Former Vice President Dick Cheney wrote: “…the New York Times published a story that damaged our efforts to track the flow of funding to terrorists. The June 23, 2006, story was headlined ‘Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror.’ It exposed details about a classified program to track banking transactions, which, […]
6/16/2006
Starting on June 16, 2006, “the U.S. military and its Iraqi allies launched a major counteroffensive aimed at improving security in the capital [Baghdad]. Dubbed ‘Together Forward,’ the operation involved some 42,500 Iraqi police and army personnel backed up by 7,200 U.S. troops. The Iraqi forces were instructed to erect new checkpoints, enforce extended dusk-to-dawn […]
6/15/2006
The ‘Special Security Initiative of the Policy Action Group’ report was compiled by the U.S., NATO and Afghan intelligence in June 2006. “The report described Pakistan’s role in the most unflattering light of any intelligence report so far: ‘ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] operatives reportedly pay a significant number of Taliban living/operating in both Pakistan and […]
6/15/2006
“According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, in June 2006, public opinion in two countries in the world supported the U.S. war on terror–India and Russia. Meanwhile, corrupt and repressive states, including Egypt, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, have all justified their own brutality by citing America’s example. …Canada went so far as to place America on […]
6/15/2006
“…a June 2006 poll of American soldiers in Iraq showed that an astonishing 90% of them thought Hussein was involved in 9/11, that they were fighting to bring justice and to protect our country from further attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George […]
6/12/2006
At an Iraq summit at Camp David on June 12, 2006, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Michael Vickers “distributed a four-page paper maintaining that ‘it is highly unlikely that American forces, even with growing Iraqi security force assistance, will be able to defeat the insurgency within the next 2-3 […]
6/12/2006
At an Iraq summit at Camp David on June 12, 2006, “The war cabinet gathered in Laurel Lodge and sat on one side of a conference table facing screens showing [Central Command leader General John] Abizaid, [U.S. Commander in Iraq General George] Casey, and [Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad in Iraq. Casey reported that the situation had […]
6/9/2006
“Yasser Al-Zahrani, a Saudi citizen, was captured at the age of 17 in Afghanistan. After four years in Guantanamo, on June 9, 2006 he, along with Mani Al-Tabi, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed, died under violent and mysterious circumstances. The following morning, Guantanamo commander Rear Adm. Harry Harris declared the deaths suicides, and acts of ‘asymmetrical […]
6/9/2006
On June 9, 2006, detainees “Yasser Al-Zahrani, Mani Al-Utaybi, and Salah Ahmed Al-Salami are found dead in their cells at Guantanamo under mysterious circumstances, and determined to have simultaneously committed suicide. In 2009, guards who were on duty that evening come forward with evidence that the men were murdered.” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization […]
6/7/2006
“The breakthrough that nailed [al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi was the patient (noncoercive) interrogation of a Sunni insurgent who eventually told his American interrogators that the best way to find the al-Qaeda leader was by tracking his ‘spiritual advisor,’ a man who would change cars several times before meeting with Zarqawi and […]