In a 9/11 Commission hearing on June 16, 2004, former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence Douglas MacEachin said: ” ‘Whether Bin Laden and his organization had roles in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the thwarted Manila [Philippines] plot to blow up a dozen U.S. commercial aircraft in 1995 remains a matter […]
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6/16/2004
“[T]he 9/11 Commission’s Staff Statement [#16, on June 16, 2004] ends by offering the distinctly unpersuasive assessment that ‘al Qaeda today is more a loose collection of regional networks with a greatly weakened central organization.’ ” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 212 […]
6/16/2004
“The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday [June 16, 2004] that it has found no ‘collaborative relationship’ between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration’s main justifications for the war in Iraq. Along with the contention that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, President Bush, Vice President [Dick] Cheney and other […]
6/16/2004
“In June [16] 2004, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission–formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States–released its report, which concluded, unanimously, that while there had been contacts between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, it had seen no evidence of ‘a collaborative operational relationship.’ ” – Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page […]
6/16/2004
“U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who had negotiated a plea bargain with [al Qaeda double agent Ali] Mohamed, testified at some length about him to the 9/11 Commission [on June 16, 2004]: ‘Ali Mohamed…trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership–including bin Laden and [al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-] Zawahiri–and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. Mohamed […]
6/16/2004
According to The 9/11 Commission’s June 16, 2004, report titled ‘Overview of the Enemy:’ “A senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting bin Ladin in 1994. Bin Ladin is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded. […]
6/16/2004
According to the staff statement, ‘Overview of the Enemy,’ delivered to the 9/11 Commission on June 16, 2004: “Bin Ladin was a ‘significant player’ among the Arabs who traveled to Afghanistan to resist Soviet occupation in the 1980s. …’following the defeat of the Soviets in the late 1980s, Bin Ladin formed an organization called *The […]
6/15/2004
“In June 2004, Demetrius Perricos, who serves as president of UNMOVIC [the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission]…[presented his] report to the United Nations Security Council. He made it clear that Saddam had smuggled WMDs out of Iraq before, during, and after the war. In his report, Perricos provided evidence that documents recovered in […]
6/15/2004
“…on June 15, 2004, the Bush administration formally announced that it was turning Hussein over to the legal custody of Iraq to be prosecuted for crimes against the Iraqi people.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Pages 142-143 […]
6/15/2004
“The CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] controlled about $23 billion in Iraqi revenues and assets from the May 2003 to June 2004 period. It allocated about $7 billion from these funds for reconstruction efforts.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 254 […]