Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke attended a series of meetings at the White House on September 12, 2001, where he expected to deal with the al Qaeda threat. ” ‘Instead, I walked into a series of discussions about Iraq. At first I was incredulous that we were talking about something other than getting Al Qaeda. Then […]
9/12/2001
On September 12, 2001, “Senator Richard C. Shelby, an Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee…said the failure to penetrate the [9/11] plot in advance constitutes ‘an intelligence failure.’ ” – James Risen and David Johnston, “Officials Say They Saw No Signs of Increased Terrorist Activity,” The New York Times, Sep. […]
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On September 12, 2001, after an FBI briefing, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said: ” ‘We happened to know just today that we have information that indicates representatives that are affiliated with Osama bin Laden were actually saying over the airwaves, private airwaves that they had hit two targets.’ ” – James Risen and David Johnston, […]
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On September 12, 2001, “America was grounded…for forty-eight hours, virtually no one could fly. No one, that is, except for the Saudis. …Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, was orchestrating the exodus of more than 140 Saudis scattered throughout the country. They included members from two […]
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“On September 12, 2001, the Saudis put on the market an extra nine million barrels of oil, going mostly to the United States. As a result, oil prices stayed low, and U.S. inflation spiked marginally in spite of the single most devastating terrorist attack in history.” – Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil, Page xxvi […]
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“The next day [September 12, 2001] at the inner circle of [President] Bush’s war cabinet, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked if the terrorist attack did not present an ‘opportunity’ to launch against Iraq.” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 25 […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke recalled being in the Situation Room on the evening of September 12, 2001, when President Bush approached him. ” ‘Look, I know you have a lot to do and all,’ the president said, according to Clarke’s account. ‘But I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, […]
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Counterterrorism czar Richard “Clarke has written that on the evening of September 12 [2001], President Bush told him and some of his staff to explore possible Iraqi links to 9/11. ‘See if Saddam did this,’ Clarke recalls the President telling them. ‘See if he’s linked in any way.’ While he believed the details of Clarke’s […]
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“President Bush chaired two more meetings of the NSC [National Security Council] on September 12 [2001]. In the first meeting, he stressed that the United States was at war with a new and different kind of enemy. The President asked principals to go beyond their pre-9/11 work and develop a strategy to eliminate terrorists and […]
9/11/2001
“At the World Trade Center (WTC) site in Lower Manhattan, 2,753 people were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were intentionally crashed into the north and south towers, or as a result of the crashes. Of those who perished during the initial attacks and the subsequent collapses of the […]