“…a second anthrax-laced letter, addressed to Senator Patrick Leahy [D-VT], had been intercepted by investigators on November 16, 2001.” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 185 […]
11/15/2001
From “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “51. In November 2001, the [UK] JIC [UK Joint Intellegence Committee] assessed that Iraq had played no role in 9/11 attacks on the US and that practical co-operation between Iraq and Al Qaida was ‘unlikely’. There was no ‘credible evidence of covert transfers of WMD-related technology […]
11/15/2001
In an article in the November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, regarding the response to the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘This is a new kind of war, a new kind of battlefield, and the United States will need the help of Arab and Muslim countries,’ …The Palestinian issue, he added, […]
11/15/2001
From the Chilcot inquiry, the British public inquiry into their involvement in the war in Iraq: “For the first time, the inquiry yesterday [January 19, 2011] released evidence from MI6 [UK’s foreign intelligence service] officers spelling out their warnings, as early as November 2001 as the Bush administration was already preparing for war, of the […]
11/15/2001
According to author Rohan Gunaratna’s interview with an Al Qaeda member in November 2001: “Al Qaeda believes that until US troops are ejected from Saudi Arabia, Muslim society will be ‘living a life of sin.’ As one fighter put it, ‘Until the US troops are removed from all lands of the Muslims, no Muslim is […]
11/15/2001
On November 15, 2001, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo sent a memo to Senior Associate Counsel John Bellinger, titled, ‘Authority of the President to Suspend Certain Provisions of the ABM Treaty.’ In reference to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty with the USSR, Yoo wrote that the President had the constitutional power to terminate and […]
11/15/2001
In November 2001, al-Qaeda military commander Mohammed “Atef was killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike. Atef, a former Egyptian policeman, was one of the most hard-line members of al-Qaeda. …The loss of al-Qaeda’s military commander was a blow to the organization, since it was Atef who had performed as bin Laden’s chief executive officer, […]
11/15/2001
“In November 2001, President Bush issued a skeletal order, under his authority as commander in chief and the power given to him by Congress in the AUMF [Authorization for Use of Military Force], that military commissions would be used to try only non-U.S. citizens involved with al Qaeda or other terror groups that threatened the […]
11/15/2001
“During the November 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, CIA Predator drones attacked a high-level al Qaeda meeting in Kabul, missing Osama bin Laden but killing his military chief, Mohammed Atef.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 49 […]
11/15/2001
“Mohammed Atef, the terrorist network’s [al Qaeda’s] chief of operations, had been killed in Afghanistan (in November 2001)…” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – James Risen, State of War, Pages 21-22 […]