“In late April [2003], Ambassador David Dunford, escorted by U.S. troops, led a small team of American officials to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad. …The ministry building had been partially burned, and many of its offices had been ransacked. But some documents survived. Among them was a memo from the […]
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4/25/2003
“In late April [2003], the State Department had singled out Iran, not Iraq, for having the strongest ties to terrorism of any nation.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 88 […]
4/25/2003
“In late April [2003], another American military unit in the hunt for unconventional weapons in Iraq, Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, located a man who said he had been a scientist in Iraq’s chemical weapons program for more than a decade, and he made a sensational claim: that Iraq had destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare […]
4/24/2003
“On April 24 [2003], just three days after [Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance Jay] Garner arrived in Baghdad [Iraq], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld called him to say that President Bush had decided to name L. Paul Bremer, a former State Department counterterrorism official and veteran diplomat, to be the chief […]
4/24/2003
“In interviews after he was captured [on April 24, 2003], Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister [of Iraq], told [the CIA’s former chief weapons inspector] Dr. [David] Kay that Mr. Hussein had become increasingly divorced from reality during the last two years of his rule. Mr. Hussein would send Mr. Aziz manuscripts of novels […]
4/23/2003
According to a San Diego Union Tribune article from April 23, 2003: “Between 1991 and 1998, U.N. weapons inspectors methodically destroyed 40,000 chemical munitions, 690 tons of chemical warfare agents, 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, 48 SCUD missiles, a ‘super gun,’ and biological-warfare-related factories and equipment. This was more weapons than were captured during the […]
4/22/2003
“In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on April 22 [2003], former House Speaker Newt Gingrich [R-GA]… [said] The State Department had engaged in ‘a deliberate and systematic effort to undermine the President’s [Bush’s] policies’ both before and during the invasion [of Iraq]… The past seven months have involved six months of diplomatic failure […]
4/22/2003
“The United States yesterday [April 22, 2003] received the hero’s welcome it has awaited since the start of the invasion of Iraq as the new interim leader arrived in the north of the country. [Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance leader] Lieutenant-General Jay Garner was mobbed by thousands of Kurds after landing in the city […]
4/21/2003
While embedded with troops in Iraq, reporter Judith Miller witnessed an Iraqi speaking to members of her unit and gesturing. Under terms of her embedding agreement, she wasn’t allowed to talk to or identify the man, and military censors were allowed to edit her material. However, “Her piece, which landed on the front page of […]
4/21/2003
In April 2003, “after several days of euphoria following the arrival of U.S. troops in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital erupted in a frenzy of crime and looting. American soldiers, without orders, manpower or a plan to intervene, stood by while government facilities were stripped of everything from furniture and fine art to plumbing and electrical […]