“On Oct. 17, 2004… [Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi pledged fealty to bin Laden and spoke in his online posting of eight months of negotiations, interrupted by a ‘rupture.’ Experts believe their contact was almost exclusively in the open space of the Internet. Two days later, Zarqawi put out his first statement in the […]
10/17/2004
” ‘We’re an empire now and when we act, we create our own reality,’ a Bush adviser told [journalist] Ron Suskind [according to his October 17, 2004, article in The New York Times]–a quote that historians will doubtlessly use as a defining one for the Bush era. ‘And while you’re studying that reality–judiciously, as you […]
10/17/2004
“In an October [17, 2004] statement, [militant Jordanian Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi announced that he was changing the name of his group [from al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad] to Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers [Iraq], and he declared his allegiance to bin Laden, saying he considered bin Laden ‘the best leader for Islam’s […]
10/17/2004
“On October 17, 2004, [militant Jordanian Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi issued an online statement pledging allegiance to bin Laden. Zarqawi’s pledge was fulsome: ‘By God, O sheikh of the mujahideen, if you bid us plunge into the ocean, we would follow you. If you ordered it so, we would obey.’ And so, nearly two years […]
10/17/2004
“An extensive investigation published in the Knight Ridder newspapers [on October 17, 2004] uncovered the astonishing truth that even as the invasion [of Iraq] began, there was literally no plan at all for the postwar period.” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 116 […]
10/17/2004
“…on October 17, 2004, [militant Jordanian Abu Musab al] Zarqawi issued an online statement in the name of his Tahwid group pledging allegiance to bin Laden. Zarqawi adopted a new name for his group, ‘al Qaeda in Iraq.’ And so nearly two years after Bush officials had first argued that Zarqawi was part of al […]
10/17/2004
“On October 17, 2004, after several months of discussion, [militant Jordanian Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi proclaimed his allegiance to the al Qaeda center and to the ‘sheikh of the Mujahedin of our time, Abu Abdullah Osama bin Laden.’ The name of his group was changed from Tawhid al Jihad to Tanzim al Qai’dat al Jihadi […]
10/17/2004
Abu Musab Al- “Zarqawi was the principal foreign jihadist in Iraq. A Sunni extremist from Jordan, Zarqawi had worked for years with Iraq-based terrorists whom the CIA labeled as close affiliates of al Qaida. (In his letter, Zarqawi proposed a formal affiliation between himself and al Qaida.) Later, in October [17] 2004, Zarqawi would pledge […]
10/16/2004
“As Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott of Knight-Ridder observed [on October 16, 2004], ‘The Bush administration’s failure to plan to win the peace in Iraq was the product of many of the same problems that plagued the administration’s case for war, including wishful thinking, bad information from Iraqi exiles who said Iraqis would welcome […]
10/15/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “809. … -The Government was quick to acknowledge the need for a review, rejecting an independent inquiry in favour of reviews initiated by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.” [The 15th of the month for […]