“Though outspokenly opposed to the US invasion from the outset, [radical Shi’a cleric Moqtada] al-Sadr initially urged peaceful protest and non-violence. However, when the US occupation authorities banned his newspaper al-Hawza, on 4 April 2004 he led the first major armed uprising in the postwar period, ordering his followers to ‘terrorize’ the enemy and threatening […]
4/4/2004
“On April 4, 2004, [9/11 Commission members] Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton went on Meet the Press and reluctantly acknowledged-in response to [host Tim] Russert’s questions–what many on the commission’s staff believed had been obvious since the early days of the investigation: The 9/11 attacks could have been prevented. They should have been prevented.” – […]
4/3/2004
In Spain, on April 3, 2004, “the police received a tip that the terrorists [behind the March 11, 2004 train bombings] were in an apartment in the suburb of Leganes, south of Madrid. After a standoff that lasted several hours, with [militants] Sarhane [Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet], [Allekema] Lamari, [Jamal] Ahmidan, and four others in the […]
4/3/2004
On April 3, 2004, “Special Forces executed the predawn raid in Najaf at the home of [Iraqi theologian and political leader Muqtada] al-Sadr[‘s] lieutenant Mustafa al-Yaqoubi, arrested him, and spirited him off to a prison in northern Iraq. Everything went according to plan. But with this action coming on the heels of [weekly newspaper] Hawza‘s […]
4/3/2004
The Coalition Provisional Authority “arrested Sheikh Mustafa al-Yaqoubi, an influential acolyte of [theologian and political leader] Moqtada [al-Sadr], on 3 April [2004], on charges of complicity in [Shia cleric Abdul Majid al-] Khoei’s murder. On the following day, demonstrators from Najaf converged on the nearby Spanish security base and in the confused situation that followed […]
4/2/2004
On April 2, 2004, “the New York Times broke another story revealing that the Bush White House was blocking the [9/11] Commission from access to more than nine thousand pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from the Clinton years.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 145 […]
4/1/2004
LTC Fred P.Taylor wrote a rebuttal to the Taguba Report, “Article 15-6 Investigation of the 900th Military Police Brigade,” on April 1, 2004, to the Staff Judge Advocate, regarding BG Janis L. Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade. In regards to the admonishment cited by LTG Ricardo Sanchez’s, CJTF-7, on Jan. 17, 2004: […]
3/31/2004
In Iraq, on March 31, 2004, “a two-vehicle convoy of private security company Blackwater USA employees was ambushed while traveling through the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah. A group of masked gunmen opened fire with assault weapons and grenades and killed all four of the Americans. A mob then mutilated, burned, and dragged the bodies through […]
3/31/2004
In Iraq, on March 31, 2004, “A small convoy of SUVs carrying Blackwater USA security guards was ambushed in the center of Fallujah. The gunmen raked the Americans’ car with AK-47s. Then the vehicle was set alight. Dancing in a frenzy, a mob of townsmen dragged the smoldering corpses from the wreckage and ripped at […]
3/31/2004
“On the morning of Wednesday, March 31 [2004], the head of ISG’s [Iraq Survey Group’s] chemical- and biological-weapons team, Rita, sent an Australian chemist and intelligence analyst, Vanessa, to investigate the site [the Al Abud Company]. Vanessa returned with photographs, an inventory of equipment, and other documents, including a copy of the mujahadeen ‘recipe book’ […]