On January 5, 2004, President Bush said: “the United States was ‘aggressively striking the terrorists in Iraq, defeating them there so we will never have to face them in our own country.’ ” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 236 […]
1/5/2004
In early January 2004, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix wrote: “the resumed search for weapons in Iraq has been pursued for more than a year–by UNMOVIC [UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] before the occupation and by U.S. teams, mainly the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), thereafter. While both groups have identified missile-related activities, […]
1/4/2004
“The [transitional Afghan] government’s biggest accomplishment was drafting a new constitution, which was ratified by a third loya jirga [grand council] in January [4] 2004.” – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 208 […]
1/4/2004
“On January 4 [2004], Aljazeera TV airs an audiotape purported to be from Osama bin Laden that refers to the recent capture of Saddam Hussein and calls on Muslims to ‘continue the jihad to check the conspiracies that are hatched against the Islamic nation.’ Bin Laden says the U.S. war against Iraq was the beginning […]
1/1/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “697. On 1 January 2004, Sir Jeremy Greenstock wrote bluntly: ‘This theatre [Iraq] remains a security crisis.’ “ – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Jan. 1, 2004 […]
12/31/2003
According to a Washington Post article on December 4, 2005: “authorities focused on Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen whose name matched that of a man believed to have trained in an Al Qaeda camp. He was seized in Macedonia on New Year’s Eve 2003 after local authorities said his passport was fake, and, three weeks […]
12/23/2003
“In a meeting on December 23, 2003, [Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission Philip] Zelikow demanded that the CIA…provide any and all documents responsive to its requests. …But in an omission that would later become part of a criminal investigation, neither [CIA Director George] Tenet nor anyone else from the CIA in the meeting mentioned […]
12/20/2003
“Six days after Saddam’s capture [December 20, 2003], Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya–a longtime enemy of America and state sponsor of terror–publicly confessed that he had been developing chemical and nuclear weapons. He pledged to dismantle his WMD programs, along with related missiles, under a system of strict international verification.” – George W. Bush, Decision […]
12/19/2003
On December 19, 2003, following the announcement that Libya was abandoning its WMD programs, President Bush said: ” ‘leaders who abandon the pursuit of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them, will find an open path to better relations with the United States and other free nations.’ ” – Peter Baker, […]
12/19/2003
“Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi watched the U.S. action in Afghanistan and preparations for Iraq and decided he didn’t want to be next. …six days after Saddam was captured [December 19, 2003], Qaddafi announced he would turn over all his WMD materials. His centrifuges, uranium hexafluoride, weapon design, and associated materials were shipped to the United […]