“During the [2000 presidential] campaign, vice presidential candidate [Dick] Cheney also defended the decision during the 1991 [Gulf] war to not attack Baghdad. The United States, he said during an [August 27, 2000] interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, should not act as though ‘we were an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that […]
8/20/2000
On August 20, 2000, “bin Laden told an interviewer Afghanistan was a good place to raise his family. ‘It is my desire,’ he said, ‘that my children grow up in an atmosphere of jihad and absorb Islam in its true spirit. Believe me, when your children and your wife become part of your struggle, life […]
8/15/2000
After the fall of the Taliban, six videotapes were found in Afghanistan which feature al Qaeda theoretician Abu Mousab al Suri presenting before a class. One tape, dated August 2000, features a ‘List of Targets:’ ” ‘1. Missionary Centers and Cultural Missions because they manufacture enemies [of Islam] and secularism. 2. Companies, mines, engineers and […]
8/15/2000
“In an August 2000 report to Congress, the CIA said that Iraq was continuing to rebuild former dual-use chemical and biological plants, including one that Iraq claimed was making castor oil for brake fluid. Castor beans also contain ricin, a toxic biological agent, and in the same report, the CIA warned that Iraq was also […]
8/15/2000
“Six videotapes, recovered in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban dated August 2000, show [al Qaeda theoretician Abu Mousab] al Suri in front of a white board addressing a class. …With a world map behind him Suri says 80 percent of the petroleum is in the Muslim world. He charges the West keeps the […]
8/15/2000
“The Italian counter-terrorism police had recorded a conversation in the summer [August] of 2000 in which a Yemeni sheik described what sounded like the plans for September 11, saying an attack was planned that would be ‘one of those strikes that you never forget …[a] terrifying thing, it will move from south to north, from […]
8/15/2000
“[I]n an unclassified report to Congress published in August 2000, the CIA stated: ‘We assess that since the suspension of UN inspections in December of 1998, Baghdad has had the capability to reinitiate both its CW [chemical weapons] and BW [biological weapons] programs within a few weeks to months, but without an inspection monitoring program, […]
8/12/2000
“Italian authorities recorded a series of conversations between two al Qaeda operatives–an Egyptian cell leader in Milan named Es Sayed and a Yemeni sheik known as al Hilal–that seemed to forecast the September 11 attacks. ‘I’ve been studying airplanes,’ al Hilal told Es Sayed on August 12 [2000], just after al Hilal arrived at the […]
8/10/2000
On August 10, 2000, “the tribals [in southern Afghanistan] reported an attempt to ambush Bin Ladin’s convoy as he traveled on the road between Kabul and Kandahar city–their first such reported interdiction attempt in more than a year and a half…According to the tribals’ own account, when they approached one of the vehicles, they quickly […]
8/9/2000
“In a follow-up report [officially published on August 9, 2000], the CIA wrote: ‘In 1995, Iraq admitted to having an offensive BW [biological weapons] program and submitted the first in a series of Full, Final, and Complete Disclosures (FFCDs) that were supposed to reveal the full scope of its BW program. According to UNSCOM [UN […]