“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 threat posed by Saddam and his WMD… produced a strong bipartisan vote on October 11, 2002, on the use-of-force resolution, with 110 Democrats and 263 Republicans in the House and Senate voting for it and only 149 Democrats and 7 Republicans opposing it. The vote in the House was 296-133 in favor and in […]
10/11/2002
“…when both houses of Congress passed the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq in October [11] 2002, more than 180 members cited the possible Iraqi nuclear threat as a reason for supporting the resolution, and a number of senators specifically cited the British report of Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium yellowcake.” – Stefan […]
10/11/2002
Senator Feingold on his reasoning for voting against the invasion of Iraq, “Given what we knew about Saddam Hussein (and we knew quite a lot), the important thing was whether it made any sense for him to coordinate with the likes of Osama bin Laden or to guarantee his own destruction by launching an independent […]
10/11/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “US Congress authorises use of force in Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Oct. 11, 2002 […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002, Congress voted on a resolution authorizing the use of U.S. armed forces against Iraq. It passed with a large majority.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 27 […]
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 […]