“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 […]
Category: quotes
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, al Qaeda forces attacked the U.S. embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam [Tanzania].” – Louis J. Freeh, My FBI, Pages 285-286 […]
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 […]
8/7/1998
Then-CIA Director George Tenet described the al-Qa’ida bombing of American embassies on August 7, 1998: “The senior duty officer in the Agency’s Operation Center was on the line. ‘Bombs have just gone off at our embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,’ he said. It quickly became clear that the embassy bombings were […]
8/7/1998
Osama bin Laden was interviewed in Afghanistan by Palestinian journalist Jamal Ismail on December 22, 1998. ” ‘I heard about the [August 7, 1998, African embassy] bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans […]
8/7/1998
“In a broader sense the bin Laden tracking unit inside the Counterterrorist Center had seen this [the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa on August 7, 1998] coming. The center’s analysts and officers worked eight to twelve hours a day in government cubicles reading and analyzing translated text from bin Laden’s press conferences, television interviews, and […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “eight years to the day after U.S. troops were first sent into Saudi Arabia, a suicide truck bomb detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on the precise spot where [al Qaeda operative/FBI informant] Ali Mohamed had taken the pictures [as part of a reconnaissance project for al Qaeda]. Within […]
8/7/1998
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 […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and the Bureau [FBI] pick up intelligence that unidentified Arabs are planning to fly ‘an explosive-laden plane’ from an unnamed country into the World Trade Center. The FAA reportedly finds the plot ‘highly unlikely, given the state of the foreign country’s aviation program.’ The FBI’s New […]
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 […]