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Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11 |
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McClatchy Newspapers
Jonathan S. Landay` & Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott
October 2, 2006 |
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. . . . Former CIA Director George Tenet gave the independent Sept. 11, 2001, commission the same briefing on Jan. 28, 2004, but the commission made no mention of the warning in its 428-page final report. |
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Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11? |
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CNN 360 (TV transcript)
Anderson Cooper
November 10, 2004 |
360 next, 9/11 conspiracy theory. You may have seen the ads. Tonight, meet
the millionaire behind them and find out if anything what the truth is, if
anything.
New ads, question what really happened on 9/11. Why did Building 7
collapse? Tonight, the real facts behind the ads and the conspiracy
theory. |
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The Unknown: The C.I.A. and the Pentagon take another look at Al Qaeda and Iraq. |
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New Yorker
Jeffrey Goldberg
February 10, 2003 |
In the ideological taxonomy of the Bush Administration, the C.I.A., because it has long downplayed the theory of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection, has been regarded as being on the side of the doves. The hawks have accused the C.I.A. of politicizing the intelligence process by dismissing information that would substantiate the connection€and in that way strengthen the Administration's case against Iraq |
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Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11 |
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CBSnews.com
David Martin
September 4, 2002 |
With the intelligence all pointing toward bin Laden, Rumsfeld ordered the military to begin working on strike plans. And at 2:40 p.m., the notes quote Rumsfeld as saying he wanted "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H." “ meaning Saddam Hussein “ "at same time. Not only UBL" “ the initials used to identify Osama bin Laden.
Now, nearly one year later, there is still very little evidence Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. But if these notes are accurate, that didn't matter to Rumsfeld.
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America's Chaotic Road to War |
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Washington Post
Dan Balz & Bob Woodward
January 27, 2002 |
Although al Qaeda's home base was Afghanistan, the terrorist organization operated nearly worldwide, he said. The CIA had been working the bin Laden problem for years. We have a 60-country problem, he told the group.
"Let's pick them off one at a time," Bush replied. |
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AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 (passenger list) |
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CNN.com
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January 0, 2002 |
"American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard." |
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Pentagon attack (list of fatalities) |
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CNN.com
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January 0, 2002 |
The Department of Defense reports a total of 125 service members, employees and contract workers died in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon building. An additional 64 people died aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the west side of the building. |
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On Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked' |
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Washington Post
Marc Fisher & Don Phillips
September 12, 2001 |
But just as the plane seemed to be on a suicide mission into the White House, the unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver. The plane circled 270 degrees to the right to approach the Pentagon from the west, whereupon Flight 77 fell below radar level, vanishing from controllers' screens, the sources said.
Less than an hour after two other jets demolished the World Trade Center in Manhattan, Flight 77 carved a hole in the nation's defense headquarters, a hole five stories high and 200 feet wide. |
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Plane crashes into Pentagon; troops deployed in response to apparent terrorist attack |
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AP
Tom Raum
September 11, 2001 |
Authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry, in response to an attack for which they said there had been no advance warning.
Officials said two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and one lawmaker, Rep. James Moran, D- Va., said after a Marine Corps briefing that "it was apparently intended to Camp David," the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland.
The military denied shooting it down. "We have not shot down any aircraft," Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, who oversees the defense of continental U.S. airspace from NORAD, said in a statement. |
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Terrorist Attack Update |
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September 11, 2001 |
Away from the Pentagon, unexplained explosions were reported in the vicinity of the State Department and the Capitol. Agents with automatic weapons patrolled the White House grounds. |
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