ref 350
October 30, 2004
ref 223
June 28, 2004
ref 254
June 19, 2004
ref 204
June 18, 2004
ref 219
June 9, 2004
ref 31
June 1, 2004
ref 103
February 24, 2004
ref 251
October 1, 2003
ref 110
March 8, 2003
ref 304
March 1, 2002
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| 1 | Transcript of bin Laden's speech | archived: ref 350 |
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| Aljazeera.net October 30, 2004 |
Following is the English‹transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a videotape aired by Aljazeera on Friday 29 October. In the interests of authenticity the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot of the screen, has been left unedited. | |||||
| 2 | Who Was Really In Charge? | archived: ref 223 |
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| Newsweek June 28, 2004 |
But the question of Cheney's behavior that day is one of many new issues raised in the remarkably detailed, chilling account laid out in dramatic presentations by the 9-11 Commission. NEWSWEEK has learned that some on the commission staff were, in fact, highly skeptical of the vice president's account and made their views clearer in an earlier draft of their staff report. According to one knowledgeable source, some staffers "flat out didn't believe the call ever took place." | |||||
| 3 | On 9/11, a Telling Seven-Minute Silence | ref 254 |
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| Washington Post June 19, 2004 |
The staff of the 9/11 Commission this week released a report that summarizes Bush's closed-door testimony about his thoughts as he sat there. "The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis . . . The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening." | |||||
| 4 | Panel Says Chaos in Administration Was Wide on 9/11 | archived: ref 204 |
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| New York Times June 18, 2004 |
The staff report included an exhaustive minute-by-minute re-creation of the morning of the attacks, showing that there had never been a hope of intercepting and shooting down the planes before they hit their targets because of communication gaps between Norad and the F.A.A., which prevented armed fighter jets from being scrambled fast enough. The timeline demonstrated that the last of the four planes had crashed before Mr. Cheney ordered the shoot downs. | |||||
| 5 | TIA [Tampa Int'l Airport] now verifies flight of Saudis | archived: ref 219 |
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| St. Petersburg Times June 9, 2004 |
The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly... TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left. | |||||
| 6 | The Great Escape: 300 Saudis in 55 Planes | archived: ref 31 |
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| New York Times June 1, 2004 |
...new evidence shows that the evacuation involved more than the departure of 142 Saudis on six charter flights that the commission is investigating. According to newly released documents, 160 Saudis left the United States on 55 flights immediately after 9/11 - making a total of about 300 people who left with the apparent approval of the Bush administration, far more than has been reported before. [op-ed] | |||||
| 7 | more saudis exit U.S. after 9/11 than had been reported | ref 103 |
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| Judicial Watch (FOI document) February 24, 2004 |
The documents represent the first admission by the government that the flights occurred at all. Judicial Watch is asking the 9/11 Commission to investigate and reconcile previous contradictory testimony about Saudis being allowed to leave the country. The documents . . . show that 160 Saudis were allowed to leave on 55 commercial flights from airports around the country between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15, 2001. | |||||
| 8 | Saving the Saudis | archived: ref 251 |
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| Vanity Fair October 1, 2003 |
Just days after 9/11, wealthy Saudi Arabians, including members of the bin Laden family, were whisked out of the U.S. on private jets. No one will admit to clearing the flights, and the passengers weren't questioned. Did the Bush family's long relationship with the Saudis make it happen? | |||||
| 9 | Whatever Happened to Bin Laden? | ref 110 |
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| The Progressive Populist March 8, 2003 |
excerpt: In my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, US reporters are simply too afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions that could kill careers: "It's an obscene comparison, but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck," Dan Rather said. Without his makeup, Rather looked drawn, old and defeated in confessing that he too had given in. "It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often." | |||||
| 10 | Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret | archived: ref 304 |
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| Washington Post March 1, 2002 |
After Attacks, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival | |||||