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 […]
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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 […]
7/22/2003
Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said, on July 22, 2003: ” ‘I am the senior-most official within the NSC [National Security Council] staff, directly responsible for the substantive review and clearance of presidential speeches,’ he said. ‘I failed in that responsibility in connection with the inclusion of these 16 words [regarding a Niger-Iraq uranium […]
7/22/2003
On July 22, 2003, Deputy National Security Advisor Steve “Hadley drafted a statement that acknowledged the earlier cautions from CIA [about claiming Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Africa], assumed full personal responsibility for allowing the sixteen words into the [January 28, 2003] State of the Union, and then tendered his resignation. Showing the statement […]
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 […]