On August 6, 1998, the day before the African embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri published a message in London’s Arabic press: ” ‘We are interested in briefly telling the Americans that their message has been received and that the response, which we hope they will read carefully, is being prepared, because, with […]
8/6/1998
“On August 6, 1998, [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri sent a fax to the office of the Arabic newspaper al-Hayat in Cairo reporting that an Islamic jihad cell uncovered by the CIA in Tirana, Albania (a Muslim country), had been sent to Egypt, where the terrorists had supposedly been brutally tortured. He warned […]
8/6/1998
On August 6,1998, a month after the CIA had ordered the kidnapping, torture and questioning of an al-Jihad cell in Albania, al Jihad leader Ayman al- “Zawahiri sent the following declaration to the London newspaper Al Hayat: ‘We are interested in briefly telling the Americans that their message has been received and that the response, […]
8/6/1998
On August 6, 1998, the day before the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, “the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, [FBI operative] Ali Mohamed’s old group, warned that they would soon deliver ‘a message to the U.S. which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God’s help, in a language they will […]
8/5/1998
In Iraq, “In early August [5, 1998] the Revolutionary Command Council and the Ba’ath Party Command decided to stop cooperation with UNSCOM [UN Special Commission on Iraq] and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] until the [UN] Security Council lifted the sanctions, reorganized UNSCOM and moved it to Geneva [Switzerland] or Vienna [Austria]. The decision […]
8/5/1998
On August 5, 1998, “the Iraqi regime announced that it was suspending cooperation with UN [weapons] inspectors.” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 131 […]
8/5/1998
“On 5 August, 1998 the [Iraqi] regime suspended cooperation with UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission, the inspection group that searched for WMD] and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), linking any future resumption of their activities with a removal of sanctions, and the insulation of the inspection team from the possibility of compromise by US […]
8/5/1998
“Iraq expelled UN weapons inspectors on August 5 [1998].” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 238 […]
8/5/1998
On August 5, 1998, a month after the arrest and torture of Muslim militants in Albania, Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahiri “warned that America’s ‘message has been received and that the response…is being prepared.’ Two days later, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were blown up, killing 224 people.” – Jane Mayer, The […]
8/4/1998
“In [August 4] 1998, when the EIJ [Egyptian Islamic Jihad] effectively merged with al Qaeda, he [EIJ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri] sent a fax to the Al-Hayat newspaper warning Americans. Three days later on August 7, suicide truck bombers hit the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people.” – Thair […]