On September 26, 2006, President Bush said that the “9/11 attacks were the product of terrorists ‘who saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings [of] the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of the two embassies in Africa, […]
9/26/2006
The CIA’s 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, released on September 26, 2006, “said that although the U.S. effort had seriously damaged the leadership of Al Qaeda and disrupted its operations, ‘a large body of all-source reporting [from around the world] indicates that activists identifying themselves as jihadists…are increasing in both number and geographic dispersion. If this […]
9/26/2006
Responding to former President Bill Clinton’s claim on September 24, 2006, that the Bush Administration did not make attempts to combat terrorism before 9/11, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the New York Post on September 26, 2006: ” ‘The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t do that is […]
9/25/2006
“In a poll of U.S. adults released September 25, 2006, 55 percent of respondents said that Iraq was not worth going to war over. Sixty-three percent of those questioned believed that neither side was winning.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 481 […]
9/24/2006
In an interview with Fox News on September 24, 2006, former President Bill Clinton said, regarding the Bush Administration: ” ‘They had eight months to try’ to get Bin Laden and put Al Qaeda out of business. ‘They did not try. I tried and failed. At least I tried.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution […]
9/24/2006
When asked about his efforts to combat terrorism on the September 24, 2006, airing of Fox News Sunday, former President Bill “Clinton said that though he failed, at least he tried to kill bin Laden while [President] Bush did not. ‘They had eight months to try,’ Clinton said. ‘They did not try. I tried.’ ” […]
9/24/2006
“As Mark Mazzetti noted as he broke the story in the New York Times [on September 24, 2006], ‘The [National Intelligence] Estimate’s judgments confirm some predictions of a National Intelligence Council report completed in January 2003, two months before the Iraq invasion,’ stating that ‘the approaching war had the potential to increase support for political […]
9/24/2006
On September 24, 2006, “The National Intelligence Estimate, representing the consensus of sixteen different U.S. spy services, concluded that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq since March 2003 has helped to spawn a new generation of Islamic radicals–effectively increasing the terror threat since the attacks of 9/11.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 479 […]
9/23/2006
“In a speech at the neoconservative Hudson Institute in Washington in September [23] 2006, he [former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar] said that Muslims should apologize for their eight hundred-year occupation of Spain and described an initiative to encourage dialogue between Muslims and the West as ‘absurd.’ ” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush […]
9/21/2006
“At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on September 21 [2006], Gen. James Jones, who was due to retire as NATO supreme commander, testified for the first time that the Taliban headquarters were based in Quetta [Pakistan].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 370 […]