Responsibility for the September 11 attacks

This article is about the people behind the attacks organizationally. For the 19 men who physically carried out the attacks, see Hijackers in the September 11 attacks.

At around 9:30 pm on September 11, 2001, George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told President George W. Bush and U.S. senior officials that the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had determined that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the September 11 attacks.[1] Two weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation connected the hijackers to al-Qaeda,[2] a militant Salafist Islamist multi-national organization. In a number of video, audio, interview and printed statements, senior members of al-Qaeda have also asserted responsibility for organizing the September 11 attacks.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Jacobsen, Annie (2019). Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. New York: Little, Brown and Company. p. 273. That night, around 9:30 [...] Tenet told the president and his inner circle that the Counterterrorist Center had identified Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda as being behind the attacks
  2. ^ Wright, Lawrence (2006). The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Alfred P. Knopf. pp. 362–367. Abu Jandal conceded that he knew Shehhi and gave his Qaeda name, Abdullah al-Sharqi. He did the same with Mohammed Atta, Khaled al-Mihdhar, and four others
  3. ^ Fouda, Yosri & Nick Fielding (2003). Masterminds of Terror. Arcade Publishing. pp. 113–116.
  4. ^ "Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 29, 2004. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2008.
  5. ^ "The self-portrait of an al-Qaeda leader". The Christian Science Monitor. March 16, 2007. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2008.