hist2004
06-22-2004, 09:21 AM
Kofi Annan
UN Secretary General
"Can I trust Saddam Hussein? I think I can do business with him."
Press Conference, 2/24/1998
Anonymous Iraqi insurgent
"We are fighting for freedom and because the Americans are Jews... The religious principle is that we cannot accept to live with infidels. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, said, 'Hit the infidels wherever you find them.'"
New York Times, 12/04/2003
Yasser Arafat
"Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God."
Palestinian TV, 5/15/2004
Richard L. Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State
United States
"Hezbollah may be the A-team of terrorists and maybe al Qaida is actually the B-team. They're on the list and their time will come. There is no question about it. They have a blood debt to us …and we're not going to forget it and it's all in good time. We're going to go after these problems just like a high school wrestler goes after a match: We're going to take them down one at a time."
Remarks at the US Institute of Peace Conference, Washington, D.C., 9/05/2002
Gen. John Abizaid
U.S. Commander in Iraq
U.S. Army
"Attacks on Iraqis have increased. They use ambulances. They use different types of methods to get in and kill innocent women and children and members of the security forces. And they have no vision for the future, except just like it was before, just kill people, just intimidate them, and just to bring fear and come back to power. We won't let that happen."
New York Times, 11/25/2003
"The heart of the problem is in this particular region, and the heart of the region happens to be Iraq….You can't separate the struggle against the Baathists from the struggle against global terrorism."
Washington Post, 8/03/2003
Usama bin Laden
"The interests of Muslims coincide with the interests of the socialists in the war against the crusaders."
-From an audiotape message broadcast by Al Jazeera television and translated by *******, 2/14/2003
""When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.""
Time Magazine, from a tape of Osama Bin Laden at an Al-Qaeda dinner party., 12/13/2001
Jimmy Carter
Former President
"One of the key factors that arouses intense feelings of animosity in the world is the festering problem in the Holy Land, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the inability of Israel to live in peace with its neighbors. I think this is the single most disturbing element in animosities and misunderstandings and hatred and even violence in the world. I think that is an exacerbating factor in dividing people, not only in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, but also throughout the world."
-at pre-Nobel press conference, 12/09/2002
Bill Clinton
Fmr. President
United States
"People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in '98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn't know it because we never got to go back in there. I would say the most important thing is we should focus on what's the best way to build Iraq as a democracy. How is the president going to do that and deal with continuing problems in Afghanistan and North Korea?
"We should be pulling for America on this. We should be pulling for the people of Iraq. We can have honest disagreements about where we go from here, and we have space now to discuss that in what I hope will be a nonpartisan and open way. But this State of the Union deal they decided to use the British intelligence. The president said it was British intelligence. Then they said on balance they shouldn't have done it. You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now. That's what I think."
CNN, 7/22/2003
"[The] mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. [The] purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons."
President Clinton addressing the nation after ordering a strike on military and security targets in Iraq, 12/16/1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
2/17/1998
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
2/04/1998
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now – a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction."
Speech at the Pentagon, 2/01/1998
Richard Clarke
Former White House terrorism advisor
"Well, I hear all of these comments about the Phoenix memo, the Minnesota case, whatever. I think they miss the point that the failures were years earlier. It was a failure on the part of the United States to not have a domestic intelligence collection capability. I understand the reasons for the lack of the ability. I know the abuses the FBI engaged in [during] the 1950s and 1960s..."
Joint Inquiry Report of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 2003
George Will
Columnist
"To govern is to constantly make choices on the basis of imperfect information."
1/04/2004
R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA
"We should have gone into Iraq with thousands and thousands of trained Iraqis operating with us. Congress set aside $97 million to do that in 1998, six years ago. It wasn't done because the State Department and the CIA fought it all the way. When we won in Normandy in 1944, we stood aside and let DeGaulle lead the victory parade through Paris. And that was entirely appropriate. We should have operated that way with the free Iraqis the way we operated with the free French. But they did not want to do that and that's not the Defense Department's fault."
The news hour with Jim Lehrer, 5/06/2004
"He's [Richard Clarke] a man who, once he gets locked into a view, doesn't listen anymore. He is an able man, in some ways. But in this case, he got locked into the view early on that there was nothing ever, no contacts of any kind between al Qaeda and governments such as Iraq. And so I think he ignored some of the clear evidence that George Tenet spread out before the Senate in 2002 about Iraqi training of al Qaeda in poisons, gases and explosives."
