National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice chaired a Principals Committee meeting on September 13 [2001]…to refine how the fight against al Qaeda would be conducted. The principals agreed that the overall message should be that anyone supporting al Qaeda would risk harm. The United States would need to integrate diplomacy, financial measures, intelligence, and military actions […]
9/13/2001
“Mr. bin Laden summoned Arab reporters on Wednesday [September 13, 2001] to a compound in Afghanistan to deny responsibility for the stunning [9/11] strikes while praising those who conducted them. American intelligence officials now dismiss such denials.” – Judith Miller, “Bin Laden: Child of Privilege who Champions Holy War,” The New York Times, Sep. 14, […]
9/13/2001
“President Saddam Hussein said the attacks on the United States were the result of America’s ‘evil policy,’ contending that the United States exports corruption and crime through its military forces and its movies. He suggested the attacks might have been carried out by Americans.” – “After The Attacks, Reaction From Around The World,” The New […]
9/13/2001
“The stunning loss of life in Tuesday’s [September 11, 2001] terrorist attacks and the sense, expressed by President Bush, that these were ‘acts of war,’ have freed the administration to broaden potential retaliation beyond the low-risk, unmanned cruise missile strikes of the past, military and civilian officials said today [September 13, 2001]. …’The constraints have […]
9/13/2001
“Less than 36 hours after the terror attacks, the German police received a list from the F.B.I. of 13 people suspected of links to the terror. Since the early hours of Thursday [September 13, 2001], some 100 German investigators–joined late last week by an unknown number of F.B.I. agents–have scoured 14 Hamburg apartments and detained […]
9/12/2001
“The day after the the attacks [9/11], Bush talked to Richard Clarke, his chief adviser on counterterrorism (fighting terrorism), telling him: “See if Saddam did this. See if he’s linked in any way.” Clarke replied that it was the work of al-Qaeda, and no link with Iraq had been found. Nonetheless, Bush said, “Look into […]
9/12/2001
On the evening of September 12, 2001, “White House officials finished draft legislation to authorize force and faxed it to Capitol Hill. The draft declared ‘that the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force’ against those linked to the attacks and to ‘preempt any related future acts of terrorism or aggression against […]
9/12/2001
“Only one regime openly gloated about the [9/11] attack. ‘The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world,’ Saddam Hussein declared from Baghdad [Iraq, on September 12, 2001].” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 345 […]
9/12/2001
UN Security Council Resolution 1368, adopted on September 12, 2001, “condemned the [9/11] terrorist attacks in the strongest terms and described those acts as a threat to international peace and security, recognizing an inherent right of individual or collective self-defense in accordance with the United Nations Charter.”] – Yonah Alexander, ed., Combating Terrorism, Page 185 […]
9/12/2001
On “September 12, 2001, James Woolsey, who had been [former President Bill] Clinton’s first CIA director, told me [journalist James Fallows] that no matter who proved to be responsible for this attack, the solution had to include removing Saddam Hussein, because he was so likely to be involved next time.” – James Fallows, “Blind into […]