“A study commissioned by [CIA Counterterrorist Center director Cofer] Black and presented to a CIA conference on September 16, 1999, concluded that the Counterterrorist Center could not carry out its more ambitious plans against al Qaeda without more money and people.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 458 […]
9/16/1999
“On September 16 [1999], Abu Hajer, one of Bin Ladin’s deputies in Sudan and the head of his computer operations and weapons procurement, was arrested in Germany. He was the most important Bin Ladin lieutenant captured thus far.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 127 […]
9/15/1999
An interagency government report released in September 1999, titled ‘The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why,’ was ordered by the CIA and prepared by the Library of Congress. It read, “If ‘Iraq’s Saddam Hussein decide[s] to use terrorists to attack the continental United States [he] would likely turn to bin […]
9/15/1999
An interagency government report titled ‘The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why,’ was ordered by the CIA and prepared by the Library of Congress. Released in September 1999, it read: ” ‘Al Qaeda’s expected retaliation for the U.S. cruise missile attack against al Qaeda’s training facilities in Afghanistan on August […]
9/15/1999
In September 1999, a report prepared by the Library of Congress for the National Intelligence Council said: “Osama bin Laden’s terrorists could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon. ‘Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida’s Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, […]
9/15/1999
“In [September 15] 1999, the US Commission on National Security for the 21st Century concluded that ‘America will be attacked by terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, and Americans will die on American soil, possibly in large numbers.’ ” – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?, Page 12 […]
9/13/1999
“Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison [R-TX] expressed a common but mistaken view when she wrote a few years ago [in The Washington Post on September 13, 1999] that ‘a superpower is more credible and effective when it remains a measured distance from all regional conflicts.’ “ – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over […]
8/30/1999
According to The Washington Post on August 30, 1999, U.S. Brigadier General William Looney said, regarding the continuous bombing of Iraq: ” ‘We own their airspace… We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there […]
8/15/1999
“The U.S. intelligence community was so aware of the ties among [WTC bomber] Ramzi Yousef, [militant Islamist] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman, and Osama bin Laden that by August 1999 the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center (DIAC) at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington had produced a link chart showing a direct relationship between Yousef’s 1993 WTC […]
8/10/1999
On August 10, 1999, “Washington freezes assets of Taliban airline Ariana in the USA because of its links to Bin Laden.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 264 […]