Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, ” ‘An Iraqi defector who described himself as a civil engineer said he personally worked on renovations of secret facilities [in Iraq] for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons,’ began a story carried by the New York Times under the byline of Judith Miller on December 20, 2001. Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri […]
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12/20/2001
“The following are excerpts of a written statement [issued on December 20, 2001] by the U.S. treasury secretary Paul O’Neill upon the designation of Umma Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) as a terrorist organization. UTN was ostensibly established as a charity by several Pakistani nuclear scientists including Dr. [Sultan Bashir-ud-din] Mahmood. ‘Today, we are blocking the assets of […]
12/20/2001
On December 20, 2001, President Bush said of bin Laden: ” ‘There was a significant difference in my attitude after Sept. 11. I was not on point, but I knew he was a menace, and I knew he was a problem. …I was prepared to look at a plan that would be a thoughtful plan […]
12/20/2001
In December 2001, “a high-ranking Iraqi engineer named Adnan Saeed defected to the United States and told American officials about the locations and details of sites that Saddam was still using to store chemical, biological and nuclear materials. According to the New York Times [on December 20, 2001], ‘Mr. Saeed said that several of the […]
12/20/2001
“The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which aimed to assist the Afghan Transitional Authority in creating and maintaining a safe and secure environment in Kabul and its surrounding area, was created in December [20] 2001 in negotiations led by the British, authorised by United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1386 and successive resolutions (the latest […]
12/19/2001
“By December 19 [2001], even the most optimistic ‘true believers’ at the Pentagon and at CENTCOM [Central Command] headquarters in Tampa, Florida, knew that the Tora Bora operation [in Afghanistan] had been an abysmal failure. Captain Robert Harward, a veteran Navy SEAL and the commander of the elite twenty-three-hundred-man U.S.-coalition Special Forces unit Task Force […]
12/19/2001
“In a December 19 [2001] MSNBC broadcast, [host] Chris Matthews said that although the Taliban bad been battered in Afghanistan, ‘it looks increasingly like Osama bin Laden may have crossed the border to Pakistan.’ He continued, ‘If bin Laden is in Pakistan, he could find haven with members of Pakistan’s intelligence service, which has long […]
12/18/2001
” ‘Most countries would like to see Saddam go,’ said one senior Egyptian official. ‘But attacking Iraq will not solve the problem of Saddam Hussein. It will just attract sympathy for him.’ ” – Neil MacFarquhar, “Many Arabs Nervous About Attack on Iraq,” The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2001 […]
12/18/2001
An example of the CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ program, in which suspects were snatched in the middle of the night and subjected to aggressive methods that were not legal in America, took place in Sweden on December 18, 2001. “With little warning, a half-dozen masked men whisked two Egyptian asylum seekers, Muhammad Zery and Ahmed Agiza […]
12/17/2001
Regarding former President Bill Clinton’s casual responses to terrorist attacks, his political advisor and pollster, Dick Morris, said in a National Review article on December 17, 2001: ” ‘He had almost an allergy to using people in uniform… he was terrified of incurring casualties; the lessons of Vietnam were ingrained far too deeply in him. […]