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9/11 in Historical Perspective: Flawed Assumptions |
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Rep. McKinney 9/11 Congressional Briefing
Peter Dale Scott
August 18, 2005 |
The truth is that for at least two decades the United States has engaged in energetic covert programs to secure U.S. control over the Persian Gulf, and also to open up Central Asia for development by U.S. oil companies. Americans were eager to gain access to the petroleum reserves of the Caspian Basin, which at that time were still estimated to be ìthe largest known reserves of unexploited fuel in the planet.î |
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Administration Freed Terror Suspect |
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AP
John Solomon
June 3, 2004 |
"If the government cannot prosecute terrorism charges, another option is to remove the individual from the United States via deportation. After careful review, this was determined to be the best option available under the law to protect our national security," he said. A Democratic senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee scoffed at that explanation. "It's hard to believe that the best way to deal with the FBI's 27th most wanted terrorist is to send him back to a terrorist-sponsoring country," Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said Wednesday night, claiming the Justice Department could have used a military tribunal or a classified criminal trial. |
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The al-Zawahi Fiasco |
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Asia Times
Pepe Escobar
March 24, 2004 |
What was supposed to be smashed in between was "high-value target" Ayman al-Zawahiri, as Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf enthusiastically bragged - with no hard evidence - to an eager CNN last Thursday. But what happened to this gigantic piece of psy-ops? Nothing. And for a very simple reason: al-Qaeda's brain and Osama bin Laden's deputy was never there in the first place. (SEE ALSO CNN: "Al-Zawahiri Surrounded" on 2004.3.18) |
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Pakistani sources: Al-Zawahiri surrounded |
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CNN
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March 18, 2004 |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani military is continuing to assault al Qaeda troops believed to be protecting a "high-value" leader near the Afghanistan border, Pakistani sources told CNN. (SEE ALSO: ASIA TIMES 2004.3.24 "The al-Zawahi Fiasco" |
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911 Funds came from Pakistan, says FBI |
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Times of India
Manoj Joshi
August 1, 2003 |
A top FBI counter-terrorism official told the US Senate governmental affairs committee on Thursday that investigators have œtraced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan.ÃÃ
John S Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBIÃs counter-terrorism division, however, did not specify how those accounts in Pakistan were funded, or the role of Pakistani elements. The Times of India first reported on October 10, 2001 that India told the US that some $100,000 had been wired to the leader of the hijackers, Mahmud Atta, by British-born terrorist Ahmad Saeed Umar Sheikh. |
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The Twentieth Man |
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New Yorker
Seymour Hersh
September 30, 2002 |
Has the Justice Department mishandled the case against Zacarias Moussaoui? |
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A Decade of Warnings: Did RabbiÃs 1990 Assassination Mark Birth of Islamic Terror in America? |
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ABC News 20/20
John Miller & Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell
August 16, 2002 |
(John Miller's book "The Cell") .... Stone said, "The FBI agents recognized the men from the Cole investigation, but when they asked the CIA what they knew about the men, they were told that they didn't have clearance to share that information. It ended up in a shouting match." |
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Sheltering A Puppet Master? |
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Time
Bruce Crumley
July 7, 2002 |
But senior European intelligence officials tell TIME that Abu Qatada[the alleged the spiritual leader and possible puppet master of al-Qaeda's European networks] is tucked away in a safe house in the north of England, where he and his family are being lodged, fed and clothed by British intelligence services. |
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The Hijackers We Let Escape |
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Newsweek
Michael Isikoff & Daniel Klaidman
June 5, 2002 |
The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to an Al Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11. Inside what may be the worst intelligence failure of all. Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman report. |
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Partnership and Prevention: The FBI's Role in Homeland Security |
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FBI website
Robert S. Mueller
April 19, 2002 |
The hijackers also left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper – either here in the U.S. or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere – that mentioned any aspect of the September 11th plot. The hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no storage media of any kind. They used hundreds of different pay phones and cell phones, often with prepaid calling cards that are extremely difficult to trace. And they made sure that all the money sent to them to fund their attacks was wired in small amounts to avoid detection.
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