“…U.S. forces carried out missile strikes in FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas], often without Pakistan’s permission. On January 13, 2006, U.S. missiles targeted [al Qaeda second-in-command] Ayman al-Zawahiri in the village of Damadola in Bajur agency. …The missile attack killed five senior al Qaeda figures but generated enormous public anger as politicians accused [Pakistani […]
1/11/2006
In an interview on PBS Frontline on January 11, 2006, former Deputy Director of the CIA John McLaughlin stated: ” ‘We said at some point in the timeframe that we had no evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda and to those attacks [on 9/11].’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 325 […]
1/9/2006
According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor on January 9, 2006: “In an independent analysis of the current, long-term, direct, and indirect costs of the Iraq War, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard scholar Linda Bilmes concluded that the total costs of the war, compared with costs incurred by the U.S. […]
1/8/2006
According to a Newsweek article on January 8, 2006: “In a study, Andrew Wilder, a prominent American researcher based in Kabul [Afghanistan], concluded that at least seventeen elected members of [Afghanistan’s] parliament were drug traffickers, while twenty-four were connected to drug gangs.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 329 […]
1/7/2006
“A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it […]
1/6/2006
“That the Vice President’s [Dick Cheney’s] lawyer [David Addington], who had no line authority on national security matters, no staff…and only secondary bureaucratic rank, would end up shaping much of the [Bush] administration’s legal strategy on terrorism was one of the oddities of the nation’s plunge into the dark side.” According to The Washington Post […]
1/5/2006
“At the beginning of [January] 2006, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz had estimated the total [Iraq] war cost at up to $2 trillion, thanks in part to the cost of long-term health care for those wounded both in body and mind–one in five returning veterans was reported to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.” [The […]
1/5/2006
In a meeting at the White House on January 5, 2006, former Secretary of State “Madeline Albright told [President] Bush that Iraq was ‘taking up all the energy’ of his foreign policy team while nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea spun out of control and the rest of the world suffered from benign neglect.” […]
1/1/2006
Regarding the warrantless surveillance controversy, “President Bush insisted on New Year’s Day 2006 that ‘this is a limited program…it’s limited to calls from outside the United States to calls within the United States. But they are of known–numbers of known al-Qaeda members or affiliates.’ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 89 […]
12/30/2005
“…in December [30] of 2005 the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) was enacted by Congress. It narrowed the federal habeas statute in that ‘no court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider…an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense […]