“On June 25, 1996, a truck bomb with 5,000 pounds of explosives rocked the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Dharhan, Saudi Arabia, killing dozens of people, including 19 American soldiers, and wounding more than 500 others. …Again, bin Laden was suspected.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 173 […]
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6/25/1996
Following the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996, President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished. Let me say again: we will pursue this, America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished.’ The next day, the president […]
6/25/1996
“…on the night of June 25 [1996], a tanker truck loaded with the equivalent of 20,000 pounds of TNT was driven into the parking lot in front of the Khobar Towers, a residential complex housing U.S. service personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Though roof sentries spotted the truck and called for an immediate evacuation, they […]
6/25/1996
On June 25, 1996, a “catastrophic explosion [occurred] in Saudi Arabia, at the Khobar Towers military-housing complex in Dhahran. The building served as the barracks for the 4404th Airlift Wing, which was enforcing the no-fly zone in Iraq. Nineteen American soldiers had died and nearly four hundred other people were injured. …The disaster site was […]
6/25/1996
“The 9/11 Commission concluded that ‘Al Qaeda…may…have played a ‘yet unknown role’ in aiding Hezbollah militants in the [June 25] 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers [in Saudi Arabia].” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 238 […]
6/25/1996
“The earliest known NSA [National Security Agency] reporting on bin Laden’s activities dates back to 1995 and was based in large part on monitoring the telephone calls coming in and out of his ranch near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. For example, the agency intercepted a series of telephone calls congratulating bin Laden on the […]
6/21/1996
From June 21-23, 1996, “a three-day terrorist summit was held in Tehran [Iran]. The Iranians hosted it to transform its client terror network, Hezbollah, into the vanguard of the radical Islamic movement. …During that conference, it was announced that there would be increased attacks against U.S. interests, especially in the Persian Gulf region. And to […]
6/15/1996
“In [June] 1996, Saddam’s security service penetrated a group of CIA-supported former Iraqi officers plotting a coup, and some 120 former Iraqi officers were executed.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 70 […]
6/15/1996
Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan wrote: “By the time bin Laden arrived [in Afghanistan] in May 1996, the Taliban had strongholds in many parts of the country. He told me that he spent some time assessing the situation and approved of the Taliban: they appeared to be free of corruption and had faithfully implemented shari’ah law. […]
6/6/1996
In her June 6, 1996, testimony before the Senate Committee on New Eastern and South Asia Affairs, Assistant Secretary for South Asia Robin Raphel said Afghanistan ” ‘has become a conduit for drugs, crime, and terrorism that can undermine Pakistan [and] the neighboring Central Asian states and have an impact beyond Europe and Russia,’… She […]