Following the African embassy bombings on August 7, 1998, President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter how long it takes. …We are determined to get answers and justice.’ The CIA’s response was for Director George Tenet to send a notice […]
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8/7/1998
“On August 7 [1998], the seventh anniversary of the arrival of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia for the Gulf War, Al Qaeda operatives bomb U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing about 260 and wounding 5,000. America responds less than two weeks later with cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
8/6/1998
“On August 6, 1998, [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri sent a fax to the office of the Arabic newspaper al-Hayat in Cairo reporting that an Islamic jihad cell uncovered by the CIA in Tirana, Albania (a Muslim country), had been sent to Egypt, where the terrorists had supposedly been brutally tortured. He warned […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, the day before the African embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri published a message in London’s Arabic press: ” ‘We are interested in briefly telling the Americans that their message has been received and that the response, which we hope they will read carefully, is being prepared, because, with […]