“The battle for Fallujah [Iraq] started on 7 November, 2004, when MNF [Multi-National Forces] and Iraqi government support forces sealed off the town as well as nearby Ramadi city, the capital of Anbar province.” By November 9, “the city had fallen into American hands, although fighting continued until the middle of the month. …The damage […]
11/7/2004
“On the night of November 7 [2004], ten thousand American troops from the First Marine Division and the army’s First Cavalry Division launched the offensive, designated Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), to retake Fallujah [Iraq]. The army and marine troops, supported by tanks, artillery, and air strikes, smashed into the insurgent defenses on the northern […]
11/7/2004
On November 7, 2004, “it was reported [in The Washington Post] that thousands of surface-to-air missiles that had once been under Saddam’s control were unaccounted for because the U.S.-led force had not secured all the weapons depots in Iraq.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 325 […]
11/6/2004
According to a New York Times article on November 6, 2004: “U.S. intelligence estimated that at least 4,000 missiles from Iraq’s arsenal could not be accounted for, thus tripling the total number of such missiles that are believed to be out of government control worldwide.” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page […]
11/6/2004
“On 6 November 2004, twenty-six Saudi Islamic scholars signed an open letter calling on Muslims to fight the US in Iraq and consider it jihad.” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 172 […]
11/6/2004
“On November 6, 2004 (four days after the U.S. presidential election), U.S. Marines launched the second battle of Fallujah [Iraq] and were victorious after experiencing the heaviest urban combat since Vietnam. The battle lasted six weeks.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 369 […]
11/4/2004
“As President Bush said on November 4, 2004, upon his reelection, ‘Our military has brought justice to the enemy, and honor to America. Our nation has defended itself, and served freedom of all mankind.’ “ – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Pages 27-28 […]
11/4/2004
President “Bush met with his cabinet the next morning, Thursday, November 4 [2004, two days after his re-election]. ‘This election was not won by country club Republicans,’ he said, ‘I don’t know if they exist.’ …Bush had tapped into a new group of lower- and middle-class voters concerned about security.” – Bob Woodward, State of […]
11/3/2004
In Afghanistan, on November 3, 2004, incumbent President “Hamid Karzai is declared the winner of the presidential elections, with 55.4 per cent of the vote. There was an estimated 73 per cent turnout.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 268 […]
11/3/2004
2nd Term -George W. Bush – Republican president re-elected -Richard B. Cheney – Vice President – […]