According to a Guardian article written by Britain’s former Environmental Minister Michael Meacher, on September 6, 2003: ” ‘The overriding motivation [for the U.S. war on terror]…is that the U.S. and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies. By 2010 the Muslim world will control as much as 60% of […]
9/3/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “687. The JIC assessed on 3 September that the security environment would probably worsen over the year ahead. There had been a number of serious attacks on the Coalition in MND(SE), and Islamic ‘extremists/terrorists’ were expected to remain a long-term threat in Iraq. The […]
9/3/2003
In an address to the nation on September 3, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘Our strategy in Iraq will require new resources… I will soon submit to Congress a request for $87 billion. This budget request will also support our commitment to helping the Iraqi and Afghan people rebuild their own nations, after decades of […]
9/2/2003
“Preparing to testify before the 9/11 Commission in 2003, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger paid several visits to National Archives to review Clinton-era documents. While purportedly looking over the documents before their delivery to the 9/11 Commission, Berger took several bathroom breaks. Archives staff suspicions were aroused on September 2 [2003], when he appeared […]
8/31/2003
“By the end of August 2003, the military’s public estimate of active resisters to the occupation [in Iraq] ranged from a low of 5,000 to a high of about 10,000 people. But private estimates about the tenacity of the insurgency were more alarming. It was not so much because of the large numbers of fighters […]
8/29/2003
In Najaf, Iraq, on August 29, 2003, “a bomb exploded near the Tomb of Ali, one of the holiest of Shia Muslim shrines. Weekly prayers had ended and a mass of people were just leaving when the bomb exploded, collapsing the front entrance to the shrine. At least 100 people were killed and many more […]
8/29/2003
“On Friday, 29 August [2003], as Ayatollah [Mohammed] Baqir al-Hakim was emerging from the south entrance to the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf [Iraq], having just delivered the weekly sermon, he and nearly a hundred other people were killed by a powerful car bomb. …In the few weeks before his death the Ayatollah had […]
8/28/2003
“In August 2003, the US made the planned transfer of most of its 7,000 military personnel and 200 warplanes from the Prince Sultan airbase in al-Kharj [Saudi Arabia] to Doha, Qatar. Coverage in the American press suggested that bin Laden had hastened the move, which had been agreed at the end of April: ‘US military […]
8/26/2003
President George W. Bush: “Retreat in the face of terror would only invite further and bolder attacks. There will be no retreat. We are on the offensive against the Saddam loyalists, the foreign fighters, and the criminal gangs that are attacking Iraqis and coalition forces. We’re receiving more and more vital intelligence from Iraqi citizens, […]
8/24/2003
In order to combat the large numbers of insurgents entering Iraq, “The CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] created the Department of Border Enforcement [with Order 26, on August 24, 2003], which was given a large variety of functions, some of which, such as customs, later had to be transferred back into the more appropriate ministries. In […]