CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “The Terrorist Threat Integration Center, established May 1, 2003, exemplifies a new way that the Federal Government is doing business to advance our analytic capabilities in the fight against terrorism. For the first time we have unfettered […]
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5/1/2003
From the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea, President George W. Bush said: “The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 — and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men — the shock troops of a hateful ideology — gave America and the civilized world […]
5/1/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Bush declares [Iraq] ‘Mission Accomplished’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 1, 2003 […]
4/30/2003
“On April 30, 2003, as the smoke of burning buildings clouded the sky above Baghdad, the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld] told those Iraqis fortunate enough to have electricity to power their TVs: ‘Coalition forces are working in close partnership with Iraqi citizens to restore order and basic services. Each day that goes by, conditions […]
4/30/2003
When asked why this Middle East peace initiative would be successful when all others had failed, President George W. Bush responded: “Well, just because history has proven to be unsuccessful doesn’t mean that we’re not going to try, for starters. I’m an optimist. I believe now that we have a interlocutor from the Palestinian Authority that has […]
4/30/2003
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld flew to Iraq on April 30 [2003]. …Rumsfeld videotaped an optimistic message to be broadcast to the Iraqis from the military’s Commando Solo psychological operations aircraft: ‘Let me be clear: Iraq belongs to you. We do not want to own or run it,’ Rumsfeld said. ‘…We will stay as long […]
4/29/2003
“Tawfig bin-Atash, a leader in the [USS] Cole bombing plot, was seized in April [29] 2003.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 436 […]
4/28/2003
“An April 28 [2003] Newsweek cover story called ‘Saddam’s Secret Files’ revealed the contents of a small treasure trove of intelligence seized from the Iraqi Intelligence Service, but none of it contained any significant information about al Qaeda, or hidden locations of chemical or biological weapons.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 442 […]
4/28/2003
Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan wrote: “On 28 April 2003 my newspaper [Al-Quds al-Arabi] received a faxed letter from Saddam, then still in hiding, indicating that he knew the real war would be one of insurgency and would begin when the US believed the war was over. He urged the ordinary Iraqi people to rise up […]
4/28/2003
“When Iraqi citizens staged another anti-American demonstration near Baghdad just ten days later [April 28, 2003], US troops opened fire on them and killed at least thirteen, wounding seventy-five.” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 200 […]