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 […]
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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
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
“The August 7 [1998] bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 212 people. Bin Laden publicly denied any role in the attacks.” – Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page 224 […]
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
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 […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, “The Egyptian Jihad group sent the United States a warning: they would soon deliver a message to Americans ‘which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God’s help, in a language they will understand.’ ” – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, “the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group tied directly to bin Laden, warned that they would soon deliver a message to the United States. ‘We hope they read [the message] with care,’ said the warning, ‘because we will write it with God’s help in a language they will understand.’ ” – Peter […]