“In March 1999, the intelligence community obtained information [from al Qaeda double agent Ali Mohamed] regarding plans by an al Qaeda member [Khalid Dahab], who was a U.S. citizen, to fly a hang glider into the Egyptian Presidential Palace and detonate explosives. The person, who received hang-glider training in the United States, brought a hang […]
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3/15/1999
Kenneth A. “Minihan announced he would step down as NSA [National Security Agency] director in March 1999. …In his E-mail to the agency’s employees…Minihan noted that the agency was struggling to keep pace with modern technology. …Minihan had lost several…battles with the Clinton administration over such issues as limiting exports of data-scrambling technology. The administration […]
3/15/1999
“In March 1999, German intelligence officials gave the Central Intelligence Agency the first name and telephone number of [future 9/11 hijacker] Marwan al-Shehhi, and asked the Americans to track him. …After the Germans passed the information on to the C.I.A., they did not hear from the Americans about the matter until after Sept. 11 [2001], […]
3/15/1999
“Barred from Iraq, UNSCOM’s [United Nations Special Commission, the inspection group that searched for WMD] mandate ended when a UN panel concluded, in March 1999, that the bulk of Iraq’s weapons programmes had been dismantled, but that Iraq continued to require an ongoing monitoring and verification system for whatever WMD made have eluded UNSCOM’s inspectors.” […]
3/15/1999
“In March 1999, the newly crowned king of Jordan, Abdullah II, gave an amnesty to thousands of political prisoners, among them [future al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi, who quickly made his way back to Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, […]
3/15/1999
In March 1999, the leaders of a group of takfiris (radical Muslims) “met in Peshawar [Pakistan] to discuss bin Laden and afterward issued a fatwa ‘calling for the death of the infidel,’ and then ‘launched a campaign’ to kill bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members, according to an article in the Sunday Times. They ‘declared […]
3/9/1999
“During Senate hearings on March 9, 1999, Mavis Leno, one of the leaders of the Feminist Majority, formally accused Unocal [oil company] of having supported the Taliban.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 234 […]
2/15/1999
“The CIA had become so used to relying on the U.N. for reporting on WMD that it was accustomed to doing without spies in Iraq’s weapons program. Its window on Iraq was shut in [August] 1998 when Saddam stopped cooperating with the inspectors. The U.N. monitors were recalled and the Clinton administration ordered the four-day […]
2/15/1999
“In February 1999, the intelligence community obtained information that Iraq had formed a suicide pilot unit that it planned to use against British and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 191 […]
2/15/1999
“For some of the ground level officers involved in the bin Laden chase the decision to hold fire [in a potential cruise missile strike against bin Laden while he participated in a February 1999 hunting trip with U.A.E. princes] seemed almost unforgivable.” In an interview on November 7, 2002, former CIA Islamabad station chief Gary […]