On February 19, 2002, attorney Tom Wilner joined forces with several other attorneys “in filing the first civil motion in the federal district court in Washington on behalf of the next of kin of several Guantanamo detainees, asking for some kind of due process. The case, filed as Shafiq Rasul and others v. George W. […]
2/19/2002
“…the operations chief of the [CIA’s] Joint Task Force on Iraq, Valerie Wilson, was married to a former U.S. Ambassador [Joseph Wilson] who was something of an expert on African uranium.” Valerie Wilson asked her husband to attend a meeting at CIA headquarters on February 19, 2002. After bringing him to the meeting room, she […]
2/18/2002
President George W. Bush, while discussing the possibility of force against hostile nation: We want to resolve all issues peacefully, whether it be Iraq, Iran or North Korea, for that matter. And as you know, I’m going to the Korean Peninsula to talk about that very subject. On the one side of a parallel we’ve got […]
2/18/2002
“Since then [9/11] al-Qaeda has had some significant setbacks; Afghan manpower and American firepower brought about the defeat of the Taliban, and Afghanistan is now run by Hamid Karzai’s largely pro-Western government. This is significant because it means that al-Qaeda no longer has an entire country to use as its headquarters. Indeed al-Qaeda became so […]
2/16/2002
In a speech to military personnel in Anchorage, Alaska, on February 16, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘I view this current conflict [the war on terror] as…us versus them, and evil versus good. And there’s no in between.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 140 […]
2/16/2002
“With [CIA Director George] Tenet’s approval, Saul [pseudonym for the CIA’s Iraqi Operations Group director], [Deputy CIA director John] McLaughlin, and Jim Pavitt, the deputy director for operations, worked on a new Top Secret intelligence order for regime change in Iraq that President Bush signed on February 16 [2002]. It directed the CIA to support […]
2/16/2002
“DB/Anabasis was the code name for an extensive covert operations plan that had been drawn up by the CIA to destabilize and ultimately topple the regime of Saddam Hussein. (DB was the agency cryptonym for Iraq.) …Anabasis was no-holds-barred covert action. It called for installing a small army of paramilitary CIA officers on the ground […]
2/16/2002
President Bush “signed a top-secret intelligence order on February 16, 2002, that authorized a range of CIA actions, including sabotage, disinformation, attacks on regime finances, and other potentially lethal activities, to depose Saddam. But the CIA proposal to also prepare for ‘day after’ activities was not approved. The White House, through National Security Advisor Condoleezza […]
2/15/2002
“When he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] visited Guantánamo for the first time in February 2002, he said the United States was holding ‘the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.’ Although most of the prisoners would turn out to be innocent of any crime, Rumsfeld had already determined their guilt.” […]
2/15/2002
“As of early [February] 2002, international security and intelligence agencies estimate there to be at least 300 active and dormant members of Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda associate Islamist members in Europe. Without exception they are the cream of Al Qaeda’s trained members.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]