In April 2001, Nick Lemann of The New Yorker interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney wrote: “…Lemann asked me what we could do to reduce those [terrorist] threats [to the country]. I answered, ‘You need to have very robust intelligence capability if you’re going to uncover threats to the U.S., and hopefully thwart them before […]
4/15/2001
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney wrote: “In April 2001, when Nick Lemann of the New Yorker magazine asked me about the nature of the threat facing the United States, I said, ‘I think we have to be more concerned than we ever have about so-called homeland defense, the vulnerability of our system to different kinds of […]
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“In April 2001, the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] funded the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, headed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, to hold a three-day International Deoband Conference near Peshawar [Pakistan]. (The Deobandi are a sect of Sunni Islam, among whose adherents are the Taliban and Pakistani extremists who believe in active jihad.) Hundreds of thousands of people attended […]
4/15/2001
The following exchange between counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz took place at a ‘high-level’ meeting on terrorism held in April 2001: ” ‘Wolfowitz: Well, I just don’t understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden. Clarke: We are talking about a network of terrorist […]
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In April 2001, former senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Warren Rudman (R-NH) “testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology. Hart warned, ‘The prospect of mass casualty terrorism on American soil is growing sharply’ and said the nation must embrace ‘homeland security as a primary national security mission.’ ” [The 15th of […]
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“The Czech interior minister said today [October 27, 2001] that an Iraqi intelligence officer [Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani] met with Mohammed Atta…[in April 2001] just five months before the synchronized hijackings and mass killings were carried out. The official confirmation of the meeting, the details of which remain a mystery, does not amount to […]
4/15/2001
According to the April 2001 report, ‘Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,’ which was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney: ” ‘Iraq remains a destabilizing influence…to the flow of oil to international markets from […]
4/15/2001
Lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed “Atta, it was alleged [by the Interior Ministry of the Czech Republic], had even tried to enter Prague in the summer of 2000 but had been turned away because he did not have a valid visa. The Czechs were now reporting that, having acquired the proper travel documentation, Atta had returned […]
4/15/2001
“Iraq’s role in September 11 is still a question mark. There are signs that Baghdad was involved. A key indicator was the meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2001, between al Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Atta, the key figure in the September 11 attacks, and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the second secretary of the […]
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“By April [2001] State Department diplomats believed Pakistan simply did not intend to cut off aid to the Taliban.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 565 […]