“…Iraq alone among the twenty-two members of the Arab League failed to condemn the atrocities of September 11.” According to a September 12, 2001, article on CNN.com, “Saddam’s government issued a statement, quoted widely in Al-Iraq and other state-run papers, which said America deserved the attacks.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 239 […]
9/12/2001
FBI agent Ali Soufan was in Yemen, investigating the bombing of the USS Cole when 9/11 occurred. He had been requesting information from the CIA, but was not receiving it, on account of ‘the wall.’ On September 12, 2001, the CIA eventually showed him three surveillance photos of the terrorist summit held in Malaysia in […]
9/12/2001
At a CIA dinner on September 12, 2001, Deputy Chief of MI5 (U.K.’s counterintelligence and security agency) Eliza Manninghan-Buller said: ” ‘I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan, and not launch any attacks against Iraq.’ …Their message…reflected deep concern that the Bush Administration might be subject to…the exploitation of the […]
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“We have the sworn testimony of the president’s [Bush’s] White House head of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, that on the day after the attack, September 12 [2001], the president wanted to connect the attacks to Saddam.” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 107 […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke appeared on 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004. He said, on September 12, 2001: ” ‘The president [Bush] dragged me into a room…shut the door, and said, *I want you to find whether Iraq did this.* …We got together all the FBI experts, all the CIA experts. They all cleared the […]
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On September 12, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.’ ” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Page 7 […]
9/12/2001
According to CIA Director George Tenet, on September 12, 2001, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle said to him: ” ‘Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility.’ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 104 […]
9/12/2001
“On Friday, September 21 [2001], Robert Jordan, the Baker Botts attorney who had been nominated earlier as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, finally testified in confirmation hearings before the Senate…Jordan testified that the day after the attack of September 11 [September 12, 2001], ‘Saudi Arabia released a statement in which it declared Saudi oil exports to […]
9/12/2001
According to counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, on September 12, 2001: “[President] Bush, pulled him aside in the White House Situation Room and asked him to look for evidence that Saddam had staged 9/11. When Clarke replied, ‘Mr. President, al-Qaeda did this,’ Bush said, ‘I know, I know, but…see if Saddam was involved. Just look.’ ” […]
9/12/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke recalled his meetings at the White House on September 12, 2001: ” ‘Later in the day, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets. At first, I thought Rumsfeld was […]