“The [Washington] Post poll, conducted Aug. 7-11 [2003], found that 62 percent of Democrats, 80 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of independents suspected a link between Hussein and 9/11. In addition, eight in 10 Americans said it was likely that Hussein had provided assistance to al Qaeda, and a similar proportion suspected he had […]
8/10/2003
According to a Washington Post article on August 10, 2003, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice told a reporter that the [aluminum] tubes [intercepted in Iraq] were ‘only really suited for nuclear weapons programs’ and that Saddam was ‘actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 413 […]
8/8/2003
In Afghanistan, “on August 8, 2003, NATO took command of ISAF [International Security Assistance Force], while a UN Security Council resolution authorized ISAF to expand beyond the capital [Kabul].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 350 […]
8/8/2003
“After the [Iraq] invasion, an exhaustive search for evidence of a [al-Qaeda/Iraq] linkage found none, and by August 2003, former Bush administration national security and intelligence officials had been forced to admit that the evidence used to make this Iraq-al-Qaeda claim contradicted the conclusions of key intelligence agencies.” From the National Journal on August 8, […]
8/7/2003
In a speech at NYU on August 7, 2003, former Vice President Al Gore said: ” ‘The evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama bin Laden at all, much less give him weapons of mass destruction.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page xv […]
8/7/2003
In Iraq, “August 2003 was the month during which the actual dimensions of the insurgency, and its potential for derailing the plans for the occupation, began to emerge. On 7 August, a powerful car bomb tore into the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, killing eighteen people. It was the worst attack on a non-military target since […]
8/7/2003
In a statement at New York University on August 7, 2003, former Vice President Al Gore said: ” ‘[T]he evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama bin Laden at all.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 611 […]
8/6/2003
“As Julian Borger wrote in The Guardian [on August 6, 2003, regarding the government’s redaction of 28 pages from the final report of the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks on July 24, 2003], ‘The reason pages about the Saudi link to the hijackers (15 out of 19 of whom were Saudi nationals) are blanked […]
8/5/2003
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “August 5, 2003: Jakarta, Indonesia: A car bomb explodes outside the JW Marriott Hotel lobby, killing twelve people and injuring over 150. The dead are four tourists and eight Indonesians.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, […]
8/5/2003
“By early August [2003], eighteen nations besides the United States had a military presence in Iraq, and the Pentagon had announced that nineteen more had promised to send forces. But there were a total of only about 21,000 non-American troops on the ground in Iraq, 11,000 of them British, compared with about 140,000 Americans. That […]