“…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 […]
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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 […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002 the Saudi embassy in Washington gave the finger to the State Department and federal law officials, providing a new passport for the wife of a suspected al Qaeda sympathizer and slipping her and her five children out of the U.S. after she was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.” [The […]
11/15/2002
“In a series of conversations and meetings in November 2002, [FBI Special Agent Jim] Clemente and several other FBI and Criminal Task Force members confronted General [Geoffrey] Miller, who by then had taken over the military command [at Guantanamo]. They warned him strongly that the cruel and degrading interrogation approaches under contemplation for [potential 20th […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002, the United Nations Security Council had found Iraq in violation of sixteen UN resolutions and demanded that it come clean about its WMD programs.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 184 […]
11/15/2002
“[A] November 2002 paper produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) reiterated the [October 1, 2002] NIE’s [National Intelligence Estimate’s] assessment that Iraq had a ‘broad range of lethal and incapacitating agents’ and that the ‘BW [biological weapons] program is more robust than it was prior to the Gulf War.’ The piece contended that […]
11/15/2002
“…in November 2002, Saddam Hussein succumbed to the pressure of a huge U.S. military buildup in Kuwait and the Bush administration’s increasingly strident rhetoric about the necessity of regime change in Baghdad. He permitted the UN inspectors to return and gave them more or less unfettered access to suspected weapons sites.” [The 15th of the […]
11/15/2002
“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 […]