In Iraq, “On April 21, 2003, his first day in Baghdad, [Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance leader] LTG [Lieutenant General] [Jay] Garner also set up an interim Iraqi advisory group (the Senior Leadership Council) made up of key Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. His idea was to put a local face on the occupation government–and […]
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4/21/2003
“The first ORHA [Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance] staff did not arrive in Baghdad [Iraq] until April 21 [2003], twelve days after Saddam Hussein’s statue had been pulled down. Much of the looting had already been done, and there was deep discomfort in Washington.” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page […]
4/21/2003
The concerns of the people on the War on Terror, “As 2003 wore on and the mission was obviously not so easily accomplished, a series of other concerns began to crop up. As early as April 21, Janette Mullenberg of Mauston, whose son was stationed at Camp Udairi, Kuwait, near Iraq was concerned that “the […]
4/18/2003
“…bin Laden remained silent during the first three weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom; only on April 18, 2003, as U.S. forces entered Baghdad, did he issue a taped message calling on Muslims to mount suicide attacks on Coalition forces.” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 71 […]
4/17/2003
“Footnotes to the 9/11 Commission report indicate that by April 17, 2003–a month and a half after he was captured–[9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed had already started providing substantial information on Al Qaeda. Nonetheless, he was kept in isolation for years. …a few officers began to question the reliability of his coerced confessions. Some also […]
4/16/2003
“A Defense Department spokesman said last night [June 7, 2004] that the March 2003 [Pentagon] memo [on interrogation procedures at Guantanamo] represented ‘a scholarly effort to define the perimeters of the law’ but added: ‘What is legal and what is put into practice is a different story.’ Pentagon officials said the group examined at least […]
4/16/2003
“…on April 16, 2003, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld approved twenty-four interrogation tactics from among thirty-five recommended by the DOD [Department of Defense] Working Group for use on detainees at Guantanamo. Secretary Rumsfeld stated that if the U.S. Commander, [of] U.S. Southern Command required ‘additional interrogation techniques for a particular detainee,’ he should send a […]
4/16/2003
While giving a speech on the progress on the war at the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Headquarters, President George W. Bush said: “In Afghanistan, we and our allies ended the rule of the Taliban and closed down camps where terrorists plotted and trained to attack us. In Iraq, our coalition has now removed an ally of terrorists […]
4/16/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “General Franks issues his ‘Freedom Message to the Iraqi People.’ “ – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, April 16, 2003 […]
4/16/2003
“On April 16 [2003], [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks cheerfully announced that most U.S. combat forces in Iraq would be withdrawn within sixty days so that they would not ‘wear out their welcome.’ Franks’s plan called for keeping some thirty thousand U.S. troops there as a peacetime occupation force. As a result, two army […]