“In November 2002, under mounting pressure, Iraq had agreed to cooperate with the UN inspection regime for the first time since December 1998, when inspectors had been withdrawn.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 62 […]
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11/15/2002
“On November 15 [2002], Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans that if there were a war with Iraq, it would be a short one. ‘The idea that it’s going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990,’ he said on a […]
11/15/2002
In November 2002, the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, a part of the Future of Iraq Project, released a report titled ‘The Transition to Democracy in Iraq.’ “The report recognized that a huge political and security vacuum would open up with the fall of the [Baathist] regime and that this vacuum would need to be […]
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 […]
11/15/2002
“The CLI [Committee for the Liberation of Iraq] was formed in November 2002, featuring [neoconservative political analyst William] Kristol, [former CIA director R. James] Woolsey, [neoconservative political analyst Robert] Kagan, [Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard] Perle, and PNAC [Project for the New American Century] Executive Director Gary Schmitt. The committee accused […]
11/15/2002
“As part of the Bush administration’s rendition program, some terrorism suspects were transferred to countries where torture is known to be used. The C.I.A. has declined to say publicly where [Ethiopian national] Mr. [Binyam] Mohamed was held and has denied that it ever engaged in or condoned torture. Mr. Mohamed has said that he was […]
11/15/2002
“…al-Qaida demanded, in a statement from November 2002, ‘Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Mary Habeck, Knowing the Enemy, Page 103 […]
11/15/2002
“According to a DOD [Department of Defense] interrogation log which has been made public, [starting in November 2002] [alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed] Al-Qahtani had been subjected to 160 days of isolation in a pen perpetually flooded with artificial light. He was interrogated on 48 of 54 days, for 18 to 20 hours at a stretch. […]
11/15/2002
” ‘For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the most important source of funds for al Qaeda,’ the Council on Foreign Relations concluded in a November 2002 special report on the financing of terror.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, […]
11/15/2002
Secretary of Defense “Donald Rumsfeld, taking the line of many other senior Bush officials, told CBS News [on November 15, 2002] that the projected war ‘has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.’ ” – Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Page 190 […]