On July 10, 2001, “An FBI agent in the Phoenix field office [Kenneth Williams] sent a memo to FBI headquarters and to two agents on international terrorism squads in the New York Field Office, advising of the ‘possibility of a coordinated effort by Usama Bin Ladin’ to send students to the United States to attend […]
7/10/2001
“Special Agent Ken Williams would eventually go down in history as the man who wrote the infamous ‘Phoenix Memo,’ suggesting that the FBI monitor flight schools for suspicious Middle Eastern pilots. He sent the memo to Bureau headquarters and the New York office on July 10, 2001…” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page […]
7/9/2001
On July 9, 2001, “Phoenix FBI Agent Ken Williams sent a memo to FBI headquarters. He reportedly identified eight Middle Eastern men studying at Arizona flight schools, and urged that the Bureau do background checks. Williams suggested that the pilots-in-training were associated with a London Islamic group with close ties to Osama bin Laden. The […]
7/6/2001
When asked if he would be discussing the situation in Iraq with the Russian President, Putin, President George W. Bush stated: “We left some — you know, I told him [Putin] I’d stay in touch with him. I want to talk to him about Iraq. So to answer your question, yes, I’m going to talk to […]
7/6/2001
On July 6, 2001, the CIA released an analytic report titled, ‘Expanding Links Between Alien Smugglers and Extremists: Threats to the United States.’ It read: “Though the vast majority of US-bound alien smuggling activity abroad is geared to serve migrants looking for a better life, occasionally such networks abet the movement of extremists, including those […]
7/6/2001
Meeting with members of an unidentified Middle Eastern military on July 6, 2001, Director of the Counterterrorist Center Cofer Black said: ” ‘We know something terrible is going to happen… We don’t know when and we don’t know where. We do know it’s going to be against U.S. interests and it’s going to be big, […]
7/6/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent an email to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on July 6, 2001, which covered details from their meeting on the previous day. “One senior administration official said Mr. Clarke wrote that several agencies, including the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Pentagon, had been directed to develop what the official said […]
7/6/2001
On July 6, 2001 counterterrorism czar Richard “Clarke chairs a meeting of the National Security Council’s Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) and orders a suspension of all nonessential travel by staff.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, (Timeline) Page 30 […]
7/5/2001
” ‘The ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] is totally inflexible, the Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, then working at the National Security Council, told me [journalist Ahmed Rashid] when I visited Washington in the first week of July [5, 2001]. ‘We wanted a joint project with them to change the Taliban leadership, but the ISI backed out. We […]
7/5/2001
“A series of SIGINT [signals intelligence] intercepts produced by NSA [National Security Agency] in early July [2001] allowed American and allied intelligence services to disrupt a series of planned al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret […]