8/27/1998

“Even as Iraq denied helping Sudan and al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction, the regime lauded Osama bin Laden. On August 27, 1998, twenty days after al Qaeda attacked the U.S. embassies in Africa, Babel, Uday Hussein’s newspaper, published a startling editorial proclaiming bin Laden ‘an Arab and Islamic hero.’ ”

 – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 110