8/15/1998

Jane’s Intelligence Review, a respected military and intelligence journal, published a report, shortly before the [August 20, 1998] U.S. attacks [on the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan], based on minutes of an October 1996 meeting of Sudanese officials who claimed that bin Laden had agreed to finance a chemical weapons facility in Kubar, a suburb of Khartoum.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 112