On February 2, 1999, “CIA director George Tenet told an open Senate hearing that there was ‘not the slightest doubt that Osama bin Laden, his worldwide allies, and his sympathizers are planning further attacks against us…wherever in the world he thinks we are vulnerable.’ “ – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Pages 159-160 […]
2/2/1999
On February 2, 1999, CIA Director George Tenet testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Al Qaeda ‘is just one of about a dozen terrorist groups that have expressed an interest in or have sought chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents.’ ” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 262 […]
2/2/1999
“In a ninety-seven-paragraph unclassified statement [titled ‘Current and Projected National Security Threats’] he [CIA Director George Tenet] issued [to the Senate Armed Services Committee] that winter [February 2, 1999] about rising dangers in an unstable world, Tenet devoted four paragraphs to bin Laden. Also, the CIA director placed virtually no emphasis on Afghanistan as a […]
2/2/1999
“There was ‘not the slightest doubt’ that bin Laden was planning new attacks, [CIA director George]Tenet said [in a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 2, 1999, titled ‘Current and Projected National Security Threats‘]. The CIA director issued this warning in public and in private. He saw evidence that bin Laden had […]
1/25/1999
“According to the U.N. [UNSCOM’s (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) report on January 25, 1999], ‘field tests of BW [biological warfare] agents started in late 1987/early 1988,’ and by 1989, biological agents were used in ‘field testing aerial bombs, rockets and other munitions.’ Among other things, U.N. inspectors found that the regime had been […]
1/25/1999
“During much of the 1980s, Iraq was the world’s single largest purchaser of weapons. According to the U.N. [UNSCOM’s (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) report on January 25, 1999], it imported 819 long-range combat missiles and then modified more than half of them to reach even more distant targets.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and […]
1/25/1999
“According to UNSCOM’s [United Nations Special Commission on Iraq] final report, submitted to the [UN] Security Council in January [25] 1999, Iraq began its effort to develop biological weapons in 1973 or 1974, when Saddam was still vice president. Iraq itself concedes that from 1974 to 1978 it conducted ‘research on micro-organisms for military purposes.’ […]
1/25/1999
“The UN inspectors’ final report in [January 25] 1999 noted, among other troubling points, that Iraq’s ‘virus studies’ focused on camel pox–the smallpox surrogate–and that ‘the rationale for this work was not given.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 224 […]
1/25/1999
“On January 25, 1999, the UN weapons inspection organization issued a clear warning: ‘[I]t needs to be recognised that Iraq possesses an industrial capability and knowledge base, through which biological warfare agents could be produced quickly and in volume, if the Government of Iraq decided to do so.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, […]
1/16/1999
On January 16, 1999, “The US Attorney’s office files its most complete indictment to date of Osama bin Laden and 11 other suspected members of his terrorist organization. The grand jury charges the men for conspiring to kill American nationals. The first count of the indictment charges that several of the co-defendants acted with other […]