In an article on July 20, 2002, former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter wrote: ” ‘I bear personal witness through seven years as a chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations to both the scope of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and the effectiveness of the U.N. weapons inspectors in ultimately eliminating […]
7/19/2002
To provide the basis for a discussion with the US, a [UK] Cabinet Office paper of 19 July [2002], ‘Iraq: Conditions for Military Action’, identified the conditions which would be necessary before military action would be justified and the UK could participate in such action. – House of Commons, The Report of the Iraq Inquiry […]
7/17/2002
According to former CIA Agent John Kiriakou: “the CIA believed in 2002 that [al Qaeda operations chief Abu] Zubaydah was withholding ‘imminent threat information’ during his initial interrogation. In mid-May 2002, agency lawyers met with their counterparts at the National Security Council (NSC) and Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to discuss a possible new […]
7/15/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “801. … By July 2002, the UK Government had concluded that President Bush was impatient to move on Iraq and that the US might take military action in circumstances that would be difficult for the UK.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
7/15/2002
“On the first page of its founding manifesto [in July 2002], the massively funded Department of Homeland Security intones, ‘Today’s terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page […]
7/15/2002
“On July 15, 2002, he [terrorist Ahmed Omar Sheikh] and three others were convicted of kidnapping and killing [American journalist Daniel] Pearl. Sheikh received the death sentence. Investigators later revealed that he had directed the plot using separate cells of militants–some sixteen in all.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 153 […]
7/15/2002
“A [National Intelligence Council] report in July [2002] read, ‘Iraq has managed to preserve and in some cases even enhance the infrastructure and expertise necessary for WMD production.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 236 […]
7/15/2002
“…a manifesto entitled ‘The Declaration of the Shi’a of Iraq,’ issued in July 2002… was written by [Iraqi statesmen] Mowaffaq al-Rubai’e, Ali Allawi and Sahib al-Hakim. The Declaration drew in a wide range of participants from academic, professional, religious, tribal and military backgrounds. Over 400 Iraqi Shi’a opinion leaders in exile signed it. The Declaration […]
7/15/2002
“[I]n July 2002, President Bush signed a top-secret order directing the national security community, including the NSA [National Security Agency], to develop, for the first time, rules and policies governing how the United States would launch cyberattacks against foreign computer networks. Known as National Security Presidential Directive 16, the order allows the president to launch […]
7/15/2002
“In July 2002, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had a one-word answer for reporters who asked whether Iraq had relationships with Al Qaeda terrorists: ‘Sure.’ In fact, an assessment issued that same month by the Defense Intelligence Agency (and confirmed weeks later by CIA Director [George] Tenet) found an absence of ‘compelling evidence demonstrating direct […]