Former Secretary of Defense “Donald Rumsfeld has revealed that Saddam Hussein took out a $60million hit on his [Rumsfeld’s] daughters in revenge for the slaying of his two sons. The ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense said that the former Iraqi dictator offered the bounty to anybody who brought him both girls’ heads. He was given the […]
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10/15/2003
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “After his sons were killed, there was an intelligence report that Saddam Hussein was paying $60 million for his agents to target the President’s [Bush’s] two daughters and my two daughters for reprisal attacks. That threat report was brought up at an NSC [National Security Council] meeting in October […]
10/15/2003
President George W. Bush: “Since the liberation of Iraq, our investigators have found evidence of a clandestine network of biological laboratories, advanced design work on prohibited longer-range missiles, an elaborate campaign to hide illegal programs. We’ve still got more to investigate. Yet it is undeniable that Saddam Hussein was in clear violation of United Nations […]
10/15/2003
On October 15, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed by Matt Frei of BBC Television: “MR. FREI: Let me ask you about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Earlier this year, in February, you gave a presentation at the United Nations in which you talked about the imminent threat posed by Saddam Hussein […]
10/15/2003
“…In October 2003, [approximately a year after his September 26, 2002, rendition and torture by the CIA, Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher] Arar was released without charges, after his wife forced the Canadian government to take up his cause. …A thorough official investigation by the Canadian government cleared Arar of any links to terrorism and concluded […]
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 […]
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 […]