As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “President Bush calls for weapons inspectors to return to Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Nov. 26, 2001 […]
11/26/2001
“At a Rose Garden press conference [on November 26, 2001], President Bush emphasizes that ‘Afghanistan is still just the beginning’ and publicly suggests for the first time that Iraq may be the next target in the war on terrorism: ‘As for Mr. Saddam Hussein, he needs to let inspectors back in his country to show […]
11/26/2001
Secretary of State Colin Powell “said on CNN tonight [November 26, 2011] that he was working with Russia for a compromise on what the [Bush] administration calls ‘smart sanctions’ against Iraq, which are intended to let in civilian goods but not military ones. ‘What we don’t want to have go in, are equipment that can […]
11/26/2001
Regarding Iraq, on November 26, 2011, President “Bush added that ‘as for Mr. Hussein, he needs to let inspectors back in his country, to show us that he is not developing weapons of mass destruction.’ ” – Elisabeth Bumiller, “Readmit Inspectors, President Tells Iraq; ‘Or Else’ Is Unstated,” The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2001 […]
11/26/2001
On November 26, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed by Larry King of CNN. Powell “said the president [Bush] retained ‘all his options’ if Saddam did not accept inspectors. Bush’s linkage–that Saddam should allow UN inspectors into Iraq with the purpose of proving he had no WMD–was a critical point. It tied the […]
11/26/2001
“On Monday, November 26 [2001], during a Rose Garden ceremony…[President] Bush was asked about Iraq by the press…[He replied:] ‘If anybody harbors a terrorist, they’re a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they’re terrorists. I mean, I can’t make it any more clearly to other nations around the world. If they develop weapons of mass destruction […]
11/25/2001
At a briefing in late November 2001, CIA Director George “Tenet laid out for Vice President [Dick] Cheney and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice a stunning trove of new intelligence [on al Qaeda’s attempts to acquire nuclear capabilities]… Cheney, by [journalist Ron] Suskind’s account, had been grappling with how to think about ‘a low-probability, high-impact […]
11/25/2001
Bin Laden was tracked to the mountainous areas of Milawa and Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in late November 2001. After unsuccessful attacks on him, CIA Field Commander Gary “Berntsen, who was back in Kabul, summoned several members of his team to tell him what they would need to take down bin Laden now that they thought […]
11/25/2001
“In late November [2001], probably within days after bin Laden had arrived in the area, [CIA Field Commander Gary] Berntsen’s team tracked him to a mountainous area called Milawa, just below the peaks of Tora Bora [Afghanistan]. Berntsen’s men called in airstrikes–a barrage from B-52s, F-15s and plenty more–that lasted nearly 60 hours. ‘Our guys […]
11/25/2001
“On November 25 [2001] the first U.S. Marines landed in Afghanistan, deployed from U.S. battleships off the coast of Pakistan. They established forward operating base Camp Rhino, sixty miles southwest of Kandahar, in order to trap fleeing Taliban.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, “U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.’s Died,” Page 95 […]