“When the Hamburg [Germany] pilots [Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan el-Shehhi] returned to Florida [from the training camps in Baluchistan, Pakistan] in January [2001] their focus shifted from the general job of learning to fly airplanes to the specifics of preparing for the [9/11] attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
1/15/2001
A week before Bush’s inauguration in January 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney and George Bush attended a secrets briefing delivered by CIA Director George Tenet and Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt. “They told him that bin Laden and his network were a ‘tremendous threat’ which was ‘immediate.’ There was no doubt […]
1/15/2001
President-elect George W. Bush received a national security briefing by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen on January 10, 2001. “Bush received a second critical national security briefing a few days later. CIA Director George Tenet and his deputy for operation, James L. Pavitt, gave Bush, [Vice President Dick] Cheney and [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] […]
1/15/2001
From the 9/11 Commission Report’s list of Operational Opportunities: “January 2001: the CIA does not inform the FBI that a source had identified Khallad, or [a.k.a.] Tawfiq bin Attash, a major figure in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, as having attended the [January 2000] meeting in Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] with [future 9/11 […]
1/14/2001
” ‘His [Osama bin Laden’s] arrest, which we dearly hope for, is only one step along the road of the many things we need to do to eliminate the network of organizations,’ said Richard A. Clarke, the top White House counterterrorism official.” – Stephen Engelberg, “One Man and a Global Web of Violence,” The New […]
1/10/2001
“An editorial in the Washington Post [on January 10, 2001] ten days before [President Bill] Clinton left office noted: ‘Yemeni officials say they have developed substantial evidence that the [October 12, 2000, USS Cole] bombing was ordered by the Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, and financed and coordinated by Muhammad Omar al-Harazi, a bin Laden […]
1/10/2001
“In a report released January 10, 2001, the outgoing U.S. secretary of defense, William S. Cohen, warned that Iraq had rebuilt at least its weapons infrastructure and might have begun covertly producing some chemical or biological agents. A spokesman at the British Foreign Office said they shared the U.S. suspicions (which were not new) regarding […]
1/10/2001
On January 10, 2001, “a Department of Energy advisory group chaired by former Senate majority leader Howard Baker [R-TN] and former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler concluded that the ‘most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable material in Russia could be […]
1/10/2001
“[O]utgoing secretary of defense, William Cohen, released a Pentagon report in January [10] 2001 asserting that Iraq had rebuilt factories used to produce chemical and biological warfare agents.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 33 […]
1/10/2001
“Early in [January 10] 2001, [Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George] Tenet and Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt gave an intelligence briefing to President-elect Bush, Vice President-elect [Dick] Cheney, and [incoming National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice; it included the topic of al Qaeda. Pavitt recalled conveying that Bin Ladin was one of the greatest […]