According to an article in The New Yorker on February 14, 2005: “U.S. human rights lawyer Scott Horton said up to 150 people had been rendered by the CIA between 2001 and 2005.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 305 […]
2/11/2005
“According to one official count [mentioned in a Washington Post article on February 11, 2005], there were thirty-three separate terror warnings in 2001; and after the 9/11 Commission issued its final report, we learned of another fifty-two alerts from the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] that they had somehow neglected to include. Five of the security […]
2/10/2005
Counselor to the State Department Philip Zelikow presented Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with a Memorandum to the Secretary of State on February 10, 2005. ” ‘At this point Iraq remains a failed state shadowed by constant violence and undergoing revolutionary political change,’ Rice read. This was a shocking notion–‘a failed state,’ after two years, […]
2/10/2005
“On February 10, 2005, [counselor to the State Department Philip] Zelikow issued a 15-page report classified SECRET/NODIS–secret, no distribution–meaning that copies should go to no one other than [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice herself. It concluded, ‘Iraq remains a failed state shadowed by constant violence.’ ” – Bob Woodward, The War Within, Page 30 […]
2/6/2005
In an article on February 6, 2005, “When Steve Coll of the Washington Post asked sixty nuclear and terrorism experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory about the likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the next several decades, only three or four thought the chance was negligible.” – Daniel Benjamin and […]
2/6/2005
On February 6, 2005, former Secretary of State Colin Powell “gave an interview to the Telegraph in London saying he was very sore about the way his speech [to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003] had worked out. ‘I will forever be known as the one who made the case [for invading Iraq],’ […]
2/5/2005
Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar met with President Bush on February 5, 2005, and told him he had evidence of bin Laden’s whereabouts. “Bandar said the Saudis planned to send a military or intelligence unit to the spot and get bin Laden. ‘We’re not going to go through a trial,’ Bandar explained. ‘We get him, we […]
2/2/2005
In his February 2, 2005, State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush stated: “Recently an Iraqi interpreter said to a reporter, “Tell America not to abandon us.” He and all Iraqis can be certain: While our military strategy is adapting to circumstances, our commitment remains firm and unchanging. We are standing for the freedom […]
2/2/2005
In his State of the Union address on February 2, 2005, President Bush said: ” ‘the victory of freedom in Iraq will strengthen a new ally in the war on terror.’ ” – Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon, The Next Attack, Page 236 […]
2/1/2005
During a discussion on situation in Iraq while in Iraq, “Casey [General George W. Casey Jr] was in charge of our Iraq Command, and he did his best to put a positive face on the situation. John McCain seemed impatient, even grumpy with the four-star general as he sought information about the training of Iraqi […]