“On November 8, [2002] the UN Security Council passed… Resolution 1441, which Bush had been eagerly waiting for. It stated that Saddam had broken the terms of a previous resolution about WMDs and must immediately start to cooperate with UN inspectors.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 27 […]
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11/7/2002
While taking questions after delivering a speech on November 7, 2002, President Bush said, regarding Saddam Hussein: ” ‘He’s a threat not only with what he has, he’s a threat with what he’s done. He’s a threat because he is dealing with al Qaeda.’ ” – George W. Bush, “President Outlines Priorities,” White House Press […]
11/7/2002
Terry Moran, a member of the press, questioned if going to war with Iraq would simply be creating more terrorists. President George W. Bush replied: “Well, that’s like saying we should not go after al Qaeda because we might irritate somebody and that would create a danger to Americans. My attitude is you got to deal […]
11/5/2002
“The results of the November 5 [2002] congressional elections further encouraged the Anabasis team [the covert CIA operation to topple Saddam’s regime]–and anyone else hoping for war [in Iraq]. The Republicans enlarged their margin in the House and regained control of the Senate. ‘It was pretty much everything [President] George W. Bush wanted,’ CNN political […]
11/5/2002
“…in early November 2002, Al-Jazeera broadcast a long diatribe from Osama, and within days National Security Agency specialists confirmed the voice on the audiotape was his. Chillingly, he praised a new wave of recent terrorist operations stretching from a car-bomb attack on a tourist nightclub in Bali to an explosives-laden speedboat attack on a French […]
11/5/2002
In the midterm congressional elections on November 5, 2002, “thanks to the war on terror and [President] Bush’s high approval ratings, the Republicans won a narrow majority in the Senate, thereby seizing control from the Democrats. …In the House, the Republicans picked up eight seats and increased their majority over the Democrats to twenty-five.” – […]
11/4/2002
According to The Los Angeles Times on November 4, 2002, a top European terrorism investigator said: ” ‘We have found no evidence of any links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.’ …’If there were such links, we would have found them, but we have found no serious connections whatsoever.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, […]
11/4/2002
“On November 4, 2002, Abu Ali al-Harithi, al Qaeda’s top operative in Yemen and a planner of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and five other suspected al Qaeda members were driving in a car outside the Yemeni capital of Sana. An unmanned Predator drone…located the car and fired a Hellfire missile. All six […]
11/4/2002
On November 4, 2002, “NSA [National Security Agency] intercepted al Qaeda’s Yemen operations chief [Abu Ali al-Harithi] as he held a lengthy conversation on his satellite phone while driving through the desert in the so-called Empty Quarter of eastern Yemen. Using the locational data provided by the NSA, a CIA unmanned Predator drone was immediately […]
11/3/2002
After being sentenced for ‘material support’ for al Qaeda, Lackawanna Six ringleader “Kamal Derwish, had fled to Yemen, although his escape would prove short-lived. On November 3, 2002, Derwish was incinerated in a CIA drone strike on the car he was riding in across the Yemeni desert, along with one of the USS Cole conspirators. […]