In Spain on March 11, 2004, “a group of mostly Moroccan Spaniards had launched multiple bombings on Madrid’s transportation system, killing 191 and wounding hundreds more, attacks designed to protest Spanish support for the war in Iraq. …the Madrid attacks were largely the work of leaderless jihadis who financed the bombings with the proceeds of […]
3/11/2004
” ‘The [National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance] program was reauthorized without us and without a signature from the Department of Justice attesting to its legality,’ he [acting Attorney General James Comey] said [on March 11, 2004]. ‘And I prepared a letter of resignation, intending to resign the next day, Friday, March the 12th… I didn’t […]
3/11/2004
On March 11, 2004, President “Bush decided to reauthorize the NSA [National Security Agency] [warrantless surveillance] program in spite of the view by his own Justice Department that it was not legal. It had not been legal from the start, but Bush and [NSA Director Michael] Hayden had at least taken comfort from the fact […]
3/11/2004
In an interview with Saddam Hussein on March 11, 2004, FBI Special Agent George Piro asked why Iraq did not use chemical weapons against the coalition in the First Gulf War. Saddam “stated that it is not Iraqi policy to use chemical weapons against coalition forces. …He asked how Iraq would have been described if […]
3/11/2004
In an interview with FBI Special Agent George Piro on March 11, 2004, Saddam Hussein discussed the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Saddam declared: ” ‘Kuwait is Iraqi.’ According to Hussein, Kuwait was ‘stolen’ from Iraq by a British resolution. He added that if Kuwait had not been a country with oil, it would not […]
3/11/2004
“On Thursday, March 11, 2004, thirteen bombs exploded on four morning rush-hour commuter trains in Madrid [Spain], killing 191 and wounding more than 1,500. Had the bombs exploded only a minute or so later, experts calculated, the glass roof of the main Atocha station might well have collapsed, resulting in many more casualties. The operation […]
3/11/2004
“Al Qaeda was probably involved in the March [11] 2004 attack on Madrid [Spain]‘s metro system as well, the largest terrorist attack in Europe since World War II. Bin Laden and [al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-] Zawahiri now routinely claim this as one of their ‘raids’ into the West and point to its impact on […]
3/11/2004
As a train pulled into Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, at 6:39 a.m. on March 11, 2004, “three bombs exploded in the third, fourth, and sixth cars. Almost simultaneously, four more bombs exploded in the first, fourth, and sixth cars of a second train, about 500 meters outside the station. …At 6:41 A.M., two bombs […]
3/10/2004
According to FBI Director Robert Mueller, who visited Attorney General (AG) John Ashcroft in the hospital on March 10, 2004, along with White House Chief of Staff Andy Card and presidential counsel Alberto Gonzales: “Ashcroft complained that he, the attorney general, was never able to get the full details of the NSA [National Security Agency] […]
3/9/2004
“Article 15-6 Investigation of the 900th Military Police Brigade” also known as the Taguba Report by MG Antonio M. Taguba in March of 2004, Deputy Commanding General Support, Coalition Forces Land Component Command, was an inquiry into “all facts and circumstances surrounding recent allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison” as requested by Lieutenant […]