From information in an article in The Independent on January 18, 2003: “American economist Jeremy Rifkin has calculated how long current known oil reserves in various countries will last. The findings are very revealing: in the US they will last just 10 years; in Iran, 53 years; in Saudi Arabia, 55 years; in UAE [United […]
1/17/2003
“On January 17, 2003, two months before the war began, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith called Jay Garner, a retired lieutenant general, and asked him to take charge of postwar Iraq. It wouldn’t be for long, Feith said, perhaps for just ninety days after the war. By then, Feith predicted, an Iraqi government […]
1/16/2003
“The Wall Street Journal reported [on January 16, 2003] that representatives from Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Halliburton, among others, met with [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s staff in January 2003 to discuss plans for Iraq’s postwar industry.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page 346 […]
1/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “627. Mr Blair told the Chiefs of Staff on 15 January 2003 that ‘the *Issue* was aftermath – the Coalition must prevent anarchy and internecine fighting breaking out’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the […]
1/15/2003
“The BBC received a Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) document which showed that British intelligence believes there are no current links between the Iraqi regime and the al-Qa’ida network. The classified document, written last month [January 2003], said there had been contact between the two in the past, but it assessed that any fledgling relationship foundered […]
1/15/2003
“On January 15, 2003, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld rescinded his general approval of these [enhanced interrogation] tactics [which he originally approved for use at Guantanamo on December 2, 2002], leaving open the possibility of specific approval in specific instances, and directed DOD [Department of Defense] General Counsel William Haynes to set up a Department […]
1/15/2003
Regarding the use of enhanced interrogation techniques at Guantanamo, on January 15, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld issued a memo that read: “My December 2, 2002, approval of the use of all Category II techniques and one Category III technique during interrogations at Guantanamo is hereby rescinded. Should you determine that particular techniques in […]
1/15/2003
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix wrote, in January 2003: “On a visit to a large ammunition store that had been declared by Iraq and had been inspected several times before, our inspectors found a crate of warheads designed for chemical weapons. There were no chemical agents in them, but they should have been declared. […]
1/15/2003
“In January 2003, the CIA produced a paper that was the Agency’s definitive take on the [Iraq/al-Qaeda] matter, concluding that there was no Iraqi ‘authority, direction and control’ over al-Qaeda. Deputy Director of the CIA John McLaughlin recalls that this did not go down well with the Bush administration: ‘It took the form of phone […]
1/15/2003
In January 2003, President Bush “gave the Pentagon the lead responsibility for the management of postwar Iraq. This decision, in the words of one U.S. official, ‘sent out the signal that they [the Pentagon] are really in charge and reinforced and amplified their mandate to say ‘to hell with everybody else.’ “ [The 15th of […]