“On Monday, November 26 [2001], during a Rose Garden ceremony…[President] Bush was asked about Iraq by the press…[He replied:] ‘If anybody harbors a terrorist, they’re a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they’re terrorists. I mean, I can’t make it any more clearly to other nations around the world. If they develop weapons of mass destruction […]
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11/26/2001
On November 26, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed by Larry King of CNN. Powell “said the president [Bush] retained ‘all his options’ if Saddam did not accept inspectors. Bush’s linkage–that Saddam should allow UN inspectors into Iraq with the purpose of proving he had no WMD–was a critical point. It tied the […]
11/26/2001
Regarding Iraq, on November 26, 2011, President “Bush added that ‘as for Mr. Hussein, he needs to let inspectors back in his country, to show us that he is not developing weapons of mass destruction.’ ” – Elisabeth Bumiller, “Readmit Inspectors, President Tells Iraq; ‘Or Else’ Is Unstated,” The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2001 […]
11/26/2001
Secretary of State Colin Powell “said on CNN tonight [November 26, 2011] that he was working with Russia for a compromise on what the [Bush] administration calls ‘smart sanctions’ against Iraq, which are intended to let in civilian goods but not military ones. ‘What we don’t want to have go in, are equipment that can […]
11/26/2001
“At a Rose Garden press conference [on November 26, 2001], President Bush emphasizes that ‘Afghanistan is still just the beginning’ and publicly suggests for the first time that Iraq may be the next target in the war on terrorism: ‘As for Mr. Saddam Hussein, he needs to let inspectors back in his country to show […]
11/26/2001
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “President Bush calls for weapons inspectors to return to Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Nov. 26, 2001 […]
11/25/2001
American Taliban member John Walker Lindh was “present during a prison uprising in Afghanistan [on November 25, 2001] by Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees that resulted in the death of Capt. Johnny ‘Mike’ Spann, although there is no evidence that Lindh was responsible for Spann’s death.” – Peter Margulies, Law’s Detour, Page 47 […]
11/25/2001
“Once victory in Afghanistan was ensured, [President] Bush had privately instructed [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld in late November 2001 to dust off the military’s Iraq invasion plans, which had been on the shelf with minimal updates since the 1991 Gulf War. Rumsfeld had delegated the assignment to General Tommy Franks, the CENTCOM [Central Command] […]
11/25/2001
“In November [25, 2001], CIA officers went to interrogate Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners detained at a primitive nineteenth-century Afghan fortress, Qala-i-Jangi. A riot ensued. Using weapons smuggled onto the complex, enemy fighters killed one of our officers, Johnny ‘Mike’ Spann, making him the first American combat death in the war.” – George W. Bush, […]
11/25/2001
American Taliban John Walker Lindh was captured, and subsequently nearly killed, by the Northern Alliance on November 25, 2001. “Lindh managed to survive…and eventually fell into the hands of the CIA and Special Forces, who proceeded to interrogate him. According to documents later unearthed by Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times, a Special Forces […]