“On August 7 [1998], the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were blown up by al-Qaeda followers, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 254 […]
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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
“At 5:30 am on August 7, 1998, [President] Bill Clinton was awakened unexpectedly by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. It was the eighth anniversary of the arrival of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia leading up to the Gulf War…To mark the occasion, Osama bin Laden had struck his most violent blows yet against the United […]
8/7/1998
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 […]
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 […]
8/6/1998
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, […]