On September 13, 2001, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin met with President Pervez Musharraf regarding a list of 18 key military demands. She asked him, at President Bush’s request: ” ‘Are you with us in this fight?’ When he said, ‘I am, without conditions,’ she got up and left. That night [Secretary of State Colin] […]
9/13/2001
“When the query [from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to create an Iraq war plan] arrived, [Third Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas] Reilly and his team of five planners were summoned to a windowless room in the bowels of the Third Army headquarters that was reserved for the most sensitive communications. …The Third Army planners had […]
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“…on September 13 [2001], [Saudi ambassador] Prince Bandar meets President Bush for a private conversation on the Truman balcony in the White House. At the same time, a massive operation to evacuate 140 Saudis, including about two dozen members of the bin Laden family, has begun. The first flight leaves Tampa, Florida for Lexington, Kentucky, […]
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On September 13, 2001, retired Tampa cop turned private investigator Dan Grossi escorted Saudi students to the airport for a flight out of the U.S. “As far as private planes were concerned, America was still grounded. Then one of the pilots arrived. ‘Here’s your plane,’ he told Grossi. ‘Whenever you’re ready to go.’ …[Grossi] waited […]
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“At the September 13 [2001] NSC [National Security Council] meeting…President Bush led a discussion of an appropriate ultimatum to the Taliban. He ordered Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to develop a military plan against the Taliban. The President wanted the United States to strike the Taliban, step back, wait to see if they got the […]
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On September 13, 2001, “Secretary of State [Colin] Powell announced at the beginning of an NSC [National Security Council] meeting that Pakistani President [Pervez] Musharraf had agreed to every U.S. request for support in the war on terrorism.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 331 […]
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“Most of the aircraft allowed to fly in U.S. airspace on Sept. 13 [2001] were empty airliners being ferried from the airports where they made quick landings on Sept. 11. The reopening of the airspace included paid charter flights, but not private, nonrevenue flights.” – Jean Heller, “TIA Now Verifies Flight of Saudis,” St. Petersburg […]
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According to a September 13, 2001, news release from the U.S. Department of Transportation: “Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta has ordered the national airspace system re-opened to commercial aviation, effective at 11 a.m. Eastern time Thursday [September 13, 2001].” – Dept. of Transportation Press Release, “September 11, 2001: Attack on America: Statement of U.S. […]
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“Sep 13, 2001: DOT [Department of Transportation] ordered the reopening of the national airspace to U.S. air carriers, effective 11:00 a.m., provided that the airport involved had implemented the new security measures. …Foreign air carriers were still not allowed to fly into the United States, with certain exceptions, but could depart if they met the […]
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On September 13, 2001, “Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with the Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Maleeha Lodhi, and the visiting head of Pakistan’s military intelligence service, Mahmud Ahmed. Armitage said that the United States wanted Pakistan to take seven steps: *to stop al Qaeda operatives at its border and end all […]