From a British report on October 4, 2001, titled, ‘Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States, 11 September 2001:’ “In June 2001, in the face of mounting evidence of the Al Qaeda threat, the United States warned the Taliban that it had the right to defend itself and that it would hold the […]
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“As recently as this summer [June 2001], in a tape that was widely disseminated, Osama bin Laden…described the cleric [Day of Terror conspirator Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman] as ‘a hostage in an American jail.’ He added, ‘We hear he is sick, and that the Americans are treating him badly.’ Then, addressing his followers, he shifted into […]
6/15/2001
“Fox News has reported many examples of ‘missed leads’ that the Bush administration was given prior to Sept. 11. …German intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain’s MI-6 intelligence service, Israel’s Mossad in June 2001 that Middle Eastern terrorists were training for hijackings and targeting American and Israeli interests.” [The 15th of the month used for […]
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After picking up warnings that an al Qaeda attack was imminent, “CIA head George Tenet was frantically trying to communicate the same [terrorism] warnings in June and July 2001 to [President] Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and that he was blown off.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
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“…if a twenty-year-old Islamic convert from California, John Walker Lindh, was able to join the Taliban [in June 2001], why is it that the CIA did not have a single agent or case officer working inside Afghanistan, let alone in the Taliban, or in al Qaeda?” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
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” ‘Sunni extremists associated with al Qaeda are most likely to attempt spectacular attacks resulting in numerous casualties,’ warned a classified threat advisory issued in June [2001] by the Intelligence Community Counterterrorism Board. It mentioned Italy, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula as the most likely targets.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
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“In June [2001], only 18 out of 298 classified Senior Executive Intelligence Briefs sent to Bush administration officials referred to bin Laden or al Qaeda.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 568 […]
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During a videotaping in June 2001, Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud spoke with his Washington advocate and lobbyist Otilie English. “The Arabs and the Pakistani Taliban were the key to the war’s outcome, he [Massoud] continued. ‘It is a totally separate story whether Osama is a popular figure outside Afghanistan or not, but inside […]
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“He [FBI Director Thomas Pickard] gave [Attorney General John] Ashcroft the first of his weekly briefings in June [2001]. Before the meeting, Pickard sent an agenda to Ashcroft’s office of the issues to be discussed. Terrorism was the number one item on the list… Ashcroft listened, but he seemed far more intrigued by other items […]
6/15/2001
“It is clear that [American-born al Qaeda member John Walker] Lindh was able to acquire information on bin Laden’s future plots. At one point in June [2001], Walker Lindh was told by one of his instructors that ‘bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United […]