FOX News, 3/24/2004
"Hans Blix missed all three of the Iraqi nuclear programs in the 1980s. This is a tough business."
FOX News, 2/09/2004
"If one counts the Iranians who died in his war of aggression in the 1980s, [Saddam Hussein] has killed two million people -- about 10 times the number killed by Slobodan Milosovic, with whom the Clinton administration went to war twice in the 1990s on human-rights grounds."
Wall Street Journal, 2/02/2004
"[A] three-part emphasis on human rights, terrorist ties and WMD programs would have been solidly in line with the president's own explicit policy. A three-legged stool is more stable than a one-legged one, but for some reason the administration decided not to make all three parts of its case in justifying the decision to go to war. As a result, its very heavy emphasis on WMD to the exclusion of the other two bases of its strategy has left the administration vulnerable to the failure to find WMD stockpiles. Whoever caused that decision to be made may have succeeded in papering over some bureaucratic feuding, but reaped a political whirlwind."
Wall Street Journal, 2/02/2004
"If you want to a feel for the intellectual infrastructure – if you can call it that – of [Wahhabi] thinking, there are websites where one can go to pull in what the sermons are on any given Friday throughout Saudi Arabia. I looked at one such set of sermons two or three weeks ago before some discussions we were having at the Defense Policy Board. And the three main themes that week were that all Jews are pigs and monkeys. The second major theme was that all Christians and Jews are the enemy it is our obligation to hate them and destroy them. And the third was that women in the United States routinely commit incest with their fathers and brothers and it is a common and accepted thing in the United States.This is not extraordinary. This is the routine Wahhabi view. One Wahhabi cleric was interviewed by a Washington Post reporter a few weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. The Post reporter asked him: ‘Tell me. I'm a Christian. Do you hate me' And the Wahhabi cleric said, ‘Well, of course if you're a Christian, I hate you. But I'm not going to kill you.' This is the moderate view. And we need to realize that just as angry German nationalism of the 1920s and the 1930s was the soil in which Nazism grew, not all German nationalists became Nazis, but that was the soil in which it grew. So the angry form of Islamism and Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia today is the soil in which anti-Western and anti-American terrorism grows."
11/16/2002
"Arafat was essentially elected the same way Stalin was, but not nearly as democratically as Hitler, who at least had actual opponents."
4/25/2002
UN Security Council
Resolution 1441
Passed 15-0
"Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final and complete disclosure … of all its programs to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles."
11/08/2003
The Voice of Jihad
Al-Qa'ida-affiliated biweekly online magazine
"We call upon the nation to harm Americans everywhere; that is the language of dialogue that the enemy understands and [to whose] demands he responds..."
MEMRI, 11/01/2003
Editorial, The New York Times
"It's not surprising that in the wake of Sept. 11, the president would want to make the world safer, and that one of his top priorities would be eliminating Iraq's ability to create biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Of all the military powers in the world, Iraq is the one that has twice invaded its neighbors without provocation and that has used chemical weapons both on its military foes and some of its own restive people."
New York Times, 12/23/2003
Editorial, The Arab News
(Saudi Arabia)
"The suicide bombers have been encouraged by the venom of anti-Westernism that has seeped through the Middle East's veins, and the Kingdom is no less affected. Those who gloat over Sept. 11, those who happily support suicide bombings in Israel and Russia, those who consider non-Muslims less human than Muslims and therefore somehow disposable, all bear part of the responsibility for the Riyadh bombs.
"We cannot say that suicide bombings in Israel and Russia are acceptable but not in Saudi Arabia. The cult of suicide bombings has to stop. So too has the chattering, malicious, vindictive hate propaganda. It has provided a fertile ground for ignorance and hatred to grow."
The Arab News, 5/14/2003
George Tenet
Director of Central Intelligence, speech at Georgetown University
"As David Kay reminded us, the Iraqis systematically destroyed and looted forensic evidence before, during and after the war. We have been faced with the organized destruction of documentary and computer evidence in a wide range of offices, laboratories, and companies suspected of WMD work. The pattern of these efforts is one of deliberate rather than random acts. Iraqis who have volunteered information to us are still being intimidated and attacked...
