From an interview with Omar bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden: ” ‘Will there be more attacks?’ I [journalist Guy Lawson] ask. ‘I don’t think so,’ Omar says. ‘He [Osama] doesn’t need to. As soon as America went to Afghanistan, his plan worked. He has already won.’ ” – Guy Lawson, “Osama’s Prodigal […]
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1/12/2010
The conclusion of the Davids Commission (the Dutch enquiry into the war in Iraq) said, in its January 12, 2010, report: “The AIVD [General Intelligence and Security Service] performed little internal analysis of Iraq’s WMD programme. Nevertheless, AIVD did observe Iraqi attempts at procurement within the Netherlands in the context of its non-proliferation remit.” – […]
1/12/2010
“An exhaustive enquiry carried out by an independent enquiry in the Netherlands has determined that there was no basis whatsoever in international law for the war in Iraq, meaning that those who carried it out, who were behind the wanton destruction of the State of Iraq and the numerous massacres and human rights violations carried […]
1/12/2010
In the Netherlands, the Davids Commission concluded that the war in Iraq, which was supported by the Dutch government, was illegal. As reported on January 12, 2010, in the Conclusions of the Committee of Inquiry on Iraq: “the [UN] Security Council resolutions on Iraq passed during the 1990s did not constitute a mandate for the […]
1/12/2010
In the Netherlands, the Davids Commission concluded that the war in Iraq, which was supported by the Dutch government, was illegal. As reported on January 12, 2010, in the Conclusions of the Committee of Inquiry on Iraq: “The Committee’s assessment is that, in its portrayal of Iraq’s WMD programme, the [Dutch] government was to a […]
1/12/2010
The conclusion of the Davids Commission (the Dutch enquiry into the war in Iraq) said, in its January 12, 2010, report: “At an early juncture, the Netherlands aligned itself with the US-British position, which was ultimately to lead to the invasion of Iraq. However, the Netherlands took the view that the strategy of regime change […]
1/12/2010
The conclusion of the Davids Commission (the Dutch enquiry into the war in Iraq) said, in its January 12, 2010, report: “Within the Dutch intelligence services, neither the AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) nor the MIVD (Military Intelligence and Security Service) possessed any significant amount of independently sourced information about Iraq’s WMD programme. Both […]
1/8/2010
“Echoing recent comments from former Bush administration officials, [former New York City Mayor] Rudy Giuliani defended former President George Bush’s record on terrorism Friday [January 8, 2010], saying the country was not subjected to domestic terror attacks when he was in office. ‘We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we’ve had one under Obama,’ Giuliani […]
1/8/2010
“A Gallup poll conducted in January [8] 2010 showed that 71 percent of those polled felt that those who ‘fit the profile’ of suspected terrorists should be subjected to more intensive security checks before being permitted to board airplanes.” – Susan Herman, Taking Liberties, Page 197 […]
1/7/2010
Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who used an underwear bomb in a failed attempt to blow up an airplane flying into Detroit, “previously had been in Yemen, where he had contact with the branch of bin Laden’s group called al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Earlier intelligence had focused solely on that branch conducting terrorist […]