In August 1995, “Bin Laden wrote an open letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia calling for a campaign of guerrilla attacks in order to drive U.S forces out of the kingdom.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He […]
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8/15/1995
In August 1995, Saddam’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamil, the head of Iraq’s WMD programs, defected from the country. “As a result of the defection, the [UN WMD] inspectors came to learn about important Iraqi weapons activity that they had missed in their own inspections. In July 1995, UNSCOM [UN Special Commission on Iraq] reported, ‘Iraq, for […]
8/15/1995
The head of Iraq’s weapons procurement program, Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel, defected to Jordan in August 1995 and “was fully debriefed by both the CIA and Britain’s MI6 [Secret Intelligence Service], and then by Rolf Ekeus, the head of UNSCOM [UN Special Commission on Iraq]. He provided a detailed account of Iraq’s weapons program, including […]
8/15/1995
Saddam’s son-in-law and former Iraqi weapons chief, General Hussein Kamal, defected and spoke with UN weapons inspectors in August 1995. “Kamal had taken thousands of documents about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program out of the country with him. Talking about the 1991 Gulf War, Kamal told the UN inspectors that Saddam had feared a […]
8/7/1995
“On the night of August 7, 1995, Hussein Kamel, the son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, fled Baghdad [Iraq] and sought asylum in Jordan. Two weeks later, he sat down in an Amman villa with senior U.N. inspectors who had spent years trying to ferret out details of Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs. Now they […]
7/15/1995
“A [July] 1995 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that loosely organized, transnational terrorist groups, obtaining weapons, financing, and other forms of support from various governments, factions, and individual benefactors like bin Laden, posed the greatest emerging threat to national security.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – John Farmer, The Ground […]
7/15/1995
“A National Intelligence Estimate distributed in July 1995 predicted future terrorist attacks against the United States–and in the United States. It warned that this danger would increase over the next several years. It specified as particular points of vulnerability the White House, the Capitol, symbols of capitalism such as Wall Street, critical infrastructure such as […]
7/15/1995
In his October 17, 2002, testimony to the Joint Inquiry Committee investigating the 9/11 attacks, CIA Director George Tenet said that in July 1995, the CIA produced a National Intelligence Estimate for the Clinton Administration titled, ‘The Foreign Terrorist Threat in the United States.’ “Echoing the FBI’s language, the estimate called [World Trade Center bomber […]
7/10/1995
On July 10, 1995, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq “Aziz presented ten points describing that Iraq did, after all, have an offensive biological-weapons program. Aziz suggested that Iraq had chosen not to reveal its existence before because it had all been eliminated and Baghdad was concerned that Washington would find this an excuse to attack […]
6/26/1995
“On June 26 [1995] the two Islamic groups associated with bin Laden’s al-Qaeda [al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya and al-Jihad] allegedly try to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak when he was in Ethiopia for a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. The assassination attempt fails but brings pressure from the Egyptians, Saudis, and Americans for the Sudanese […]