From the 9/11 Commission Report’s list of Operational Opportunities: “June 2001: FBI and CIA officials do not ensure that all relevant information regarding the Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia terrorist summit] meeting was shared with the [USS] Cole investigators at the June 11 [2001] meeting.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 356 […]
6/9/2001
On June 9, 2001, FBI Special Agent Robert Wright presented a mission statement to the Bureau. It read: ” ‘Knowing what I know, I can confidently say that until the investigative responsibilities for terrorism are removed from the FBI, I will not feel safe. The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify […]
6/7/2001
On May 29, 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice asked counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke to draft “a national security presidential directive to combat Al Qaeda. Clarke produced a draft by June 7 [2001] that outlined an ambitious, multiyear plan of covert action, diplomacy, law enforcement, financial squeezing, and, if necessary, military action.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, […]
6/4/2001
“Fox News has reported many examples of ‘missed leads’ that the Bush administration was given prior to Sept. 11. …Pakistanis were taken into custody June 4 [2001] in the Cayman Islands after they were overheard discussing hijacking attacks in New York City; they were questioned and released, and the information was forwarded to U.S. intelligence.” – […]
6/4/2001
” ‘What worries me,’ [CIA Counterterrorist Center Director] Black’s deputy told a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee on June 4 [2001], ‘is that we’re on the verge of more attacks that are larger and more deadly.’ ” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 566 […]
6/3/2001
At the White House on June 3, 2001, Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar said: ” ‘the impression the Arab world has now of the United States, the only superpower in this world, isn’t of a just and fair country but as one totally on the side of the Israelis. The United States has to find a […]
5/31/2001
According to a New York Times article on May 31, 2001, ” ‘To listen to some of the news reports a year or two ago,’ said [former CIA officer/deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism, Larry C.] Johnson, ‘you would think bin Laden was running a top Fortune 500 multinational company–people everywhere, links […]
5/30/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet recalled a meeting on May 30, 2001, with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, regarding terrorism: ” ‘How bad do you think it is?’ Condi asked. [Chief of the Counterterrorism Center] Cofer [Black] told her that during the millennium the terrorist threat situation was an ‘eight on a ten scale.’ Right now, […]
5/30/2001
“By May 30, 2001…the four al Qaeda [African] embassy-bombing plotters were found guilty of all 302 counts against them. Convicted of conspiring to kill Americans were Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-‘Owali, twenty-four, of Saudi Arabia, the young driver of the bomb truck who had given up the Yemeni safe house; Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, twenty-seven, of Tanzania; […]
5/30/2001
“Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Wednesday [May 30, 2001] said the conviction in New York of four men for the bombing of U.S. embassies was ‘unfair’ and vowed never to hand over Osama bin Laden, accused by the United States of masterminding the attacks. ‘He is a great holy warrior of Islam and a great benefactor […]