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 […]
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2/25/1998
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 […]
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
“Since the Gulf War in 1991, bin Laden now declared [in his manifesto of February 23, 1998], the United States ‘has been occupying the most sacred lands of Islam: the Arabian Peninsula. It has been stealing its resources, dictating to its leaders, humiliating its people, and frightening its neighbors. It is using its rule in […]
2/23/1998
Regarding bin Laden’s February 23, 1998, fatwa against the United States: “The bin Laden unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center issued an alert memo within days of this manifesto’s issuance. The unit’s professional analysts, specialists in political Islam–recognized an escalation in the February 23 attack on ‘Crusaders and Jews.’ The statements were ‘the first from […]
2/23/1998
Journalist Peter Bergen pointed out a CIA analysis on February 23, 1998, the day after bin Laden’s Manifesto of the World Islamic Front: ” ‘These fatwas are the first from these groups that explicitly justify attacks on American civilians anywhere in the world.’ ” – Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc., Page 99 […]
2/23/1998
On February 23, 1998, “bin Laden and [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri decided to declare war on America unambiguously and publicly. The two were joined by three other prominent jihadists: Rifa’I Ahmed Taha, who led a splinter group of al Gamaa al Islamiyya that had merged with Islamic Jihad; Sheikh Mir Hamza, secretary […]
2/23/1998
On February 23, 1998, Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri “and bin Laden merged their organizations with groups from Pakistan and Bangladesh to form the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders, creating the organization now known as al Qaeda. The new front promised to wage jihad against all Americans–civilians and military alike–until […]
2/23/1998
In a statement issued on February 23, 1998, titled Al-Qaeda’s Declaration of War Against Americans, Osama bin Laden wrote: “[I]n compliance with Allah’s order, we hereby issue the following decree to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies–civilians and military–is an individual obligation incumbent upon every Muslim who can do it […]
2/23/1998
In a statement issued on February 23, 1998, and titled Al-Qaeda’s Declaration of War Against Americans, Osama bin Laden wrote: ” ‘Never since Allah made the Arabian peninsula flat, created its desert, and encircled it with seas has it been stormed by any force like the Crusader hordes that have spread in it like locusts, […]