“[A] letter to President [Bill] Clinton of January 26, 1998, masterminded by the Project for the New American Century and signed by several prominent neo-conservatives, but with the addition of such names as [former Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld and [former Assistant Secretary of Defense] Richard Armitage… said: ‘The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates […]
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1/26/1998
On January 26, 1998, “the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) drafted a letter to President [Bill] Clinton calling for Saddam’s removal from power. …Specifically, it urged Clinton to ‘turn your Administration’s attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam’s regime from power. …If you act now to end the threat of weapons […]
1/26/1998
“In all, thirteen out of the eighteen signatories to the [January 26, 1998] PNAC [Project for a New American Century] letter [urging the overthrow of Saddam] won appointments in the Bush-Cheney administration: Elliott Abrams, Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton, Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama (President’s Council on […]
1/26/1998
“In January [26] 1998, I [former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] joined a group of former national security officials in signing a letter to President Clinton that called for stronger action against Saddam’s regime. ‘The only acceptable strategy,’ our letter read, ‘is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or […]
1/15/1998
British House of Commons leader Robin Cook recalled: “I had seen a minute of January 1998 to [U.K. Prime Minister] Tony Blair from John Holmes, his then international Private Secretary, written during the confrontation with Iraq over weapons inspections, which reminded the Prime Minister that he had already assured President [Bill] Clinton, ‘If a Resolution […]
1/15/1998
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “I placed terrorism prominently in every annual public testimony since 1997 to the appropriate Congressional Committees on the Worldwide Threat, as shown in a series of excerpts from my Statements for the Record. …January 1998: ‘Mr. Chairman, […]
1/9/1998
On January 9, 1998, chief assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Mary Jo White, “formally unsealed an indictment naming… [senior al Qaeda operative] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef’s coconspirator. The price on his head was $2 million.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
1/8/1998
On January 8, 1998, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef spoke in court in his own defense before being sentenced to prison. “The West, says Yousef, was the first to kill innocent people and introduce terrorism into human history when America dropped an atomic bomb ‘which killed tens of thousands of women and children in […]
1/8/1998
On January 8, 1998, regarding al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Nearly three years after his 1995 escape from the Su Casa guesthouse in Islamabad [Pakistan], and two years after the FBI helped [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef contact him–only to lose him again in Doha, Qatar–the Feds were finally alerting the world that […]
1/8/1998
On January 8, 1998, “Calling [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef ‘an apostle of evil,’ Judge [Kevin T.] Duffy sentences him to 240 years in solitary–one year for the combined ages of his WTC victims. Defiant to the end, the bomb maker says, ‘I am a terrorist and I am proud of it.’ ” – […]