UN Security Council Resolution 1441 was a last-chance opportunity for Iraq to comply with disarmament obligations. Drafted by the U.K. and U.S., the Bush Administration knew that Iraq would be unable to meet its requirements, and planned to use it as an opportunity to invade with international blessing. However, France refused to go along with […]
11/7/2002
Terry Moran, a member of the press, questioned if going to war with Iraq would simply be creating more terrorists. President George W. Bush replied: “Well, that’s like saying we should not go after al Qaeda because we might irritate somebody and that would create a danger to Americans. My attitude is you got to deal […]
11/7/2002
While taking questions after delivering a speech on November 7, 2002, President Bush said, regarding Saddam Hussein: ” ‘He’s a threat not only with what he has, he’s a threat with what he’s done. He’s a threat because he is dealing with al Qaeda.’ ” – George W. Bush, “President Outlines Priorities,” White House Press […]
11/5/2002
In the midterm congressional elections on November 5, 2002, “thanks to the war on terror and [President] Bush’s high approval ratings, the Republicans won a narrow majority in the Senate, thereby seizing control from the Democrats. …In the House, the Republicans picked up eight seats and increased their majority over the Democrats to twenty-five.” – […]
11/5/2002
“…in early November 2002, Al-Jazeera broadcast a long diatribe from Osama, and within days National Security Agency specialists confirmed the voice on the audiotape was his. Chillingly, he praised a new wave of recent terrorist operations stretching from a car-bomb attack on a tourist nightclub in Bali to an explosives-laden speedboat attack on a French […]
11/5/2002
“The results of the November 5 [2002] congressional elections further encouraged the Anabasis team [the covert CIA operation to topple Saddam’s regime]–and anyone else hoping for war [in Iraq]. The Republicans enlarged their margin in the House and regained control of the Senate. ‘It was pretty much everything [President] George W. Bush wanted,’ CNN political […]
11/4/2002
On November 4, 2002, “NSA [National Security Agency] intercepted al Qaeda’s Yemen operations chief [Abu Ali al-Harithi] as he held a lengthy conversation on his satellite phone while driving through the desert in the so-called Empty Quarter of eastern Yemen. Using the locational data provided by the NSA, a CIA unmanned Predator drone was immediately […]
11/4/2002
“On November 4, 2002, Abu Ali al-Harithi, al Qaeda’s top operative in Yemen and a planner of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and five other suspected al Qaeda members were driving in a car outside the Yemeni capital of Sana. An unmanned Predator drone…located the car and fired a Hellfire missile. All six […]
11/4/2002
According to The Los Angeles Times on November 4, 2002, a top European terrorism investigator said: ” ‘We have found no evidence of any links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.’ …’If there were such links, we would have found them, but we have found no serious connections whatsoever.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, […]
11/3/2002
After being sentenced for ‘material support’ for al Qaeda, Lackawanna Six ringleader “Kamal Derwish, had fled to Yemen, although his escape would prove short-lived. On November 3, 2002, Derwish was incinerated in a CIA drone strike on the car he was riding in across the Yemeni desert, along with one of the USS Cole conspirators. […]