“[A] hard-line Islamic cleric in Karachi [Pakistan] who condemned the terrorist attacks in the United States as ‘wrong’ for killing innocent people changed tack abruptly and issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for a ‘holy war’ against an American military operation from Pakistan and against [President] General [Pervez] Musharraf. ‘It is un-Islamic for any […]
9/19/2001
According to an article in The New York Times on September 19, 2001: “All of bin Laden’s statements [following 9/11] received wide dissemination around the world, yet in the Middle East a commonly held view remains that the Trade Center attacks were not the work of Arab terrorists, but the work of–you guessed it–the Jews. […]
9/19/2001
“Sep 19, 2001: Late on this day, the agency [Federal Aviation Administration] permitted limited resumption of general aviation Part 91 operations under Visual Flight Rules (VFR). Exceptions included flight in Enhanced Class B (ECB) airspace, meaning that VFR flying was not allowed over, through, or ‘under the shelf’ of the Class B airspace category surrounding […]
9/19/2001
“Soon after 9/11, the President [Bush] had declared that the war [on terror] was not directed against Islam. In reiterating that point, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld [in a memo written on September 19, 2001] explored the idea that the war on terrorism was, in part, a civil war within the world of Islam: ‘The […]
9/19/2001
In a message to combatant commanders in the counterterrorism campaign, on September 19, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he was looking for three objectives: ” ‘1. Targets worldwide, such as UBL [Usama bin Laden] Al Qaida cells in regions outside Afghanistan and even outside the Middle East. …It will be important to indicate […]
9/19/2001
In a session convened by Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle on September 19, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said: “It was important to topple the Taliban as quickly as the U.S. could, but that would not be enough. The United States needed to do more to demonstrate that there were serious […]
9/19/2001
“On September 19 [2001], [President] Bush declares war: ‘Our war on terror…will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.’ However, the Visa Express program, through which Saudis are allowed to get a visa without even appearing at a consulate, is allowed to continue.” – Craig Unger, House […]
9/19/2001
“In the early afternoon of September 19 [2001], a call came from Logan Emergency Operations Center saying that the private charter aircraft was going to pick up members of the bin Laden family. ‘We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history,’ [director of aviation at Boston’s Logan Airport, Tom] Kinton said. […]
9/19/2001
By September 19, 2001, more than 140 Saudis were flown out of the U.S. This included relatives of Usama bin Laden. “For nearly three years, the White House and other agencies insisted that these flights never took place, confirming their existence only under investigation by the independent 9/11 Commission.” – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, […]
9/18/2001
According to a June 2003 report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General: “…within just one week of the 9/11 attacks [September 18, 2001], the FBI had ‘received more than 96,000 tips or potential leads from the public, including more than 54,000 through an Internet site it established for the PENTTBOM [Pentagon, Twin […]