3/31/2002

“On March 31 [2002], Abu Zubaydah, a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative, is captured by Pakistani commandos, U.S. Special Forces, and FBI SWAT teams in the suburbs of Faisalabad, Pakistan.”  – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 305 […]

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3/31/2002

Although President Bush noted that the Department of Justice had declared the CIA’s treatment of al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubayda as legal, “FBI agents, who were the first to question Zubayda [on March 31, 2002] at the black site, before the CIA interrogation team arrived…thought that what they glimpsed of the CIA’s treatment of […]

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3/28/2002

“According to a senior Bush administration official, [al Qaeda operations chief Abu] Zubaydah, captured in Pakistan on March 28, 2002, identified [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab] al Zarqawi in one of his first debriefings as ‘one of the main people within bin Laden’s circle who wanted to work with the Iraqis.’ ”  – […]

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3/28/2002

Al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah was injured in a raid on his safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on March 28, 2002. Bleeding profusely, “The terrorist was rushed to a Pakistani hospital. After his medical condition stabilized, he was secretly flown to Thailand and into CIA custody. The Thai government, which had long battled Muslim separatists […]

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3/28/2002

“On Thursday, March 28, 2002, acting on electronic intercepts of telephone calls, heavily armed Pakistani commando units, accompanied by American Special Forces and FBI SWAT teams, raided a two-story house in the suburbs of Faisalabad, in western Pakistan. They received tips that one of the people in the house was Abu Zabaydah, the 30-year-old chief […]

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3/28/2002

The capture and treatment of Al Qaeda operations chief, Abu Zubayda, on March 28, 2002, “set the precedent for the abuse of U.S.-held prisoners, transforming U.S. practices starting with the CIA, but eventually spreading through the U.S. military, too. …What put Zubayda in CIA custody was not toughness, it was money. A CIA source involved […]

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3/27/2002

President George W. Bush clarifying his “axis of evil” comment: “I also want to explain right quickly what I meant when I was talking about the axis of evil. Let me put it to you this way: we cannot allow nations that have got a history of totalitarianism, dictatorship — a nation, for example, like Iraq that […]

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3/27/2002

“One of bin Laden’s top lieutenants, Abu Zubaida, was arrested in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad on the night of March 27, 2002, after NSA [National Security Agency] intercepted a number of satellite phone calls, which CIA operatives inside Pakistan used to locate his hideout.”  – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 233 […]

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3/27/2002

“Bin Laden rails against then Saudi crown prince Abdullah for proposing at the Beirut [Lebanon] Arab summit in March [27] 2002 that all Arabs sign a permanent peace agreement with Israel if it withdraws to the 1967 lines, an act that would ‘betray the ummah [Arab nation].’ ”  – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al […]

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3/25/2002

“On the subject of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program, the German chief of intelligence [August Hanning] actually held a grimmer view than the U.S. intelligence community [as quoted in The New Yorker on March 25, 2002]: ‘It is our estimate that Iraq will have an atomic bomb in three years.’ ”  – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and […]

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