“A September 10 [2010] report by U.S. terrorism experts Bruce Hoffman and Peter Bergen for the Bipartisan Policy Center said the threat from al Qaeda had grown more complex, and U.S. citizens and residents were playing an increasing role in the leadership of al Qaeda planning and operations.” – William Maclean, “Analysis: Terrorism Alerts Reflect […]
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9/9/2010
“A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday [September 9, 2010] reveals that 36 percent think the country is safer from terrorism than it was before the 2001 attacks. Nearly two-thirds of Americans, however, are not personally worried about becoming a victim of terrorism. And most said they are prepared to deal with an attack if […]
9/9/2010
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released on September 9, 2010: “30 percent of Americans now believe it is likely the U.S. government will ever capture or kill bin Laden. Sixty-seven percent believe it is unlikely.” – Alan Silverleib, “Poll: Bin Laden Will Never be Caught, Most Americans Say,” CNN, Sep. 1, 2010 […]
9/5/2010
Professors Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes “followed up their 2008 book [titled, The Three Trillion Dollar War: the True Cost of the Iraq Conflict] with a September [5] 2010 Washington Post column, published as the United States ended what it dubbed its ‘combat operations’ in Iraq, arguing that their $3 trillion calculation was in fact […]
9/2/2010
“The Taliban is confronting a serious ‘cash flow’ problem after losing some half of its annual drug trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general [Maj. Gen. Richard Mills] said Thursday [September 2, 2010]. …Mills said the insurgency in Marjah [Afghanistan] is a shadow of what it once was […]
9/2/2010
“As of September [2] 2010, a Congressional Research Service report placed the Iraq War’s price tag at $751 billion, when taking into account the cost of military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, and embassies.” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 113 […]
8/31/2010
After announcing the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq on August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama said: ” ‘Going forward, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq with a different mission: advising and assisting Iraq’s Security Forces, supporting Iraqi troops in targeted counterterrorism missions, and protecting our civilians. Consistent with our […]
8/31/2010
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “self-penned volume ‘A Journey’ was published on [August 31, 2010] the day the United States formally ended combat operations in Iraq after a conflict that claimed more than 100,000 deaths, most of them civilians. Blair, 57, said he felt ‘desperately sorry’ for the lives cut short, but said the […]
8/31/2010
“Iraq’s prime minister today [August 31, 2010] said the end of the US combat role in the country restored Iraq’s independence and made it a sovereign power on an equal footing with America. ‘Iraq today is sovereign and independent,’ Nouri al-Maliki said in a televised address. ‘With the execution of the troop pullout, our relations […]
8/31/2010
According to a CNN.com article on August 31, 2010: “At 5 p.m. ET [on August 31, 2010]–at a cost of more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel killed and 30,000 wounded–America’s combat mission in Iraq officially drew to a close.” – Alan Silverleib, “U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq Ends,” CNN, Sep. 1, 2010 […]