“It’s been similarly quiet the past 10 days at Jacksonville Municipal Airport [Illinois], where air traffic is entirely made up of private pilots and flight lessons. The ban on private planes was just lifted this week. ‘Nothing was going on at all until two days ago [September 20, 2001], when the private pilots were allowed […]
9/20/2001
“In his address to a joint session of Congress and the American people delivered nine days after the 9/11 attacks [September 20, 2001], the president [Bush] remarked, ‘Americans are asking, why do they [perpetrators of 9/11] hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber–a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20, 2001, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick announced that the Bush administration would be ‘countering terror with trade.’ In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Zoellick argued that ‘free trade’ and ‘freedom’ are inextricably linked and that trade ‘promotes the values at the heart of this protected struggle.’ In the name of fighting terror, he […]
9/20/2001
President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on September 20, 2001. ” ‘When Blair asked about Iraq,’ the 9/11 Commission reported, quoting from an NSC [National Security Council] summary of the two leaders’ conversation, ‘the president replied that Iraq was not the immediate problem. Some members of his administration, he commented, had expressed […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, President Bush addressed the nation before a joint session of Congress. “President Bush argued that the new war went beyond Bin Ladin. ‘Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there,’ he said. ‘It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, President Bush addressed the nation before a joint session of Congress. “The President blamed al Qaeda for 9/11 and the 1998 embassy bombings, and, for the first time, declared that al Qaeda was ‘responsible for bombing the USS Cole.’ He reiterated the ultimatum that has already been conveyed privately. ‘The Taliban […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20 [2001], President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the two leaders discussed the global conflict ahead. When Blair asked about Iraq, the President replied that Iraq was not the immediate problem. Some members of his administration, he commented, had expressed a different view, but he was the one responsible […]
9/20/2001
President Bush addressed the nation on September 20, 2001: ” ‘Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.’ At this point there was applause. ‘From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by […]
9/20/2001
“Some senior [Bush] administration officials, led by Paul D. Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, and I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, are pressing for the earliest and broadest military campaign against not only the Osama bin Laden network in Afghanistan, but also against other suspected terrorist bases in Iraq and […]
9/20/2001
“In Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, a meeting of 700 Muslim clerics from the Taliban movement that governs most of the country seemed near a final decision not to hand over Mr. bin Laden. [Pakistani President] General [Pervez] Musharraf said categorically that the Taliban had rejected a handover. But there were signs in Kabul of […]