Tyler Drumheller, the CIA’s chief of operations in Europe until 2005, appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes on April 23, 2006. “Even though [President] Bush had been told firsthand that Saddam had no WMDs, according to Drumheller, the White House was ‘no longer interested. …They said, *Well, this isn’t about intel anymore. This is about regime […]
4/20/2006
By April 2006, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a conservative Shiite, “had failed to form a coalition government–he had no support among the Sunnis and Kurds–and had been unable to rein in the militias that had been fomenting violence across Iraq since the Samarra bombing two months earlier. …Jaafari finally bowed out on April 20 […]
4/19/2006
“Three years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, only one major U.S. building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: the massive new American embassy compound. The $592 million facility is being built inside the heavily fortified Green Zone by 900 non-Iraqi foreign workers who are housed nearby and under the supervision […]
4/18/2006
After a press conference on April 18, 2006, President Bush was questioned about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had recently received criticism from numerous generals. ” ‘I don’t appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld,’ Bush said. ‘He’s doing a fine job.’ As for the generals, he said, ‘I listen to all voices, but mine’s […]
4/18/2006
“President George Bush announced in April [18] 2006, ‘I’m the decider, and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as secretary of defense.’ In November, following loss of control of both houses of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, the president changed his mind, replaced Rumsfeld with Robert Gates, […]
4/15/2006
“…the [April] 2006 National Intelligence Estimate…described the Iraq conflict as ‘the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadists.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 112 […]
4/15/2006
“The [Bush] administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate on ‘Trends in Global Terrorism: implications for the United States,’ circulated within the government in April 2006 and partially declassified in October, states that ‘the Iraq War has become the *cause celebre* for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ “ [The 15th of […]
4/15/2006
From the National Intelligence Estimate of April 2006: ” ‘The Iraq War has become the cause celebre for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]
4/15/2006
Though Guantanamo Bay first took in prisoners on January 11, 2002, “Their very presence at the facility was kept a secret for years because the military would not release the names of detainees until April 2006.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 108 […]
4/15/2006
“In [April] 2006, the National Intelligence Estimate attributed a direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism in the Middle East and elsewhere. The report included input from sixteen intelligence agencies and concluded that the Iraq war made the overall terrorism problem worse. It pointed out that the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib […]