“A more serious FBI and CIA investigation was conducted into the suggestions that Iraq was involved in [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s career, or that Yousef was actually an Iraqi agent from the beginning of his terrorist career… 26 February [1993], the date of the [World Trade Center] bombing, was the second anniversary of the liberation of […]
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2/25/1993
“On February 25 [1993], [World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammed] Salameh, posing as Kamal Ibrahim, took delivery of three tanks of compressed hydrogen–to be used as an accelerant in the explosion–at the Mallory Avenue storage shed [in New Jersey]….Later that evening, Salameh…called the police to report the Ryder van stolen from the parking lot. However, […]
2/15/1993
On February 15, 1993, World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammed “Salameh drove into Manhattan to scout the World Trade Center bomb location. …On his way to the storage shed [with the bomb components], he was involved in another accident on Jersey City [New Jersey]‘s West Side Avenue. The police wrote a report of the incident […]
2/5/1993
Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Afghan resistance Edmund McWilliams sent a confidential cable to Washington on February 5, 1993, titled, ” ‘Implications of Continued Stalemate in Afghanistan.’ McWilliams argued that the ‘principled U.S. posture of letting Afghans find solutions to *their problems* fails to take into account a central reality: Intense and continuing foreign […]
1/25/1993
Pakistani citizen Mir Amal Kasi shot five people outside CIA headquarters on January 25, 1993, and fled to Pakistan the next day. “It was an early warning of the violent level of hatred building among Muslims around the world caused by America’s fatally flawed Middle East policies. In Pakistan, Kasi’s actions were greeted with cheers.” […]
1/25/1993
“In January [25] 1993, Pakistani citizen Mir Aimal Kansi shot five CIA employees outside the agency’s headquarters [in Langley, Virginia], killing two.” – Steven Emerson, American Jihad, Page 29 […]
1/24/1993
“On January 24 [1993] the [World Trade Center bombing] plot was nearly derailed when [conspirators Mohammed] Salameh and [Ramzi] Yousef got in a car accident. …Yousef, who had been riding in the passenger seat, was hospitalized with lacerations. …using the alias Kamal Ibrahim, he continued calling chemical companies from his hospital bed, arranging for deliveries […]
1/20/1993
President Bill “Clinton continued his predecessor’s [George H.W. Bush’s] policy of containment, and, on his very first day in office [January 20, 1993], bombed Iraqi radar sites to enforce the ‘no-fly zones’ in the northern and southern parts of the country.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 120 […]
1/20/1993
-William J. Clinton – Democratic president inaugurated -Albert A. Gore – Vice President – […]
1/17/1993
In Iraq, “an American cruise missile had struck Baghdad’s Al Rashid Hotel on January 17 [1993], nearly killing Saddam Hussein, who was opening a conference for Islamic fundamentalists.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 25 […]