On February 12, 2003, CIA Director George “Tenet testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq has ‘provided training in poisons and gases to two al-Qaeda associates,’ a point that [Secretary of State Colin] Powell had also made in his UN presentation [on February 5, 2003]. Such claims were, of course, not checkable by […]
Category: quotes
2/12/2003
From a recent audiotape from Osama bin Laden, which had been broadcast by Al Jazeera: ” ‘We advise the importance of dragging the enemies’ forces to a long, exhausting and continuous battle. The worst fear of the enemy is street and city fighting, this is the war in which the enemy expects great losses. We […]
2/11/2003
In his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 11, 2003, CIA Director George Tenet said: ” ‘Iraq is harboring senior members of a terrorist network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a close associate of al Qaeda. …Iraq has in the past provided training in document forgery and bomb-making to al Qaeda. […]
2/11/2003
“On February 11, 2003, bin Laden sent a letter to the Iraqi people, broadcast via al-Jazeera, warning them the Crusaders were planning ‘to occupy one of Islam’s former capitals, loot Muslim riches, and install a stooge regime to follow its masters in Washington and Tel Aviv to pave the way for the establishment of Greater […]
2/11/2003
On February 11, 2003, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee: ” ‘Iraq has in the past provided training in document forgery and bomb making to al Qaeda. It also provided training in poisons and gasses to two al Qaeda associates… this information is based on a solid foundation of intelligence. […]
2/11/2003
“On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, NSA [National Security Agency] director Michael Hayden issued a secret directive called a Director’s Intent to all NSA components, warning that war with Iraq was near. ‘I tried to conduct a SIGINT [signals intelligence] and Information Assurance operation for the Iraq campaign that will meet the combatant commanders’ objectives of […]
2/11/2003
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 11, 2003, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman said: ” ‘We will demonstrate to the Iraqi people and the world that the United States wants to liberate Iraq, not to occupy Iraq or control Iraqis or their economic resources.’ ” – Ali A. Allawi, […]
2/11/2003
“In [February 11] 2003, its [FBI’s] director, Robert Mueller, proclaimed, ‘The greatest threat is from al Qaeda cells in the U.S. that we have not yet identified.’ He rather mysteriously deemed the threat from those unidentified entities to be ‘increasing in part because of the heightened publicity’ surrounding such episodes as the 2002 Washington sniper […]
2/11/2003
“On February 11, 2003, bin Laden sent a letter to the Iraqi people, broadcast via the satellite network al Jazeera, warning them to prepare for the ‘Crusaders’ war to occupy one of Islam’s former capitals, loot Muslim riches, and install a stooge regime to follow its masters in Washington and Tel Aviv to pave the […]
2/10/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “349. Addressing the JIC Assessment of 10 February 2003, Mr Blair told the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) later that year that: ‘One of the most difficult aspects of this is that there was obviously a danger that in attacking Iraq you ended up […]