“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 […]
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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 […]
4/15/2003
Deputy Secretary of Defense “Paul Wolfowitz had initially suggested that much of the long-neglected repair and upgrading of Iraq’s infrastructure would be paid for by its oil proceeds; [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Aide Lawrence] Di Rita stressed this with more passion [following his mid-April 2003 arrival in Kuwait to join Jay Garner’s Office for […]
4/15/2003
“Executives of ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP each took a turn guiding Iraq’s oil industry. Philip Carroll of Shell and Gary Vogler, a former ExxonMobil executive, were the first on the ground. They arrived in April 2003, just one month after the invasion. Officially, the two were the ranking U.S. advisers to the Iraqi […]
4/15/2003
“Only in the footnotes of the [9/11] commission’s final report was it made clear that [senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission Dietrich] Snell’s entire authority for moving the origin of the 9/11 plot two years forward was the word of [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [KSM] himself, who had been tortured after his capture on […]
4/15/2003
“Saddam even had a history of financing Islamist terrorists with links to bin Laden. Secret documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center in Baghdad in April 2003 prove that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden since the mid-1990s. The […]
4/15/2003
“The Spanish contingent sent to Iraq after the 2003 invasion [in April 2003] was around thirteen hundred troops–only about 1 percent of the entire occupation force but the largest contingent from Western Europe after Britain and Italy.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy […]
4/15/2003
In Iraq, on April 15, 2003, “the American authorities had helped organize a conference of more than seventy Iraqi notables–exile leaders, tribal sheiks, Kurds and Shiite clerics–in a tent at Tallil Air Base, near Nasiriya, to begin the process of creating a new Iraqi government. …After a daylong session, the group issued a statement outlining […]
4/15/2003
“The economic cost of the looting [in Iraq, following the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003] was estimated at $12 billion, not including the future costs in delayed reconstruction, and the political price of having Iraqis equate freedom with disorder and violence.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Larry […]