” ‘Our missiles sent the following message to Saddam Hussein,’ remarked the president [Clinton] in his [September 3, 1996] statement announcing a 1996 strike in retaliation for Saddam’s aggression in Northern Iraq. ‘When you abuse your own people or threaten your neighbors, you must pay a price.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, […]
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9/3/1996
On September 3, 1996, “the United States launched a modest number of cruise missiles against Iraqi military targets after Iraq moved tanks into the northern part of the country. The coalition (essentially down to the United States and Great Britain) also expanded the southern no-fly zone to further reduce Saddam’s ability to control his country […]
8/23/1996
” ‘I say if the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S.,’ said bin Laden [in his ‘Declaration of War Against America‘ on August 23, 1996], ‘then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims. Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, […]
8/23/1996
In bin Laden’s ‘Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries,’ delivered on August 23, 1996, he said: ” ‘Each of you knows the injustice, oppression, and aggression the Muslims are suffering from the Judeo-crusading alliance and its lackeys. The blood of Muslims no longer has a price… Their […]
8/23/1996
Summarizing bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad on August 23, 1996: “Al-Qaeda had declared war on America.” – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, Intelligence Matters, Page 31 […]
8/23/1996
“…in his [August 23, 1996] ‘Declaration of War’ bin Laden lists 10 or 12 world hot spots where Muslims have recently died (including Bosnia, Chechnya, and Lebanon) and attributes all of these deaths to a conspiracy led by the United States, even though Americans actually played no role in pulling the trigger.” – Foreign Affairs, […]
8/23/1996
In Osama bin Laden’s August 23, 1996, ‘Declaration of War Against the Americans,’ he wrote, regarding the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia: ” ‘The [Saudi] King [Fahd] said that *the issue is simple, the American and the alliance forces will leave the area in a few months.* Today, it is seven years since […]
8/23/1996
On August 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden issued a statement to the ummah (Muslim world). “This was the manifesto declaring war on America. Written in anger, it recounts the ‘oppression, hostility and injustice [committed] by the Judeo-Christian alliance’ against the ummah. …Invoking several sayings from the Prophet on the importance of jihad, bin Laden concludes […]
8/23/1996
“In August [23] 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia. The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings […]
8/23/1996
“From his new refuge in Afghanistan bin Laden issued a slew of ever more radical pronouncements, beginning with ‘The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places‘ on August 23, 1996. …’The latest of these assaults is the greatest disaster since the death of the Prophet Muhammad…that is the […]