“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
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 […]
9/9/2010
“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 […]
9/5/2010
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
“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 […]
8/31/2010
As American troops planned to pull out of Iraq on August 31, 2010, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki “marked the occasion…with a national address proclaiming his country ‘sovereign and independent.’ …’If these security achievements were not real, we would not have been able to move to executing the bigger and more important step, which is […]
8/31/2010
Speaking from the White House on August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama said: ” ‘The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who made huge sacrifices of their own, our troops fought block by block […]