A 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum “says that the C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Scott Shane, “Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects,” The New York […]
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3/15/2003
Then-CIA Director George Tenet made a comment to President Bush regarding the possibility of a link between Iraq and al-Qa’ida: ” ‘Mr. President,’ I said one morning in March 2003, ‘the vice president [Dick Cheney] wants to make a speech about Iraq and al-Qa’ida that goes way beyond what the intelligence shows. We [CIA] cannot […]
3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “21. In mid-March, Mr Blair’s determination to stand alongside the US left the UK with a stark choice. It could act with the US but without the support of the majority of the Security Council in taking military action if Saddam Hussein did not accept the US […]
3/15/2003
After informing President Bush in March 2003 that Vice President Dick Cheney was going to make an erroneous speech regarding the Iraq-al-Qa’ida link, then-CIA Director George Tenet said: “CIA found absolutely no linkage between Saddam and 9/11. At best, all the data in our possession suggested a plausible scenario where the ‘enemy of my enemy […]
3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “271. Mr Tony Brenton, Chargé d’Affaires, British Embassy Washington, reported that President Bush was determined to remove Saddam Hussein and to stick to the US timetable for action. The UK’s ‘steadfastness’ had been ‘invaluable’ in bringing in other countries in support of action.” – Commissioned […]
3/15/2003
“A study produced by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies [in November 2003] indicates that Israel’s vaunted intelligence services could find no indication that Iraq possessed banned weapons, despite their location and access to Middle East sources. ‘On the eve of the war [March 2003],’ said the report, ‘Israeli intelligence on Iraqi capabilities […]
3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “473. Mr Rycroft replied to Mr Brummell on 15 March: ‘This is to confirm that it is indeed the Prime Minister’s unequivocal view that Iraq is in further material breach of its obligations, as in OP4 [operative paragraph 4] of UNSCR [United Nations Security […]
3/15/2003
“[T]he [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony Blair] gave his unequivocal view in writing on 15 March [2003] that the requirements of Resolution 1441 [which gave Saddam a final opportunity to comply with disarmament of WMD] were being breached.” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 254 […]
3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “272. In a declaration on 15 March, France, with Germany and Russia, attempted to secure support in the Security Council for countries in support of action.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: […]
3/15/2003
“In March 2003, the government raised the national alert level to orange for the third time. Authorities feared that the imminent American invasion of Iraq would provoke attacks by ‘allied or sympathetic terrorist organizations, most notably the al Qaeda network.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael […]