In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the Bush Administration’s approach to combating terrorism: ” ‘The problem was you didn’t have an approach against Al Qaeda because you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan, and you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan because you didn’t […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said that President “Bush was warned a month before the Sept. 11 terror attacks that the F.B.I. had detected ‘suspicious activity’ that suggested terrorists might be planning a domestic hijacking. She said he was also told that the bureau was […]
4/8/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice pointed out in her April 8, 2004, testimony before the 9/11 Commission that the nation was not prepared to take action against al Qaeda before 9/11: ” ‘Until there is a catastrophic event that forces people to think differently, that forces people to overcome all customs and old culture and […]
4/8/2004
In his private interview with the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, former President Bill Clinton “offered no apologies for his failure to kill Osama bin Laden, because, he said, he had done everything within his power to accomplish it. ‘I wanted to see him dead,’ Clinton said…” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 305 […]
4/8/2004
9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey said, on April 8, 2004: ” ‘In the spirit of further declassification, this is what the August sixth [2001 Presidential Daily Briefing] memo said to the president [Bush], that *the FBI indicates patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with the preparations for hijacking.* ‘ ” – Philip […]
4/8/2004
During National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 commission on April 8, 2004, “There was an audible gasp in the audience as Rice confirmed officially, once and for all, what had long been suspected–that the August 6 [2001] PDB [Presidential Daily Briefing] was an explicit warning from the CIA, only a month before […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: “For almost two decades…’the terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them.’ ” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 296 […]
4/7/2004
From Iraq, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer and Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez held a videoconference with the National Security Council on April 7, 2004. President Bush “declared that [radical cleric Moqtada al-] Sadr’s Mahdi Army was a ‘hostile force’ and that they could not let a single radical cleric change the course of […]
4/5/2004
“Fallujah [Iraq] was divided into two sectors, northern and southern, and two Marine battalions would take each sector. By 5 April [2004], the Marines’ operation was well underway, but the insurgents put up stiff resistance. …On 9 April, the Coalition declared a unilateral ceasefire. The US Marines, having initially opposed the operation, were incensed. They […]
4/5/2004
“On 5 April [2004], Dan Senor, the CPA’s [Coalition Provisional Authority’s] spokesman, announced that an Iraqi judge had issued an arrest warrant for the ‘Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’ in connection with the 2003 murder of ‘another cleric’ at a mosque in Najaf. Senor, and later [Deputy Director of Coalition Operations for Combined Joint Task Force-Seven] […]