Journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote of the Taliban resurgence in Pakistan in the New York Review of Books on January 29, 2004: “In Kandahar [Afghanistan], Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President [Hamid] Karzai, echoed my worst fears: ‘The Taliban are gathering in the same places from where they started; it’s like the rerun of an […]
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1/28/2004
After resigning as chief weapons inspector for Iraq, David “Kay testified publicly before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28 [2004]. …’We were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself.’ Kay said 85 percent of the work was done and he had no reason to believe they ever would find WMD stockpiles in […]
1/28/2004
On January 28, 2004, former Iraq Survey Group leader David Kay “told the Senate Armed Services Committee that ‘it turns out we were all wrong’ about Iraq’s weapons. His team had combed the country and found no signs of stockpiles, ‘large or small.’ Kay said he believed the uncovered mobile laboratories, which the CIA still […]
1/28/2004
Former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, testified on the search for WMD before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, 2004. ” ‘Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself there. …My view was that the best evidence that I has seen was that Iraq […]
1/28/2004
Former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, testified on the search for WMD before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, 2004. ” ‘I think the world is far safer with the disappearance and removal of Saddam Hussein,’ Kay said. ‘I think that when we have the complete record, you’re going to discover […]
1/28/2004
In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, 2004, Iraq Survey Group leader “David Kay said, ‘It was reasonable to conclude that Iraq posed an imminent threat… What we learned during the [weapons] inspection made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than in fact we thought it was even before the war.’ […]
1/28/2004
” ‘We now know,’ said Senator [Bill] Nelson [D-FL] in January [28] 2004, ‘after the fact and on the basis of [former Iraq Survey Group leader] Dr. [David] Kay’s testimony today in the Senate Armed Services Committee, that the information [regarding WMDs in Iraq] was false; and not only that there were not weapons of […]
1/28/2004
“Testifying before the Senate armed services committee on January 28 [2004]…[former Iraq Survey Group leader David] Kay told the panel ‘We were almost all wrong–and I certainly included myself here.’ The WMDs weren’t hidden; they hadn’t been produced in the first place. …Kay said an independent commission was needed to investigate the Iraq intelligence failure.” […]
1/27/2004
Following a hearing on January 27, 2004, the 9/11 Commission reported: “We learned that the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] did have information before 9/11 warning about the possibility of a hijacking by terrorists affiliated with Usama Bin Ladin and al Qaeda–including suicide hijackings in which an aircraft would be used as a weapon. Yet none […]
1/27/2004
Based on the 9/11 Commission hearing of January 27, 2004, which detailed aviation security and the four hijacked flights, the commission revealed: “Nine of the nineteen hijackers were actually selected by the FAA’s [Federal Aviation Administration’s] computer-assisted passenger pre-screening (CAPPS) program, which checks the list of passengers against certain risk factors in order to identify […]