“…after the Soviet withdrawal [from Afghanistan] in [February 15] 1989, the international community turned away from Afghanistan and the militias continued to organize and fund themselves through drug production. The continuous violence and lack of government authority led to growing poverty and suffering across Afghanistan. It was in these circumstances that the Taliban came to […]
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2/15/1989
“On February 15, 1989, the last Russian soldier departed Afghanistan. Osama and his fighting men claimed a great victory. Tragically, with the departure of the Russians, the Afghan warlords commenced quarreling, each faction determined to gain leadership of the war-weary country. Osama made some efforts to bring the warlords together, but his efforts were unsuccessful.” […]
1/20/1989
“George H.W. Bush was inaugurated as the forty-first president of the United States on January 20, 1989.” – Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice, Page 31 […]
1/20/1989
-George H.W. Bush – Republican president inaugurated -James D. Quayle – Vice President – […]
1/15/1989
“The U.S. embassy in Kabul had been shut for security reasons since January 1989, so there was no CIA station in Afghanistan from which to collect intelligence about the Taliban or the sources of their newfound strength.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 5 […]
12/21/1988
“On December 21, 1988, 270 people were killed when a bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. …Two weeks before, on December 5, an alert from Mossad, Israel’s famed intelligence service, had been passed to the CIA. It warned that a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to the U.S. would be bombed within […]
12/21/1988
“One of the most devastating acts of Islamic terror perpetrated against the west had been the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 on the night of December 21, 1988. When a Toshiba boom box packed with ten to fourteen ounces of Semtex (a Czech version of C-4 plastic explosives) detonated over Lockerbie, Scotland, it ripped […]
12/21/1988
“After the bombing of [Pan Am] Flight 103 in [December 21] 1988, the Department of State was criticized for not making public in advance confidential intelligence that indicated there might be an attack on U.S. civil aviation. The result was the ‘no double standard policy,’ which requires the release of sanitized versions of threat intelligence […]
12/15/1988
“In December 1988…Dow Chemical sold $1.5 million worth of pesticides to Iraq, despite concerns expressed by some in the U.S. government that they could be used as chemical warfare agents. According to The Washington Post [on July 19, 1992], ‘An Export-Import Bank official reported in a memorandum that he could find *no reason* to stop […]
11/8/1988
-George H.W. Bush – Republican president elected -James D. Quayle – Vice President – […]