“In the reporting after the [9/11] attacks, the government acknowledged that the CIA had notified the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Services] on August 21 [2001] that two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, should be put on the terrorist watch list. Both had been identified on a surveillance tape meeting with an al-Qaeda […]
8/21/2001
“The FBI had learned that Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi who had been chief of operations for Al Qaeda since 1996 and was in charge of training thousands of Muslim terrorists, was in touch with a Middle Eastern student at a flight school in Arizona. That alarming piece of information, however, was never forwarded to the […]
8/21/2001
After making an unsuccessful warrant request to search potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui’s laptop, FBI Agent and general counsel in the Minneapolis field office, Coleen Rowley, sent an email to FBI headquarters on August 21, 2001, “saying it was ‘imperative’ that the Secret Service be warned that unknown terrorists working with Moussaoui might try to hijack […]
8/19/2001
“An FBI field agent e-mailed his supervisors on August 19, 2001, that flight-school attendee Zacarias Moussaoui was ‘an Islamic extremist preparing for some future act in furtherance of radical fundamentalist goals.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 179 […]
8/18/2001
On August 18, 2001, two days after potential terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was detained by the FBI in Minnesota, “the [Minneapolis] field office applied, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for a warrant that would have allowed the agents to examine his notebook computer. FBI headquarters, however, blocked the application for the warrant, concluding that there […]
8/17/2001
“On August 17 [2001], agents in Minneapolis sent a detailed memo to FBI headquarters describing [potential terrorist Zacarias] Moussaoui and his roommate Hussein al-Attas. The memo stated that the office had reason to believe Moussaoui, al-Attas, ‘and others yet unknown’ were conspiring to seize control of an airplane. When Moussaoui refused to let agents search […]
8/17/2001
In an August 17, 2001, letter to New York Times reporter John Burns, journalist Peter Bergen described the details of a recently released bin Laden tape: “Clearly, al-Qaeda was and is planning something. No one has thought to put the videotape in the context of al-Qaeda’s modus operandi which is to subtly indicate a plot […]
8/17/2001
“…French intelligence had warned the FBI about the terrorist connections and on-going flight training in the United States of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called ’20th hijacker’ who was arrested on a visa violation in Minnesota on August 17, 2001.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page xv […]
8/16/2001
“Police in Minnesota had arrested [potential terrorist] Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16 [2001], 26 days before the attack. Moussaoui had come from London and had violated visa regulations for entering the country. His flight instructor had raised a red flag about him because he was interested only in practicing turns, not takeoffs or landings.” Although […]
8/16/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “A French national, [Zacarias] Moussaoui was arrested on August 16, 2001, by the FBI. …Moussaoui had enrolled in flight school in Minnesota and paid for his training in cash. He was interested in learning to fly 747s, but not in taking off or landing. He was interested to learn […]