In a videotape aired by Al Jazeera on October 29, 2004, “bin Laden explained how al-Qaeda was exploiting America’s political gullibility, economic power, and corporate interests for its own purposes and how unintentionally cooperative the Bush administration had been. It is easy, said bin Laden, ‘for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that […]
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10/29/2004
“October [29] 2004: Osama bin Laden broadcasts on Arabic TV [Al Jazeera], taking full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] News reported that this 18-minute video is the first time that the purported Sept. 11 mastermind actually took responsibility for the terrorist act. The al-Qaeda leader explained that the group planned and […]
10/29/2004
“The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday [November 1, 2004] of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group’s goal is to force America into bankruptcy. Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday [October 29, 2004] but released the full transcript of the […]
10/29/2004
Al Jazeera released material from an Osama bin Laden videotape on October 29, 2004. “As part of the ‘bleed-until-bankruptcy plan,’ bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by […]
10/29/2004
According to an October 29, 2004, study by the British medical journal The Lancet: “most of the deaths [in the invasion of Iraq]–nearly 80 percent–were the result of American bombing runs. ‘Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces,’ noted the report, ‘were women and children.’ ” – James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Page 395 […]
10/29/2004
On October 29, 2004, Osama “bin Laden appeared in a video address that was broadcast on the Al Jazeera Arabic-language satellite station. …he boasted that al Qaeda was winning its war against the United States. The primary reason he gave was the economics of the fight and his group’s strategy of ‘bleeding America to the […]
10/25/2004
On October 25, 2004, “CBS and The New York Times reported that the Iraqi government had warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations, a complex called Al Qaqaa. The explosives, which could produce bombs strong […]
10/25/2004
“A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday [October 25, 2004]. …They said the opinion would essentially allow the military and the C.I.A. to treat […]
10/25/2004
“In October [25] 2004, the New York Times reported that 380 tons of the high explosives HMX and RDX had disappeared from an Iraqi weapons site called al Qaqaa, which had been identified as a possible location for weapons of mass destruction. With the U.S. presidential election in its closing days, the news caused a […]
10/24/2004
President Bush “asserted at a campaign event in Colorado in [October 24] 2004, ‘We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]