Regarding FBI operative Ali Mohamed’s involvement with al Qaeda and the African embassy bombings of August 7, 1998: ” ‘There is zero doubt,’ says one former agent who worked in the FBI’s NYO [New York Office], that ‘if Ali Mohamed ha[d] been properly vetted, his inside knowledge of the embassy-bombing plot, coupled with the intel […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, trucks driven by Al Qaeda operatives rumbled through the midmorning traffic and crashed past security barriers at American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The bomb-laden trucks exploded in the embassy compounds, killing 224 people, injuring thousands, most of them Africans.” – Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Page 177 […]
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 […]
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, […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, the concussion of a mighty truck bomb blew out a high wall of windows in the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. …At almost the same moment, four hundred miles to the south in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, a bomb planted in a gasoline tanker exploded near the entrance […]