"[CIA analysts] never said there was an 'imminent' threat. Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policymakers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly surprise us and threaten our interests. No one told us what to say or how to say it...
"We did not have enough of our own human intelligence...
"To conclude before the war that Saddam had destroyed his existing weapons, we would have had to ignore what the United Nations and allied intelligence said they could not verify...
"[A]ll agencies agreed that Saddam wanted nuclear weapons. Most were convinced that he still had a program and if he obtained fissile material he could have a weapon within a year...
"Most agencies believed that Saddam had begun to reconstitute his nuclear program...
"We believed that Iraq had lethal Biological Weapons agents, including anthrax, which it could quickly produce and weaponize for delivery by bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives...
"Last fall, the Iraq Survey Group uncovered 'significant information-including research and development of Biological Weapons-applicable organisms, the involvement of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) in possible Biological Weapons activities, and deliberate concealment activities. All of this suggests Iraq after 1996 further compartmentalized its program and focused on maintaining smaller, covert capabilities that could be activated quickly to surge the production of Biological Weapon agents.'
"Everyone knew that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s and 1990s. Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iran and his own people on at least 10 different occasions. He launched missiles against Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. And we couldn't forget that in the early 1990s, we saw that Iraq was just a few years way from a nuclear weapon-this was no theoretical program. It turned out that we and the other intelligence services of the world had significantly underestimated his progress. And, finally, we could not forget that Iraq lied repeatedly about its unconventional weapons."
Georgetown University speech, 2/05/2004
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez
Top U.S. Commander in Iraq
"The only way we will fail in this country is if we decide to walk away in Iraq and fight the next battle in the war on terrorism in America."
The Washington Times, 9/07/2003
Scott Ritter
Former UN Weapons Inspector
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win."
TSF radio interview, 3/25/2003
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated... We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war inevitable... We will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost."
South African radio station, 3/25/2003
"The prison in question was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children - toddlers up to pre-adolescents - whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace."
Time Magazine, 9/14/2002
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Al-Qaeda Leader
"We are in jihad against the infidels and the Zionists."
Al-Jazeera, 4/21/2002
Regards,
Hist2004
UN Secretary General
"Can I trust Saddam Hussein? I think I can do business with him."
Press Conference, 2/24/1998
Anonymous Iraqi insurgent
"We are fighting for freedom and because the Americans are Jews... The religious principle is that we cannot accept to live with infidels. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, said, 'Hit the infidels wherever you find them.'"
New York Times, 12/04/2003
Yasser Arafat
"Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God."
Palestinian TV, 5/15/2004
Richard L. Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State
United States
"Hezbollah may be the A-team of terrorists and maybe al Qaida is actually the B-team. They're on the list and their time will come. There is no question about it. They have a blood debt to us …and we're not going to forget it and it's all in good time. We're going to go after these problems just like a high school wrestler goes after a match: We're going to take them down one at a time."
Remarks at the US Institute of Peace Conference, Washington, D.C., 9/05/2002
Gen. John Abizaid
U.S. Commander in Iraq
U.S. Army
"Attacks on Iraqis have increased. They use ambulances. They use different types of methods to get in and kill innocent women and children and members of the security forces. And they have no vision for the future, except just like it was before, just kill people, just intimidate them, and just to bring fear and come back to power. We won't let that happen."
New York Times, 11/25/2003
"The heart of the problem is in this particular region, and the heart of the region happens to be Iraq….You can't separate the struggle against the Baathists from the struggle against global terrorism."
Washington Post, 8/03/2003
Usama bin Laden
"The interests of Muslims coincide with the interests of the socialists in the war against the crusaders."
-From an audiotape message broadcast by Al Jazeera television and translated by *******, 2/14/2003
""When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.""
Time Magazine, from a tape of Osama Bin Laden at an Al-Qaeda dinner party., 12/13/2001
Jimmy Carter
Former President
"One of the key factors that arouses intense feelings of animosity in the world is the festering problem in the Holy Land, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the inability of Israel to live in peace with its neighbors. I think this is the single most disturbing element in animosities and misunderstandings and hatred and even violence in the world. I think that is an exacerbating factor in dividing people, not only in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, but also throughout the world."
