Though Guantanamo Bay first took in prisoners on January 11, 2002, “Their very presence at the facility was kept a secret for years because the military would not release the names of detainees until April 2006.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 108 […]
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4/15/2006
From the National Intelligence Estimate of April 2006: ” ‘The Iraq War has become the cause celebre for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]
4/15/2006
“The [Bush] administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate on ‘Trends in Global Terrorism: implications for the United States,’ circulated within the government in April 2006 and partially declassified in October, states that ‘the Iraq War has become the *cause celebre* for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ “ [The 15th of […]
4/15/2006
“…the [April] 2006 National Intelligence Estimate…described the Iraq conflict as ‘the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadists.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 112 […]
4/13/2006
On April 13, 2006, retired Major General “Charles Swannack, who had led the 82nd Airborne when the division was occupying Fallujah and Camp Mercury [Iraq]…complained that [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had ‘micromanaged the generals’ and also bore ‘culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.’ ” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 215 […]
4/11/2006
On April 11, 2006, “In Madrid [Spain], the investigating magistrate Juan del Olmo issued indictments for twenty-nine individuals involved in the March [11] 2004 bombings, and in his nearly 1,500-page report, he discussed at length how the Madrid cell had been influenced by al Qaeda but not directed by it. ‘If it is true that […]
4/9/2006
In an article in Time magazine on April 9, 2006, “Marine Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer from 2000 to October 2002…revealed that he retired four months before the invasion [of Iraq] in part because the [Bush] administration had used ‘9/11’s tragedy to hijack our security’ and fight ‘an invented war’ instead of […]
3/31/2006
On March 31, 2006, “In response to a question at one point, [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice acknowledged that the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors, a thousand of them, I am sure’ in Iraq and perhaps elsewhere. She was speaking figuratively, her spokesman said later. Ms. Rice asserted that whatever tactical failures there may […]
3/31/2006
In questioning at a lecture in the U.K. on March 31, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: “that she knew the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors–thousands of them, I’m sure’ in Iraq. …the next day she tried to spin her way out. ‘I meant it figuratively, not literally, all right?’ she told reporters. […]
3/31/2006
“I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them, I’m sure,’ she [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] said [regarding Iraq, on March 31, 2006]. ‘But when you look back in history, what will be judged is did you make the right strategic decisions.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 206 […]