Bush Launched an Attack a Month Before 9/11-Against Iraq, Not Al-Qaeda

In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day. Yesterday: Terrorist mastermind KSM had two visas and was on a watch list. Yet no one in the State Department, immigration, FBI or intelligence community paid attention. August 14, 2001: An ongoing and active military conflict with Iraq was already taking so much of the Bush administration’s time and attention before 9/11. Read More on Analysis Barely a month before the terror strike, there was a major attack undertaken to degrade Iraq’s defenses. On August 14, U.S. fighter aircraft hit Iraqi communications…