According to The Washington Post on May 28, 2003: “The chief of army intelligence in Iraq, Colonel Steven Boltz, went so far as to tell a reporter that the insurgent attacks were ‘random and it isn’t organized and that’s a good thing.’ ” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 266 […]
5/28/2003
On May 28, 2003, the CIA “issued a paper stating that two trailers discovered in Iraq cinched the case that Iraq had mobile biological laboratories. …analysts later acknowledged that the trailers they had discovered were used to pump hydrogen into weather balloons; the weather balloons were to be used by the Iraqis to help gauge […]
5/28/2003
“On May 28 [2003], the CIA released a new and extraordinary six-page report declaring that a critical part of the prewar WMD case had been proven right. Earlier in the month, the Pentagon had announced the discovery of a tractor trailer outfitted with industrial equipment and maintained it was one of the mobile biological weapons […]
5/28/2003
“According to the director general of the National Mine Action Authority in Iraq, there may have been more than 600,000 tons of abandoned munitions throughout the country–enough to blow up every U.S. soldier in Iraq with about four and a half tons of explosives each.” From a Human Rights Watch interview on May 28, 2003: […]
5/28/2003
In an interview conducted by Major Craig Borchelt of the Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group on May 28, 2003: “Major Ray Eiriz of CENTCOM [Central Command], who had worked on plans to cope with up to 1.1 million refugees, acknowledged that postwar planning did not receive much attention at [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks’s […]
5/27/2003
“In a field report submitted to Washington [on May 27, 2003], a secret DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency]-sponsored fact-finding mission, conducted by nine U.S. and British biological-weapons experts, concluded that ‘there was no connection to anything biological’ in two trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops [in Iraq]. Three weeks later, the field report and a […]
5/26/2003
On May 26, 2003, a large crowd gathered to demonstrate in front of the Coalition Provisional Authority’s gates in Baghdad, in response to the disbanding of the Iraqi army. ” ‘We demand the formation of a government as soon as possible, the restoration of security, rehabilitation of public institutions, and disbursement of the salaries of […]
5/25/2003
In Iraq, on May 25, 2003, “the DIA’s [Defense Intelligence Agency’s] civilian experts inspected two of the mobile labs that had been suspected of manufacturing biological weapons and concluded that they had not been used for that purpose, a fact that was not immediately reported to the President [Bush] or the NSC [National Security Council].” […]
5/24/2003
On May 24, 2003, “the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issued a report noting that the United States had engaged in some 200 military interventions abroad since its founding, sixteen of which could be classified as ‘nation-building’ efforts in which the goal was to change a hostile regime or insure the survival of a friendly […]
5/23/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 2 dissolves some Iraqi and military security structures.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 23, 2003 […]