“The International Media Front of Islam (IMFI) is bin Laden’s cyber-presence. Constantly mutating, it is always delivered in a different form and at the end of a series of links from and through other sites. Over 200 sites have links to IMFI sites. In September 2005, with typical audacity, the IMFI launched its own news […]
9/15/2005
Former President George W. Bush wrote: in September 2005, “The North Koreans agreed to abandon all nuclear programs and return to their commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. I was skeptical. Kim Jong-il had violated his commitments in the past. If he did so again, he would be breaking his word not just to the […]
9/14/2005
At a speech to the UN on September 14, 2005, President Bush “offered these two policies, war and free trade, as twin solutions to virtually all of the world’s problems. …Bush explained that the United States would also defeat the terrorists by fighting poverty and ‘the surest path to greater wealth is greater trade. …By […]
9/11/2005
A September 11, 2005, article in The San Diego Union-Tribune was written by former Special Forces Officer and Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation, Brian Michael Jenkins. “He compares the War on Terror to World War II and the Cold War. ‘Like the Cold War,’ he says, ‘the current contest could easily […]
9/11/2005
In an interview conducted by al-Sahab (the media production house of al-Qaeda) on September 11, 2005, al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri said: " 'I call upon the mujahidin to focus their campaign on the stolen petroleum of the Muslims. Most of its revenue goes to the enemies of Islam, and what's left [behind] is plundered […]
9/9/2005
“In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters in September [9] 2005, he [former Secretary of State Colin Powell] said that Iraq might not ‘have turned out to be such a mess if we had done some things differently,’ including sending more troops to manage the occupation and reestablishing the Iraqi military more quickly.” – Karen […]
9/5/2005
On September 5, 2005, Secretary of State Colin “Powell himself…contended, in defense of his participation [in his February 5, 2003 speech to the UN Security Council], ‘There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn’t be relied upon, and they didn’t […]
9/5/2005
Journalist Peter Bergen interviewed bin Laden’s friend Khaled Batarfi on September 5, 2005. Batarfi said bin Laden gave “warnings about Saddam to a salon of intellectuals in Mecca [Saudi Arabia] six months before his armies invaded Kuwait on August 1, 1990. Bin Laden told the group, ‘We should train our people, our young, and increase […]
9/5/2005
In early September 2005, when asked by President Bush’s speechwriter Mike Gerson why he supported the war in Iraq, Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger replied: “Because Afghanistan wasn’t enough. …The Iraq War was essential to send a larger message, ‘in order to make a point that we’re not going to live in this world […]
8/31/2005
In Iraq, “On 31 August 2005, crowds of Shi’a pilgrims converged on the Bridge of the Imams connecting the ‘Adhamiyya district of Baghdad with Kadhimain, the site of the shrines of the two Imams. They had been marshaled from all corners of Iraq by the Shi’a political parties, partly to commemorate a religious occasion and […]