From coverage of classified State Department documents exposed by WikiLeaks: “In February 2007, the US Embassy in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] cabled the following prediction back to Washington: ‘The Saudi leadership acknowledges privately that the war on terrorism will not be won for many years.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
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2/15/2007
“…the self-proclaimed emir of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, issued a statement in February 2007 welcoming news that the U.S. government was considering sending more troops to Iraq and saying that he was eagerly looking forward to an American nuclear attack on Iran.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
2/15/2007
“Sawt al Jihad, the now-defunct online magazine of AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula], claimed in February 2007 that cutting the U.S. oil supply through terrorist attacks ‘would contribute to the ending of the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daveed […]
2/14/2007
On February 14, 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered a report on the 14 ‘high value detainees’ held at Guantanamo Bay. The report read: “[T]he ICRC clearly considers that the allegations of the fourteen include descriptions of treatment and interrogation techniques–singly or in combination–that amounted to torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading […]
2/14/2007
On February 14, 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross released a report on the 14 ‘high value detainees’ who were transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo. In the report, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described his treatment by the CIA: ” ‘During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot […]
2/14/2007
On February 14, 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross released a report on the 14 ‘high value detainees’ who were transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo. In the report, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described his treatment by the CIA: ” ‘As the interrogation again resumed I was told by one of […]
2/14/2007
On February 14, 2007, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) wrote a confidential report that the CIA shared with President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The report “described the treatment regime that he [Al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubayda] underwent, categorically, as ‘torture’ and warned that the abuse constituted war crimes, […]
2/14/2007
Guantanamo detainees described their torture to the International Committee for the Red Cross for their February 14, 2007 report: “They described not just standing, but being kept up on their tiptoes with their arms extended out and up over their heads, attached by shackles on their wrists and ankles…eight hours a stretch…stark naked and often […]
2/13/2007
In an interview with journalist Peter Bergen on February 13, 2007, “Art Keller, a CIA officer stationed in the tribal areas of Pakistan in 2006, points out that the Iraqi ‘flypaper’ [drawing in of terrorists] didn’t prove to be particularly sticky: ‘People were going from the Afghan/Pakistan border to Iraq to learn the tactics and […]
2/12/2007
Journalist Ahmed Rashid interviewed veteran Pashtun nationalist politician Afrasiab Khattak on February 12, 2007. In discussing the resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, he said: ” ‘Safe passage was provided to al Qaeda by not deploying Pakistani forces on the border in South and North Waziristan, although troops were deployed in Khyber […]