Governments involved in terrorist strikes

Amsterdam, 20 September 2001

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said on the 18th that one or more nations were involved in last weeks attacks. He refused to give evidence for his conclusion. Rumsfeld said: 
"I know a lot, and what I have said as clearly as I know how, is that states are supporting these people."

According to former CIA director James Woolsey the terrorists attack might have been sponsored by Iraq. He said that there is substantial evidence implying that Ramzi Yousef, the convicted '93 WTC bomber, was an Iraqi agent and not only a Pakistani student.

Attorney General John Ashcroft also thinks some governments aided terrorists with the attack.
Therefore the US would strike in various nations.

"It's pretty clear that the networks that conduct these kinds of events are harbored and supported, sustained, protected by a variety of foreign governments. And it's time for those governments to understand with crystal clarity that the United States of America will not tolerate that kind of support for networks that would inflict this kind of damage on the American people," according to Ashcroft.