On December 20, 2001, a New York Times article by Judith Miller declared: ” ‘An Iraqi defector who described himself as a civil engineer said he personally worked on renovations of secret facilities for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in underground wells, private villas and under the Saddam Hussein hospital in Baghdad as recently as […]
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12/20/2001
“ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] grew out of the UN-sponsored conference of a wide range of Afghan leaders, which met in Bonn [Germany] in December [20] 2001. At that same meeting, the leaders also established the Afghan Transitional Authority, led by Hamid Karzai, and laid the groundwork for the political revitalization of Afghanistan.” – Dov […]
12/20/2001
According to The New York Times on December 20, 2001: “One of the more revealing accounts of Saddam’s clandestine attempts to rebuild his nonconventional weapons infrastructure was provided by Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a civil engineer who escaped from Iraq in the summer of 1991. In his debriefing by CIA and FBI agents, Haideri said […]
12/20/2001
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 […]
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 […]
12/19/2001
“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. […]