“In March 1989, State Department officials told Secretary of State James Baker that Iraq was working on chemical and biological weapons and that terrorists were still operating out of Iraq.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 81 […]
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2/24/1989
On February 24, 1989, shortly after the Soviets left Afghanistan, bin Laden’s mentor Abdallah “Azzam delivered a sermon in Islamabad laying out his vision of a jihadist future: ‘We will fight, defeat our enemies and establish an Islamic state on some sliver of land, such as Afghanistan. Afghanistan will expand, jihad will spread, Islam will […]
2/15/1989
“General Boris V. Gromov, the commander of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, walked across the Friendship Bridge into Uzbekistan on February 15, 1989. ‘…Our nine-year stay ends with this.’ The Soviets had lost fifteen thousand lives and suffered more than thirty thousand casualties. Between a million and two million Afghans perished, perhaps 90 percent of […]
2/15/1989
In Fuad Hussein’s book, Al-Zarqawi: The Second al Qaeda Generation, former Egyptian army officer and al Qaeda military commander Sayf al Adel said: ” ‘After God granted the Muslim mujahideen in Afghanistan victory against the Russians [in February 1989] and when disagreements began to emerge among factions of the Afghan mujahideen, many of our Arab […]
2/15/1989
“The withdrawal of the last Soviet soldier [from Afghanistan] took place in February [15] 1989, the first full month of the administration of George H. W. Bush.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 53 […]
2/15/1989
In an interview in August 2005, “Ahmad Shah Ahmadazi [who] was acting Afghan prime minister from 1995 to 1996 [said:] ‘After the defeat of the Soviet Union [in February 1989], we sent a message to all Arabs that were in Afghanistan: *We thank them for their cooperation with us in fighting the Soviet Union. Now […]
2/15/1989
In an interview on June 13, 2005, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said, ” ‘after [the Russians left Afghanistan in February] ’89, floodgates open to Afghanistan of all kind of Arab adventurists and that’s when radicalism starts creeping in. [jihadist/bin Laden mentor] Abdullah Azzam was selective. Osama was more in the mind-set that this is a […]
2/15/1989
“An estimated fourteen thousand jihadis had dispersed after the Russians abandoned Afghanistan in [February 15] 1989, and untold numbers began to settle in New York and New Jersey.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 38 […]
2/15/1989
“By February 1989, the Soviets had retreated and [Osama] bin Laden had joined the civil war to turn once-tolerant Afghanistan into a model Islamic state. He financed the construction of vast training camps and bankrolled militant factions. His activities seemed to increase as the Soviets shrank back.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
2/15/1989
“With the Soviet withdrawal in February 1989, Afghanistan replaced the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley in Lebanon as the world’s premier terrorist training centre for about forty guerrilla and terrorist groups.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 221 […]