“In late October 2000, in an ironic precursor of things to come, the Department of Defense conducted a mass casualty (MASCAL) exercise simulating the impact of a plane hitting the Pentagon.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 400 […]
10/23/2000
On October 23, 2000, eleven days after the USS Cole was bombed, “the American Muslim Political Coordination Council…announced its endorsement of George W. Bush. The head of the group, Agha Saeed, explained why: ‘Governor Bush took the initiative to meet with local and national representatives of the Muslim community. He also promised to address Muslim […]
10/20/2000
On October 20, 2000, “Ali Mohamed, a senior Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist who began working for bin Laden in 1991, pleaded guilty to several terrorism-related charges, including helping to plan the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He received a reduced sentence for cooperating with American authorities. ‘I was aware of certain contacts between […]
10/20/2000
“On October 20, 2000, [al Qaeda double agent] Ali Mohammed rendered a guilty plea to all charges filed against him. In his admission, Mohammed admitted his involvement with both the Al-Qaeda organization and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. He admitted that he had been involved in conducting military and explosives training for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; […]
10/20/2000
On October 20, 2000, “Sergeant Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian-born volunteer from the ranks of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, confessed in federal court in Manhattan that he and senior bin Laden operatives met with [Hezbollah leader Imad] Mughniyah to discuss operational procedures and joint missions between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda. Sergeant Mohamed pled guilty to participating […]
10/20/2000
On October 20, 2000, “After almost two years of protracted negotiations with the Feds, Ali Mohamed finally pleads guilty and admits his role as al Qaeda’s top U.S. spy. Though he confesses to planning and supporting the [African] embassy bombing plot, he is spared the death penalty. His plea deal, which remains under heavy seal, […]
10/20/2000
On October 20, 2000, al Qaeda double agent Ali Mohamed appeared in a Federal District courtroom in Lower Manhattan. “He pleaded guilty five times, admitting to his involvement in plots to kill U.S. soldiers in Somalia and Saudi Arabia, U.S. ambassadors in Africa, and American civilians ‘anywhere in the world.’ The goal of the al […]
10/19/2000
” ‘Bin Laden has become a pan-Arab hero,’ Egyptian Islamist lawyer Muntasir al-Zayyat has said [in the October 19, 2000 edition of Al-Hayah], ‘because the Arab and Muslim people are yearning to [sic – for?] any voice that says no to the United States.’ Bin Laden is attempting to repel what he views as Christian […]
10/18/2000
On October 18, 2000, “Bin Laden issued a statement in Pakistan’s Jang newspaper that was apparently issued from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban’s headquarters. ‘I am not afraid of the American threats against me,’ he said. ‘As long as I am alive there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will […]
10/15/2000
“Beginning in October 2000, as a result of extremely sloppy and questionable work by the FBI, the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] court ordered the wall between the FBI’s criminal investigators and the NSA’s [National Security Agency’s] eavesdroppers heightened considerably. The court found errors in approximately one hundred applications for FISA warrants, mostly in affidavits […]