“On September 21, 2000, he [bin Laden] issued another fatwa, this one released to Al Jazeera, the Arabic television network, on videotape.” Bin Laden “reminded the Feds of al Qaeda’s loyalty to the spiritual leader of the New York cell–blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whom the Able Danger data miners had clearly linked to al […]
9/15/2000
“After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the F.B.I. discovered that it had been in possession of crucial clues, in Arabic, of videotapes, notebooks and at least one recorded phone call. But no one who knew Arabic listened to them until after the bombing. Still, there was no major effort to hire linguists. In September […]
9/15/2000
“In September 2000 he [Osama bin Laden] urged [9/11 mastermind] KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] to tell [future hijacker Mohammed] Atta to attack immediately to respond to the [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon visit to the holy sites in Jerusalem; Atta told bin Laden he was not ready yet. When bin Laden learned that Sharon, who […]
9/15/2000
Although Defense Intelligence Agency specialist Kie Fallis wrote a warning in September 2000 before the USS Cole bombing noting a terrorist attack was likely in Turkey and the Middle East, “Fallis’s warning was never issued. Intelligence officials worried that too many warnings could lead to ‘overwarning’ and ‘warning fatigue’. …In the case of the USS […]
9/15/2000
“Around the middle of September 2000 a pivotal event took place that was a key indicator to the [USS] Cole bombing–and a signature of future attacks orchestrated by al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden issued a videotape broadcast. …’Every time he put out one of these videotapes it was a signal that action was coming,’ [Defense […]
9/15/2000
“As investigative reporter John Pilger has written [in the New Statesman on December 16, 2002, regarding the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) report issued in September 2000], ‘[PNAC] recommended an increase in arms-spending by $48 billion so that Washington could *fight and win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars.* This has happened. It said […]
9/15/2000
“In September 2000, PNAC [the Project for the New American Century] issued a report that called upon the United States to dominate global resources and, well, the globe. The key to realizing this was ‘some catastrophic and catalyzing event–like a new Pearl Harbor.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
9/15/2000
“In a data run in the late summer [September] of 2000, a new configuration of the Able Danger unit finds an al Qaeda ‘hot spot’ in Aden, Yemen. [Lt. Col. Anthony] Shaffer alerts SOCOM [Special Operations Command], which reportedly alerts the U.S. Central Command. But the threat intelligence reportedly doesn’t get to the skipper of […]
9/15/2000
“It is absolutely clear from the letter and other documents like ‘Rebuilding America’s Defences‘, [sic] which was written in September 2000 and drawn up by the same think-tank backed by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Jeb Bush [the Project for the New American Century], that the [George W.] Bush administration was planning to […]
9/15/2000
“In September [2000], the neoconservative Project for a New American Century [PNAC] releases an influential paper, ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses,’ a blueprint for U.S. global hegemony that urges, among other things, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Those affiliated with the PNAC include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, all of whom will become key members […]