“Quantifying the scale of ideological and physical infiltration by Islamist groups, Sheikh [Muhammad Hisham] Kabbani of the Islamic Council of America said in January [7] 1999: ‘We can say that [the Islamists] took over 80% of the mosques in the United States. There are more than 3,000… This means that the ideology of extremism has […]
1/7/1999
Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, spoke at an open forum at the U.S. State Department on January 7, 1999. He said: ” ‘There have been many nonprofit [American Muslim] organizations established in the United States whose job is only to collect money and to send it…to extremists outside […]
1/5/1999
“On 5 January 1999, Hussein also marked Iraq’s Army Day with a violent speech in which he called on Arabs and Muslims to rise up and revolt against their governments and the West. With this new apocalyptic vision, which he apparently agreed with his sons Qusayy and Udayy in November 1998, Hussein also won over […]
12/28/1998
Then-CIA Director George Tenet detailed a letter he wrote to President Bill Clinton and the national security community, warning of al-Qa’ida attacks in 1998: “Ten days later [on December 28, 1998] I wrote again, updating the previous letter and quoting a Middle Eastern service as saying that they agreed with our assessment that UBL [Usama […]
12/25/1998
Saddam’s presidential secretary Abed Hamid Mahmud “described a very sensitive document Saddam had written and signed in three copies. It was a presidential decree Saddam created immediately after the bombing by [President Bill] Clinton in December [16-19] 1998. The decree declared that Iraq would not simply comply with nor recognize the [UN] Security Council resolutions, […]
12/24/1998
According to a top secret report from the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, on March 19, 2004: “A December 24, 1998 MON [Memorandum of Notification, issued by President Bill Clinton] for the first time authorized the use of lethal force in offensive operations designed to capture Bin Ladin [redacted] spelled out the parameters within […]
12/24/1998
According to a declassified CIA intelligence report from December 24, 1998: “Usama (Bin Ladin) [redacted] hopes to have completed the hijack operation [redacted] in the United States by [redacted] circa 10 January 1998. The operation, however, may have run into trouble [redacted] Key operatives [redacted] had been arrested at a small airport near Washington, D.C. […]
12/24/1998
“By Christmas Eve 1998, President [Bill] Clinton had authorized the CIA to allow America’s tribal allies [in Afghanistan] to kill bin Laden if they could not capture him, overriding the objections of some that this order violated the assassination ban. Administration lawyers concluded that the assassination ban would not be broken if the United States […]
12/24/1998
When asked if al-Qa’ida had nuclear or chemical weapons, bin Laden said, in the December 24, 1998, issue of Time: ” ‘Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so.’ ” – George Tenet with Bill […]
12/24/1998
President Bill Clinton “had effectively signed bin Laden’s death warrant. The proof was in a one-page document found by the commission…in the files of the National Archives in the late spring of 2004…This MON [Memorandum of Notification], sent by [National Security Advisor] Sandy Berger to Clinton on Christmas Eve 1998, gave the CIA authority to […]