-George W. Bush – Republican president elected* -Richard B. Cheney – Vice President *Because of various election issues in Florida, George W. Bush was not confirmed elected president until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7 to 2 decision in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on Dec. 12, 2000. Gore conceded a day after the […]
12/12/2000
“On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Florida’s electoral votes should go to [Republican candidate George W.] Bush…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Pages 129-130 […]
12/8/2000
9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour “had lived in the United States at various times throughout the 1990s and already had a pilot’s license when he arrived in Afghanistan for training in jihad. When senior al Qaeda leadership discovered that they had a trained pilot in their midst who had also lived in America, Hanjour was recruited […]
12/5/2000
Future 9/11 hijacker Hani “Hanjour arrived in California in early December 2000. He was traveling on a student visa [for a language school in Oakland, which he never attended]…He went instead to southern California, to San Diego, where [fellow hijacker] Nawaf al-Hamzi had been living since his arrival from Malaysia in January [2000].” [The 5th […]
11/25/2000
“On November 25 [2000], he [National Security Advisor Sandy Berger] and [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke told [President Bill] Clinton in writing that the investigators would soon conclude that a cell headed by senior al Qaeda members had carried out the [October 12, 2000 USS Cole] attack. Most of those involved had been trained in bin […]
11/15/2000
“…Halliburton [oil company] inked at least $180 million in deals with the Saudis in November 2000, just after [Vice President-elect] Dick Cheney began collecting a lucrative severance package there.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 200 […]
11/11/2000
“One month after the [USS Cole] attack, on November 11 [2000], Yemeni authorities established the link to al Qaeda. Interrogations of [Fahad al-] Quso and Jamal al Badawi had helped identify the men who provided the operational direction. They were [Tawfiq bin Attash, aka] Khallad and [Abd al Rahim] al Nashiri, both already known to […]
11/7/2000
“On election day, November 7 [2000], Bush’s courtship of Arab Americans pays off, particularly in Florida, where exit polls by the American Muslim Alliance say that more than 90 percent voted for Bush.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 304 […]
11/6/2000
On November 6, 2000, the day before the election, Republican nominee George “Bush told an enthusiastic crowd in Chattanooga, Tennessee: ‘Let me tell you what else I’m worried about, I’m worried about an opponent who uses nation-building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to […]
11/2/2000
From a November 2, 2000, CIA intelligence report on Bin Ladin’s terrorist operations: “Bin Ladin’s organization [al-Qa’ida] is interested in acquiring unconventional weapons–particularly chemical or biological agents–and possesses at least a rudimentary capability to employ them in attacks. In a December 1998 interview, Bin Ladin called the acquisition of these weapons a ‘religious duty’ and […]