“…al-Qaida demanded, in a statement from November 2002, ‘Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Mary Habeck, Knowing the Enemy, Page 103 […]
11/15/2002
“As part of the Bush administration’s rendition program, some terrorism suspects were transferred to countries where torture is known to be used. The C.I.A. has declined to say publicly where [Ethiopian national] Mr. [Binyam] Mohamed was held and has denied that it ever engaged in or condoned torture. Mr. Mohamed has said that he was […]
11/15/2002
“The CLI [Committee for the Liberation of Iraq] was formed in November 2002, featuring [neoconservative political analyst William] Kristol, [former CIA director R. James] Woolsey, [neoconservative political analyst Robert] Kagan, [Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard] Perle, and PNAC [Project for the New American Century] Executive Director Gary Schmitt. The committee accused […]
11/15/2002
In the final report on The Transition to Democracy in Iraq, issued in November 2002, “the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, which sought to demilitarize society and establish civilian control over the military, warned of the ‘substantial social and economic chaos’ (including the explosive growth of organized crime) that could result from the rapid ‘de-commissioning […]
11/15/2002
In November 2002, the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, a part of the Future of Iraq Project, released a report titled ‘The Transition to Democracy in Iraq.’ “The report recognized that a huge political and security vacuum would open up with the fall of the [Baathist] regime and that this vacuum would need to be […]
11/15/2002
“On November 15 [2002], Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans that if there were a war with Iraq, it would be a short one. ‘The idea that it’s going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990,’ he said on a […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002, under mounting pressure, Iraq had agreed to cooperate with the UN inspection regime for the first time since December 1998, when inspectors had been withdrawn.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 62 […]
11/15/2002
“…in November 2002, Saddam Hussein succumbed to the pressure of a huge U.S. military buildup in Kuwait and the Bush administration’s increasingly strident rhetoric about the necessity of regime change in Baghdad. He permitted the UN inspectors to return and gave them more or less unfettered access to suspected weapons sites.” [The 15th of the […]
11/15/2002
“[A] November 2002 paper produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) reiterated the [October 1, 2002] NIE’s [National Intelligence Estimate’s] assessment that Iraq had a ‘broad range of lethal and incapacitating agents’ and that the ‘BW [biological weapons] program is more robust than it was prior to the Gulf War.’ The piece contended that […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002, the United Nations Security Council had found Iraq in violation of sixteen UN resolutions and demanded that it come clean about its WMD programs.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 184 […]