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{{See also|War on Terror}} |
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At 2:40 p.m. in the afternoon of September 11, Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]] was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by senior policy official [[Stephen Cambone]]. "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H." |
At 2:40 p.m. in the afternoon of September 11, Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]] was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by senior policy official [[Stephen Cambone]]. "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H." – meaning Saddam Hussein — "at same time. Not only UBL" (Osama bin Laden), Cambone's notes quoted Rumsfeld as saying. "Need to move swiftly — Near term target needs — go massive — sweep it all up. Things related and not."<ref name="IraqSuspect">{{Cite news|first=Joel |last=Roberts |title=Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11 |date=September 4, 2002 |publisher=CBS News |url =http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml |accessdate=October 7, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Julian |last=Borger |title=Blogger bares Rumsfeld's post 9/11 orders |date=February 24, 2006 |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |url =http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/24/freedomofinformation.september11 |accessdate=October 7, 2009|location=London}}</ref> |
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The [[NATO]] council declared the attacks on the United States were an attack on all NATO nations and, as such, satisfied Article 5 of the NATO charter. This marked the first invocation of Article 5, which had been written during the [[Cold War]] with an attack by the [[Soviet Union]] in mind.<ref>{{cite web|title = Statement by the North Atlantic Council |publisher = NATO |date=September 15, 2001 |url = http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2001/p01-124e.htm |accessdate=September 8, 2006 |quote="Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. / Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security."}}</ref> Australian Prime Minister [[John Howard]] invoked Article IV of the [[ANZUS]] treaty. The Bush administration announced a [[War on Terror]], with the stated goals of bringing bin Laden and al-Qaeda to justice and preventing the emergence of other terrorist networks. These goals would be accomplished by means including economic and military sanctions against states perceived as harboring terrorists, and increasing global surveillance and intelligence sharing. |
The [[NATO]] council declared the attacks on the United States were an attack on all NATO nations and, as such, satisfied Article 5 of the NATO charter. This marked the first invocation of Article 5, which had been written during the [[Cold War]] with an attack by the [[Soviet Union]] in mind.<ref>{{cite web|title = Statement by the North Atlantic Council |publisher = NATO |date=September 15, 2001 |url = http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2001/p01-124e.htm |accessdate=September 8, 2006 |quote="Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. / Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security."}}</ref> Australian Prime Minister [[John Howard]] invoked Article IV of the [[ANZUS]] treaty. The Bush administration announced a [[War on Terror]], with the stated goals of bringing bin Laden and al-Qaeda to justice and preventing the emergence of other terrorist networks. These goals would be accomplished by means including economic and military sanctions against states perceived as harboring terrorists, and increasing global surveillance and intelligence sharing. |
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