“In October [12], 2002, two hundred and two people died in Bali [Indonesia] in a bombing directly tied to Riduan Ismuddin, aka ‘Hambali,’ the Indonesian cleric who had attended the January 2000 Kuala Lumpur 9/11 planning session and was on the board of Konsonjaya, the Malaysian front company that funded the [Ramzi] Yousef-KSM [Khalid Sheikh […]
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10/12/2002
“…the bombings of two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali in [October 12] 2002, which killed some two hundred mostly Western tourists, were the work of Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaeda’s Southeast Asian affiliate, and were the most deadly terrorist attack in the history of the world’s most populous Muslim country…” – Peter Bergen, The Longest […]
10/11/2002
“…the only reason given by Congress in its October 11, 2002, joint resolution authorizing war [with Iraq] was national security, nothing else. The resolution read: ‘The president is authorized to use the armed forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to defend the national security of the […]
10/11/2002
Regarding the Iraq war vote on October 11, 2002: “In the House of Representatives, 81 Democrats voted for the war, 126 against it; no Republican voted against it. In the Senate, 29 Democrats voted for the war, 21 against it, and only one Republican voted against it.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. […]
10/11/2002
On October 11, 2002, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) “openly accused the Bush administration of deliberately sabotaging their efforts to create an independent commission appointed by Congress to investigate 9/11, suggesting the administration was afraid the investigation might turn up government failure. McCain said, ‘Every bureaucracy in this town is scared to […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002 the New York Times reported that the Pentagon already had plans to occupy and control Iraq’s oilfields. The next day The Economist described how Americans in the know had dubbed the waterway demarcating the southern borders of Iraq and Iran ‘Klondike on the Shatt al Arab,’ while Ahmed Chalabi, head of […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002, the military officials down in Guantanamo asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld for permission to use the new list of eighteen harsher interrogation techniques they had compiled in their brainstorming sessions.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 200 […]
10/11/2002
In examining the secret military documents that traced the origins of the coercive interrogation policy at Guantanamo, General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto Mora said: “It began on October 11, 2002, with the request by…[Guantanamo military commander] Major General Michael Dunlavey, for permission to make interrogations more aggressive. …On December 2, 2002, there was […]
10/11/2002
On October 11, 2002, “The Senate voted 77 to 23 for the resolution [favoring military force in Iraq]. Twenty-nine of the fifty Democrats said aye.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 150-151 […]
10/11/2002
“The vote in the Senate on October 11 [2002], supporting the president’s [Bush’s] resolution was 77 to 23…the resolution…states that the president could use the military under the ‘necessary-and-appropriate’ standard to defend against ‘the continuing threat posed by Iraq.’ It was a blank check.” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 204 […]