“After meeting with his national security team on September 12 [2001], [President] Bush said, ‘The American people need to know that we’re facing a different enemy than we have ever faced. This enemy hides in shadows.’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 32 […]
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On September 12, 2001, Australian Prime Minister John “Howard, in a conscious decision to join with the Bush administration early in the war on terror, announced that he was invoking the Australia, New Zealand, and United States Security Treaty (ANZUS). In fact, under ANZUS, Australia and the United States had an agreement that called for […]
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On September 12, 2001, “NATO invoked Article 5 of its charter, declaring the attacks on America to be against all nineteen member-states of the alliance.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 39 […]
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At a meeting of the UN Security Council on September 12, 2001, “A unanimous UN resolution [1368] condemned the [9/11] attacks, describing them as ‘a threat to international peace and security.’ The council expressed its condolences and sympathy to the American people and government and appealed to ‘all states to work together urgently to bring […]
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Following 9/11, “Mainstream media and governments all over the world condemned the attacks. Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Libya, were among them. Iraq, however, did not denounce the terrorists’ actions. In a barbed reaction [on September 12, 2001], the official newspaper, Al-Iraq, described the attacks as ‘a lesson for all tyrants, oppressors and criminals.’ […]
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In a meeting in the Situation Room on the evening of September 12, 2001, “Even though [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke declared that ‘we have looked several times for state sponsorship of al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq,’ [President] Bush insisted that Clarke look again. ‘See if Saddam did this. See if […]
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On September 12, 2001, “the UN Security Council issued a resolution [1368] recognizing the United States’ right of ‘self-defense,’ and found international terrorism to be a threat to ‘international peace and security’–code words in international law justifying the use of military force.” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 14 […]
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Regarding the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘Don’t ever let this happen again,’ President Bush told…[Attorney General] John Ashcroft, during a National Security Council meeting on September 12, 2001.” – Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, Pages 74-75 […]
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“NATO–The alliance declared that the terrorist attacks could be considered an attack on the whole alliance if they were directed from abroad, and invoked Article 5 of the charter, mandating joint defense, for the first time [on September 12, 2001].” – “After the Attack, Reaction From Around the World,” The New York Times, Sep. 13, […]
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“At 10 p.m. on the evening of September 12 [2001], a high-ranking CIA official–according to Newsweek magazine, it was probably CIA Director George Tenet–phoned [Saudi ambassador Prince] Bandar at this home and gave him the bad news: Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 4 […]