“In April [2002], the Near East Bureau launched a project it called the ‘Future of Iraq,’ enlisting two hundred Iraqi academics, business leaders and experts in everything from education and oil policy to governance and national security to draw up a blueprint for reconstructing and running their country after Saddam was gone. The idea had […]
4/15/2002
“By the following April [2002], the ICC [International Criminal Court] had received more than the required sixty government ratifications [needed to go into effect], and the court was launched over U.S. objections. In response, the Bush administration restated its opposition to the treaty, adding that the treaty would not proceed to the Senate for ratification. […]
4/15/2002
In April 2002, “CIA case officers stationed all over Europe were ordered to attend a special conference in Rome, during which officials from the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group casually told the assembled CIA officers that Iraq had been on the Bush agenda from the very beginning. ‘They said this was on Bush’s agenda when he […]
4/15/2002
After seeing how CIA agents handled the interrogation of Al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubayda in April 2002, “The FBI agents, with their traditions of working within the U.S. criminal legal framework, were appalled. …reports of deliberate prisoner abuse reached the top rungs of the FBI, causing the Director, [Robert] Mueller, to bar the Bureau’s […]
4/15/2002
FBI Director “Robert Mueller, in a public speech in April 2002, recognized the intelligence shortcomings of the FBI and said steps were being taken to improve intelligence analysis. …’Our analysts do some great work, but we need more of them and we need to do more of the kind of strategic thinking that helps us […]
4/15/2002
In April 2002, Deputy Director for CIA Operations Javes L. Pavitt said: ” ‘Against that degree of control, that kind of compartmentalization, that depth of discipline and fanaticism, I personally doubt…that anything short of one of the knowledgeable inner circle personnel or hijackers turning himself in to us would have given us sufficient foreknowledge to […]
4/15/2002
Author James Bamford quoted conservative journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave, the editor-at-large of The Washington Times: ” ‘When this writer first heard from prominent neoconservatives in April 2002 that war [with Iraq] was no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘when,’ the casus belli had little to do with WMDs’, he said. ‘The Bush administration, they […]
4/13/2002
In an interview with the Portuguese magazine Expresso on April 13, 2002, al Qaeda member Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos remarked: ” ‘Bin Laden once said that any adult Israeli citizen, man or woman, could be assassinated. Because [Israeli] women could also serve in the army. There was an American there who asked: *But the […]
4/11/2002
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “April 11, 2002: Djerba, Tunisia: The Ghriba synagogue is bombed by a natural gas truck. The attack kills fifteen tourists (fourteen Germans and one Frenchman) and six Tunisians. Thirty others are wounded.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and […]
4/11/2002
On April 11, 2002, “an al Qaeda-suspected bomb exploded in a Tunisian synagogue, killing nineteen.” – Pete Lance, Cover Up, Page 211 […]