“Osama bin Laden vowed never to be taken alive in an audiotape broadcast on a militant website [on February 20, 2006]. ‘I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived,’ Bin Laden said in the 11-minute recording. ‘The jihad is […]
2/16/2006
On February 16, 2006, “the United Nations Human Rights Commission called for the United States to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo, where it said some practices ‘must be assessed as amounting to torture.’ The U.N. report described ‘the confusion with regard to authorized and unauthorized interrogation techniques’ as ‘particularly alarming.’ ” – Jane […]
2/15/2006
In a speech given at Stanford University in February 2006, former British terrorism chief David Omand said: ” ‘The aim of the al Qaeda leadership for the present phase of their campaign is not just to attack us. It is to try to create the impression throughout the Muslim world that a global struggle against […]
2/14/2006
In his February 14, 2006, speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) said: “There was no public talk of removing Saddam Hussein because of his attack on the integrity of the dollar as a reserve currency by selling oil in Euros. Many believe this was the real reason for our […]
2/10/2006
“In an article in the journal Foreign Affairs on February 10, 2006, retired CIA agent Paul Pillar, who oversaw CIA intelligence assessments about Iraq from 2000 to 2005, accused the Bush administration of ‘cherry-picking’ intelligence on Iraq. ‘Intelligence was misused publicly…to justify decisions that had already been made.’ He wrote that as a result of […]
2/9/2006
“In a speech on February 9, 2006, he [President Bush] announced that the tallest building in Los Angeles, the Library Tower, had been the target of al-Qaeda linked terrorists in 2002. The president explicitly used his retelling of the alleged plot to try to keep American perceptions of the terrorist threat fresh in their minds. […]
2/8/2006
“…an analysis of U.S. government documents undertaken by Seton Hall University [for a report released on February 8, 2006] shows that only five percent of the detainees at Guantanamo were arrested by U.S. forces–the vast majority had been captured by Pakistani or Afghan Northern Alliance forces and handed over to the U.S. government.” – M. […]
2/8/2006
According to information from a February 8, 2006, Seton Hall Report on Guantanamo detainees: “only some 5 percent of all the detainees held at Guantanamo were ever apprehended by U.S. forces to begin with. Why is that? Almost all of the prisoners there were turned over to American forces by foreigners, some with an ax […]
2/8/2006
Statistics from the February 8, 2006 Seton Hall University Law School study ‘Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data,’ “concluded that only 8 percent [of detainees] were alleged to have associated with Al Qaeda. Fifty-five percent were not alleged to have engaged in any hostile act […]
2/7/2006
Vice President Dick Cheney explained the details of warrantless wiretapping in an appearance on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on February 7, 2006. ” ‘It’s not domestic surveillance… The requirements for this authorization to be utilized are that one end of the communication had to be outside the United States, and one end of the communication […]