“In a May 2007 video interview, [al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-] Zawahiri criticized Hamas yet again, pointing to maps of Palestine illustrating Israel’s increasing control over the country from 1948 to today and accusing Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood of doing too little to fight this expansion.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
5/13/2007
“Mullah Dadullah, the much-reviled [Taliban] commander of southern Afghanistan…was finally killed on May 13, 2007, in a firefight in Garmser, Helmand province [Afghanistan]. He had been tracked by Britain’s Special Boat Service in Quetta [Pakistan] and killed after he left the city.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Pages 398-399 […]
5/12/2007
“Mullah Dadullah, the much reviled and brutal [Taliban] commander in southern Afghanistan who had kicked off the insurgency in 2003 by killing a Red Cross official, was finally killed in May [12] 2007 in a fire fight in Garmser in Helmand [Afghanistan] after being tracked down by British commandos.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 231 […]
5/12/2007
“In May [12] 2007, British commandos killed the Taliban’s senior military commander, Mullah Dadullah, a successful operation directly attributable to a systematic effort by British and American SIGINT [signals intelligence] collectors to track his movements in Helmand Province [Afghanistan] by monitoring his satellite phone calls and those of his brother Mansour, also a senior Taliban […]
5/11/2007
Former CBS News correspondent Jerry Landay reported in The Providence Journal on May 11, 2007: “The Big Five oil companies don’t proclaim it in their self-promoting institutional advertising campaigns. Yet the so-called ‘Majors’–U.S.-based Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips; the Dutch Shell Oil; and the British-owned British Petroleum–would be the principal beneficiaries of a new hydrocarbon law […]
5/10/2007
On May 10, 2007, Commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said: ” ‘Some may argue that we would be more effective if we sanctioned torture or other expedient methods to obtain information from the enemy… What sets us apart from our enemies in this fight, however, is how we behave. In […]
4/29/2007
Presidential Advisor Karl Rove wrote about former CIA Director George Tenet’s April 29, 2007, appearance on 60 Minutes. Tenet said, regarding the use of enhanced interrogation techniques: ” ‘I know that this program saved lives. I know we’ve disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than [what] the FBI, the [CIA], and […]
4/28/2007
In response to former CIA Director George Tenet’s book, six former agents (Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Jim Marcinkowski, Vince Cannistraro, and David MacMichael) wrote a letter, dated April 28, 2007, to express their disappointment in Tenet: “We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States […]
4/25/2007
On April 25, 2007, “the House passed a spending bill with $95 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and mandating a troop withdrawal by March 2008 as urged in the Baker-Hamilton report. The Senate concurred the following day. [President] Bush vetoed the bill on May 1.” – Peter Baker, Days of […]
4/25/2007
In an interview with author Elisabeth Bumiller on April 25, 2007, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said, regarding then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: ” ‘I think basically she didn’t want to be bothered with homeland security or terrorism… She was hired to do grand strategy and worry about China and Russia.’ When Clarke first briefed […]