“In November 2004, a joint statement, authored by the Ba’th Party and signed by several groups including [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi’s, appeared on several jihadi websites. ‘We are committed to intensifying armed attacks against coalition forces and their spies and agents,’ it read. However, the Islamists added this qualification: ‘We are […]
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11/15/2004
“In 1996, the FBI had hired 36 IRSs [Intelligence Research Specialists] in an effort to bolster its international terrorism analytical program. According to witnesses, within a year approximately half of the IRSs had left the program. By mid-1999, there were only approximately 15 international terrorism IRSs, and by mid-2000 there were only 10 IRSs devoted […]
11/14/2004
“To put to rest any lingering doubts about al Qaeda’s nuclear weapons, [author Paul] Williams quoted Michael Scheuer, the CIA agent in charge of the bin Laden section of the agency: ‘On November 14, 2004, Scheuer appeared on 60 Minutes…alerting the American people that a nuclear attack by al Qaeda *is pretty close to being […]
11/11/2004
” ‘…it was November 11 [2004],–Veteran’s Day, of all days–[Secretary of State Colin] Powell gets a telephone call telling him to submit his resignation.” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 115-116 […]
11/10/2004
“On Wednesday, November 10 [2004], [Secretary of State Colin] Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office. The caller was not [President] Bush but [presidential Chief of Staff Andrew] Card, and he got right to the point. ‘The president would like to make a change,’… Bush wanted Powell’s resignation […]
11/9/2004
“On Tuesday [November 9, 2004], the White House announced two resignations: Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans…and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The president’s [Bush’s] legal counsel, Alberto Gonzales, was named as Ashcroft’s replacement.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 6 […]
11/8/2004
On November 8, 2004, “U.S.-led forces moved in to clear out Fallujah [Iraq], a stronghold for Sunni insurgents, launching a ferocious ten-day battle that killed at least one thousand insurgents and left fifty-four Americans dead and more than four hundred seriously wounded.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 325 […]
11/8/2004
Former Chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit Michael Scheuer said “that the government ‘doesn’t respect the threat’ because most officials still regard Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization that can be defeated by arresting or killing its operatives one at a time. He noted that President Bush and other officials had repeatedly said […]
11/8/2004
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “In November 2004, we recognized that our troops had to return to Fallujah. It was a sanctuary for al-Qaida in Iraq and much of the insurgency. Fifteen thousand U.S. Marines and soldiers along with two thousand Iraqi troops encircled the city. In the early morning hours of November 8, […]
11/7/2004
On November 7, 2004, “it was reported [in The Washington Post] that thousands of surface-to-air missiles that had once been under Saddam’s control were unaccounted for because the U.S.-led force had not secured all the weapons depots in Iraq.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 325 […]