In March 1999, the leaders of a group of takfiris (radical Muslims) “met in Peshawar [Pakistan] to discuss bin Laden and afterward issued a fatwa ‘calling for the death of the infidel,’ and then ‘launched a campaign’ to kill bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members, according to an article in the Sunday Times. They ‘declared […]
3/15/1999
“In March 1999, the newly crowned king of Jordan, Abdullah II, gave an amnesty to thousands of political prisoners, among them [future al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi, who quickly made his way back to Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, […]
3/15/1999
“Barred from Iraq, UNSCOM’s [United Nations Special Commission, the inspection group that searched for WMD] mandate ended when a UN panel concluded, in March 1999, that the bulk of Iraq’s weapons programmes had been dismantled, but that Iraq continued to require an ongoing monitoring and verification system for whatever WMD made have eluded UNSCOM’s inspectors.” […]
3/15/1999
“In March 1999, German intelligence officials gave the Central Intelligence Agency the first name and telephone number of [future 9/11 hijacker] Marwan al-Shehhi, and asked the Americans to track him. …After the Germans passed the information on to the C.I.A., they did not hear from the Americans about the matter until after Sept. 11 [2001], […]
3/15/1999
Kenneth A. “Minihan announced he would step down as NSA [National Security Agency] director in March 1999. …In his E-mail to the agency’s employees…Minihan noted that the agency was struggling to keep pace with modern technology. …Minihan had lost several…battles with the Clinton administration over such issues as limiting exports of data-scrambling technology. The administration […]
3/15/1999
“In March 1999, the intelligence community obtained information [from al Qaeda double agent Ali Mohamed] regarding plans by an al Qaeda member [Khalid Dahab], who was a U.S. citizen, to fly a hang glider into the Egyptian Presidential Palace and detonate explosives. The person, who received hang-glider training in the United States, brought a hang […]
3/9/1999
“During Senate hearings on March 9, 1999, Mavis Leno, one of the leaders of the Feminist Majority, formally accused Unocal [oil company] of having supported the Taliban.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 234 […]
2/15/1999
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “I placed terrorism prominently in every annual public testimony since 1997 to the appropriate Congressional Committees on the Worldwide Threat, as shown in a series of excerpts from my Statements for the Record. …February 1999: ‘On terrorism, […]
2/15/1999
According to a top secret report from the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, on March 19, 2004: “A MON [Memorandum of Notification, issued by President Bill Clinton] of February [redacted] 1999 authorized the CIA to work with the Afghan Northern Alliance commander [Ahmed Shah] Masood against UBL [Usama Bin Ladin].” [The 15th of the […]
2/15/1999
“In February 1999 the CIA claimed that through monitoring Bin Laden’s communication network by satellite, they had prevented his supporters from carrying out seven bomb attacks against US overseas facilities in Saudi Arabia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uganda, Uruguay and the Ivory Coast–emphasizing the reach of the Afghan veterans.” [The 15th of the month used for […]