-at pre-Nobel press conference, 12/09/2002
Bill Clinton
Fmr. President
United States
"People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in '98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn't know it because we never got to go back in there. I would say the most important thing is we should focus on what's the best way to build Iraq as a democracy. How is the president going to do that and deal with continuing problems in Afghanistan and North Korea?
"We should be pulling for America on this. We should be pulling for the people of Iraq. We can have honest disagreements about where we go from here, and we have space now to discuss that in what I hope will be a nonpartisan and open way. But this State of the Union deal they decided to use the British intelligence. The president said it was British intelligence. Then they said on balance they shouldn't have done it. You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now. That's what I think."
CNN, 7/22/2003
"[The] mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. [The] purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons."
President Clinton addressing the nation after ordering a strike on military and security targets in Iraq, 12/16/1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
2/17/1998
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
2/04/1998
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now – a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction."
Speech at the Pentagon, 2/01/1998
Richard Clarke
Former White House terrorism advisor
"Well, I hear all of these comments about the Phoenix memo, the Minnesota case, whatever. I think they miss the point that the failures were years earlier. It was a failure on the part of the United States to not have a domestic intelligence collection capability. I understand the reasons for the lack of the ability. I know the abuses the FBI engaged in [during] the 1950s and 1960s..."
Joint Inquiry Report of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 2003
George Will
Columnist
"To govern is to constantly make choices on the basis of imperfect information."
1/04/2004
R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA
"We should have gone into Iraq with thousands and thousands of trained Iraqis operating with us. Congress set aside $97 million to do that in 1998, six years ago. It wasn't done because the State Department and the CIA fought it all the way. When we won in Normandy in 1944, we stood aside and let DeGaulle lead the victory parade through Paris. And that was entirely appropriate. We should have operated that way with the free Iraqis the way we operated with the free French. But they did not want to do that and that's not the Defense Department's fault."
The news hour with Jim Lehrer, 5/06/2004
"He's [Richard Clarke] a man who, once he gets locked into a view, doesn't listen anymore. He is an able man, in some ways. But in this case, he got locked into the view early on that there was nothing ever, no contacts of any kind between al Qaeda and governments such as Iraq. And so I think he ignored some of the clear evidence that George Tenet spread out before the Senate in 2002 about Iraqi training of al Qaeda in poisons, gases and explosives."
FOX News, 3/24/2004
"Hans Blix missed all three of the Iraqi nuclear programs in the 1980s. This is a tough business."
FOX News, 2/09/2004
"If one counts the Iranians who died in his war of aggression in the 1980s, [Saddam Hussein] has killed two million people -- about 10 times the number killed by Slobodan Milosovic, with whom the Clinton administration went to war twice in the 1990s on human-rights grounds."
Wall Street Journal, 2/02/2004
"[A] three-part emphasis on human rights, terrorist ties and WMD programs would have been solidly in line with the president's own explicit policy. A three-legged stool is more stable than a one-legged one, but for some reason the administration decided not to make all three parts of its case in justifying the decision to go to war. As a result, its very heavy emphasis on WMD to the exclusion of the other two bases of its strategy has left the administration vulnerable to the failure to find WMD stockpiles. Whoever caused that decision to be made may have succeeded in papering over some bureaucratic feuding, but reaped a political whirlwind."
Wall Street Journal, 2/02/2004
"If you want to a feel for the intellectual infrastructure – if you can call it that – of [Wahhabi] thinking, there are websites where one can go to pull in what the sermons are on any given Friday throughout Saudi Arabia. I looked at one such set of sermons two or three weeks ago before some discussions we were having at the Defense Policy Board. And the three main themes that week were that all Jews are pigs and monkeys. The second major theme was that all Christians and Jews are the enemy it is our obligation to hate them and destroy them. And the third was that women in the United States routinely commit incest with their fathers and brothers and it is a common and accepted thing in the United States.This is not extraordinary. This is the routine Wahhabi view. One Wahhabi cleric was interviewed by a Washington Post reporter a few weeks ago in Saudi Arabia. The Post reporter asked him: ‘Tell me. I'm a Christian. Do you hate me' And the Wahhabi cleric said, ‘Well, of course if you're a Christian, I hate you. But I'm not going to kill you.' This is the moderate view. And we need to realize that just as angry German nationalism of the 1920s and the 1930s was the soil in which Nazism grew, not all German nationalists became Nazis, but that was the soil in which it grew. So the angry form of Islamism and Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia today is the soil in which anti-Western and anti-American terrorism grows."
