“On January 26, 1998, a Washington, D.C. think tank called the Project for the New American Century published an open letter to President [Bill] Clinton signed by eighteen individuals, mostly former U.S. national security officials, declaring that the ‘current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding.’ Observing that ‘ *containment* of Saddam Hussein has been […]
1/26/1998
On January 26, 1998, the Project for the New American Century “released an open letter to President [Bill] Clinton, calling for removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. The letter argued that diplomacy had failed and military engagement was required. In particular, it focused on the threat Hussein posed to ‘a significant portion of the […]
1/26/1998
“In 1997, a group of conservative thinkers, including a preponderance of former Reagan and Bush administration officials, founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Its first letter, written on January 26, 1998, called on President [Bill] Clinton to use military force to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. The letter states that it […]
1/26/1998
“[A] US right-wing think-tank, Project for the New American Century, had written to President [Bill] Clinton in January [26] 1998 to say that current policy towards Iraq was not succeeding and demanding military action to overthrow the regime. They were very critical of Clinton’s policy of containment. The letter was signed by Elliot Abrams, Richard […]
1/15/1998
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “I placed terrorism prominently in every annual public testimony since 1997 to the appropriate Congressional Committees on the Worldwide Threat, as shown in a series of excerpts from my Statements for the Record. …January 1998: ‘Mr. Chairman, […]
1/15/1998
British House of Commons leader Robin Cook recalled: “I had seen a minute of January 1998 to [U.K. Prime Minister] Tony Blair from John Holmes, his then international Private Secretary, written during the confrontation with Iraq over weapons inspections, which reminded the Prime Minister that he had already assured President [Bill] Clinton, ‘If a Resolution […]
1/9/1998
On January 9, 1998, chief assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Mary Jo White, “formally unsealed an indictment naming… [senior al Qaeda operative] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef’s coconspirator. The price on his head was $2 million.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
1/8/1998
At his sentencing on January 8, 1998, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef said: ” ‘The Government in its summations and opening statements said that I was a terrorist… Yes I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and […]
1/8/1998
At World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s sentencing on January 8, 1998, Judge Kevin Duffy “hit Yousef with 240 years in prison, matching the sentence he’d given the first four Trade Center defendants. But he made the rare recommendation that the bomb maker serve every day of it in solitary confinement.” – Peter Lance, 1000 […]
1/8/1998
On January 8, 1998, “the Feds unseal a secret indictment of [senior al Qaeda operative] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed dating back to 1996. For unknown reasons, the Justice Department has kept the hunt for Mohammed quiet for almost two years–in contrast to the well-publicized [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef hunt, which helped trigger his capture.” […]