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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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

“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

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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