In a declaration on March 24, 2010, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson claimed many Guantanamo detainees were not enemy combatants. He also reflected on Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying: " 'my investigations…revealed that some 50-60% of those imprisoned at Abu Ghraib were probably innocent. They […]
3/24/2010
In a declaration on March 24, 2010, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson claimed many Guantanamo detainees were not enemy combatants. He said: ” ‘…by late August 2002, I found that of the initial 742 detainees that had arrived at Guantanamo, the majority of them had never […]
3/24/2010
In a declaration on March 24, 2010, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson claimed many Guantanamo detainees were not enemy combatants. One of the reasons was, ” ‘U.S. forces were not the ones who were taking the prisoners in the first place. Instead, we relied upon Afghans, […]
3/24/2010
In a declaration on March 24, 2010, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, said: " '…it became apparent to me as early as August 2002, and probably earlier to other State Department personnel who were focused on the issues, that many of the prisoners detained at Guantanamo […]
3/24/2010
“On March 24, 2010, Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 113 alleged al Qaeda militants who it claimed were planning attacks on oil facilities. Fifty-eight of those arrested came from Saudi Arabia, and fifty-two came from Yemen; the others were from Bangladesh, Eritrea, and Somalia. Saudi security officials said that the suspects were divided into […]
3/22/2010
” ‘How much more can the U.S. Treasury handle?’ the radical Yemeni American cleric Anwar al Awlaki asked in March [22] 2010. Referring to [Nigerian Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab’s [attempted bombing] attack on the Detroit-bound plane [on December 25, 2009], he continued, ‘9/11, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then operations such as that of […]
3/22/2010
“A suspected al Qaeda organizer [Mohamedou Ould Slahi] once called ‘the highest value detainee’ held at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge Monday [March 22, 2010]. …Judge James Robertson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Mr. Slahi’s petition for habeas corpus, effectively finding that the government lacked […]
3/15/2010
“In March 2010, it was revealed that under an innocuous sounding ‘information-gathering program’ the DOD [Department of Defense] set up a ‘network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants.’ The DOD official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former CIA and Special Forces […]
3/15/2010
American-born al Qaeda senior operative Adam “Gadahn explained [in a March 2010 video] that even [terrorist] attacks that kill nobody can be considered success because they ‘bring major cities to a halt, cost the enemy billions and send his corporations into bankruptcy.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
3/9/2010
“United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country’s domestic spy agency [Eliza Manningham-Buller], MI5, said Tuesday [March 9, 2010].” – David Stringer, “Ex-spy Chief: US Misled Allies Over Detainees,” Associated Press, March 9, 2010 […]