Following the August 19, 2003, attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, President Bush said, regarding former Baathist officials, on August 22, 2003: ” ‘These people decided that, well, they’d rather fight than work for peaceful reconstruction of Iraq because they weren’t going to be in power anymore. I also believe there’s a foreign element that […]
8/19/2003
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrote: “The problem is that President Bush has reframed his initial question. Instead of simply asking others to oppose al Qaeda, he now asks them to oppose al Qaeda, support the invasion of an Arab country, and endorse the doctrine of preemption–all as part of a single package. Faced […]
8/19/2003
After the attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, on August 19, 2003, “the UN immediately withdrew its staff, and they didn’t return in numbers for several years. For al-Qaeda it had worked. They had eliminated the UN presence. They had sown fear rather than defiance. The bloodshed told the story of our failure to […]
8/19/2003
In Iraq, “On the afternoon of 19 August [2003], a flatbed truck carrying about a ton of high explosives was detonated at the UN’s Baghdad headquarters at the Canal Hotel. Twenty-two people were killed and 150 injured… [Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Iraq] Sergio de Mello was among those killed. …A group affiliated […]
8/19/2003
In Iraq, “a truck bomb exploded outside the U.N. office in Baghdad on August 19 [2003], killing the chief U.N. representative in the country, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and nearly two dozen others.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 480 […]
8/19/2003
Following the attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on August 19, 2003: ” ‘Our theme should be that the Iraqis should not allow foreign fighters to come into Iraq,’ the president [Bush] said. ‘We need to play on a sense of nationalism that will motivate Iraqis to cooperate with us to exclude the foreigners.’ ” […]
8/19/2003
“The assault on the UN offices [in Baghdad] on August 19 [2003] was carried out by a twenty-six-year-old Moroccan volunteer, Abu Osama al-Maghribi, who came from a relatively well-off family that owned a restaurant in Tangiers. …The UN bombing had particularly serious consequences. Among the dead was the UN secretary general’s special envoy to Iraq, […]
8/18/2003
President George W. Bush when discussing the importance of Iraqi freedom: “Iraq is in the middle of a part of the region that has produced terror and terrorists. And, therefore, a free Iraq is an integral part of winning the war on terror, because a free Iraq is going to be one that will help — will […]
8/16/2003
“The biggest blow yet to the occupation in Iraq occurred with an explosion at the United Nations in Baghdad on August 16 [2003]. The blast killed the brilliant and charismatic senior U.N. representative in Baghdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was there to carry out the ‘vital’ role [President] Bush and [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] […]
8/15/2003
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “I approved interrogation techniques beyond the traditional Army Field Manual for one other detainee, Muhammed Ould Slahi, in August 2003, in accordance with an April 2003 working group proposal that had been approved by senior military and civilian DoD [Department of Defense] officials. Slahi had recruited some of the […]