President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane said, in The Wall Street Journal on November 2, 2002, regarding the CIA’s failure to prevent 9/11: ” ‘Even the best force in the word will fail without solid intelligence’…The CIA cannot provide it; it has utterly failed to do its job.’ ” – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, […]
11/1/2002
” ‘We know he’s got ties with Al Qaeda,’ [President] Bush said about Hussein on November 1, 2002.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 144 […]
10/31/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Decision to offer ‘Package 3‘ for planning purposes.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Oct. 31, 2002 […]
10/31/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “811. … -Mr Blair agreed to offer Package 3 on 31 October 2002.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Oct. 31, 2002 […]
10/30/2002
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix described his meeting with President Bush at the White House on October 30, 2002, where they discussed strategies for dealing with Iraq. “He [Bush] explained to us that the U.S. genuinely wanted peace. With some self-deprecation, he said that, contrary to what was being alleged, he was no wild, […]
10/30/2002
“If they [the U.N. Security Council] wouldn’t deal with the Iraq problem, he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] warned in a radio interview [with Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News on October 30, 2002], ‘then the United States, with other likeminded nations, may have to deal with it. We would prefer not to go that […]
10/30/2002
“On October 30 [2002], Oil and Gas International revealed that the Bush administration wanted a working group of twelve to twenty people to (a) recommend ways to rehabilitate the Iraqi oil industry ‘in order to increase oil exports to partially pay for a possible U.S. military occupation government,’ (b) consider Iraq’s continued membership of OPEC […]
10/28/2002
Abu Musab al-“Zarqawi’s network [which eventually became al Qaeda in Iraq] killed an officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Laurence Foley, in Amman [Jordan] on October 28, 2002–the first anti-American operation connected to the invasion [of Iraq].” – Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 188 […]
10/28/2002
Jordanian militant Abu Masab al- “Zarqawi had organized several operations in Jordan: an attack on several tourist sites, including [one that was foiled at] an American hotel in Amman, intended to mark the millennium…the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley, on October 28, 2002; and a [thwarted] chemical-weapons attack on Amman.” – Gilles Kepel and […]
10/28/2002
Jordanian militant Abu Musaib al-Zarqawi’s “network carried out its first operation even before the invasion [of Iraq]: on October 28, 2002, it killed a U.S. Agency for International Development officer, Laurence Foley, in Amman.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 88 […]