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
” ‘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 […]
4/8/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice pointed out in her April 8, 2004, testimony before the 9/11 Commission that the nation was not prepared to take action against al Qaeda before 9/11: ” ‘Until there is a catastrophic event that forces people to think differently, that forces people to overcome all customs and old culture and […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said that President “Bush was warned a month before the Sept. 11 terror attacks that the F.B.I. had detected ‘suspicious activity’ that suggested terrorists might be planning a domestic hijacking. She said he was also told that the bureau was […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the Bush Administration’s approach to combating terrorism: ” ‘The problem was you didn’t have an approach against Al Qaeda because you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan, and you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan because you didn’t […]