“Despite the intelligence community’s dim view of Hussein as a serious and immediate threat to the U.S., a small group of hardcore neoconservatives in [January 26] 1998 lobbied the Clinton administration to support regime change in Iraq–by force if necessary. The group…sent Clinton a letter urging his administration to implement ‘a strategy for removing Saddam’s […]
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1/26/1998
“Following [neoconservative Douglas] Feith’s call for a war against the occupied Palestinians, [former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard] Perle, [former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul] Wolfowitz, [former Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, and a small group of neocons signed a letter to President [Bill] Clinton [on January 26, 1998], pleading with him to make […]
1/26/1998
“Released in January [26] 1998, the PNAC [Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative think tank] letter to [President Bill] Clinton called for the removal of Saddam Hussein and his entire regime from power. Arguing that diplomacy had failed, the letter called for military engagement and focused on the threat Hussein posed to ‘a […]
1/26/1998
“[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 […]
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, […]
1/15/1998
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 […]
1/9/1998
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, 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.’ ” – […]
1/8/1998
On January 8, 1998, “the Feds unseal a secret indictment of [senior al Qaeda operative] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed dating back to 1996. For unknown reasons, the Justice Department has kept the hunt for Mohammed quiet for almost two years–in contrast to the well-publicized [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef hunt, which helped trigger his capture.” […]