In the vice presidential debate on October 5, 2004, Vice President Dick “Cheney concluded that ‘we need to battle them [terrorists] overseas so we don’t have to battle them here at home.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 58 […]
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10/5/2004
According to the BBC on October 5, 2004: “Even Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, who saw all of the intelligence available to President Bush that might bear on the alleged connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, finally admitted under tough repeated questioning from reporters, ‘To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence […]
10/5/2004
According to a Knight-Ridder News Service article on October 5, 2004: ” ‘A new CIA assessment undercuts the White House’s claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al Qaeda, saying there’s no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The CIA review, which officials said Monday [October 4] was […]
10/3/2004
On the October 3, 2004, episode of ABC’s This Week, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice spoke of the decision to invade Iraq: ” ‘Not everyone liked the fact that we and others in the coalition believed that it was time to go to war. But sometimes you have to do what is right. You cannot […]
9/30/2004
In his report made on September 30, 2004, Iraq Survey Group (ISG) leader Charles Duelfer reported: ” ‘[B]etween 1991 and 1996 Iraq possessed an expanding BW [biological weapons] agent production capability. From 1996 to OIF [Operation Iraqi Freedom] [March 20, 2003], Iraq still possessed small but significant dual-use facilities capable of conversion to small-scale BW […]
9/30/2004
In his report made on September 30, 2004, Iraq Survey Group (ISG) leader Charles Duelfer reported: ” ‘ISG uncovered information that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) maintained throughout 1991 to 2003 a set of undeclared covert laboratories to research and test various chemicals and poisons, primarily for intelligence operations.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and […]
9/30/2004
In his report made on September 30, 2004, Iraq Survey Group (ISG) leader Charles Duelfer reported that, despite the suspension of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program, “after 1991, Saddam did express his intent to retain the intellectual capital developed during the Iraqi Nuclear Program. Senior Iraqis–several from the Regime’s inner circle–told ISG [Iraq Survey Group] they […]
9/30/2004
“During the September 30, 2004, presidential debate, Democratic contender Senator John Kerry [of Massachusetts] said of capturing bin Laden, ‘He escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora [Afghanistan]. We had him surrounded.’ ” – Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page 331 […]
9/30/2004
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), released its final report, the Duelfer Report, on September 30, 2004. ” ‘ISG found no direct evidence that Iraq, after 1996, had plans for a new BW [biological weapons] program or was conducting BW-specific work for military purposes.’ ” – Philip Taylor, The War in Iraq, Page 1 […]
9/30/2004
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) stated in the Duelfer Report, issued on September 30, 2004: ” ‘While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a […]