August 2001 headlines: not ONE mention of Bin Laden or Al Qaeda

[TruthIsAll]

The adults were in charge.

http://bushreport.com/bushreportarchivesaugust01.htm

[ochazuke]

1. Ah, I remember it well.

The new Bush administration foreign policy, listed in order of priority:

Strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense, strategic missile defense.

[jburton]

2. Gary Condit 24/7 n/t

[markses]

3. Here's a bunch, though I did a Lexis search, and so don't have links

1) August 30, 2001 Times of London: US seeks London Algerian 'terrorist'


The American indictment stops short of implicating bin Laden in the Los Angeles airport plot, which was thwarted when Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian, was stopped with explosives in his car as he tried to cross the Canadian-US border shortly before New Year's Day 2000. But the charges marked the first time that the US Government has made a direct link between bin Laden, who is wanted for the bombing of two US embassies in Africa, and the Algerian group behind the so-called millennium plot.

US prosecutors say that Mr Doha met bin Laden in the Taleban-controlled city of Kandahar in December, 1998, to discuss co-operation between his group and the Saudi militant's al-Qaeda organisation.

Ressam, who is co-operating with the authorities in return for a lighter sentence, told investigators that Mr Doha's cell at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan studied plans to bomb various US targets, including airports, consulates and naval vessels.

2) August 29, 2001 New York Daily News: BIN LADEN IN NEW LINK TO L.A. PLOT

A new indictment against a London-based Algerian draws terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden even closer to a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.

The indictment accuses Abu (The Doctor) Doha, who is in custody in London facing extradition to the U.S., of hatching the LAX bomb plot before meeting with Bin Laden in December 1998 in the fugitive Saudi billionaire's hideout in Afghanistan. There, the indictment says, they discussed "cooperation and coordination" between Bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization and a group of Algerian terrorists whose activities Doha coordinated.

The indictment and an earlier complaint accuse Doha of aiding the travel of would-be terrorists to training camps run by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

3) August 29, 2001 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Indictment links Algerian to bin Laden

The indictment filed Monday charges Haydar Abu Doha with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up the airport during celebrations ushering in the year 2000.

The defendant is in custody in London, awaiting extradition to the United States.

The indictment portrays Abu Doha as a key figure in bin Laden's terrorism network, al-Qaeda. Prosecutors allege that in 1998, he met with bin Laden in Afghanistan "to discuss cooperation and coordination between al-Qaeda and a group of Algerian terrorists whose activities Abu Doha coordinated and oversaw."

Abu Doha's name came up during the New York trial of Montreal shopkeeper Mokhtar Haouari, convicted earlier this year of providing support to Ahmed Ressam, a member of Abu Doha's alleged Algerian terrorist cell.

4) (Section A Page 1)August 21, 2001 New York Times: F.B.I.'s Inquiry In Cole Attack Is Nearing Halt (A long article about Yemeni obstructionism in the Cole investigation):

For months Yemeni officials have said the only bin Laden link to the Cole bombing they have uncovered involved Muhammad al-Harazi, a Saudi Arabian citizen of Yemeni parentage who has been identified by the Yemenis as the man who oversaw preparations for the Cole attack, then left Yemen before the bombing.

F.B.I. officials say that Mr. Harazi is now in Afghanistan, and that he has links not only to the Cole bombing but also to the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa, which killed 224 people.

Another sign that Yemen might not be keen to help the bureau link the Cole bombing to Mr. bin Laden emerged earlier this year.

American officials placed full-page announcements in Yemeni newspapers advertising a $5 million State Department reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the Cole attack. But the Telecommunications Ministry changed the telephone numbers given in the announcement -- for the American Embassy here -- twice in one month. Each time, the reward had to be announced afresh in the newspapers, with the new numbers.

4). August 21, 2001 Washington Post: White House Mulls U.N. Action on Sudan; U.S. Concludes Country Has Ended Its Support For Terrorist Group

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etc...there are more, but I just wanted to give you a flavor. Al qaeda was certainly in the news widely at the end of August 2001, as a result of the indictment of Doha in federal court.