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
” ‘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.” […]
1/28/2004
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.’ […]
1/27/2004
The 9/11 Commission reported, “Claudio Manno, a former intelligence director at the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], said [at the January 27, 2004 commission hearing] that before 9/11 the CIA was reluctant to reveal the names of suspected terrorists to the FAA because that information was classified.” – Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, Without Precedent, Page […]
1/27/2004
During his testimony before the 9/11 Commission on January 27, 2004, “Cathal Flynn, a former security chief at the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], said he was not aware of the State Department’s watch list of suspected terrorists until…more than two years after 9/11.” – Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, Without Precedent, Page 138 […]