“On January 17, 1993, the two-year anniversary of the start of the Gulf War, Saddam again signaled his refusal to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors, flouting the terms he had agreed to at the end of the [first] Gulf War. Dozens of U.S. Tomahawk missiles obliterated sites of strategic importance to Iraq’s continued weapons of […]
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1/15/1993
Then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney wrote: “As I left office in January 1993, we published the ‘Regional Defense Strategy,’… The RDS emphasized that U.S. leadership would continue to be crucial in the new [post-Cold War] defense environment. Our preference was to counter threats whenever possible with friends and allies at our side, but we were […]
1/15/1993
“…Bill Clinton, the president-elect, spoke to Tom Friedman of the New York Times in January [15] 1993 and suggested that the United States would not work for Saddam’s ouster and that relations could improve even if he remained in power. ‘Based on the evidence that we have, the people of Iraq would be better off […]
1/15/1993
“Documents discovered after the coalition’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 shed more light on the depth of the regime’s linkages with terrorism. As far back as January 1993…Saddam had ordered the formation of ‘a group to start hunting Americans present on Arab soil; especially Somalia.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
1/14/1993
In a New York Times interview on January 14, 1993, President-elect Bill Clinton said “that he would not insist on Saddam’s removal as a condition for normalizing relations with Iraq. ‘I am not obsessed with the man,’ said Clinton. ‘I always tell everybody I am a Baptist. I believe in deathbed conversions. If he wants […]
1/1/1993
On January 1, 1993, “A group of fundamentalist Islamic clerics from Egypt, Afghanistan, Algeria, Sudan, and Iran issued a communiqué that was joined by Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. It ominously announced a jihad against all Christian nations, urging devout Muslims worldwide to strike out against corrupting Western and Christian influence. During the […]
12/29/1992
On December 29, 1992, future World Trade Center bomber Ramzi “Yousef told [co-conspirator Ahmad] Ajaj he wanted to get hold of the bomb-making manuals that had been in Ajaj’s luggage when the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] stopped him. …The call was taped by the prison recording system, but apparently not reviewed until much later.” […]
12/29/1992
“In time, the Aden [Yemen] bombings [of December 29, 1992] would be seen as part of a classic bin Laden pattern: the use of Arab Afghans, hidden bombs, simultaneous explosions, a willingness to kill civilians (even Muslims) to annihilate his enemies, and the use of Yemen as a staging area.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin […]
12/29/1992
“On December 29, 1992, there is a terrorist attack in Aden, Yemen, on a hotel where American troops generally stay. On that day, however, the American soldiers had checked out of the hotel on their way to Somalia where the United States was conducting a humanitarian mission. The people killed were two Australian tourists. Terrorism […]
12/29/1992
“His [bin Laden’s] organization is credited with a December [29] 1992 explosion…in Aden, Yemen, that killed two tourists and narrowly missed a number of U.S. soldiers. …That bombing is now seen as bin Laden’s first act of terrorism against Americans.” – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, Intelligence Matters, Page 30 […]