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 […]
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10/5/2004
“…in the vice presidential debate [on October 5, 2004], [Vice President] Dick Cheney said that if he had to decide whether to recommend war with Iraq all over again, he would take the same course. ‘The world is far safer today because Saddam Hussein is in jail,’ Cheney said. ‘His government is no longer in […]
10/5/2004
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 […]
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 leader Charles Duelfer reported: ” ‘With the bulk of Iraq’s BW [biological weapons] program in ruins, Iraq after 1996 continued small-scale BW-related efforts with the only remaining asset at Baghdad’s disposal–the know-how of the small band of BW scientists and technicians who carried out […]
9/30/2004
In his report made on September 30, 2004, Iraq Survey Group leader Charles Duelfer reported: ” ‘The [Iraqi] Regime quickly came to see that OFF [the Oil-for-Food program] could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development. By 2000-2001, […]
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 […]