“On November 23 [2002], [suspected 20th hijacker Mohammed] al-Qahtani was brought in shackles to a plywood interrogation booth, where his hood was removed, and he was bolted to the floor. For forty-eight of the next fifty-four consecutive days, he was allowed only four hours of sleep a night. …Qahtani was also forced to strip naked, […]
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11/23/2002
According to a Los Angeles Times article on November 23, 2002: “A mini scandal erupted in November 2002 when it was learned that money from the wife of [Prince Bandar bin Sultan] the Saudi ambassador to the United States found its way through a San Diego-based charity into two of the [9/11] hijackers’ hands.” – […]
11/23/2002
Alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed al-Qahtani was captured in Afghanistan and sent to Guantanamo, where he was tortured. “Al-Qahtani’s interrogations continued over forty-nine days–from November 23, 2002, to January 11, 2003. The log published in Time magazine [on March 3, 2006] described how he was forcibly administered intravenous fluids and drugs and given enemas to keep […]
11/20/2002
In a statement from Prague, Czech Republic, on November 20, 2002, President Bush said: “Today the world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. A dictator who has used weapons of mass destruction on his own people must not be allowed to produce or possess those weapons…” – George […]
11/20/2002
“In November 2002, a newly minted CIA case officer in charge of a secret prison just north of Kabul [Afghanistan] allegedly ordered guards to strip naked an uncooperative young Afghan detainee [later identified as Gul Rahman], chain him to the concrete floor and leave him there overnight without blankets, according to four U.S. government officials […]
11/18/2002
In an effort to break down ‘the wall’ between communication of different intelligence agencies, “On November 18, 2002, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ruled for the first time in history. The review overturned the lower FISA Court’s ruling that had limited the sharing of information between the criminal law enforcement and […]
11/18/2002
After the UN Security Council voted unanimously on November 8, 2002, to give Iraq a last chance to submit to weapons inspections, “Ten days later [November 18, 2002], Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, arrived in Baghdad with Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An […]
11/18/2002
On November 18, 2002, “UN weapons inspectors arrive in Iraq for the first time in nearly four years.” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time of Our Choosing, Page 294 […]
11/16/2002
“President George W. Bush said in [November 16] 2002 that ‘the best way to keep America safe from terrorism is to go after terrorists where they plan and hide.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 13 […]
11/15/2002
In the final report on The Transition to Democracy in Iraq, issued in November 2002, “the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, which sought to demilitarize society and establish civilian control over the military, warned of the ‘substantial social and economic chaos’ (including the explosive growth of organized crime) that could result from the rapid ‘de-commissioning […]