“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 […]
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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 […]
4/14/2003
“In Washington that Monday [April 14, 2003]–twenty-six days after the war [in Iraq] began, the Pentagon declared that major combat operations were over. ‘The major Iraqi units on the ground cease to show coherence,’ said Major General Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ‘There will be a requirement for […]
4/13/2003
” ‘You know, it’s amazing, he [President Bush] said [on April 13, 2003], ‘the statue [of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq] comes down on Wednesday [April 9, 2003] and the headlines start to read: ‘Oh, there’s disorder. Well, no kidding. It is a situation that is chaotic because Saddam Hussein created conditions for chaos.’ ” […]
4/13/2003
In April 2003, the Defense Department’s working group “issued a report approving interrogation methods for use at Guantanamo Bay. The group recommended twenty-six techniques for general use…of which twenty-two were strategies for purely verbal questioning…” On April 13, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld specifically refused to authorize these exceptional interrogation methods for Guantanamo Bay, […]
4/13/2003
During a dinner with Vice President Cheney on April 13, 2003, former Donald Rumsfeld Aide Ken Adelman said: ” ‘I was just stunned that we have not found weapons of mass destruction.’ There were several hundred thousand troops and others combing the country. ‘We’ll find them,’ [Defense Deputy Paul] Wolfowitz said. ‘It’s only been four […]
4/13/2003
“On April 13 [2003], [Vice President Dick] Cheney hosted a small dinner to celebrate the fall of Hussein. The few invited included [vice presidential Chief of Staff] Scooter Libby, [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz, and [former Donald Rumsfeld Aide] Ken Adelman… Over dinner, the group toasted [President] Bush and victory in Iraq. Cheney was […]
4/11/2003
In Iraq, after troops entered Baghdad on April 9, 2003, “Looting on a massive scale broke out, but U.S. forces did not attempt to stop it. When reporters asked about the escalating level of violence and chaos in Baghdad [on April 11, 2003], Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made his now famous comment: ‘Freedom is […]
4/11/2003
“In an April 11 [2003] press conference, where his remarks were interspersed with slides of cheerful GIs in company with happy Iraqis, he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] infamously exclaimed, ‘Stuff happens,’ citing the American urban riots of the 1960s as precedent. The main fault, he made clear, lay with the media. ‘In terms of […]