On November 4, 1998, “A new superceding indictment is issued against bin Laden, [al Qaeda military chief] Muhammad Atef and a host of other suspects. They are charged with bombing of two US embassies and conspiring to commit other acts of terrorism against Americans abroad. Two rewards of $5 million each are offered for Atef […]
11/4/1998
“Two months after [al Qaeda double agent] Ali Mohamed’s arrest, on November 4, 1998, the Feds charged Osama bin Laden, [al Qaeda military commander] Mohammed Atef, and eleven others with the [August 7, 1998 East African] embassy bombings. The 238-count indictment cited the terrorist leader and his al Qaeda associates for ‘plotting and carrying out […]
11/4/1998
“On November 4, 1998, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed its indictment of Bin Ladin, charging him with conspiracy to attack U.S. defense installations. The indictment also charged that al Qaeda had allied itself with Sudan, Iran, and Hezbollah.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 128 […]
10/31/1998
“The Iraq Liberation Act declared that the goal of U.S. policy should be ‘to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power.’ The U.S. House of Representatives approved that legislation by a vote of 360 to 38. It passed the Senate without a single dissenting vote. [President] Clinton signed the legislation into law [on […]
10/31/1998
“In October 1998, Congress passed the Iraqi Liberation Act [signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 31, 1998], which made Saddam’s overthrow a declared policy of the United States, and authorized $97 million for the Iraqi opposition.” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 147 […]
10/31/1998
On October 31, 1998, Congress “passed the Iraq Liberation Act. Declaring, ‘It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime,’ the legislation authorized $97 million to provide […]
10/31/1998
“[T]he Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 [was] passed by President [Bill] Clinton [on October 31, 1998]. It was then that U.S. policy became regime change, but it did so–as the Act makes clear–because of the WMD issue and Saddam’s breach of UN resolutions. It wasn’t to do with the moral case against Saddam; it was […]
10/31/1998
“The Iraqi Liberation Act that President Bill Clinton had signed into law in [October 31] 1998…made it U.S. policy to support efforts to ‘…remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein.’ ” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 42 […]
10/31/1998
“On October 31, 1998, Baghdad announced an end to all UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission on Iraq] activity, including monitoring inspections. Later that same day, President [Bill] Clinton signed the recently passed Iraq Liberation Act, a bill that directed U.S. support for Iraqi opposition groups, specifically, Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. This gave the first […]
10/31/1998
“On October 31, 1998, under intense lobbying by PNAC [Project for the New American Century], CPSG [Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf], and others, Congress and President [Bill] Clinton enacted the Iraq Liberation Act, which states, ‘It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed […]