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 […]
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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 […]
11/26/2001
“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 […]
11/25/2001
“Not until November 25 [2001], seven weeks after starting the operation, did the United States insert a ground force unit (Marines) to take and hold a former al Qaeda and Taliban facility near Kandahar [Afghanistan]. The Taliban kept control of the city, however, until December 7. The late-November operation did not include any effort by U.S. […]
11/25/2001
“In late November [25] 2001, a group of recently captured Arab Taliban fighters at Qala Jangi [Afghanistan] used concealed weapons to kill CIA agent Johnny Spann and others and took over the facility for a week until they were subdued in one of the most brutal battles in the Afghanistan campaign.” – Jack Goldsmith, The […]
11/25/2001
“In late November 2001 the imminent fall of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz alarmed the Pakistani military regime. Thousands of Taliban and foreign fighters had retreated to Kunduz from areas seized by the Northern Alliance. Hundreds of Pakistani military officers, ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] advisers, and foreign fighters, including Pakistani volunteers, had been trapped, raising […]
11/25/2001
John Walker “Lindh was an American who went to Pakistan and then Afghanistan to learn Islam. He joined the Taliban, although he apparently expressly rejected an offer by an Al Qaeda leader to commit terrorism in the United States. U.S. personnel captured Lindh [on November 25, 2001] after the American intervention in Afghanistan.” – Peter […]