In a press conference on July 22, 2003, Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley “accepted responsibility for allowing the sixteen-word sentence about the Niger deal [to sell uranium to Iraq] to remain in the [2003 State of the Union] speech. ‘I should have recalled at the time of the State of the Union speech that […]
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7/22/2003
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, then-Commander of the ground forces in Iraq, recalled, on July 22, 2003: “Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle at their hideout in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In a very efficient operation, U.S. Special Forces and the 101st Airborne, upon receiving solid intelligence, surrounded […]
7/22/2003
Saddam Hussein’s sons “Uday and Qusay were killed by 101st Airborne troopers [on July 22, 2003] after one of their former Baathist colleagues betrayed them to collect the Coalition reward money.” – Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier, Page 556 […]
7/22/2003
Saddam’s sons Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in a siege by Special Operations soldiers on July 22, 2003. “When it was over, the Americans said they had irrefutable proof–dental records and X rays and personal viewings by four members of the old regime already in custody–that the bodies were those of Uday and Qusay. […]
7/22/2003
“On July 22 [2003], the dictator’s [Saddam Hussein] sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a firefight.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 38 […]
7/22/2003
On July 22, 2003, “Uday and Qusay Hussein, the dictator’s [Saddam’s] vicious sons, had been killed in a shoot-out with the U.S. military.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 298-299 […]
7/22/2003
“Saddam’s brutal sons, Uday and Qusay, had been killed on July 22, 2003.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 267 […]
7/22/2003
“On July 22 [2003], Newsday ran a piece by Timothy Phelps and Knut Royce that drew a new round of attention to the [Valerie] Plame leak. The story quoted unnamed intelligence officials confirming that Valerie Wilson was an undercover CIA officer working on WMD issues and that [journalist Robert] Novak’s [Bush] administration sources might well […]
7/21/2003
“The deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, then making a visit to postwar Iraq, was no longer calling WMDs a ‘core reason’ for the war. ‘I’m not concerned about weapons of mass destruction,’ he told reporters on July 21 [2003]. ‘I’m concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever […]
7/21/2003
“While visiting Iraq [on July 21, 2003], [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz tells reporters, ‘I’m not concerned about weapons of mass destruction,’ adding that that was now the job of American intelligence agencies. ‘I’m not saying that getting to the bottom of this WMD issue isn’t important. It is important. But it’s not of […]