On November 4, 1998, “A new superceding indictment is issued against bin Laden, [al Qaeda military chief] Muhammad Atef and a host of other suspects. They are charged with bombing of two US embassies and conspiring to commit other acts of terrorism against Americans abroad. Two rewards of $5 million each are offered for Atef […]
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11/4/1998
“In November [4] 1998 the USA offered a US$5-million reward for Bin Laden’s capture.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 135 […]
11/4/1998
When the U.S. indictment of bin Laden was unsealed in November 4, 1998, it declared “that ‘al Qaeda reached an understanding’ that it would not work against Saddam Hussein.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 375 […]
10/31/1998
“On October 31, 1998, under intense lobbying by PNAC [Project for the New American Century], CPSG [Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf], and others, Congress and President [Bill] Clinton enacted the Iraq Liberation Act, which states, ‘It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed […]
10/31/1998
On October 31, 1998, “the U.S. Congress–concerned that the Iraqi threat was growing, while the world’s resolve to ‘contain’ Saddam was weakening–passed the Iraq Liberation Act, which called for regime change in Baghdad: ‘It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power […]
10/31/1998
“In October 1998, Congress passed the Iraqi Liberation Act [signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 31, 1998], which made Saddam’s overthrow a declared policy of the United States, and authorized $97 million for the Iraqi opposition.” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 147 […]
10/31/1998
“On October 31, 1998, Baghdad announced an end to all UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission on Iraq] activity, including monitoring inspections. Later that same day, President [Bill] Clinton signed the recently passed Iraq Liberation Act, a bill that directed U.S. support for Iraqi opposition groups, specifically, Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. This gave the first […]
10/31/1998
“The Iraqi Liberation Act that President Bill Clinton had signed into law in [October 31] 1998…made it U.S. policy to support efforts to ‘…remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein.’ ” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 42 […]
10/31/1998
“The Iraq Liberation Act declared that the goal of U.S. policy should be ‘to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power.’ The U.S. House of Representatives approved that legislation by a vote of 360 to 38. It passed the Senate without a single dissenting vote. [President] Clinton signed the legislation into law [on […]
10/31/1998
“[T]he Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 [was] passed by President [Bill] Clinton [on October 31, 1998]. It was then that U.S. policy became regime change, but it did so–as the Act makes clear–because of the WMD issue and Saddam’s breach of UN resolutions. It wasn’t to do with the moral case against Saddam; it was […]