In December 2001, “a high-ranking Iraqi engineer named Adnan Saeed defected to the United States and told American officials about the locations and details of sites that Saddam was still using to store chemical, biological and nuclear materials. According to the New York Times [on December 20, 2001], ‘Mr. Saeed said that several of the […]
12/20/2001
On December 20, 2001, President Bush said of bin Laden: ” ‘There was a significant difference in my attitude after Sept. 11. I was not on point, but I knew he was a menace, and I knew he was a problem. …I was prepared to look at a plan that would be a thoughtful plan […]
12/20/2001
“The following are excerpts of a written statement [issued on December 20, 2001] by the U.S. treasury secretary Paul O’Neill upon the designation of Umma Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) as a terrorist organization. UTN was ostensibly established as a charity by several Pakistani nuclear scientists including Dr. [Sultan Bashir-ud-din] Mahmood. ‘Today, we are blocking the assets of […]
12/20/2001
Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, ” ‘An Iraqi defector who described himself as a civil engineer said he personally worked on renovations of secret facilities [in Iraq] for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons,’ began a story carried by the New York Times under the byline of Judith Miller on December 20, 2001. Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri […]
12/20/2001
According to The New York Times on December 20, 2001: “One of the more revealing accounts of Saddam’s clandestine attempts to rebuild his nonconventional weapons infrastructure was provided by Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a civil engineer who escaped from Iraq in the summer of 1991. In his debriefing by CIA and FBI agents, Haideri said […]
12/19/2001
“In a December 19 [2001] MSNBC broadcast, [host] Chris Matthews said that although the Taliban bad been battered in Afghanistan, ‘it looks increasingly like Osama bin Laden may have crossed the border to Pakistan.’ He continued, ‘If bin Laden is in Pakistan, he could find haven with members of Pakistan’s intelligence service, which has long […]
12/19/2001
“By December 19 [2001], even the most optimistic ‘true believers’ at the Pentagon and at CENTCOM [Central Command] headquarters in Tampa, Florida, knew that the Tora Bora operation [in Afghanistan] had been an abysmal failure. Captain Robert Harward, a veteran Navy SEAL and the commander of the elite twenty-three-hundred-man U.S.-coalition Special Forces unit Task Force […]
12/18/2001
An example of the CIA’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ program, in which suspects were snatched in the middle of the night and subjected to aggressive methods that were not legal in America, took place in Sweden on December 18, 2001. “With little warning, a half-dozen masked men whisked two Egyptian asylum seekers, Muhammad Zery and Ahmed Agiza […]
12/18/2001
” ‘Most countries would like to see Saddam go,’ said one senior Egyptian official. ‘But attacking Iraq will not solve the problem of Saddam Hussein. It will just attract sympathy for him.’ ” – Neil MacFarquhar, “Many Arabs Nervous About Attack on Iraq,” The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2001 […]
12/17/2001
“On December 17, 2001, it is believed that bin Laden and his remaining lieutenants crossed the [Afghan] border [at Tora Bora] into the lawless tribal region of Pakistan.” – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 73 […]