In a speech from the White House on September 6, 2006, President Bush said: " '…I'm announcing today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and 11 other terrorists in CIA custody have been transferred to the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. They are being held in the custody of the […]
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9/6/2006
Former President George W. Bush wrote: on September 6, 2006, “I announced that we would transfer [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and thirteen other high-ranking al Qaeda detainees from CIA custody overseas to Guantanamo, where they would face trial under the new tribunals Congress would create.” – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Pages 178-179 […]
9/6/2006
“In a major speech about the war on terror [on September 6, 2006], the president [Bush], for the first time, acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons around the world. He said 14 terror suspects held in them have been moved to Guantanamo Bay–and he’s asking Congress to change the law so they can be […]
9/6/2006
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “The most aggressive interrogation techniques conducted by CIA personnel were applied to only a handful of the worst terrorists on the planet, including people who had planned the 9/11 attacks. …The interrogation of these few individuals was conducted in a precisely monitored, measured way intended to try to prevent […]
9/6/2006
On September 6, 2006, President Bush discussed the high-value detainees transferred to Guantanamo in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. When Bush mentioned that the CIA was no longer interrogating the detainees, “Couric asked Mr. Bush if this is a tacit acknowledgement that the way these detainees were handled was wrong. ‘No. […]
9/6/2006
Regarding the use of torture for obtaining information from suspected terrorists, in a White House announcement on September 6, 2006, President Bush “said such [enhanced interrogation] tactics had led to the capture of top al-Qaeda operatives and had thwarted a number of planned attacks, including plots to strike U.S. Marines in Djibouti, fly planes into […]
9/6/2006
President Bush was interviewed by CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on September 6, 2006. ” ‘One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror,’ Mr. Bush said. ‘I believe it, but the American people have got to understand that a defeat in Iraq, in other words […]
9/5/2006
According to information in a New York Times article on September 5, 2006: “Across Afghanistan, roadside bomb attacks are up by 30 percent and suicide bombings have doubled. The opium harvest this year [2006] reached the highest level ever recorded–an increase of 50 percent from last year, according to the UN’s office on Drugs and […]
9/5/2006
"In September [5] 2006, Pakistan had signed a treaty ceding full control of the FATA's [Federally Administered Tribal Areas] North Waziristan region to Taliban-linked tribal chiefs, creating a kind of Wild West for al Qaeda and the Taliban insurgents attacking the U.S. forces in Afghanistan." – Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, 3 […]
9/5/2006
“The Deputy Defense Secretary [Gordon England] and professional military lawyers prevailed again on September 5, 2006, when he issued a Department of Defense [DOD] Directive setting forth new DOD policy applicable ‘during all armed conflicts, however such conflicts are characterized, and in all other military operations.’ The new DOD Directive, applicable to military personnel and […]