“…the Army Surgeon General’s office, in a survey of the mental health and ethical outlook of soldiers and Marines in Iraq conducted the following year [November 17, 2006], found that one-third of its 1,767 respondents believed torture should be allowed if it helped gather important information about insurgents, and even more said they approved of […]
11/17/2006
“One of the very few voices in American public life supporting an increase in troops [in Iraq] was that of Senator John McCain [R-AZ], who was in the difficult position of arguing that the war had been poorly executed but that more troops would improve the situation. ‘Without additional combat forces, we will not win […]
11/15/2006
“In November 2006, the DOD’s [Department of Defense’s] Criminal Investigation Task Force reported that [alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed] Al-Qahtani would be ‘unprosecutable’ because of the extent to which his interrogations had risen.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, […]
11/15/2006
“Last November [2006], the group al Qaeda of Jihad Organization in the Land of Yemen claimed credit for attacking oil facilities in the Hadramawt region ‘as directed by our leader and commander Sheik Osama bin Laden…[and in order] to target the Western economy and stop the robbery [and] the looting of Muslim resources.’ ” [The […]
11/15/2006
“In November [15] 2006, Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the CIA, admitted that ‘the lessons learned in Iraq are being applied to Afghanistan’ by al Qaeda.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 282 […]
11/15/2006
“As recently as late [November 15] 2006, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center published a study declaring, ‘Osama bin Laden may be the leading symbol of global Islamist militancy but the al-Qaeda leader wields less influence over Islamist theology than more obscure religious thinkers.’ The consensus argument holds that bin Laden cannot speak authoritatively about Islam […]
11/15/2006
General John “Abizaid, the chief of the Central Command, told Senators John McCain [R-AZ] and Lindsey Graham [R-SC] in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on November 15 [2006] that he and every general he had asked opposed sending more troops to Iraq. ‘I do not believe that more American troops right now is the […]
11/14/2006
“After years of denials, the CIA has formally acknowledged the existence of two classified documents governing aggressive interrogation and detention policies for terrorism suspects, according to the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]. But CIA lawyers say the documents–memos from President Bush and the Justice Department–are still so sensitive that no portion can be released to […]
11/12/2006
On his objection to statements made by the President and others, Russ Feingold states “Against such a backdrop, what began as a few general references to “getting back at those towel heads” soon became more directed to the religion of Islam itself. This was long after President Bush had made the fundamental mistake of referring […]
11/10/2006
“In a remarkable statement last November [10, 2006], [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi’s successor, Abu Hamza al-Masri, thanked President George W. Bush for sending the U.S. Army to Iraq and thus giving al Qaeda the ‘great historic opportunity’ to engage Americans in direct fighting on Arab ground. (He also said that […]