“At 5:30 am on August 7, 1998, [President] Bill Clinton was awakened unexpectedly by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. It was the eighth anniversary of the arrival of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia leading up to the Gulf War…To mark the occasion, Osama bin Laden had struck his most violent blows yet against the United […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7 [1998], the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were blown up by al-Qaeda followers, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 254 […]
8/7/1998
“Our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in East Africa, were struck almost simultaneously on August 7, 1998. …Al Qaeda had now followed up a fatwa, or religious ruling, earlier in 1998 declaring war on the United States with an actual act of war.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 181 […]
8/7/1998
“It was August 7, 1998. …In Kenya, an Egyptian bomb-maker called ‘Saleh [Ali Saleh Nabhan]‘–one of [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri’s men–oversaw the construction of two huge explosive devices. The first was made of two thousand pounds of TNT. …Two Saudis…drove the truck through downtown Nairobi toward the American Embassy. At the same […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, the day before the Taliban entered Mazar [-i-Sharif, Afghanistan], al Qaeda carried out its first major terrorist attack, the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 67 […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “twelve Americans and 238 Africans died when the U.S. embassy in [Nairobi] Kenya was ripped apart and in a near simultaneous, but less lethal truckbomb, attack against the Dar es Salaam embassy in neighboring Tanzania. Within hours, the Sudanese…arrested [the suspects] in a cheap downtown hotel noting their earlier unsuccessful attempt […]
8/7/1998
Following the African embassy bombings “on August 7, 1998, more and more Muslims especially had questioned the deaths of innocent black Africans, who outnumbered the American victims by almost twenty to one. Osama’s propaganda insisted that the Kenyans deserved to die because of their government’s long history of close relations with Israel.” – Jonathan Randal, […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “the U.S. embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were attacked almost simultaneously with truck bombs. The combined death toll was 234, with more than 5,000 injured.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 373 […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, “The Egyptian Jihad group sent the United States a warning: they would soon deliver a message to Americans ‘which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God’s help, in a language they will understand.’ ” – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, “the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group tied directly to bin Laden, warned that they would soon deliver a message to the United States. ‘We hope they read [the message] with care,’ said the warning, ‘because we will write it with God’s help in a language they will understand.’ ” – Peter […]