“In June 2003 he [Iraqi theologian and political leader Moqtada al-Sadr] established a militia group, the Mehdi Army, in defiance of coalition arms controls, pledging to protect the Shia religious authorities in the holy city of Najaf.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – BBC News Staff, “Profile: Moqtada Sadr,” […]
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6/15/2003
In June 2003, “five al Qaeda suspects were detained in Malawi. Malawi’s high court ordered local authorities to follow the law and either charge or release the five men, all of whom were foreigners. Ignoring local law, the Bush administration then insisted that the men be handed over to U.S. security forces instead. The five […]
6/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “809. … -The search for evidence of WMD in Iraq was started during the military campaign by Exploitation Task Force-75 and was carried forward from June 2003 by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). The UK participated in both.” [The 15th of the month for […]
6/15/2003
The 75th Exploitation Task Force “for months before the [Iraq] war had been assembling biologists, chemists, computer experts and special forces to locate the weapons of mass destruction over which we had gone to war. By June [2003] they had retired from Iraq, baffled by their inability to uncover any of the weapons which they […]
6/15/2003
According to the Israeli paper Haaretz, in June 2003, President Bush “reportedly told Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, ‘God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem […]
6/15/2003
“In mid-June [2003], Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told [journalist] Bob Woodward that [former Ambassador Joseph] Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction. At the time, Woodward did not write a story about the revelation. But, apparently for the first time, an [Bush] administration official had revealed the identity of […]
6/15/2003
“In a June 2003 public notice, the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] exempted itself, the military and foreign contractors from coming under the jurisdiction of Iraqi laws.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 160 […]
6/15/2003
“In June [2003], the CIA confirmed that an Iraqi scientist, Mahdi Obeidi, who had headed Iraq’s uranium enrichment program in the 1980s and early 1990s, had turned over some components of a gas centrifuge, a machine used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, as well as blueprints for building and operating such a device. He […]
6/15/2003
CIA Director George “Tenet first pressed the White House for written approval [for using enhanced interrogation techniques on al-Qaeda suspects] in June 2003, during a meeting with members of the National Security Council, including [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, the officials said. Days later, he got what he wanted: a brief memo conveying the [Bush] […]
6/15/2003
“The only indigenous Shi’ite group [in Iraq] to remain implacably opposed to the occupation are the Sadrists (followers of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr) whose military wing is called the Mahdi Army. …The Mahdi Army was created by al-Sadr in June 2003, in direct response to the American invasion.” [The 15th of the month used […]