FBI Director Louis Freeh spoke of plans by the CIA to bomb forces loyal to bin Laden: “The CIA director [George Tenet] and national security adviser [Sandy Berger] had come to apprise me [on August 14, 1998] of an operation then in the final planning stages. Targets were to be struck simultaneously in Afghanistan and […]
8/14/1998
According to an August 14, 1998, CIA briefing of the August 7, 1998, embassy bombings, “Suspicion quickly focused on Bin Ladin. Unusually good intelligence, chiefly from the yearlong monitoring of al Qaeda’s cell in Nairobi [Kenya], soon firmly fixed responsibility on him and his associates.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Pages 115-116 […]
8/12/1998
“In an attempt to diffuse responsibility [for the African embassy bombings on August 7, 1998] and further confuse public opinion, Al Qaeda issued another communiqué, on August 12 [1998], using another front organisation, the Islamic Liberation Army: ‘Because the Americans and the Jews occupy the surroundings of the Al Aqsa mosque, because of what the […]
8/12/1998
“…one of the captured al Qaeda planners of the August [7] 1998 East Africa bombings, a Saudi national named Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-‘Owhali…was arrested by Kenyan authorities on August 12, 1998, five days after the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 210 […]
8/12/1998
On August 12, 1998, “The Small Group of presidential advisors meet with [President Bill] Clinton, reportedly with evidence that bin Laden is looking to obtain weapons of mass destruction and chemical weapons to use against US installations…” – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He Want? A Chronology of His Political […]
8/12/1998
“…on August 12 [1998], the Nairobi [Kenya] police received a tip that one of the [August 7, 1998, embassy] bombers might be among the injured. The police tracked the information to a local hospital and discovered [Mohamed] al-‘Owhali with back wounds he’d received running away from the explosion. Later that week, under questioning by FBI agents, […]
8/12/1998
“In August [12, 1998], the intelligence community had received information that a group of Libyans hoped to crash a plane into the World Trade Center.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Pages 344-345 […]
8/11/1998
The Islamic Army of the People of Kenya, a front organization for Al Qaeda, delivered a communiqué on August 11, 1998, three days after the twin bombings of American embassies in Africa. It read: ” ‘The attack was justified because the Government of Kenya admitted the Americans to have used their land to fight Muslim […]
8/9/1998
Nairobi embassy bomber Mohamed Rashed “Al Owhali had received lacerations on his hand and face and a large wound on his back from the explosion; he went to a medical clinic to have them treated. He was sent to a hospital where, two days after the bombing [August 9, 1998], Kenyan police questioned him because […]
8/9/1998
“Two days later [August 9, 1998], a group calling itself the ‘Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places’ took credit for the bombing [of the U.S. embassies in Africa]. The name, with its echo of [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Yousef’s ‘Fifth Battalion of the Liberation Army,’ was another reminder of how tightly […]