As detailed in The San Francisco Chronicle on April 5, 2001, “Condoleezza Rice, director of the National Security Council–the supreme body overseeing all intelligence agencies–spent nine years at Chevron. She was a director of the oil giant from 1991 to 2000, and often dealt with issues concerning Central Asia.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, […]
4/5/2001
“Speaking at a news conference in Prague [Czech Republic], the Czech interior minister, Stanislav Gross, said that [future 9/11 hijacker Mohammed] Atta met [Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-] Ani, an Iraqi diplomat identified by Czech authorities as an intelligence officer, in early April [2001].” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
4/3/2001
“In an article on April 3, 2001, the Wall Street Journal reported that the [Bush] administration had deliberately decided to play down bin Laden’s role [in the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole] by not mentioning him in public: ‘U.S. counterterrorism officials believe they inflated Mr. bin Laden’s power and prestige in recent years […]
4/2/2001
“Abu Khabab, al Qaeda’s WMD chief, singled out Uzbekistan–a country on Afghanistan’s northern border that was formerly part of the Soviet Union–as a possible source of materials for his chemical weapons program. This is an extract from an order he wrote on April 2, 2001, in a document recovered near Jalalabad. ‘Obtain the liquid and […]
4/1/2001
“On April 1 [2001], a Chinese F-8 fighter jet intercepted a U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea, forcing it to land on China’s Hainan Island with its twenty-four-man crew taken prisoner by the Chinese government. After initial harsh demands for the immediate return of the crew and the sophisticated $80 million aircraft, […]
4/1/2001
On April 1, 2001, future 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi was pulled over for speeding in Oklahoma. According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper C.L. Parkins: ” ‘We did our normal checks–check to see if the vehicle’s stolen, check to see if he’s wanted, if his driver’s license status is valid–try and see if there’s anything we […]
4/1/2001
“Between April 1, 2001 and September 11, 2001, as many as 105 daily intelligence summaries were produced by the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] for airline industry leaders. These reports were based on information received from the intelligence community. Almost half of these mentioned al-Qa’ida, Usama bin Ladin, or both.” – George Tenet with Bill Harlow, […]
3/27/2001
“In March [27] 2001, the United Nations issued a list of the fourteen worst massacres in Afghanistan between May 1997 and February 2001–thirteen were ascribed to the Taliban. According to a UN observer at that time, the abuses were systematic and repeated, and each followed Taliban attempts to consolidate control over northern and central Afghanistan.” […]
3/26/2001
In the New Republic on March 26, 2001, the State Department’s director of policy planning, Richard Haass wrote: ” ‘even though the world would be far better off without Saddam, making his ouster an explicit goal would also be wrong.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 69 […]
3/25/2001
“In [late] March 2001, after the United Nations had passed a half dozen resolutions demanding that [Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad] Omar turn over Osama, he again refused: ‘Half of my country has been destroyed by two decades of war. If the remaining half is also destroyed in trying to protect Mr. bin Laden, I am […]