“The drive for war [in Iraq] was not helped when [President] Bush saw on September 16 [2002] that Lawrence Lindsey, his top economics adviser, had told the Wall Street Journal that it could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. In fact, Lindsey was just thinking out loud, not offering a formal projection. He was actually […]
9/16/2002
On September 16, 2002, UN Secretary General Kofi “Annan stepped to the floodlit microphones at the UN to announce that Iraq would accept the return of weapons inspectors ‘without conditions.’ Blocks away…[Secretary of State Colin] Powell interrupted a meeting with the Egyptian foreign minister to read the Iraqi offer, which was not as unconditional as […]
9/16/2002
“Asked on Fox News [on September 16, 2002] whether or not there were links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, initially circumspect, said that Iraq ‘clearly has links to terrorism…links to terrorism [that] would include al-Qaeda…’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 255 […]
9/16/2002
The conclusion of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith’s ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ during a September 16, 2002, briefing for vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the White House was presented in a slide show. “The Feith analysts were essentially claiming that because al-Qaeda and Iraq had joined […]
9/16/2002
On September 16, 2002, researchers from the ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ that had been created by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, said: “Saddam Hussein’s regime had a far more extensive relationship with Osama bin Ladan and al-Qaeda than the CIA acknowledged. …The Feith team reported that Saddam’s intelligence service had played a ‘facilitation’ role in the […]
9/15/2002
“In September 2002, senior Bush officials said that Iraq was buying aluminum tubes. They claimed that these would be used for enriching uranium for nuclear weapons- ignoring the advice of nuclear experts that they could not be used for that purpose.” [The 15th of the month for date sorting purpose only] – Andrew Langley, Bush, […]
9/15/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “115. Addressing the question of why Saddam Hussein had decided in mid-September, and not before, to admit the weapons inspectors, Mr Blair stated that the answer was in the dossier, and it was because: ‘his chemical, biological, and nulear programme is not an historic […]
9/15/2002
In Lackawanna, New York, “six Yemeni-Americans who had traveled to Afghanistan, attended a training camp, and met bin Laden were arrested in September 2002. …The group was described in a briefing to the president [Bush] as the most dangerous cell in the country. But in reality, they were doing nothing throughout the time the FBI […]
9/15/2002
In an interview in September 2002, al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-“Zawahri argued that ‘Israel is a developed American military base in the heart of the Islamic world and in one of its most sacred places. So America must pay the price for its oppressive and brutal policy toward the Muslims, especially in Palestine.’ “ [The […]
9/15/2002
Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dov Zakheim wrote: “As Congress returned to Washington from its summer recess in September 2002, it was becoming increasingly clear that the [Bush] administration was planning to attack Iraq, despite its continued assurances that the United States would not launch a military operation if Saddam complied with demands to open his […]