At around 9:30 pm on September 11, 2001, George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told President George W. Bush and U.S. senior officials that the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had d
Aftermath of the bomb detonation on the World Trade Center in 1993
September 14, 2001– "The Pile", Manhattan
September 17, 2001 – a small portion of the area where the World Trade Center collapsed following the September 11 attacks
Anwar al-Awlaki
2004 Osama bin Laden video
Videos
On October 29, 2004, Al Jazeera broadcast a video statement of Osama bin Laden, then-leader of the militant organization al-Qaeda, to the people of the United States. This was the first time he unambi
Responsibility for the September 11 attacks
…ruled out. The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion. Although he denied involvement in the attacks at first, Osama bin Laden claimed full responsibility in a 2004 video. Author Laurie Mylroie, writing in the conservative political magazine The American Spectator in 2006, argued that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his family…
Bin Laden
George W. Bush
John Kerry
U.S. Marines offloading supplies and equipment in Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanon War