8/8/1998

On August 8, 1998, CIA Director George “Tenet brought to a principals meeting intelligence that terrorist leaders were expected to gather at a camp near Khowst, Afghanistan to plan future attacks. According to [national security advisor Sandy] Berger, Tenet said that several hundred would attend, including Bin Ladin. The CIA described the area as effectively […]

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8/7/1998

On August 7, 1998, “More than two years after the FBI finds evidence of an al Qaeda bombing plot, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are simultaneously bombed. The suicide truck [in Kenya] is located precisely where [FBI informant/al Qaeda operative] Ali Mohamed took the surveillance photos in 1993, and where bin Laden himself […]

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8/7/1998

“At the time of the [African embassy] explosions [on August 7, 1998], an alert Pakistani immigration supervisor at the Karachi Airport noted a visitor arriving shaved while his Yemeni passport showed him with a beard. ‘Are you a terrorist?’ he innocently asked Mohamed Sadeek Odeh. In fact, Odeh was a Jordanian national of Palestinian heritage […]

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8/7/1998

On August 7, 1998, “the U.S. embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were attacked almost simultaneously with truck bombs. The combined death toll was 234, with more than 5,000 injured.”  – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 373 […]

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8/7/1998

Simultaneous bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania took place on August 7, 1998. “The first blast, in the Kenyan capitol of Nairobi, injured some 4,500 people and killed 213, including 40 embassy employees. Another 11 lives were lost in Tanzania, where the lower casualty numbers owed mostly to luck: August 7 happened […]

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8/7/1998

Following the African embassy bombings “on August 7, 1998, more and more Muslims especially had questioned the deaths of innocent black Africans, who outnumbered the American victims by almost twenty to one. Osama’s propaganda insisted that the Kenyans deserved to die because of their government’s long history of close relations with Israel.”  – Jonathan Randal, […]

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8/7/1998

Pakistani immigration officials detained Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, leader of al Qaeda’s Mombassa cell, on August 7, 1998. “Under questioning by immigration, Odeh admitted his participation in the Nairobi [embassy bombing] plot. …Most important, though, he admitted to being a member of al Qaeda, under the leadership of bin Laden.”  – John Miller, Michael Stone, and […]

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8/7/1998

On August 7, 1998, “twelve Americans and 238 Africans died when the U.S. embassy in [Nairobi] Kenya was ripped apart and in a near simultaneous, but less lethal truckbomb, attack against the Dar es Salaam embassy in neighboring Tanzania. Within hours, the Sudanese…arrested [the suspects] in a cheap downtown hotel noting their earlier unsuccessful attempt […]

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8/7/1998

On August 7, 1998, “Bombs planted in the American embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] by Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network cause the deaths of 263 persons and injure more than 4,500.”  – Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, Page 257 […]

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8/7/1998

“The bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar-es-Salaam [Tanzania] using two explosives-laden trucks on 7 August 1998 were the first attacks by the World Islamic Front. Statements issued by al Qaeda explained that these cities had been chosen because they each housed a large US military presence and because both the Kenyan […]

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