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 […]
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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.” […]
12/9/1997
“Peace remains elusive in Afghanistan because war lords profit from the conflict, which is fueled by foreign forces, [UN] Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the eighth summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Tuesday [December 9, 1997]. The Secretary-General said peace remains elusive because ‘too many groups in Afghanistan–war lords, terrorists, drug dealers and […]
11/25/1997
In a statement by U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen accompanying a November 25, 1997, Pentagon report titled ‘Proliferation: Threat and Response,’ Cohen said: ” ‘the ability to unleash mass sickness, death, and destruction today has reached a far greater order of magnitude,’ …and the problem is increasing. Cohen admits that small amounts of […]
11/18/1997
“…Secretary of State Madeleine Albright issued the harshest criticism of the Taliban ever made by the US. ‘We are opposed to the Taliban because of their opposition to human rights and their despicable treatment of women and children and a lack of respect for human dignity, Albright said on a visit to Islamabad [Pakistan] on […]
11/17/1997
In a speech at a Cessna plant in Wichita, Kansas, on November 17, 1997, President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘We must not allow the twenty-first century to go forward under a cloud of fear that terrorists, organized criminals, drug traffickers will terrorize people with chemical and biological weapons the way the nuclear threat hung over […]
11/17/1997
From an article in Time magazine on November 17, 1997: ” ‘Officials in Washington are deeply worried about what some of them call ‘strategic crime.’ By that they mean the merging of the output from a government’s arsenals, like Saddam’s biological weapons, with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip […]
11/17/1997
“In a CNN appearance on November 17 [1997], Mohammed al Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States, said that ‘Saddam really has a proven track record of supporting terrorists all over the world. He still are [sic] very much engaging in this act.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 98 […]
11/17/1997
At Luxor in Egypt on November 17, 1997, “Six young men dressed in black policemen uniforms and carrying vinyl bags entered the temple precinct shortly before nine in the morning. One of the men shot a guard, and then they all put on red headbands identifying themselves as members of the Islamic Group [aka Al-Gama’a […]