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Authors: James Bamford

Tags: #History, #Military, #United States

Tepper, Rick

Thailand, tracking of terrorists in

Thielmann, Gregory

Turner, Hugh

Turner, Stansfield

 

Ullman, Harlan

United Airlines Flight 93; order to shoot down

United Airlines Flight 175

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Nations: Iraq weapons inspectors; NSA spying on; Powell speech; Security Council votes on Iraq War

United States: Buffalo, terrorists in; Israel, lobbyists and policy makers; Israel, support of and terrorist attacks; military command, on 9/11; national defense on 9/11; secret military and government locations; shadow government plans; terrorists operating in

U.S. Custom

U.S. Embassy bombings; intelligence failure an

U.S. State Department: Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR); Chalabi opposed by; names of plotters given to, 8/26/01; Office of Counter Terrorism; TIPOFF; Worldwide Caution, summer, 2001

U.S. Strategic Command

USS
Cole
bombing

USS
The Sullivans

Uzbekistan

 

Vickers, Robert D.

 

Washington’s Dulles International Airport: AAL 77 hijacking; hijackers and security at

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD); aluminum tube story; CIA pressured for evidence; lack of evidence in Iraq; Niger uranium sale; as pretext for Iraq war WMD; UN weapons inspections; war promoted on basis of imminent threat

White House Iraq Group (WHIG); Hussein’s nuclear threat and; leaks to reporters; meeting attendees; Powell’s UN presentation and

Wilkinson, James R.

Wilson, Joseph

Wilson, Valerie E. Plame

Winfield, Brig. Gen. W. Montague

Wohlstetter, Albert J.

Wolfowitz, Paul; as advisor to Bush; Chalabi support,; dissertation on nuclear proliferation in the Middle East; 9/11 as pretext for preemptive war

Woodward, Michael

Woolsey, James

World Trade Center: air rescue attempts; businesses in; bombing, 1993; casualties; media coverage, ; number of occupants, both towers; reports from occupants; targeted by Islamic terrorists in 1990s; Tower One; Tower Two; video images; Windows on the World; witnesses

Wurmser, David; Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group

Wurmser, Meryav

 

Yemen 9/11 clue, NSA intercept of al Qaeda phone call; al Qaeda safe house in

Yousef, Ramzi

 

Al-Zahawiah, Wissam

Zammar, Mohammed Haydar

Al-Zawahiri, Ayman

Zell, L. Marc

Zinni, Gen. Anthony C.

Zinser, Adolfo Aguilar

Zubaydah, Abu

 

ALSO BY JAMES BAMFORD

 

Body of Secrets

The Puzzle Palace

 

 

 

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