FBI Director Louis Freeh spoke of plans by the CIA to bomb forces loyal to bin Laden: “The CIA director [George Tenet] and national security adviser [Sandy Berger] had come to apprise me [on August 14, 1998] of an operation then in the final planning stages. Targets were to be struck simultaneously in Afghanistan and […]
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8/14/1998
“On Friday, August 14 [1998], a week after the attacks [on the U.S. embassies in Africa], [CIA Director George] Tenet delivered to the Small Group the CIA’s formal judgment that bin Laden and his senior Egyptian aides were responsible. ‘Intelligence from a variety of human and technical sources, statements of arrested suspects, and public statements […]
8/12/1998
“In August [12, 1998], the intelligence community had received information that a group of Libyans hoped to crash a plane into the World Trade Center.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Pages 344-345 […]
8/12/1998
“…on August 12 [1998], the Nairobi [Kenya] police received a tip that one of the [August 7, 1998, embassy] bombers might be among the injured. The police tracked the information to a local hospital and discovered [Mohamed] al-‘Owhali with back wounds he’d received running away from the explosion. Later that week, under questioning by FBI agents, […]
8/12/1998
On August 12, 1998, “The Small Group of presidential advisors meet with [President Bill] Clinton, reportedly with evidence that bin Laden is looking to obtain weapons of mass destruction and chemical weapons to use against US installations…” – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He Want? A Chronology of His Political […]
8/12/1998
“In an attempt to diffuse responsibility [for the African embassy bombings on August 7, 1998] and further confuse public opinion, Al Qaeda issued another communiqué, on August 12 [1998], using another front organisation, the Islamic Liberation Army: ‘Because the Americans and the Jews occupy the surroundings of the Al Aqsa mosque, because of what the […]
8/12/1998
“…one of the captured al Qaeda planners of the August [7] 1998 East Africa bombings, a Saudi national named Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-‘Owhali…was arrested by Kenyan authorities on August 12, 1998, five days after the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 210 […]
8/11/1998
The Islamic Army of the People of Kenya, a front organization for Al Qaeda, delivered a communiqué on August 11, 1998, three days after the twin bombings of American embassies in Africa. It read: ” ‘The attack was justified because the Government of Kenya admitted the Americans to have used their land to fight Muslim […]
8/9/1998
“Two days later [August 9, 1998], a group calling itself the ‘Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places’ took credit for the bombing [of the U.S. embassies in Africa]. The name, with its echo of [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Yousef’s ‘Fifth Battalion of the Liberation Army,’ was another reminder of how tightly […]
8/9/1998
Nairobi embassy bomber Mohamed Rashed “Al Owhali had received lacerations on his hand and face and a large wound on his back from the explosion; he went to a medical clinic to have them treated. He was sent to a hospital where, two days after the bombing [August 9, 1998], Kenyan police questioned him because […]