Regarding the July 24, 2003, Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry, which investigated the intelligence failures that led to 9/11: “Although relevant information…regarding the [9/11] attacks was available to the Intelligence Community prior to September 11, 2001, the Community too often failed to focus on that information and consider and appreciate its collective significance.” […]
7/24/2003
Regarding the July 24, 2003, Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry, which investigated the intelligence failures that led to 9/11: “While [CIA Director George] Tenet had spoken of ‘war’ against bin Laden and the CIA had developed a secret strategy known cryptically as ‘the Plan’ for dealing with him, ‘the CIA’s actual efforts to […]
7/23/2003
President George W. Bush discussing the future of Iraq with the secretary of Defense and Presidential Envoy to Iraq: “A free, democratic, peaceful Iraq will not threaten America or our friends with illegal weapons. A free Iraq will not be a training ground for terrorists, or a funnel of money to terrorists, or provide weapons to […]
7/23/2003
On July 23, 2003, at a briefing to confirm the deaths of Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, Commander of Coalition Ground Forces in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez said: ” ‘Yesterday was a landmark day for the people and for the future of Iraq. Every single day we get closer to a secure and stable […]
7/23/2003
“In a July [23] 2003 interview on CNN, former president Bill Clinton said, ‘People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.’ ” – Georges Sada with […]
7/23/2003
“The entire story [involving WMD in Iraq] may have been little more than a U.S.-sponsored psychological warfare effort–The Rendon Group’s specialty–to gin up the American public’s fear over Saddam Hussein. If so, it would have been illegal under U.S. law, which forbids the use of taxpayer money to propagandize the American public. ‘I think what […]
7/22/2003
“On July 22 [2003], the dictator’s [Saddam Hussein] sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a firefight.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 38 […]
7/22/2003
Saddam’s sons Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in a siege by Special Operations soldiers on July 22, 2003. “When it was over, the Americans said they had irrefutable proof–dental records and X rays and personal viewings by four members of the old regime already in custody–that the bodies were those of Uday and Qusay. […]
7/22/2003
Saddam Hussein’s sons “Uday and Qusay were killed by 101st Airborne troopers [on July 22, 2003] after one of their former Baathist colleagues betrayed them to collect the Coalition reward money.” – Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier, Page 556 […]
7/22/2003
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, then-Commander of the ground forces in Iraq, recalled, on July 22, 2003: “Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle at their hideout in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In a very efficient operation, U.S. Special Forces and the 101st Airborne, upon receiving solid intelligence, surrounded […]