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.” […]
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1/8/1998
At World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s sentencing on January 8, 1998, Judge Kevin Duffy “hit Yousef with 240 years in prison, matching the sentence he’d given the first four Trade Center defendants. But he made the rare recommendation that the bomb maker serve every day of it in solitary confinement.” – Peter Lance, 1000 […]
1/8/1998
At his sentencing on January 8, 1998, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef said: ” ‘The Government in its summations and opening statements said that I was a terrorist… Yes I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and […]
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
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 […]
11/17/1997
On November 17, 1997, “The Egyptian-born [Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al] Zawahiri wanted to destabilize his country’s secular government and had decided to start by disrupting the profitable tourist trade. A cell he directed opened up with machine guns and hand grenades on a bus of Japanese tourists in northern Egypt. After killing them, the […]
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 […]