“…there were only thirty-three air marshals system-wide on 9/11, and they were assigned to international flights. The number of air marshals had been phased down from several hundred in the 1970s because of the perceived success of checkpoint screening and the higher priority accorded other FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] initiatives.” – John Farmer, The Ground […]
9/11/2001
“…in the early morning of 9/11, the FBI intelligence agent who was searching for [9/11 hijackers Khalid al] Mihdhar and [Nawaf al] Hazmi forwarded a request to the Los Angeles field office. He had learned that Hazmi had arrived in Los Angeles in January 2000. He asked for assistance now in tracking Hazmi and Mihdhar. […]
9/11/2001
Speaking to the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘America was targeted for attack…because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 264 […]
9/11/2001
“At 8:30 p.m. [on September 11, 2001], [President] Bush sat down at his desk in the Oval Office, looked into a camera lens, and told Americans, ‘Our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts’ and ‘thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable […]
9/11/2001
Returning to the White House in Marine One, the President Bush’s helicopter, on September 11, 2001, presidential advisor Karl Rove wrote: “As we turned north, we could see smoke coming from the Pentagon. The airship was quiet; no one talked until the president broke the silence by pointing out the window toward the black plume […]
9/11/2001
President Bush said, on September 11, 2001, ” ‘The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly attacks… We will do whatever is necessary to protect America and Americans.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 260 […]
9/11/2001
According to presidential advisor Karl Rove, the head of the Secret Service detail “Eddie Marinzel later remembered Bush’s first words when he entered the cabin [on Air Force One on September 11, 2001] were ‘Gentlemen, we’re at war.’ I [Rove] knew we were before Bush uttered those words; but hearing those words said by the […]
9/11/2001
According to presidential advisor Karl Rove, when President Bush was evacuated from Florida on Air Force One on the morning of September 11, 2001, “Almost immediately after we were airborne, Vice President [Dick] Cheney phoned with a tough decision for Bush to make. The Air Force had scrambled to put up a combat jet patrol […]
9/11/2001
On the evening of September 11, 2001, “The Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, issued a denial [of bin Laden’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks] through a spokesman in Kandahar [Afghanistan], Abdul Hai Mutmain: ‘Mullah Omar condemns this act. Mullah Omar says Osama is not responsible. We have brought peace to this country and we […]
9/11/2001
“Osama was in Kandahar [Afghanistan] on September 11 [2001] and gathered some of his closest lieutenants together to watch the plot unfold on television. Apparently he alone anticipated the magnitude of the destruction, perhaps because of his work in construction for his father, although he was surprised at the total collapse of the two towers.” […]