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 […]
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
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
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, “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, “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 […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, the day before the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, “the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, [FBI operative] Ali Mohamed’s old group, warned that they would soon deliver ‘a message to the U.S. which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God’s help, in a language they will […]
8/6/1998
On August 6,1998, a month after the CIA had ordered the kidnapping, torture and questioning of an al-Jihad cell in Albania, al Jihad leader Ayman al- “Zawahiri sent the following declaration to the London newspaper Al Hayat: ‘We are interested in briefly telling the Americans that their message has been received and that the response, […]