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 […]
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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 […]
4/7/2004
From Iraq, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer and Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez held a videoconference with the National Security Council on April 7, 2004. President Bush “declared that [radical cleric Moqtada al-] Sadr’s Mahdi Army was a ‘hostile force’ and that they could not let a single radical cleric change the course of […]
4/5/2004
“On 5 April [2004], Dan Senor, the CPA’s [Coalition Provisional Authority’s] spokesman, announced that an Iraqi judge had issued an arrest warrant for the ‘Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’ in connection with the 2003 murder of ‘another cleric’ at a mosque in Najaf. Senor, and later [Deputy Director of Coalition Operations for Combined Joint Task Force-Seven] […]
4/5/2004
“Fallujah [Iraq] was divided into two sectors, northern and southern, and two Marine battalions would take each sector. By 5 April [2004], the Marines’ operation was well underway, but the insurgents put up stiff resistance. …On 9 April, the Coalition declared a unilateral ceasefire. The US Marines, having initially opposed the operation, were incensed. They […]