“Four days after the issuance of the Afghan fatwa [March 16, 1998], bin Laden released a letter that recapitulated the themes of his declaration of war. In it he underscored ‘the calamity of the American’s occupation of the Arabian peninsula.’ Referring to Operation Desert Storm, he asked, ‘Why were American women soldiers brought in?’–to his […]
3/16/1998
“March 16 [1998]: Libya issues the first international arrest warrant against Osama bin Laden and three accomplices for murder [of two German citizens on March 10, 1994].” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 153 […]
3/15/1998
“The U.S. consulate in Peshawar [Pakistan] reported an apparent ‘major escalation in Pakistani assistance’ in March [1998], when twenty-five large Mercedes Benz trucks covered with tarpaulins transported an estimated two thousand ‘Pakistani Taliban’ to Kabul Airport for air transport to Kunduz [Afghanistan].” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Roy […]
3/15/1998
“A top Pakistani official confirmed in March 1998 that Pakistan had supplied arms and ammunition [to the Taliban], although not since the end of 1997, and that Pakistan was the sole source of fuel to the Taliban.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the […]
3/15/1998
In March 1998, “about forty Afghan ulema (clergy) convened and blessed the bin Laden fatwa [against ‘Jews and Crusaders,’ made on February 23, 1998]–that gave him the religious imprimatur he coveted.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 149 […]
3/15/1998
“In March 1998, after Bin Ladin’s public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin…Similar meetings may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some […]
3/12/1998
Following Osama bin Laden’s February 23, 1998, fatwa calling for the killing of Americans, “Osama also had received the support of forty Afghan clerics who issued a fatwa calling for a jihad against the Americans on March 12 [1998], and another similar fatwa by a group of Pakistani-based clerics, signed by Sheikh Ahmed Azzam, in […]
3/12/1998
“On March 12, 1998, a conference of about forty Afghan ulema, or clergy, convened to examine the question of what to do about the American military presence in the Gulf. This was highly significant for bin Laden. Although he may be well read in the Koran, even his stoutest defenders would have to acknowledge that […]
3/5/1998
In April 2003, a document, dated February 19, 1998, was found in the bombed-out headquarters of the Mukhabarat (Iraqi intelligence), which contained evidence of Iraqi agents planning to host high-level al Qaeda members in Baghdad. “The document was passed along to the deputy director of Iraqi intelligence, with a recommendation that ‘the deputy director general […]
2/26/1998
“On February 26 [1998], in the name of Islamic Jihad, he [leader Ayman al-Zawahiri] signed a joint declaration with Bin Laden and representatives of different radical Islamist movements, announcing the creation of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders and containing the famous fatwa that made the murder of Americans and their […]