“…when the Taliban, with bin Laden’s guidance and financing, conducted its revenge match for the [May] 1997 massacre and committed mayhem against innocent civilians in Mazar-i-Sharif [Afghanistan] in August 1998, the [Clinton] administration said next to nothing.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the […]
8/15/1998
“Jane’s Intelligence Review, a respected military and intelligence journal, published a report, shortly before the [August 20, 1998] U.S. attacks [on the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan], based on minutes of an October 1996 meeting of Sudanese officials who claimed that bin Laden had agreed to finance a chemical weapons facility in Kubar, […]
8/15/1998
“In response to al Qaeda’s August 1998 bombing of American embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, President [Bill] Clinton issued several secret authorizations for the CIA to work with Afghan tribal elements to capture and if necessary kill Osama Bin Laden.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
8/15/1998
Following the African embassy bombings on August 7, 1998, “Michael A. Sheehan, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, urged the Clinton administration to step up efforts to persuade Afghanistan and its neighbors to cut off financing to bin Laden and end the sanctuary and support being offered to Al Qaeda.” [The 15th of the month used […]
8/15/1998
In August 1998, “…both the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and the Bureau [FBI] picked up information that unidentified Arabs were planning to fly ‘an explosive-laden plane’ from an unnamed country into the World Trade Center. The FAA reportedly found the plot ‘highly unlikely given the state of the foreign country’s aviation program,’ and the FBI’s […]
8/15/1998
“In August 1998, the intelligence community obtained information that a group, since linked to al Qaeda, planned to fly an explosive-laden plane from a foreign country into the World Trade Center.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 191 […]
8/15/1998
“There was no serious discussion among them [the Clinton cabinet] that August [1998] about a broad U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban. Congress and the American people would not sanction such a war as an answer to the [African] embassy attacks, [U.S. National Security Advisor] Sandy Berger said later; the idea was all out of […]
8/15/1998
President Bill “Clinton signed a Top Secret ‘Memorandum of Notification’ within days of the [August 7, 1998, African] embassy bombings to authorize the CIA or its agents to use lethal force if necessary in an attempt to capture bin Laden, [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader] Ayman al-Zawahiri, and several other top lieutenants. …His memo provided legal […]
8/15/1998
Editor-in-chief “Abd-al-Bari Atwan noted in August 1998 in Al-Quds Al-Arabi…that Muslims have seen ‘successive American administrations’ maintain a policy to ‘consolidate hegemony over Arab oil resources and oil derivatives and have controlled prices to ensure that Arab oil prices remained low so that Western economies would flourish while the Arab economies crumbled.’ “ [The 15th […]
8/14/1998
“On Friday, August 14 [1998], a week after the attacks [on the U.S. embassies in Africa], [CIA Director George] Tenet delivered to the Small Group the CIA’s formal judgment that bin Laden and his senior Egyptian aides were responsible. ‘Intelligence from a variety of human and technical sources, statements of arrested suspects, and public statements […]