As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “811. … -In December 2002, the deployment of 3 Commando Brigade was identified as a way for the UK to make a valuable contribution in the initial stages of a land campaign if transit through Turkey was refused. The operational risks were not explicitly […]
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12/15/2002
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said: “Ultimately, President Bush concluded that he had to remove Saddam’s regime from power by war. In my judgment, his moment of decision came in December 2002, when the Iraqi regime made its unsatisfactory WMD declaration to the United Nations. From that point forward, it seemed to me, […]
12/15/2002
In his treatise ‘Loyalty and Enmity,’ written in December 2002, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri quoted the Koran, verse 5:51-53: ” ‘Allah Most High said: *O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors; they are but friends and protectors to each other. Whoever among you […]
12/15/2002
In his treatise ‘Loyalty and Enmity,’ written in December 2002, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri stated: ” ‘Palestine is torn asunder and demolished, its children slaughtered every day–yet its Arab neighbors respond with either silence or connivance. Iraq is victim to one campaign after another, in order to slay its Muslim populace, divide the […]
12/15/2002
In his treatise ‘Loyalty and Enmity,’ written in December 2002, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri stated: ” ‘The issue [of a coalition to evict Iraq’s army from Kuwait after the 1990 invasion] is not about helping infidel forces against the forces of the Baathist Saddam [Hussein]; instead, it is about the usurpation of the […]
12/15/2002
“In December [2002], two Afghan prisoners held by the U.S. military at Bagram Air Base [Afghanistan] were beaten to death by their interrogators. …A third prisoner…had died of hypothermia under the auspices of the CIA in the notorious prison known as the ‘Salt Pit,’ also in Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
12/15/2002
“One former CIA officer recalls a conversation he had in December 2002 with the chief of the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) of the Directorate of Operations, the unit within the CIA that was supposed to be in charge of recruiting spies and collecting intelligence on WMD in Iraq and other countries. The division chief admitted during […]
12/15/2002
Regarding the war in Iraq, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice helped conceive it and was one of its chief advocates, and when the president [Bush] finally asked her, point-blank in the Oval office in December 2002, if he should take the country to war, she said yes.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
12/15/2002
“Australian special forces took part in the early stages of allied operations in Afghanistan, but most of them were withdrawn by December 2002, only to be reinforced later in August-September 2005.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 39 […]
12/15/2002
According to the ‘Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,’ released in December 2002: “A leader of the FBI’s counterterrorism team declared he was ’98 percent certain’ that bin Laden would strike overseas. A later review found this was the ‘clear majority view’ among intelligence analysts.” [The 15th of […]