According to the State Department’s April 2004 report, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003: “Saddam gave refuge to terrorists on the run, like Abu Nidal, whose group was responsible for some nine hundred deaths and casualties, including a number of Americans, in attacks in more than twenty countries.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
4/15/2004
“In his [Osama bin Laden’s] 15 April 2004 communiqué he offers ‘a commitment to cease operations against any state that pledges not to attack Muslims or intervene in their affairs.’ This truce was ‘available for a period of three months,’ and was roundly ignored.” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page […]
4/15/2004
On April 15, 2004, “Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld announces plans to extend the tours of duty of 20,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq.” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time of Our Choosing, Page 299 […]
4/15/2004
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, then-Commander of the ground forces in Iraq, wrote: “In April 2004, we walked away from two important military missions [offensive operations in Fallujah and efforts to capture/kill Iraqi theologian and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf]. And for what? So the Bush administration could retain power. The timing and potential repercussions […]
4/15/2004
“The Iraqi Ministry of Defence was reconstituted in April 2004 under the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority]. It operated under a budget set up by the CPA, which was premised on a small force of three light infantry divisions.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation […]
4/15/2004
In early June 2004, “news reports in the New York Times based on leaks from U.S. intelligence sources indicated that in mid-April [2004], [Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed] Chalabi himself had told a Baghdad station chief of MOIS [Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security] that NSA [National Security Agency] had broken the codes of the […]
4/15/2004
The State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 report, released in April 2004, “claimed that the number of terrorist incidents worldwide had dropped in 2003 to 190. If that was true, it would have represented the lowest level in more than thirty years, and a decline of 45 percent since President Bush took office. At […]
4/15/2004
As reported by Reuters on August 23, 2004: “[I]n April 2004, when the White House was belatedly considering slightly revising its de-Baathification policy, [Iraqi National Congress leader] Ahmad Chalabi declared that this was akin to putting Nazis back in charge of Germany. He said it would endanger any new government and cause it to fall. […]
4/15/2004
In an audiotaped message delivered in April 2004, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘This war is profiting the major corporations–both arms manufacturers and reconstruction firms, such as Halliburton and its off-shoots and sister companies–with billions of dollars.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Raymond Ibrahim, ed./trans., The Al […]
4/15/2004
In an audiotaped message delivered in April 2004, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘Our actions are merely reactions to yours–represented by the murder and destruction of our people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Raymond Ibrahim, ed./trans., The Al Qaeda Reader, Page 234 […]