“According to the Washington Post and al Ha’aretz, the Hebrew-language Israeli daily, [at 6:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001] at least two workers of Odigo, an Israeli-owned instant messaging company with offices two blocks from the Twin Towers, receive warnings about the impending attack two hours before the first plane hits the North Tower. The […]
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At 6:30 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “At Boston’s Logan Airport, an argument breaks out over a parking space involving five Middle Easterners and an unidentified man. When he reports the incident later, police discover a car rented by lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. It contains a pass allowing access to a restricted area of the […]
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“…Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security. They showed that an additional 160 Saudis were allowed to leave on some fifty-five commercial flights [following the 9/11 attacks], and that some had taken off as early as September 11 [2001], bringing the total number of Saudis in the airlift […]
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According to a Washington Post article on March 2, 2002, on the morning of September 11, 2001, “nine of the 19 hijackers were selected for ‘special security screenings’ before they boarded their flights, including two who were singled out because of irregularities in their IDs.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 166 […]
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On September 11, 2001, “By 1:15 p.m., just four hours after the attacks, Michael Ledeen, the neocon operative who had won notoriety in the Iran-contra scandal, filed a dispatch on the National Review‘s website attacking the remaining realists in the [Bush] administration and urging someone to remind Bush that ‘we are still living with the […]
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Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, the FBI “created an investigative operation, the Pentagon/Twin Towers Bombings Investigation, or PENTTBOM.” According to a report by the Office of the Inspector General on April 29, 2003, “One week after the attacks, the program had yielded ninety-six thousand leads. …Leads emerged from an unsavory stew of sources, […]
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, “On Air Force One, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, who was taking notes, recorded at 10:20 a.m. that the president [Bush] had told him–Fleischer–that he had authorized a shoot-down [of a plane approaching Washington D.C.].” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xiv […]
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As the attacks were taking place on September 11, 2001, NSA (National Security Agency) director Michael Hayden “ordered the counterterrorism unit to focus their attention on Middle Eastern intercepts and to translate and analyze them immediately as they were received, rather than starting with the oldest in the stack first, as was normally the case. […]
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In security screening at Dulles International Airport (Washington, D.C.) on the morning of September 11, 2001, hijacker “Nawaf [al-Hazmi] set off the alarms for both the first and second metal detectors. In his pocket or in his hand luggage he had the heavy Leatherman multitool utility knife he had purchased at the Laurel [Maryland] Target […]
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, as hijackers Khalid al- “Mihdhar and [Majed] Moqed entered Dulles Airport’s [Washington, D.C.] west security screening checkpoint, where they placed their carry-on bags on the belt of the x-ray machine and proceeded through the arched magnetometer. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second […]