In April 2002, the State Department “set in motion a series of meetings and working groups made up of Iraqi exiles, which examined various aspects of Iraq’s society and economy, and prepared a number of policy prescriptions for a possible new government in Iraq. Technical groups were organised around a number of thematic issues, including […]
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4/15/2002
Former FBI agent Ali Soufan was interviewed for a Newsweek article on April 25, 2009. He spoke about the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques on captured al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah in April 2002. “As Soufan tells the story, he challenged a CIA official at the scene about the agency’s legal authority to […]
4/15/2002
In a video released by Al Jazeera on April 15, 2002, Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman “Al-Zawahiri claimed: ‘Those 19 hijackers who went out and worked and sacrificed their lives for God, God granted their conquest that we enjoy today. The great victory that was achieved was because of God’s help and not because of our […]
4/15/2002
From the Chilcot inquiry, the British public inquiry into their involvement in the war in Iraq: “Witnesses to the inquiry have indicated that [Prime Minister Tony] Blair made clear to [President] Bush from April 2002, nearly a year before the invasion, that he was committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein with or without UN security council […]
4/15/2002
“Mr. [Binyam] Mohamed, who was born in Ethiopia and moved to Britain as a teenager, was apprehended in Pakistan in April 2002 as he was trying to leave the country with a falsified British passport. He had been in Afghanistan and had undergone military training, which he said was to prepare him to fight in […]
4/15/2002
“A yearlong State Department study [the Future of Iraq Project] predicted many of the problems that have plagued the American-led occupation of Iraq, according to internal State Department documents and interviews with [Bush] administration and Congressional officials. Beginning in April 2002, the State Department project assembled more than 200 Iraqi lawyers, engineers, business people and […]
4/15/2002
Author James Bamford quoted conservative journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave, the editor-at-large of The Washington Times: ” ‘When this writer first heard from prominent neoconservatives in April 2002 that war [with Iraq] was no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘when,’ the casus belli had little to do with WMDs’, he said. ‘The Bush administration, they […]
4/13/2002
In an interview with the Portuguese magazine Expresso on April 13, 2002, al Qaeda member Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos remarked: ” ‘Bin Laden once said that any adult Israeli citizen, man or woman, could be assassinated. Because [Israeli] women could also serve in the army. There was an American there who asked: *But the […]
4/11/2002
On April 11, 2002, “an al Qaeda-suspected bomb exploded in a Tunisian synagogue, killing nineteen.” – Pete Lance, Cover Up, Page 211 […]
4/11/2002
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “April 11, 2002: Djerba, Tunisia: The Ghriba synagogue is bombed by a natural gas truck. The attack kills fifteen tourists (fourteen Germans and one Frenchman) and six Tunisians. Thirty others are wounded.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and […]