Regarding the war in Iraq, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote: on March 31, 2006, “during a question and answer session after my remarks at the BBC-Chatham House Lectures in Blackburn [U.K.]… I was asked to give examples of lessons learned from some of the mistakes that had been made over the prior three years. […]
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3/28/2006
In the trial for alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on March 28, 2006, “testimony was read from Mustafa al-Hawsawi, the alleged Sept. 11 paymaster. He insisted that [Mohammad al-] Qahtani, warts and all, was definitely [hijacker] No. 20. Hawsawi said he purchased a one-way plane ticket for Qahtani to fly from London to Florida, all along […]
3/27/2006
9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s testimony was read in the trial for alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on March 27, 2006. “He said [potential 20th hijacker Mohammad al-] Qahtani ‘was sent alone to round out the number of hijackers for the 9/11 attacks.’ But after he was stopped at the Orlando airport, Al Qaeda leaders realized […]
3/21/2006
Regarding lapses in the FBI’s capabilities, on March 21, 2006: “The Associated Press reported that ‘budget constraints are forcing some local FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency’s top officials in New York.’ ‘As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now and the government is reluctant […]
3/20/2006
In a discussion on the war on terror on March 20, 2006, in Cleveland, Ohio, President Bush said: ” ‘I don’t think we ever said–at least I know I didn’t say–that there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein. We did say he was a state sponsor of terror.’ ” – […]
3/19/2006
“On March 19, 2006, under a graphic display summarizing deteriorating conditions in Iraq, the New York Times carried an op-ed by Paul Eaton, a retired army two-star [general], that forthrightly declared, ‘[Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld is not competent to lead our armed forces.’ Laced with vivid phrases–‘incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically,’ ‘bullying,’ ‘intimidated,’ ‘groupthink’–Eaton’s […]
3/19/2006
“When the former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi declared [on March 19, 2006], ‘We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more–if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is,’ both President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld vigorously denied the […]
3/15/2006
According to an audio statement released by al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri in March 2006: “The first front in the jihad struggle, he said, is to ‘inflict losses on the Crusader West’ through raids on Western cities, the ‘best examples’ being the strikes in New York, Washington, Madrid [Spain], and London [U.K.]. The second front […]
3/15/2006
“In March 2006, three years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, the country’s petroleum exports were 30 percent to 40 percent below pre-invasion levels.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Dilip Hiro, “How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry,” The Nation, Sep. 26, 2007 […]
3/15/2006
“…a powerful bipartisan ten-member panel, the Iraq Study Group… had been created by Congress in March [2006] to assess the situation in Iraq and make recommendations for the future.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 302 […]