“American and foreign officials have also grown increasingly concerned about the prospect that detainees who arrived at Guantánamo representing little threat to the United States may have since been radicalized by the conditions of their imprisonment and others held with them. ‘Guantánamo is a huge problem for Americans,’ a senior Arab intelligence official familiar with […]
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6/18/2004
In a press conference on June 18, 2004, Tom Kean, Co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, said: ” ‘What our staff statement found is there is no credible evidence that we can discover, after a long investigation, that Iraq and Saddam Hussein in any way were part of the attack on the United States.’ ” – […]
6/18/2004
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “June 18, 2004: Saudi Arabia: American Paul Johnson is kidnapped and held hostage and later beheaded.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 321 […]
6/18/2004
On June 18, 2004, “Nek Mohammed, head of militants in South Waziristan [Pakistan] killed by US hellfire missile.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 268 […]
6/17/2004
In a press conference on June 17, 2004, Thomas Kean, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, was asked if the commission was satisfied with the answers the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) gave about its failure to notify the military of the hijackings and failure to notify pilots to lock their cockpit doors. “Tom replied, ‘No.’ …when […]
6/17/2004
On June 17, 2004, President Bush told reporters after a cabinet meeting at the White House: “He (Saddam Hussein) was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. He was a threat because he was a sworn enemy of the United States of America, just like al-Qaeda. He was […]
6/17/2004
“After the 9/11 Commission found that there was no connection between Hussein and 9/11, Bush told the media on June 17, 2004: ‘This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and Al Qaeda.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 141 […]
6/17/2004
On June 17, 2004, “During a radio discussion about an opinion poll showing that most Iraqis did not see American troops as liberators and wanted them to leave the country, [political commentator Bill] O’Reilly told listeners that he had ‘no respect’ for the Iraqi people; they were a ‘prehistoric group,’ and the lesson from the […]
6/17/2004
When asked why the administration continued to insist that Saddam Hussien had a relationship with al Qaeda, when the same administration denies any connection between Saddam and 9/11? President Bush answered: “The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and […]
6/17/2004
An editorial in The Opinion Pages of The New York Times on June 17, 2004, titled “The Plain Truth,” read in part: “Nevertheless, the Bush administration convinced a substantial majority of Americans before the war that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to 9/11. And since the invasion, administration officials, especially Vice President Dick Cheney, have continued […]