According to information in a Washington Post article on August 2, 1988, “Iraq’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, openly admitted that poison gas was enshrined in official Iraqi war policy.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 18 […]
7/29/1998
“The CIA’s Counterterrorist Center issued an alert on July 29 [1998] about a possible chemical, biological, or radiological attack by bin Laden, but it knew nothing of his plans [for the embassy bombings] in Africa.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 404 […]
7/15/1998
“In July 1998 [Saudi intelligence chief] Prince Turki [al Faisal] had visited Kandahar [Afghanistan] and a few weeks later 400 new pick-up trucks arrived in Kandahar for the Taliban, still bearing their Dubai license plates. The Saudis also gave cash for the Taliban’s cheque book conquest of the north in the autumn. Until the [August […]
7/15/1998
“…in July [1998], Pakistan pledged some $6 million to pay the salaries of Taliban officials and military commanders, according to Taliban and Pakistani sources.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 128 […]
6/24/1998
“In February 1998, six months before the [African embassy] bombings, Sudan’s intelligence chief once more offered to share terrorism data with the FBI in a letter addressed to David Williams, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Middle East and North Africa. Keep in mind the Sudanese, who had played host to bin Laden for […]
6/22/1998
Former CIA Agent Robert Baer wrote: “After I left the CIA I found my answer [to who was funding Chechen rebels] in a batch of Russian intelligence reports that drew a convincingly direct link between the Saudi government and the Chechen rebels. It was not a question of Saudi charity money finding its way to […]
6/15/1998
According to a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief from June 1998: “Terrorist financier Usama Bin Ladin in an interview published this week with a US journalist indicated he may attack a US military passenger aircraft using antiaircraft missiles. His comments follow those he made at a press conference last month in which he indicated the results […]
6/15/1998
“…the Taliban had persuaded Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back them in another offensive to take the north [of Afghanistan]. The Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al Faisal visited Kandahar in mid-June [1998], after which the Saudis provided the Taliban with 400 pick-up trucks and financial aid. Pakistan’s ISI [Inter-services Intelligence] had prepared a budget […]
6/15/1998
“In mid-June [1998], Prince Turki [al Faisal], then intelligence chief [for Saudi Arabia], traveled to Kandahar [Afghanistan]. ‘I asked [Taliban leader] Mullah [Mohammad] Omar to hand him [Osama bin Laden] over and he agreed,’ Turki later said in an interview. ‘I was told their interests were with us and not with any individual. Mullah Omar […]
6/15/1998
“In June [1998], in Kandahar [Afghanistan], bin Laden and [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al] Zawahiri hosted an international conference of Islamic radicals, in which they announced the formation of an Islamic Front to ‘fight the Americans and the Israelis.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, […]