In Bin Laden’s ‘Second Letter to the Muslims of Iraq,’ recorded and broadcast on October 18, 2003, he said: “I am speaking to Muslims in general, and Iraqis in particular, when I say: beware of supporting America’s crusaders and those who have taken their side, because all those who collaborate with them or belong to […]
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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
“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 […]
10/16/2003
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, […]
10/15/2003
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 […]
10/15/2003
According to a Newsday article on October 15, 2003, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and John Dingell (D-MI) discovered that “Halliburton was charging U.S. taxpayers exorbitant prices to import gasoline into Iraq. …Waxman and Dingell informed the Bush administration that KBR [Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary] was billing the U.S. army between $1.62 and […]
10/15/2003
“CENTCOM [Central Command] did not even begin reconstruction planning [in Iraq] until five months after the fall of Baghdad [October 2003]. But by that time, the Iraqi insurgency was in full swing, and the reconstruction plan was quickly junked in favor of a counterinsurgency plan, which also had not been worked on prior to the […]
10/15/2003
“By October 2003, 203 American soldiers had died at the hands of Iraqi insurgents, more than all casualties suffered during the invasion of Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 266 […]