“Asked on Fox News [on September 16, 2002] whether or not there were links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, initially circumspect, said that Iraq ‘clearly has links to terrorism…links to terrorism [that] would include al-Qaeda…’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 255 […]
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9/16/2002
On September 16, 2002, UN Secretary General Kofi “Annan stepped to the floodlit microphones at the UN to announce that Iraq would accept the return of weapons inspectors ‘without conditions.’ Blocks away…[Secretary of State Colin] Powell interrupted a meeting with the Egyptian foreign minister to read the Iraqi offer, which was not as unconditional as […]
9/16/2002
“The drive for war [in Iraq] was not helped when [President] Bush saw on September 16 [2002] that Lawrence Lindsey, his top economics adviser, had told the Wall Street Journal that it could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. In fact, Lindsey was just thinking out loud, not offering a formal projection. He was actually […]
9/16/2002
President George W. Bush stated: “And if Iraq regimes continues to defy us, and the world, we will move deliberately, yet decisively, to hold Iraq to account. We owe this to our children. We must anticipate. Somebody said, well, you know, they don’t have a nuclear weapon. I said, well, the most dangerous thing — and we […]
9/16/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “122. Dr Naji Sabri, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, wrote to Mr Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, on 16 September to inform him that, following the series of talks between Iraq and the UN in New York and Vienna between March and July 2002 and the […]
9/15/2002
Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dov Zakheim wrote: “As Congress returned to Washington from its summer recess in September 2002, it was becoming increasingly clear that the [Bush] administration was planning to attack Iraq, despite its continued assurances that the United States would not launch a military operation if Saddam complied with demands to open his […]
9/15/2002
In an interview in September 2002, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-“Zawahri argued that ‘Israel is a developed American military base in the heart of the Islamic world and in one of its most sacred places. So America must pay the price for its oppressive and brutal policy toward the Muslims, especially in Palestine.’ “ [The […]
9/15/2002
“Even in the aftermath of 9/11, there was a reluctance to believe that sleeper cells could be operating in the United States, particularly cells made up of American citizens. But as the FBI dug into the matter, the Bureau became believers. Six Yemeni Americans, all of whom had received training at an al-Qa’ida camp in […]
9/15/2002
In Lackawanna, New York, “six Yemeni-Americans who had traveled to Afghanistan, attended a training camp, and met bin Laden were arrested in September 2002. …The group was described in a briefing to the president [Bush] as the most dangerous cell in the country. But in reality, they were doing nothing throughout the time the FBI […]
9/15/2002
“The CIA reported in September 2002 that ‘Iraq continues to be a safehaven, transit point, or operational node for groups and individuals who direct violence against the United States, Israel, and other allies. Iraq has a long history of supporting terrorism.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Douglas […]