In October 2003, “Iran pledged to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing. In return, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France agreed to provide financial and diplomatic benefits, such as technology and trade cooperation.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 415 […]
10/15/2003
“In October 2003, a major study on the insurgency, embodied in a US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), concluded that the insurgency was driven by local factors, and that it drew its strength from deep grievances and a widespread hostility to the presence of foreign troops. This came on the heel of a steady flow of […]
10/15/2003
“By October 2003, 203 American soldiers had died at the hands of Iraqi insurgents, more than all casualties suffered during the invasion of Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 266 […]
10/15/2003
“CENTCOM [Central Command] did not even begin reconstruction planning [in Iraq] until five months after the fall of Baghdad [October 2003]. But by that time, the Iraqi insurgency was in full swing, and the reconstruction plan was quickly junked in favor of a counterinsurgency plan, which also had not been worked on prior to the […]
10/15/2003
According to a Newsday article on October 15, 2003, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and John Dingell (D-MI) discovered that “Halliburton was charging U.S. taxpayers exorbitant prices to import gasoline into Iraq. …Waxman and Dingell informed the Bush administration that KBR [Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary] was billing the U.S. army between $1.62 and […]
10/15/2003
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘Another [Iraqi] asylum seeker…reporting through Defense HUMINT [human intelligence] channels provided one report in June 2001 that Iraq had transportable facilities for the production of BW [biological weapons]. This…source recanted in October 2003, however, and the recantation was reflected in a […]
10/15/2003
Regarding the Fourth Geneva Convention, which governed the duties of an occupying power and the treatment of civilians and whether or not it protected Iraqi terrorists, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Jack Goldsmith said: “Near the end of my first week on the job [mid-October 2003], the lawyers around the […]
10/15/2003
Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel Jack “Goldsmith’s opinion that Geneva’s rules covered all Iraqis also had the effect of heightening the legal peril for those involved in killing [prisoner Manadel al-] Jamadi. His ruling was issued in mid-October [2003]. Jamadi was killed less than a month later, after the new ruling was in […]
10/15/2003
“Despite his innocence, [falsely accused and tortured by the CIA, Canadian citizen Maher] Arar had signed numerous false confessions by the time he was released [in October 2003]. ‘I was ready to do anything to get out of that place, at any cost,’ he later admitted. Arar’s provably false confessions underscore what virtually every expert […]
10/15/2003
“…In October 2003, [approximately a year after his September 26, 2002, rendition and torture by the CIA, Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher] Arar was released without charges, after his wife forced the Canadian government to take up his cause. …A thorough official investigation by the Canadian government cleared Arar of any links to terrorism and concluded […]