Former Undersecretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz told the House International Relations Committee in February [25] 1998 that regime change in Iraq was the ‘only way to rescue the region and the world from the threat that will continue to be posed by Saddam’s unrelenting effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction….’ He criticized the Clinton […]
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2/25/1998
According to a Washington Post article on February 25, 1998, bin Laden’s fatwa from two days earlier was ” ‘the first from these [Islamist extremist] groups that explicitly justify attacks on American civilians anywhere in the world.’ ” – John Farmer, The Ground Truth, Page 29 […]
2/24/1998
In a February 24, 1998, statement before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI Oliver Revell said: ” ‘the United States is the most preferred and easiest place in the world for radical Islamic groups to set up their headquarters to wage war in their […]
2/23/1998
“Bin Laden’s declaration of war [on August 23, 1996] was followed eighteen months later by a fatwa ordering and authorizing ‘jihad against the Crusaders and Jews’ and announcing the creation of the ‘World Islamic Front against Crusaders and Jews,’ an organization composed of al-Qaeda, [Ayman] al-Zawahiri’s EIJ [Egyptian Islamic Jihad], and four other Islamist groups. […]
2/23/1998
In bin Laden’s ‘World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders,’ signed on February, 23, 1998, he wrote: ” ‘for over seven years, the United States has been occupying the most sacred of the Islamic lands, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and […]
2/23/1998
“On February 23, 1998, in Khost, Afghanistan, the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, founded by bin Laden…made an appeal for worldwide terror: ‘It is the duty of every Muslim to kill Americans and their allies, military or civilian, wherever possible. This obligation remains in force until al-Aksa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and […]
2/23/1998
According to a CIA memorandum released on February 23, 1998, the day after bin Laden’s fatwa against the U.S.: ” ‘These fatwas are the first from these groups that explicitly justify attacks on American civilians anywhere in the world. Both groups [bin Laden and a coalition of Islamic groups in London] have hinted in the […]
2/23/1998
“On February 23, 1998, bin Laden held a press conference to present the world with a manifesto from the newly formed International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. Signed by Islamist extremist leaders from Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, the document accused the United States of ‘occupying the most sacred lands of […]
2/23/1998
“In February [23] 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician [and Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader], Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a ‘World Islamic Front.’ ” In it, they […]
2/23/1998
“On February 23, 1998, bin Laden unveiled a coalition that reflected his spreading ambition and rising international charisma. He announced a new enterprise: the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. Bin Laden had worked for hours on the front’s manifesto. Its contents were dictated over his satellite telephone to editors at a […]