In late May 2002, the National Security Agency revealed to the CIA an intercepted communication from Osama bin Laden to a Saudi operative called Swift Sword that suggested: “Osama bin Laden seemed to be alive and well and providing guidance from some location in the tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border; and Swift Sword was, […]
5/23/2002
Speaking before the German Bundestag (Parliament) on May 23, 2002, President Bush “alleged that ‘the authors of terror’ were seeking nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. ‘If these regimes and their terrorist allies were to perfect these capabilities,’ he warned, ‘no inner voice of reason, no hint of conscience would prevent their use. …'[W]e will and […]
5/23/2002
On May 23, 2002, President “Bush spoke in Berlin, where he warned that once terrorists obtained chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons from countries like Iraq, ‘no inner voice of reason, no hint of conscience would prevent their use.’ ” – James Risen, State of War, Page 86 […]
5/23/2002
In a speech he made to the German Bundestag on May 23, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘The terrorists are defined by their hatreds: they hate democracy and tolerance and free expression and women and Jews and Christians and all Muslims who disagree with them. …Others killed in the name of racial purity, or the […]
5/23/2002
“In a May 23 [2002] press conference in Berlin, [President] Bush asserted that Iraq’s WMD programs were a serious threat but that he had not prepared an invasion strategy. ‘I told the Chancellor that I have no war plans on my desk, which is the truth, and that we’ve got to use all means at […]
5/21/2002
In an interview with Claus Kleber of Ard, President George W. Bush had this to say: “Well, first, let me say this, that Iraq ought to be on the minds of the German people, and they ought to be on the minds of the American people. Because the Iraq government is a dangerous government. Iraq ought […]
5/21/2002
On May 21, 2002, “Coleen Rowley, a senior agent in the FBI’s Minneapolis office…sent a scathing thirteen-page letter to the congressional committee investigating pre-9/11 governmental preparedness. Rowley wrote that the FBI bureaucrats in Washington had prevented agents in her office from aggressively investigating [potential terrorist] Zacarias Moussaoui, a flight-school trainee arrested on immigration violations three […]
5/21/2002
On May 21, 2002, “Coleen Rowley, a lawyer in the [FBI’s] Minnesota office, sent a thirteen-page letter to [FBI Director Robert] Mueller expressing her ‘deep concern’ that the director and other FBI leaders were ‘shading/skewing’ the facts about the Bureau’s failures leading up to 9/11. Though she claimed ‘the term *cover-up* would be too strong […]
5/21/2002
“According to the State Department’s most recent report [on May 21, 2002], last year ‘Iraq provided bases to several terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), and the Abu Nidal organization (ANO).’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 25 […]
5/21/2002
“A United States congressional inquiry into intelligence failures in the run-up to 11 September is to give high priority to allegations that the FBI hindered an investigation of a terrorism suspect. Coleen Rowley, an FBI agent based in Minnesota, has sent a letter [on May 21, 2002] to the head of the FBI [Robert Mueller] […]