“The Western media began to speak of a ‘terror premium’ on oil with George Washington, a chief economist in the petroleum industry, assessing this at about $8 per barrel in November 2004 and adding that a successful attack on one of Saudi Arabia’s main oil export terminals would see prices shoot through the roof. He […]
11/15/2004
Secretary of State Colin “Powell told reporters at a November 15 [2004] press briefing that ‘it had always been my intention that I would serve one term,’ and that he and [President] Bush ‘came to a mutual agreement that it would be appropriate to leave at this time.’ But Frank Carlucci, a former secretary of […]
11/14/2004
“To put to rest any lingering doubts about al Qaeda’s nuclear weapons, [author Paul] Williams quoted Michael Scheuer, the CIA agent in charge of the bin Laden section of the agency: ‘On November 14, 2004, Scheuer appeared on 60 Minutes…alerting the American people that a nuclear attack by al Qaeda *is pretty close to being […]
11/11/2004
” ‘…it was November 11 [2004],–Veteran’s Day, of all days–[Secretary of State Colin] Powell gets a telephone call telling him to submit his resignation.” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 115-116 […]
11/10/2004
“On Wednesday, November 10 [2004], [Secretary of State Colin] Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office. The caller was not [President] Bush but [presidential Chief of Staff Andrew] Card, and he got right to the point. ‘The president would like to make a change,’… Bush wanted Powell’s resignation […]
11/9/2004
“On Tuesday [November 9, 2004], the White House announced two resignations: Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans…and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The president’s [Bush’s] legal counsel, Alberto Gonzales, was named as Ashcroft’s replacement.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 6 […]
11/8/2004
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “In November 2004, we recognized that our troops had to return to Fallujah. It was a sanctuary for al-Qaida in Iraq and much of the insurgency. Fifteen thousand U.S. Marines and soldiers along with two thousand Iraqi troops encircled the city. In the early morning hours of November 8, […]
11/8/2004
Former Chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit Michael Scheuer said “that the government ‘doesn’t respect the threat’ because most officials still regard Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization that can be defeated by arresting or killing its operatives one at a time. He noted that President Bush and other officials had repeatedly said […]
11/8/2004
On November 8, 2004, “U.S.-led forces moved in to clear out Fallujah [Iraq], a stronghold for Sunni insurgents, launching a ferocious ten-day battle that killed at least one thousand insurgents and left fifty-four Americans dead and more than four hundred seriously wounded.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 325 […]
11/7/2004
“The Marines went back into Fallujah [Iraq] on November 7, 2004. By now it was controlled by thousands of jihadist insurgents. …they fought block to block, largely pacifying the city within a couple of weeks. But retaking Fallujah came at a tremendous cost; thousands of the city’s buildings were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of […]