Then-chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix wrote: “…in March 2003 the policy of containment was abandoned in the case of Iraq and the policy of counter-proliferation was applied: a combined UN and IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspection force of fewer than 200 inspectors costing perhaps $80 million per year was pushed out and replaced […]
3/15/2003
“Immediately after 9/11, a group calling itself Jund al-Islam (The Army of Islam) established itself in a mountainous area near the town of Halabja [in Iraqi Kurdistan]. It was clear that the group was linked to al-Qaeda. The group subsequently merged with another extremist Islamist party to form Ansar al-Islam (The Partisans of Islam). In […]
3/15/2003
“…to date, the only arrest of an al Qaeda terrorist in the United States that the NSA [National Security Agency] warrantless eavesdropping program supposedly was involved in was that of Iyman Faris, a thirty-eight-year-old truck driver in Columbus, Ohio, who was caught in March 2003 planning to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York City. […]
3/15/2003
“…the State Department knew nothing of the new interrogation rules approved by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and had no confirmation of mistreatment until news stories in March 2003 revealed that two Afghans had been beaten to death while in U.S. custody. Although the military had initially reported that the men had died of natural […]
3/15/2003
“…in the hours just before the fall of Baghdad in March 2003, our forces intercepted communications between top Iraqi commanders asking when they would receive permission to unleash chemical and biological weapons on coalition forces.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 336 […]
3/15/2003
A 2005 Justice Department memo said: “the C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Scott Shane, “Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects,” The New York Times, April […]
3/15/2003
“In mid-March 2003, less than a week before the U.S. launched its attack [on Iraq], [Vice President Dick] Cheney sent a speech over to the CIA for review making all the old arguments that there was a ‘link [between Iraq and al Qaeda].’ [CIA Director George] Tenet tells us that he telephoned [President] Bush to […]
3/15/2003
According to a declassified report prepared by the CIA in April 2006, titled ‘Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States:’ “…the [March 2003] American occupation of Iraq became ‘the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.’ “ […]
3/15/2003
In March 2003, “The Arizona National Guard was deployed to the Palo Verde nuclear power plant because an attack by al Qaeda extremists was believed to be ‘imminent.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?, Page 205 […]
3/15/2003
“In March 2003, the government raised the national alert level to orange for the third time. Authorities feared that the imminent American invasion of Iraq would provoke attacks by ‘allied or sympathetic terrorist organizations, most notably the al Qaeda network.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael […]