“In the spring of [May 14] 2003, [Central Command leader] General [Tommy] Franks was named in a lawsuit brought before a Belgian court for his role in the Iraq war. The Belgian parliament had passed a law in the 1990s giving their nation’s courts the jurisdiction to try war crimes, genocide, and other crimes against […]
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5/13/2003
“On 13 May, 2003, two large mass graves containing thousands of people were located in the area of Mahawil near Hilla [Iraq]. Many of those arrested in the uprising of 1991 had been detained there. The US military at first tried to secure the site, but the pressure of the crowds seeking information about their […]
5/13/2003
President George W. Bush: “We moved into Iraq, we removed the dictator, but we’ve got work to do. First, we’re going to help rebuild the country, make sure the people have got food on the table, make sure the children can go to school, make sure those who need medical supply can find medical supply. […]
5/12/2003
“It took Al-Qaeda’s suicide attacks on foreigners’ compounds in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] in May [12] 2003 to convince the Kingdom that its only salvation was relentless repression of jihadis in its ranks and rooting out Osama’s financing network. That was the very approach the United States had been urging for years.” – Jonathan Randal, Osama, […]
5/12/2003
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “The attacks of 9/11 were not the end of anything. They were the beginning. That was the message I was getting from my Counterterrorism Center. As far as al-Qa’ida was concerned, 9/11 was just the opening shot. …Over the next several years we were able to achieve remarkable success […]
5/12/2003
As reported in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article by former FBI Director Louis Freeh on May 20, 2003: “…not until the May [12] 2003 attacks in Riyadh did the House of Saud take seriously Al-Qaeda’s designs on the Kingdom and accept heightened cooperation with Washington.” – Jonathan Randal, Osama, Pages 204-205 […]
5/12/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority leader “Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III arrived in Baghdad on May 12, 2003, with two draft edicts that he, as the president’s [Bush’s] designated envoy and with the president’s full authority, would issue within days of his arrival in Iraq. In magnitude, they were on par with the decision to base the […]
5/12/2003
On May 12, 2003, “a powerful car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…killed thirty-four people, including eight Americans. [Bush] Administration officials charged that the al-Qaeda planners of the attack had operated out of Iran.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 471 […]
5/12/2003
President George W. Bush on our goals in the Middle East: “And part of the war on terror was dealing with the dictator in Iraq. Part of making this country more secure and the world more peaceful was going into Iraq and removing a dictator who had defied resolution after resolution after resolution from the international community; […]
5/12/2003
On May 12, 2003, “nine al Qaeda suicide bombers mounted synchronized strikes on three housing compounds in the Saudi Arabian capitol of Riyadh; the thirty-four who were killed included eight Americans.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 443 […]