“The GAO [Government Accountability Office] reported that, ‘as of June 2005, approximately $52 million of the $200 million in completed large-scale water and sanitation projects either were not operating or were operating at a lower capacity due to looting of key equipment and shortages of reliable power, trained Iraqi staff, and required chemicals and supplies.’ […]
6/15/2005
Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of Al Quds al Arabi newspaper, told journalist Peter Bergen in June 2005: ” ‘I believe Osama bin Laden is the one who actually opened the American eyes to their mistake to support rotten, corrupt dictatorships [in the Arab world]. Before, they were happy to deal with these rotten dictatorships. […]
6/15/2005
In an interview with journalist Peter Bergen in June 2005, “Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of Al Quds al Arabi newspaper [said:] ‘He [Osama bin Laden] also didn’t like Saddam Hussein. And he considered Saddam Hussein as a man who is a secular, but he didn’t actually insult Saddam Hussein the way he insulted [Palestine […]
6/10/2005
“Up-to-date statistics are hard to come by in Iraq, but a report in the Boston Globe on 10 June 2005 quoted Pentagon officials (who asked to remain anonymous) who stated that over 50 per cent of the seventy insurgency attacks per day (on average) are now carried out by suicide bombers. Casualty levels fluctuate wildly […]
6/10/2005
On June 10, 2005, “The Justice Department inspector general issues another report, described by the New York Times as ‘blistering,’ citing at least five instances in the months before 9/11 when the FBI blew chances to locate muscle hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. The report is made public after being kept secret for a […]
6/9/2005
Released on June 9, 2005, the Schmidt-Furlow Report, which investigated detainee abuse at Guantanamo, “found that [alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed al-] Qahtani ‘ultimately provided extremely valuable intelligence [after exposure to enhanced interrogation techniques].‘ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 581 […]
6/9/2005
“In June [9] 2005, President Bush announced that ‘federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted.’ Yet a Washington Post investigation has shown that only thirty-nine people were convicted of crimes tied to national security or terrorism. Of those, only fourteen […]
6/8/2005
In an appearance on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show on June 8, 2005, Stewart “asked [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell whether he hadn’t had a call from anyone in Germany saying [Iraqi informant] Curveball was some kind of a ‘nut job.’ Powell didn’t skip a beat and replied: ‘Not me. There may have been somebody […]
6/8/2005
“In June [8] 2005, he [former Secretary of State Colin Powell] appeared on the late-night comedian Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and argued that a war [in Iraq] could have been avoided if the international community had held firm with Saddam, and that [President] Bush had decided in the end that if he failed to act, […]
6/5/2005
“…a Lodi, California, laborer of Pakistani descent, Hamid Hayat… was under surveillance while returning from Pakistan to the United States by plane at the end of May 2005. The FBI questioned him for two weeks about his contacts with al-Qaeda in Pakistan. After failing a lie detector test, Hayat reportedly admitted that he had trained […]