On April 9, 2004, Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) leader L. Paul Bremer “formally announced that coalition forces would unilaterally cease offensive operations in Fallujah. He stated that the CPA wanted to facilitate negotiations between the Iraqi Governing Council and city spokespersons, and use the time to allow humanitarian supplies to be delivered to residents. Amid […]
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4/9/2004
Amidst the uprising in Fallujah, Iraq, on April 9, 2004, Director of Reconstruction in Iraq Paul “Bremer ordered a cease-fire… The purpose, he said, was ‘to give a political track an opportunity to reduce the violence,’ while allowing urgently needed medical supplies and food to reach the city, and the residents to bury the dead. […]
4/8/2004
On April 8, 2004, “After more than two and a half hours of testimony [before the 9/11 Commission], [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice was released. Incredibly, not one of the Commissioners asked her a single question about the performance of the White House on the day of 9/11.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 181 […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the threat of Osama bin Laden: ” ‘I, myself, had written for an introduction to a volume on bioterrorism done at Stanford that I thought that we wanted not to wake up one day and find that Osama […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: ” ‘America’s al Qaeda policy wasn’t working because our Afghanistan policy wasn’t working. And our Afghanistan policy wasn’t working because our Pakistan policy wasn’t working. We recognized that America’s counter-terrorism policy had to be connected to our regional strategies […]
4/8/2004
” ‘I’ve asked myself a thousand times what more we could have done,’ [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice would later tell the 9/11 Commission [in testimony on April 8, 2004]… ‘I know that had we thought that there was an attack coming in Washington or New York, we would have moved heaven and earth to […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: “For almost two decades…’the terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them.’ ” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 296 […]
4/8/2004
During National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 commission on April 8, 2004, “There was an audible gasp in the audience as Rice confirmed officially, once and for all, what had long been suspected–that the August 6 [2001] PDB [Presidential Daily Briefing] was an explicit warning from the CIA, only a month before […]
4/8/2004
9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey said, on April 8, 2004: ” ‘In the spirit of further declassification, this is what the August sixth [2001 Presidential Daily Briefing] memo said to the president [Bush], that *the FBI indicates patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with the preparations for hijacking.* ‘ ” – Philip […]
4/8/2004
In his private interview with the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, former President Bill Clinton “offered no apologies for his failure to kill Osama bin Laden, because, he said, he had done everything within his power to accomplish it. ‘I wanted to see him dead,’ Clinton said…” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 305 […]