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.’ “ […]
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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 […]
3/15/2003
A 2005 Justice Department memo said: “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 Times, April […]
3/15/2003
“…in the hours just before the fall of Baghdad in March 2003, our forces intercepted communications between top Iraqi commanders asking when they would receive permission to unleash chemical and biological weapons on coalition forces.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 336 […]
3/15/2003
“…the State Department knew nothing of the new interrogation rules approved by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and had no confirmation of mistreatment until news stories in March 2003 revealed that two Afghans had been beaten to death while in U.S. custody. Although the military had initially reported that the men had died of natural […]
3/14/2003
Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo’s “March 14, 2003 memorandum essentially states that the President [Bush] is free to override any international treaty in order to conduct his war on terror. It also goes to great lengths to argue that any U.S. law forbidding harsh or torturous techniques would not apply […]
3/14/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “810. … -Mr Brummell wrote to Mr Rycroft on 14 March: ‘It is an essential part of the legal basis for military action without a further resolution of the Security Council that there is strong evidence that Iraq has failed to comply with and […]
3/14/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Chirac told Mr Blair on 14 March that France was ‘content to proceed *in the logic of UNSCR 1441*: but it could not accept an ultimatum or any *automaticity’ of recourse to force’. He proposed looking at a new resolution in line with […]
3/14/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “472. Mr David Brummell (Legal Secretary to the Law Officers) wrote to MrMatthew Rycroft (Mr Blair’s Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs) on 14 March: ‘It is an essential part of the legal basis for military action without a further resolution of the Security Council […]
3/14/2003
Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John “Yoo’s March [14] 2003 opinion…declared that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming, and other crimes did not apply to the military interrogators in Guantanamo. …Among the practices the memo discussed as arguably legal were gouging a prisoner’s eyes out, dousing him with ‘scalding water, corrosive acid, or […]