11/16/2002
"Arafat was essentially elected the same way Stalin was, but not nearly as democratically as Hitler, who at least had actual opponents."
4/25/2002
UN Security Council
Resolution 1441
Passed 15-0
"Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final and complete disclosure … of all its programs to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles."
11/08/2003
The Voice of Jihad
Al-Qa'ida-affiliated biweekly online magazine
"We call upon the nation to harm Americans everywhere; that is the language of dialogue that the enemy understands and [to whose] demands he responds..."
MEMRI, 11/01/2003
Editorial, The New York Times
"It's not surprising that in the wake of Sept. 11, the president would want to make the world safer, and that one of his top priorities would be eliminating Iraq's ability to create biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Of all the military powers in the world, Iraq is the one that has twice invaded its neighbors without provocation and that has used chemical weapons both on its military foes and some of its own restive people."
New York Times, 12/23/2003
Editorial, The Arab News
(Saudi Arabia)
"The suicide bombers have been encouraged by the venom of anti-Westernism that has seeped through the Middle East's veins, and the Kingdom is no less affected. Those who gloat over Sept. 11, those who happily support suicide bombings in Israel and Russia, those who consider non-Muslims less human than Muslims and therefore somehow disposable, all bear part of the responsibility for the Riyadh bombs.
"We cannot say that suicide bombings in Israel and Russia are acceptable but not in Saudi Arabia. The cult of suicide bombings has to stop. So too has the chattering, malicious, vindictive hate propaganda. It has provided a fertile ground for ignorance and hatred to grow."
The Arab News, 5/14/2003
George Tenet
Director of Central Intelligence, speech at Georgetown University
"As David Kay reminded us, the Iraqis systematically destroyed and looted forensic evidence before, during and after the war. We have been faced with the organized destruction of documentary and computer evidence in a wide range of offices, laboratories, and companies suspected of WMD work. The pattern of these efforts is one of deliberate rather than random acts. Iraqis who have volunteered information to us are still being intimidated and attacked...
"[CIA analysts] never said there was an 'imminent' threat. Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policymakers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly surprise us and threaten our interests. No one told us what to say or how to say it...
"We did not have enough of our own human intelligence...
"To conclude before the war that Saddam had destroyed his existing weapons, we would have had to ignore what the United Nations and allied intelligence said they could not verify...
"[A]ll agencies agreed that Saddam wanted nuclear weapons. Most were convinced that he still had a program and if he obtained fissile material he could have a weapon within a year...
"Most agencies believed that Saddam had begun to reconstitute his nuclear program...
"We believed that Iraq had lethal Biological Weapons agents, including anthrax, which it could quickly produce and weaponize for delivery by bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives...
"Last fall, the Iraq Survey Group uncovered 'significant information-including research and development of Biological Weapons-applicable organisms, the involvement of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) in possible Biological Weapons activities, and deliberate concealment activities. All of this suggests Iraq after 1996 further compartmentalized its program and focused on maintaining smaller, covert capabilities that could be activated quickly to surge the production of Biological Weapon agents.'
"Everyone knew that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s and 1990s. Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iran and his own people on at least 10 different occasions. He launched missiles against Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. And we couldn't forget that in the early 1990s, we saw that Iraq was just a few years way from a nuclear weapon-this was no theoretical program. It turned out that we and the other intelligence services of the world had significantly underestimated his progress. And, finally, we could not forget that Iraq lied repeatedly about its unconventional weapons."
Georgetown University speech, 2/05/2004
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez
Top U.S. Commander in Iraq
"The only way we will fail in this country is if we decide to walk away in Iraq and fight the next battle in the war on terrorism in America."
The Washington Times, 9/07/2003
Scott Ritter
Former UN Weapons Inspector
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win."
TSF radio interview, 3/25/2003
"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated... We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war inevitable... We will not be able to win this war, which in my opinion is already lost."
South African radio station, 3/25/2003
"The prison in question was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children - toddlers up to pre-adolescents - whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace."
Time Magazine, 9/14/2002
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Al-Qaeda Leader
"We are in jihad against the infidels and the Zionists."
Al-Jazeera, 4/21/2002
Regards,
Hist2004