On October 29, 2004, Al Jazeera aired a videotape of Osama bin Laden, his first in over a year. He said: ” ‘Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry, or [President] Bush, or al-Qaeda. It is in your own hands and any state that does not violate our security […]
10/29/2004
On the campaign trail on October 29, 2004, “Calling attention to presidential elections scheduled in Iraq in January [2005], [President] Bush told voters, ‘Think how far that country has come from the days of torture chambers and mass graves. Freedom is on the march, and we’re more secure for it.’ Echoing his State of the […]
10/29/2004
On October 29, 2004, a new videotape by Osama bin Laden was aired on Al Jazeera. In it, he said: ” ‘As you spoil our security, we will do so to you. …Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or [President] Bush or Al Qaeda. Your security is in […]
10/29/2004
Bin Laden made his first admission of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks in a tape released to Al Jazeera on October 29, 2004. ” ‘We decided to destroy towers in America so they may taste what we have tasted,’ he says, clearly referring to the World Trade Center.” – Alex Johnson, Pete Williams, Tamara Kupperman, […]
10/29/2004
“Clare Short, who earlier had resigned from [U.K.] Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet [on May 12, 2003] to protest the war [in Iraq], exclaimed [per The Independent on October 29, 2004], ‘It is really horrifying. When will Tony Blair stop saying it is all beneficial for the Iraqi people since Saddam Hussein has gone? How […]
10/29/2004
According to an October 29, 2004, study by the British medical journal The Lancet: “most of the deaths [in the invasion of Iraq]–nearly 80 percent–were the result of American bombing runs. ‘Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces,’ noted the report, ‘were women and children.’ ” – James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Page 395 […]
10/25/2004
“In October [25] 2004, the New York Times reported that 380 tons of the high explosives HMX and RDX had disappeared from an Iraqi weapons site called al Qaqaa, which had been identified as a possible location for weapons of mass destruction. With the U.S. presidential election in its closing days, the news caused a […]
10/25/2004
“A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday [October 25, 2004]. …They said the opinion would essentially allow the military and the C.I.A. to treat […]
10/25/2004
On October 25, 2004, “CBS and The New York Times reported that the Iraqi government had warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations, a complex called Al Qaqaa. The explosives, which could produce bombs strong […]
10/24/2004
President Bush “asserted at a campaign event in Colorado in [October 24] 2004, ‘We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]