In a message aired by Al Jazeera on October 18, 2003, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘We reserve the right to retaliate at the appropriate time and place against all countries involved [in the invasion of Iraq], especially the UK, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy.’ “ – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of […]
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10/17/2003
According to BBC News on October 17, 2003: “One of the generals in charge of war policy, William G. Boykin…on a speaking tour of conservative evangelical groups…declare[d]–from the pulpit, in uniform–that our nation was in a holy war as a ‘Christian nation battling Satan.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 58 […]
10/16/2003
On October 16, 2003, “Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reportedly confided to his subordinates that more militants are joining the fight than the United States is ‘capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, an indirect reference to the high costs of the American-led invasion of Iraq.” – Fawaz A. Gerges, The Far Enemy, […]
10/16/2003
“In October [16] 2003, reflecting on progress after two years of waging the global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked his advisers, ‘Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? Does the US need to […]
10/16/2003
“The passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1511 [on October 16, 2003] placed a framework on the process of transferring power and sovereignty back into Iraqi hands. The Resolution specified the date by which the details of the matter were to be presented to the Security Council–and it was assumed the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] […]
10/16/2003
UN Security Council Resolution 1511 was adopted on October 16, 2003. “While granting the Governing Council and the Cabinet the right to embody Iraq’s sovereignty, it maintained the powers of the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] as the effective arbiter of Iraq’s affairs until a representative government was formed. The Resolution stated clearly that ‘obligations under […]
10/15/2003
“Despite his innocence, [falsely accused and tortured by the CIA, Canadian citizen Maher] Arar had signed numerous false confessions by the time he was released [in October 2003]. ‘I was ready to do anything to get out of that place, at any cost,’ he later admitted. Arar’s provably false confessions underscore what virtually every expert […]
10/15/2003
Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel Jack “Goldsmith’s opinion that Geneva’s rules covered all Iraqis also had the effect of heightening the legal peril for those involved in killing [prisoner Manadel al-] Jamadi. His ruling was issued in mid-October [2003]. Jamadi was killed less than a month later, after the new ruling was in […]
10/15/2003
Regarding the Fourth Geneva Convention, which governed the duties of an occupying power and the treatment of civilians and whether or not it protected Iraqi terrorists, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Jack Goldsmith said: “Near the end of my first week on the job [mid-October 2003], the lawyers around the […]
10/15/2003
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘Another [Iraqi] asylum seeker…reporting through Defense HUMINT [human intelligence] channels provided one report in June 2001 that Iraq had transportable facilities for the production of BW [biological weapons]. This…source recanted in October 2003, however, and the recantation was reflected in a […]