On September 14, 2003, Senior Commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, “General [Ricardo] Sanchez ‘signed a memorandum authorizing a dozen interrogation techniques beyond [U.S. Army] Field Manual 34-52–five beyond those approved for Guantanamo’–and Under-Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone testified later before a Senate Committee that severe and ‘stress matrix’ tactics, including the use of dogs […]
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9/14/2003
In an interview by Tim Russert on Meet the Press on September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW [biological weapons] […]
9/14/2003
“On September 14 [2003], he [Vice President Dick Cheney] appeared on Meet the Press and host Tim Russert grilled him on the [Bush] administration’s prewar arguments. Cheney once again talked about links between Saddam’s regime and bin Laden, claiming that Iraq’s support for al-Qaeda was ‘clearly official policy.’ He once more cited the Czech report […]
9/14/2003
On September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press hosted by Tim Russert. ” ‘One of the things to keep in mind,’ Cheney told Russert, ‘is that Halliburton is a unique kind of company. There are very few companies out there that have the combination of very large engineering construction […]
9/14/2003
“By September 14 [2003], [Senior Commander of U.S. forces in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo] Sanchez had put in place a new policy, modeled on Guantanamo Bay, but modified, he said, for a theater of war where the Geneva Conventions applied [Iraq]. He approved the first instance of detainee isolation on September 15, and the first […]
9/14/2003
“In September [14] 2003, President Bush approached Congress for $2.1 billion to safeguard and rehabilitate Iraq’s oil facilities. The resulting Task Force Shield project undertook to protect 340 key installations and 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of oil pipeline.” – Dilip Hiro, “How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry,” The Nation, Sep. 26, 2007 […]
9/14/2003
“In an appearance on Meet the Press on September 14, 2003…[Vice President Dick] Cheney said, ‘If we’re successful in Iraq, then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the…geographical base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.’ ” – Vincent […]
9/11/2003
“The [U.K.] Intelligence and Security Committee…revealed that the Joint Intelligence Committee had assessed [in a September 11, 2003, report] that the al-Qa’ida threat ‘would be heightened by military action against Iraq.’ ” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Page 290 […]
9/11/2003
“As tensions between Kabul [Afghanistan] and Islamabad [Pakistan] escalated, Al Jazeera released a videotape on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks [September 11, 2003] showing bin Laden and [al Qaeda second-in-command] Ayman al-Zawahiri strolling in a landscape very similar to that of South Waziristan [Pakistan]. The image of the world’s most wanted men roaming […]
9/10/2003
As she explained during her appearance on Democracy Now! on September 10, 2003, “Talaat [Hamdani] herself is a teacher. In class she asked her students to define what a terrorist is. ‘The first word everybody echoed was Muslim,’ Talaat said. ‘The second brainstorm topic was to define Islam. And the first word that they came […]