According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief from June 1998: “Terrorist financier Usama Bin Ladin in an interview published this week with a US journalist indicated he may attack a US military passenger aircraft using antiaircraft missiles. His comments follow those he made at a press conference last month in which he indicated the results […]
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6/10/1998
“Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah…promised [CIA Director George] Tenet an all-out secret effort to persuade the Taliban to expel Bin Ladin so that he could be sent to the United States or to another country for trial…Tenet reported that it was imperative to get an indictment against Bin Ladin. The New York grand jury issued its […]
6/10/1998
“…it was not until June 10, 1998, that a sealed grand jury indictment was handed up against Osama. By then, of course, he had been safely back in Afghanistan for two years.” – Jonathan Randal, Osama, Pages 127-128 […]
6/8/1998
“On June 8 [1998], a U.S. grand jury investigation of Osama bin Laden, which was opened in 1996, finally issues a sealed indictment, charging Osama bin Laden with ‘conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States.’ The United States prosecutors charge that Osama bin Laden is head of a terrorist organization named al-Qaeda, and […]
6/8/1998
On June 8, 1998, “The grand jury investigation of bin Laden, initiated in 1996, issues a sealed indictment, charging Bin Laden with ‘conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States.’ Prosecutors charge that bin Laden heads a terrorist organization called al Qaeda, the base, and was a major financier of Islamic terrorists around the […]
6/8/1998
FBI agent John O’Neill and Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald investigated connections between Osama bin Laden and the Brooklyn cell that conducted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planned other area attacks. They “relied on a significant amount of intelligence provided by the CIA, [that] was the basis for an investigation that ultimately led […]
6/8/1998
FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote: “As for Osama bin Ladin and al Qaeda, from at least the mid-1990s on, they were constantly on our radar screen, and at the highest level of concerns. Working side by side with the CIA, we secured a June [8] 1998 indictment charging bin Laden with plotting to murder American […]
6/8/1998
“June 8 [1998]: the New York Grand Jury issues charges against Osama bin Laden for ‘conspiring to attack American military installations.’ ” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 153 […]
6/8/1998
“On June 8, 1998, the US Attorney General indicted Osama for his role in training the tribesmen who killed eighteen US soldiers in Somalia in [October 3-4] 1993. The indictment was sealed until a month after the East Africa bombings in [August 7] 1998.” – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 156 […]
6/2/1998
“On June 2 [1998], General Hugh Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directed General [Anthony] Zinni at Central Command to develop a plan, which he had submitted during the first week of July…They proposed firing Tomahawks against eight terrorist camps in Afghanistan, including Bin Ladin’s compound at Tarnak Farms. After the […]