As a buildup before the invasion of Iraq, “In the summer of [July] 2002, [President] Bush approved $700 million worth of ‘preparatory tasks’ in the Persian Gulf region such as upgrading airfields, bases, fuel pipelines and munitions storage depots to accommodate a massive U.S. troop deployment. The Bush administration funded the projects from a supplemental […]
7/15/2002
“Richard Haass, the former director of policy planning at the State Department, has said that [National Security Advisor] Condi Rice told him in July of 2002 that ‘the decisions were made, and unless Iraq gave in to all our demands, war was a foregone conclusion.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
7/15/2002
In a July 2002 meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet, “Sir Richard Dearlove, the director of MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, reported that his visit to Washington had convinced him that the [Bush] administration’s decision to invade Iraq was inevitable but that there seemed to be little deliberation among the Americans of […]
7/15/2002
In July 2002, “…two days before [American Taliban member John Walker] Lindh’s lawyers planned to challenge the legitimacy of his FBI confession in court…the prosecutors offered them a surprise deal. …the Justice Department had dropped nine out of ten counts against Lindh. ‘The Defense Department was really worried about the claims of mistreatment,’ said [Lindh’s […]
7/13/2002
According to a New York Times article on July 13, 2002, “reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. reported that Halliburton had profited significantly from the war on terror: ‘From building cells for detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to feeding American troops in Uzbekistan, the Pentagon is increasingly relying on a unit of […]
7/11/2002
On July 11, 2002, “intercepted phone calls enabled Pakistani security forces to arrest a thirty-three-year-old Kenyan named Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for his role in planning the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 233 […]
7/10/2002
Speaking at the Cincinnati Museum Center on July 10, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program,’ and ‘it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.’ As he urged, ‘we’ve experienced the threat of September 11,’ and ‘America must not ignore the threat gathering […]
7/10/2002
Rand Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec presented a briefing to the Defense Policy Board on July 10, 2002, which “recommended that U.S. officials give it [Saudi Arabia] an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States. ‘The Saudis are active at every level […]
7/10/2002
“A briefing given last month [July 10, 2002] to a top Pentagon advisory board described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States, and recommended that U.S. officials give it an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States. ‘The Saudis […]
7/10/2002
“Frenchman Laurent Murawiec, a pro-Israeli analyst for the RAND Corporation…on July 10, 2002, briefed board members, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, that ‘the Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader.’ Murawiec’s briefing stated that ‘Saudi Arabia supports our […]