“Beginning on May 1, 1998, Iraq warned of ‘dire consequences’ if the United Nations sanctions were not lifted and the weapons-inspection teams removed.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 238 […]
4/28/1998
“Following the meeting between [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman] al Zawahiri and senior Iraqi officials on February 3, 1998, and the subsequent sixteen-day visit to Baghdad by a bin Laden confidant in March, a small band of al Qaeda leaders traveled to Iraq in April to celebrate Saddam’s sixty-first birthday [on April 28, 1998]. …the […]
4/17/1998
UN ambassador Bill Richardson flew to Kabul, Afghanistan on April 17, 1998, to speak with delegates of the Taliban. “…they would not expel bin Laden. ‘They just said no,’ said a White House official. [Head of Taliban government] Mullah [Mohammad] Rabbani said, ‘Bin Laden is our guest here. He is under our control.’ Rabbani claimed […]
4/17/1998
Former CIA analyst Bruce Riedel wrote: “On April 17 [1998] he [U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson] and I flew into Kabul [Afghanistan]… He pressed for a meeting with Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar to discuss handing Osama bin Laden over to the Saudis before he could carry out his threats to attack Americans. […]
4/15/1998
“In interviews with Radio Free Iraq and the London Observer…a senior Mukhabarat [Iraq’s intelligence/secret police] officer who served on the [Abu Ghraib] prison’s supervisory committee testified that on a single day in April 1998, his committee executed two thousand dissidents: ‘Some were hanged. Others were shot. Each victim was shot once in the head.’ “ […]
4/15/1998
“In mid-April 1998 Bill Richardson, the US Ambassador to the United Nations…travelled to Pakistan and then on to Afghanistan for talks with senior officials from the Taliban on how bin Laden could be handed over to the US. As Richardson met the Taliban several teams of US Special Forces soldiers arrived in Pakistan and were […]
4/15/1998
“In April 1998, bin Laden even sent a delegation of his al-Qaeda fighters to attend the birthday celebrations of Saddam’s eldest son, Uday, who responded to this gracious gesture by agreeing to train a number of al-Qaeda recruits in Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Con Coughlin, Saddam: […]
4/15/1998
“The first Interpol arrest warrant against Osama bin Laden was actually issued on April 15, 1998, at the request of Libya’s Ministry of the Interior.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Pages 97-98 […]
3/22/1998
“In March [22] 1998 JINSA [Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs] issued a formal resolution warning of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and calling for the indictment of Saddam Hussein and his chief lieutenants as war criminals. It called on the United States ‘to provide overt political and financial support for legitimate, democratic opposition […]
3/16/1998
“Libya under [Muammar] Gaddafi became the first country in the world to issue a warrant against Osama bin Laden. For the murder of Silvan Becker and his wife, two German nationals, in Surt, Libya by Al Qaeda’s Libyan members on March 10, 1994, the judicial authorities of Libya filed a request for the extradition of […]