In Iraq, “On September 9, 2006, a number of Anbar tribal sheikhs went public with their plan to destroy al-Qaeda. They named their movement Sahwa, meaning ‘Awakening.’ Colonel Sean MacFarland, the U.S. brigade commander in Ramadi, met with the Awakening leader, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, and his tribal allies at the charismatic sheikh’s house. […]
9/8/2006
“In one brazen attack on September 8, 2006, a suicide bomber hit a U.S. convoy just outside the American embassy in Kabul [Afghanistan], killing sixteen Afghans and two U.S. guards. The resulting crackdown led to the arrests of a suicide bomber network in the city, which revealed to interrogators how extremist groups in Pakistan supplied […]
9/8/2006
According to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on September 8, 2006: “The U.S. military had by 2006 translated 34 million pages of documents from Saddam’s Iraq and found there was nothing to substantiate a ‘partnership’ between Saddam and al-Qaeda.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 151 […]
9/8/2006
“The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report in September [8] of 2006 said that the Iraqi National Congress (INC) ‘attempted to influence United States policy on Iraq by providing false information through defectors directed at convincing the United States that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, […]
9/8/2006
The Senate Select Committee’s report on September 8, 2006 “quoted a classified CIA report that concluded that Iraq ‘did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward [Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi and his associates.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 147 […]
9/8/2006
On Dec. 19, 2001, Pakistani security forces captured alleged Al Qaeda commander Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. “But on September 8, 2006, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released an astonishing report documenting that top Bush Administration intelligence officials had known for years that in his case, rendition, torture, and bad intelligence were inextricably entwined. …after the […]
9/8/2006
In “Conclusion 3” of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report “on the use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress” of September 8, 2006: “Despite two April 2002 CIA assessments, the May 2002 DIA fabrication notice, and the July 2002 National Intelligence Council assessment warning that Source Two [an Iraqi […]
9/7/2006
Author and political science professor John Mueller said, during a Foreign Affairs roundtable discussion on September 7, 2006: “Working with and updating data published in Anthony Cordesman’s The Challenge of Biological Terrorism, I calculate that the number of deaths inflicted since 9/11 by al Qaeda and al Qaeda types across the globe outside of war […]
9/7/2006
“On September 7, 2006, General James Jones, our NATO commander, called for more troops in Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO forces are fighting a resurgence of al Qaeda and Taliban forces.” – James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, The Iraq Study Group Report, Page 86 […]
9/6/2006
On the subject of Guantanamo, President Bush had this to say: “I know Americans have heard conflicting information about Guantanamo. Let me give you some facts. Of the thousands of terrorists captured across the world, only about 770 have ever been sent to Guantanamo. Of these, about 315 have been returned to other countries so […]