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 […]
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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 […]
3/15/2003
In March 2003, “The Arizona National Guard was deployed to the Palo Verde nuclear power plant because an attack by al Qaeda extremists was believed to be ‘imminent.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?, Page 205 […]
3/15/2003
According to a declassified report prepared by the CIA in April 2006, titled ‘Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States:’ “…the [March 2003] American occupation of Iraq became ‘the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.’ “ […]
3/15/2003
“In mid-March 2003, less than a week before the U.S. launched its attack [on Iraq], [Vice President Dick] Cheney sent a speech over to the CIA for review making all the old arguments that there was a ‘link [between Iraq and al Qaeda].’ [CIA Director George] Tenet tells us that he telephoned [President] Bush to […]