“…on May 12 [2003], explosions ripped through an apartment complex on the outskirts of Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], killing 35–including 9 Americans–and injuring 309.” – Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, Page 236 […]
5/12/2003
“On May 12 [2003], a suicide bomb set off by Al Qaeda kills at least 11 people in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] and injures more than 120. The explosion takes place in a compound that houses mainly Arab families and is seen as a direct attack on the House of Saud rather than Westerners.” – Craig […]
5/12/2003
On May 12, 2003, “nine al Qaeda suicide bombers mounted synchronized strikes on three housing compounds in the Saudi Arabian capitol of Riyadh; the thirty-four who were killed included eight Americans.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 443 […]
5/11/2003
Retired Army General Jay Garner was the Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) from April-May 2003, before it was replaced by the Coalition Provisional Authority. “The Garner weeks were uniformly dismissed as disaster, and it was acknowledged by political commentators that Garner had been the wrong person for the job, driving […]
5/11/2003
By May 11, 2003, “The 75th Exploitation Task Force, a group made up of scientists and Special Forces troops, had searched nineteen of twenty-one suspected [WMD] sites and found nothing. Another sixty-eight non-WMD sites were suspected of revealing clues to the more lethal weapons, but by late May forty-five of those surveyed had come up […]
5/9/2003
President George W. Bush, when giving the commencement address at the University of South Carolina: “So today I want to discuss with you a great goal for this nation. We will use our influence and idealism to replace old hatreds with new hopes across the Middle East. (Applause.) A time of historic opportunity has arrived. A […]
5/9/2003
“…on May 9, 2003, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys denied that any CIA interrogations [of detainees in the war on terror] were recorded when they were asked about it by District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema. CIA admissions prove that not only were the interrogations recorded, but that the tapes were not destroyed until 2005.” – M. […]
5/9/2003
“President Bush delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of the University of South Carolina on May 9, 2003. …Bush used the twenty-five minute address to make his case for expanded corporate globalization in the Middle East. Freedom, the president argued, would be advanced through a regionwide area in the Middle East that would […]
5/8/2003
As reported by the Oil Daily on May 8, 2003, CEO of Halliburton Energy Group John Gibson said: ” ‘We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don’t like being kept out of markets, because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The […]
5/8/2003
“The United States, on behalf of the Coalition forces, laid out the framework for the occupation of Iraq, including the role of the Coalition Provisional Authority [CPA], in a letter submitted to the UN Security Council on May 8, 2003. The letter stipulated that the CPA was to ‘exercise powers of government temporarily, and as […]