“In November 2007 Al Qaeda’s former top ideologue and theorist, Sayyid Imam al Sharif [a.k.a. Dr. Fadl]…publicly criticized bin Laden and [Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-] Zawahiri in another shattering blow to their authority. ‘Al Qaeda committed suicide on 9/11 and lost its equilibrium, skilled leaders, and influence,’ said Fadl. Fadl publicly called bin Laden […]
11/15/2007
“In November 2007, the intelligence community produced a National Intelligence Estimate [NIE] on Iran’s nuclear program. It confirmed that, as we suspected, Iran had operated a secret nuclear weapons program in defiance of its treaty obligations. It also reported that, in 2003, Iran had suspended its covert effort to design a warhead–considered by some to […]
11/15/2007
“[A] Pentagon manual, leaked to Britain’s Guardian newspaper in November 2007 and published on the Internet, exposed the [Guantanamo] camp regime. It instructed the guards to keep captives in isolation for two weeks after their arrival to ‘enhance and exploit the disorientation and disorganization’ they felt during the interrogation process. Prisoners were to be ‘denied basics […]
11/15/2007
A November 2007 “Pentagon-sponsored study based on 600,000 documents seized in Iraq ‘found no *smoking gun* (i.e., direct connection) between Saddam’s Iraq and al Qaeda.’ The study also concluded that while Saddam’s regime did provide some support to other terrorist groups in the Middle East, the ‘predominant targets of Iraqi state terror operations were Iraqi […]
11/14/2007
According to the Associated Press reports of November 14, 2007: “Chevron paid $30 million in 2007 to state and federal regulators to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had paid illegal kickbacks to the Hussein regime to win marketing contracts [in Iraq].” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page […]
11/12/2007
In a statement to the House Armed Services Committee on November 12, 2007, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Michael Mullen said: ” ‘In Afghanistan we do what we can. In Iraq, we do what we must. …The [Afghan] war is by design and necessity an economy-of-force operation.’ “ – Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the […]
11/6/2007
“Both [Senator] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] and [Senator] Barack Obama [D-IL] accused [President] Bush of supporting a dictatorship in Pakistan. ‘The failed policies of the Bush administration are part of the reason we are in this difficult and dangerous position,’ Clinton said on November 6, 2007.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 388 […]
11/4/2007
Regarding the subject of waterboarding: “As far back as the U.S. occupation of the Philippines after the 1898 Spanish-American War, U.S. soldiers were court-martialed for using the ‘water cure’ to question Filipino guerrillas.” – Evan Wallach, “Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime,” The Washington Post, Nov. 4, 2007 […]
11/3/2007
“…in November [3] 2007 American soldiers raided a house in northern Iraq and found the diary of an al-Qaeda leader in the area, a man who called himself Abu Tariq, ‘the emir of al-Layin and al Mashadah sectors.’ The diary lamented that his force, which had once been six hundred strong, was down to twenty […]
11/2/2007
On November 2, 2007, “Afghan security forces kill Mawlawi Abdul Manan, a top-ranking commander allied to the Taliban.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 270 […]