Meanwhile a new book titled Plan of Attack by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward reports President Bush asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to begin planning to invade Iraq on November 21, 2001, just 72 days after the Sept. 11 attacks. The book also reveals that in July 2002 the White House secretly shifted $700 million that was allocated for the war in Afghanistan to begin preparations for the war in Iraq. The move may have been illegal because it was done so without the approval of Congress. Woodward’s book also reports Secretary of State Colin Powell was purposely left out of the loop on much of the war planning because he had reservations about going into Iraq. According to the book Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, learned of Bush’s war plans before Powell did.