“On August 15 [2001], he [head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, Cofer Black] concluded a briefing to the Department of Defense’s Annual Convention on Counterterrorism with the comment, ‘We are going to be struck soon, many Americans are going to die, and it could be in the U.S.’ “ – James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, […]
8/15/2001
Pointing blame towards the ‘wall’ which prevented the sharing of information between counterintelligence and law enforcement officials, presidential advisor Karl Rove wrote: “two of the terrorists who crashed Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11 [Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar] managed to escape FBI detection the previous month [August 2001] because an agent […]
8/15/2001
“In August [2001], aware of the need for vigilance, the C.I.A. issued another report reminding senior policy makers at the White House, Pentagon and State Department that Al Qaeda was still committed to attacking American interests.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – James Risen, “In Hindsight, C.I.A. Sees Flaws […]
8/15/2001
“According to other German investigators, another intercepted phone call also offered vital information of a link… between Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan arrested in August in Minnesota after strange behavior at a flight school, and a [sic] operative in Hamburg who shared an apartment with [lead 9/11 hijacker] Mohamed Atta. …That call, dated to Mr. Zacarias Moussaoui’s […]
8/15/2001
“FBI and CIA officials were advised in August [2001] that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning ‘a major assault on the United States,’ a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday [September 19, 2001]. The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. It cautioned that it had […]
8/15/2001
“Fox News has reported many examples of “missed leads” that the Bush administration was given prior to Sept. 11. …Based on its own intelligence, the Israeli government provided ‘general’ information to the United States in the second week of August [2001] that an Al Qaeda attack was imminent. French intelligence echoed the ‘general’ information in the […]
8/15/2001
“Israeli intelligence services reportedly met with CIA and FBI officials in August [2001] and warned of an imminent large-scale attack on the U.S. There ‘were strong grounds for suspecting Iraqi involvement,’ a senior Israeli official later told London’s Sunday Telegraph [on September 16, 2001].” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
8/15/2001
“The United States received intelligence a month before Sept. 11 [August 2001] that bin Laden’s right-hand man, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, was receiving medical treatment at a clinic in San’a, Yemen… The Bush administration rejected a plan to capture him as officials could not be 100 percent sure the patient was Al-Zawahiri, sources said.” [The 15th of […]
8/15/2001
“[I]n August [2001], the Central Intelligence Agency issued a secret report warning senior policy makers that Al Qaeda, Mr. bin Laden’s network, hoped to launch a strike against the domestic United States. The report combined both new and older intelligence gathered by the C.I.A. and other American intelligence agencies to depict Mr. bin Laden’s long-term […]
8/15/2001
In August 2001, potential hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui raised concerns at his flight school in Egan, Minnesota, “after attempting to rush his flight training, calling his desire to fly a jumbo jet an ‘ego-boosting thing,’ and asking instructors how much damage a hijacker could do flying a fully loaded 747. Fortunately, an alert flight manager…contacted the […]