“In November [24] 1999, [Richard] Perle, by then an adviser to [presidential candidate George W.] Bush, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the candidate was drafting a speech calling for Saddam Hussein’s removal from power. He added that Bush’s speech would be critical of [President Bill] Clinton and would say, ‘it’s time to finish the job. […]
11/19/1999
“At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi, California, [presidential hopeful George W.] Bush delivered a much-anticipated first speech setting out foreign policy views on November 19, 1999. Having established that he did not see military intervention as the answer to every problem America faced beyond its borders, Bush closed with, ‘Let us reject the […]
11/18/1999
“Running for president, the younger Bush in November [18] 1999 said he would not repeat his father’s mistake of leaving Hussein in power [in Iraq]. ‘No one envisioned him still standing,’ he said. ‘It’s time to finish the task.’ ” – Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 190 […]
11/15/1999
From the November/December 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs: “Between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 42 […]
11/15/1999
” ‘An [undated] NSA [National Security Agency] report said that Iraqi officials were carefully considering offering safe haven to bin Laden and his closest collaborators in Nov 1999. The source indicated the idea was put forward by the presumed head of Iraqi intelligence in Islamabad [Pakistan] (Khalid Janaby) who in turn was in frequent contact […]
11/15/1999
In a speech to the Institute of Petroleum on November 15, 1999, Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney said: “[B]y 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? …While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East […]
11/15/1999
“As then Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney made clear in [his speech at the Institute of Petroleum’s Autumn Lunch on November 15] 1999, ‘The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world’s oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page 323 […]
11/15/1999
Restructuring of the FBI in November 1999 “created a new Counterterrorism Division, further highlighting…the need to do more against terrorist attacks. …A new Investigative Services Division was created to coordinate FBI international activities.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page 101 […]
11/15/1999
Future 9/11 hijackers “Mohammed Atta, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, the four friends from Hamburg [Germany], arrived in the [al-Qaeda] Khaldan camp in November 1999 for a preliminary training course.” Osama bin Laden and senior al Qaeda member Khaled Sheikh Mohammed had already formed a plan to attack the United States with […]
10/31/1999
“By the end of October, 1999, Iraq had asked for the departure of the weapons inspection team from its territory, but then in an about-turn announced its intention to cooperate unconditionally with UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission, the inspection group that searched for WMD]. This was not sufficient, however, to stop the UNSCOM chairman, Richard […]