘No. We cannot do that. If we did, it means we are not Muslims; that Islam is finished. If we were afraid of attack, […]
9/21/2001
In response to reports of an alleged pre-9/11 meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi agents, CIA Director George Tenet explained to President Bush during the daily morning intelligence briefing of September 21, 2001: ” ‘Our Prague office is skeptical about the report. It just doesn’t add up.’ He […]
9/21/2001
“President Bush approved military plans to attack Afghanistan in meetings with Central Command’s General [Tommy] Franks and other advisers on September 21 [2001] and October 2 [2001].” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 337 […]
9/21/2001
“Although the CIA found scant evidence of collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda [according to the President’s Daily Brief on September 21, 2001], the agency reported that it had long since established that Iraq had previously supported the notorious Abu Nidal terrorist organization, and had provided tens of millions of dollars and logistical support to […]
9/21/2001
“President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing [on September 21, 2001] that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda… the few credible reports of contacts […]
9/20/2001
When addressing the Joint Session of the 107th Congress, President George W. Bush stated: “This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used […]
9/20/2001
In an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush said, regarding the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it’… Then, summoning a Churchillian tone, he uttered the line he had resisted but that would become a memorable statement of […]
9/20/2001
Following 9/11 and the need for support from Afghanistan’s neighbors, “The sensitive task of wooing Iran was handled by British foreign secretary Jack Straw. The Iranian leader, President Mohammed Khatami, was amenable to a war that would see Iran’s hated enemy, the Taliban, destroyed, and he sent [President] Bush a message to that effect through […]