“By the time [vice presidential candidate Dick] Cheney left Halliburton in July 2000, he was earning a salary of $1.3 million and had accumulated stocks and options worth an estimated $44 million.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 272 […]
7/15/2000
“In July [2000], [future 9/11 hijackers] Mr. [Mohamed] Atta and Mr. [Marwan] al-Shehhi enrolled at Huffman Aviation International in Venice, on Florida’s west coast. In October, their friend from Germany, Mr. [Ziad] Jarrahi, began attending another Venice flight school, Florida Flight Training Center. Across the country in San Diego, two Arab men, Nawaq Alhamzi and […]
7/15/2000
“The Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported in July 2000 that Saudi Arabia was sending 150,000 barrels of oil per day virtually free of cost to Pakistan. Such supplies, currently valued at $3.2 billion annually, continue.” [The 15th of the month used for date-sorting purposes only.] – G. Parthasarathy, “The Saudi-Pakistan Nexus; Only Jehadis have Gained,” The […]
7/15/2000
“In July 2000 Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, the bible of the international petroleum industry, reported that Saudi Arabia was sending as many as 150,000 barrels of oil a day to Afghanistan and Pakistan in off-the-books foreign aid. This tactic–sending free oil in lieu of cash–was an established Saudi precedent.” [The 15th of the month used for […]
7/15/2000
“At Huffman Aviation in Venice [Florida], they [future 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi] plunked down $10,000 each to begin a four-month training program on July 15 [2000].” – John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell, The Cell, Page 273 […]
6/15/2000
The National Commission on Terrorism, chaired by L. Paul Bremer, sent a report to President Bill Clinton in June 2000 which “predicted mass-casualty terror attacks on the American homeland ‘on the scale of Pearl Harbor.’ As with most such panels, our recommendations had been largely ignored until the attacks of September 11, 2001, proved our […]
6/15/2000
“In early 2000 bin Laden personally recruited the [9/11] plot’s tactical leader, Mohammed Atta, in Afghanistan. Atta was an Egyptian architect studying in Hamburg, Germany, who came to Kandahar with several colleagues to join al Qaeda. …Bin Laden made him the emir of the Manhattan Raid and dispatched him back to Germany to learn to […]
6/15/2000
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “We knew plenty of countries that were working on WMD programs and desperately trying to conceal that fact. But we had no previous experience with a country that did not possess such weapons but pretended that it did. Saddam made a speech in June 2000 in which he said […]
6/12/2000
“In his speech [on June 12, 2000], Saddam said emphatically, ‘If the world tells us to abandon all our weapons and keep only swords, we will do that. We will destroy all the weapons, if they destroy their weapons. But if they keep a rifle and then tell me that I have the right to […]
6/10/2000
“On June 10 [2000], [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al] Mihdhar exposed the planes [as missiles] operation to potential compromise when he flew home, unannounced, to visit his family in Yemen. KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who oversaw the 9/11 plot] was outraged by this undisciplined act, and sought to drop Mihdhar from the planes operation, but […]