As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “181. An Arab League Summit on 1 March concluded that the crisis in Iraq must be resolved by peaceful means and in the framework of international legitimacy.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP,, “The Report of the Iraq […]
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3/1/2003
“Since 9/11, the FBI has made significant gains against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terror network. The biggest ‘get’ came in early March [1] 2003 with the arrest of Ramzi Yousef’s uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who helped his nephew plan the strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” – Peter Lance, […]
3/1/2003
“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the primary architect of the September 11 attacks, had been captured in March [1] 2003 by the CIA and was…’singing like a bird.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 269 […]
3/1/2003
“…U.S. authorities paid a $25 million reward to a Pakistani informant for information that led to [9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed’s capture [on March 1, 2003].” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 269 […]
3/1/2003
“On March 1 [2003], the Turkish Parliament rejected the US request to move troops through the country [in order to have a northern front in the event of a war with Iraq].” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 325 […]
3/1/2003
9/11 mastermind “Khaled Sheikh Mohammed’s luck finally ran out on March 1, 2003. American and Pakistani agents tracked him down in a section of the old Raj cantonment city of Rawalpindi, favored by serving and retired Pakistani generals. He was captured in a private house without a fight, sleepy and disheveled in a white T-shirt.” […]
3/1/2003
Former CIA Agent Robert Baer wrote: “When [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Sheikh Muhammad was run to ground in Pakistan in March [1] 2003, he was in the company of Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi, a Saudi conduit for the September 11 hijackers drawing from accounts in the United Arab Emirates. According to a Gulf security official I talked […]
3/1/2003
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “Of all the terrorist takedowns, none was more important or memorable than the capture in Pakistan of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [KSM, on March 1, 2003]. …No person, other than perhaps Usama bin Ladin [UBL], was more responsible for the attacks of 9/11 than KSM, and none, other than UBL, […]
3/1/2003
Following the capture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) on March 1, 2003, he was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques. These led to information that allowed for the capture of other terrorists. Then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “I believe that none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM […]
3/1/2003
“By the beginning of March 2003, 98 percent of all army reserves and 45 percent of all National Guard intelligence units were on active duty either in the United States or in the Persian Gulf.” [The 1st of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 247 […]