“Since 9/11, the FBI has made significant gains against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terror network. The biggest ‘get’ came in early March [1] 2003 with the arrest of Ramzi Yousef’s uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who helped his nephew plan the strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” – Peter Lance, […]
2/28/2003
“The CIA had its first chance [to kill al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri] on Feb. 28, 2003. Former intelligence officials say al-Zawahri met that day in a car with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, in Peshawar [Pakistan]. Al-Zawahri, a former official said, was on his way to the remote northern tribal […]
2/28/2003
“On February 28 [2003], Robert Perito, an expert on peacekeeping operations at the United States Institute for Peace, a government-financed research center, was invited to the Pentagon to outline his recommendations to Richard Perle’s Defense Policy Board. …At the Pentagon, Perito said that in Iraq the U.S. would not be able to rely on local […]
2/27/2003
Following Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki’s statement that it would take ‘several hundred thousand soldiers’ to keep the peace in postwar Iraq, “In a Pentagon briefing [on February 27, 2003], Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld stated ‘The idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces, I think, is far off the […]
2/27/2003
“In testimony before Congress [on February 27, 2003], Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said, ‘It’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself.’ He added, ‘The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion […]
2/27/2003
Speaking to Congress on February 27, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said the “Pentagon anticipated that many countries that were objecting to the use of force [in Iraq] would be eager to help once Saddam was gone. ‘There is simply no reason to assume that the United States will or should supply’ the […]
2/27/2003
On February 27, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense “Paul Wolfowitz called his [Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki’s] estimate of several hundred thousand troops [for an Iraq invasion] ‘wildly off the mark.’ There was no historical reason to believe that free Iraqis would fight against one another or the United States, Wolfowitz told Congress. […]
2/27/2003
“Elie Weisel, writer, survivor of Auschwitz and Nobel Peace Prize winner, came to see [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice on February 27 [2003], and the president [Bush] dropped by her office…Weisel told the president that Iraq was a terrorist state and that the moral imperative was for intervention. …’It’s a moral issue. In the name […]
2/27/2003
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz testified to the House budget committee on February 27, 2003. “The Pentagon’s postwar ‘requirements,’ he said, might be low because ‘there’s been none of the record in Iraq of ethnic militias fighting one another.’ …Iraq’s oil revenues, he asserted, could finance the postwar reconstruction. He maintained that the United […]
2/27/2003
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said, on February 27, 2003: ” ‘The notion that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq,’ he said, is ‘wildly off the mark.’ He added, ‘[I]t is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq […]