“Four hours after a third airline crashed into the Pentagon on September 11 [2001], [Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld asked his staff how the United States might be able to ‘go after Iraq as a response.’ ” – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror, Page 63 […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “The 9/11 teams realised that their scheme might be compromised if team members were caught trying to smuggle illicit knives on board the planes and so carried box-cutter knives less than four inches long which were permitted by the Federal Aviation Authority. In addition to pepper sprays, these boxcutting knives were […]
9/11/2001
“On the basis of the interrogation of suspected Al Qaeda agents, Indian intelligence believes that Al Qaeda had infiltrated a suicide team into Britain to attack the Houses of Parliament. In addition to striking Westminster in an airborne attack, they also had plans to attack Tower Bridge on the river Thames, but the latter target […]
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“Al Qaeda consistently inflicts the maximum number of casualties with the minimum loss to itself. The attacks of 11 September 2001 had the highest bomber/casualty ratio, with nineteen suicide attackers claiming 2,955 lives–an average 155.5 victims per attacker.” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 99 […]
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“In the five-and-a-half years between his [Osama bin Laden’s] return to Afghanistan and September 11, 2001, his training camps processed up to twenty thousand militants from around the world. Only a fraction received advanced terrorist training; it was from those ranks that he drew suicide bombers for overseas assignment, troops for his own protective unit […]
9/11/2001
Then-President George W. Bush recalled: “By the afternoon of 9/11 [2001], the intelligence community had discovered known al Qaeda operatives on the passenger manifests of the hijacked planes.” – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 134 […]
9/11/2001
Then-President George W. Bush recalled, on September 11, 2001: “I told [Secretary of Defense] Don [Rumsfeld] that I considered the attacks an act of war and approved his decision to raise the military readiness level to DefCon Three for the first time since the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. American military installations around the world heightened […]
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Then-President George W. Bush recalled: “One of my greatest frustrations on September 11 [2001] was the woeful communications technology on Air Force One. The plane had no satellite television. We were dependent on whatever local feeds we could pick up. After a few minutes on a given station, the screen would dissolve into static.” – […]
9/11/2001
Then-President George W. Bush recalled a televised statement he made from an elementary school in Florida on the morning of September 11, 2001, after hearing of the first attacks of the morning. ” ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. …Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent […]
9/11/2001
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith “was flying back from Europe the day of the attacks [September 11, 2001] with a group of senior Pentagon officials. On the flight Feith broached the idea of overthrowing Saddam. General John Abizaid, the Arabic-speaking four-star general who two years later would assume responsibility for U.S. military operations […]