The CIA released a top secret report titled, ‘Update, Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat,’ on January 7, 2000. Regarding the increase in terrorist activity around the millennium change, it noted, in a section titled, ‘What Did We See:’ “-Significantly increased [terrorist] activity. -Clear evidence of planning/preparations for attacks. -The Millennium celebration likely intended to be the ‘kick […]
1/6/2000
Then-CIA Director George Tenet commented on a January 6, 2000, email from a CIA officer, regarding the Malaysia meeting of future 9/11 attackers: “Once we had learned the names of several of the individuals who were attending the Malaysia meeting, CIA should have placed them on a watchlist that might have prevented their entering the […]
1/5/2000
On January 5, 2000, “al Qaeda operatives held a regrouping session in Malaysia. At least two men who became suspects in the Cole bombing were there, including Tawfiq bin Attash, bin Laden’s head bodyguard. From the West Coast of the U.S. where the LA Airport plot had just been blocked, came two men, Khalid al-Midhar […]
1/5/2000
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released a written statement for the Joint Inquiry Committee on October 17, 2002. Regarding surveillance of future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar in early January 2000, it read: “We had at that point the level of detail needed to watchlist him–that is, to nominate him to State Department for refusal […]
1/5/2000
“The FBI believes as many as nine top al Qaeda terrorists attended the [January 5-8, 2000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia] meeting, including Ramzi bin al Shibh, who later boasted to a journalist of his role as ‘coordinator of the Holy Tuesday operation’–the September 11 attacks.” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 4 […]
1/5/2000
On January 5, 2000, future 9/11 Hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar had his Saudi passport secretly photocopied by customs agents in Dubai. His information was sent to the CIA’s Alec Station. “Mihdhar’s Saudi passport contained a valid multi-entry visa for the United States. And his visa application…showed Mihdhar’s destination was New York. Doug Miller, one of three […]
1/5/2000
In early January, 2000, “CIA agents tracked [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al] Mihdhar to Dubai, where he was staying, en route to [an al Qaeda meeting in] Malaysia. They broke into his hotel room and photographed his passport, which reflected that Mihdhar had a multi-entry U.S. visa that would not expire until April 2000. They […]
1/5/2000
“One lesson that the FBI should have learned from the Malaysian summit [of al Qaeda on January 5, 2000] was just how well coordinated al Qaeda was…al Qaeda was a tightly integrated network with directions coming from the top down directly via bin Laden and [second-in-command] Dr. [Ayman] al-Zawahiri. It was an international network capable […]
1/5/2000
“Another top al Qaeda operative at the summit [in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 5, 2000] is Khallad bin Atash, who played a key role in the [African] embassy bombings and will later direct the attack on the U.S.S. Cole with Yemeni Fahad al-Quso. Also present is Riduan Isamuddin, aka Hambali, an Indonesian cleric who […]
1/5/2000
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on January 5, 2000, “a camera captured [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid] al-Midhar meeting with Tawfiq bin Atash, the one-legged chief of security for Osama bin Laden. About a dozen men attended the secret multiday conference. Malaysian intelligence officers delivered copies of the pictures to the CIA within weeks, but inexplicably, the […]