On August 8, 1998, CIA Director George “Tenet brought to a principals meeting intelligence that terrorist leaders were expected to gather at a camp near Khowst, Afghanistan to plan future attacks. According to [national security advisor Sandy] Berger, Tenet said that several hundred would attend, including Bin Ladin. The CIA described the area as effectively […]
8/7/1998
Osama bin Laden was interviewed in Afghanistan by Palestinian journalist Jamal Ismail on December 22, 1998. ” ‘I heard about the [August 7, 1998, African embassy] bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans […]
8/7/1998
“The bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar-es-Salaam [Tanzania] using two explosives-laden trucks on 7 August 1998 were the first attacks by the World Islamic Front. Statements issued by al Qaeda explained that these cities had been chosen because they each housed a large US military presence and because both the Kenyan […]
8/7/1998
“At the time of the [African embassy] explosions [on August 7, 1998], an alert Pakistani immigration supervisor at the Karachi Airport noted a visitor arriving shaved while his Yemeni passport showed him with a beard. ‘Are you a terrorist?’ he innocently asked Mohamed Sadeek Odeh. In fact, Odeh was a Jordanian national of Palestinian heritage […]
8/7/1998
Following the African embassy bombings on August 7, 1998, President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter how long it takes. …We are determined to get answers and justice.’ The CIA’s response was for Director George Tenet to send a notice […]
8/7/1998
“The August 7 [1998] bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 212 people. Bin Laden publicly denied any role in the attacks.” – Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page 224 […]
8/7/1998
“The realization that bin Laden had declared war on the United States became obvious to everyone at least by August 7, 1998, when the American embassies in East Africa were blown up. Once again, the CIA was caught totally by surprise. Because the agency had spent most of its time and money on its band […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, the concussion of a mighty truck bomb blew out a high wall of windows in the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. …At almost the same moment, four hundred miles to the south in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, a bomb planted in a gasoline tanker exploded near the entrance […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, trucks driven by Al Qaeda operatives rumbled through the midmorning traffic and crashed past security barriers at American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The bomb-laden trucks exploded in the embassy compounds, killing 224 people, injuring thousands, most of them Africans.” – Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Page 177 […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “Bombs planted in the American embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] by Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network cause the deaths of 263 persons and injure more than 4,500.” – Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, Page 257 […]