In August 2004, “the Bush administration authorized the State Department to create the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. The office is expected to develop the capacity (including a cadre of policy experts and professionals with on-the-ground experience) to aid countries in transition from conflict to a stable peace, democracy, and a market […]
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8/15/2004
“World attention again focused on the Mahdi Army in August 2004, when the US tried to arrest [radical Shi’i cleric Moqtada] al-Sadr in Najaf [Iraq], the Shi’is’ holiest city. A major battle ensued between 2,000 US Marines, 1,800 Iraqi security forces despatched by Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and 2,000 members of the Mahdi Army. […]
8/10/2004
On August 10, 2004, “the [Abu Hafs al-Masri] Brigades struck Istanbul [Turkey] again, this time sending a new form of distress around the world by successfully targeting a liquefied petroleum gas plant. On the same day…they also attacked two small tourist hotels, killing two and injuring eleven people.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page […]
8/9/2004
“The ABA [American Bar Association] adopted two different sets of recommendations with regard to the Bush Administration’s torture policy. In August [9] 2004, the ABA urged the U.S. government to comply with ‘…the Constitution and laws of the United States and treaties to which the United States is a party, including the Geneva Conventions of […]
8/3/2004
Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, Saudi Abu Jandal, recalled in an August 3, 2004, interview in Al Quds al Arabi: ” ‘[Al Qaeda’s recruits] were not escaping from their economic conditions but rather from the political conditions [in their own countries] because many of them did not find an opportunity to express their ideas. Had the […]
8/3/2004
“In its report to Congress in [August 3] 2004 the FBI indicated it had ‘increased the number of Special Agents assigned to terrorism matters by 111 percent, the number of intelligence analysts by 86 percent and the number of linguists by 117 percent.’ “ – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror, Pages […]
8/3/2004
“On August 3 [2004], the Washington Post reported that the ‘new’ information [Department of Homeland Security Director Tom] Ridge was referring to when he made his dramatic announcement two days earlier [that raised the threat level to orange in specific locations] actually was old, and that it pertained to surveillance activities that occurred before September […]
8/3/2004
During interviews conducted by Khaled al Hammadi on August 3, 2004, and between March 30 and April 4, 2005, Saudi Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, recalled: ” ‘According to our security arrangements, if enemy forces surrounded Sheikh Osama and there was no possibility that he would escape, I was to kill him before they […]
8/2/2004
President Bush on the Intelligence Reform, “Recently, the commission on the terrorist attacks upon the United States came to a conclusion that I share: that our country is safer than it was on September the 11th, 2001, yet, we’re still not safe. The commission members have worked hard and served our country well. I speak […]
8/1/2004
“In the immediate aftermath of the Democratic Convention, on August 1 [2004], Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge raised the threat level to Code Orange–high–asserting that the government had ‘new and unusually specific information about where al-Qaeda would like to attack. And as a result, today, the United States Government is raising the threat level […]