“In September 1996, Osama bin Laden brings his wives, children, and Afghan veterans and their wives and children from Sudan to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 315 […]
9/15/1996
“When the Taliban captured Kabul [Afghanistan] in September 1996, U.S. officials initially hoped that they would be a force for law and order and considered opening an embassy in Kabul. On hearing criticism of the Taliban filtering in from human and women’s rights groups, they backed down. The future of U.S.-Afghan ties was then put […]
9/15/1996
“After the fall of the Afghan capital [Kabul, to the Taliban in September 1996], [Saudi intelligence chief] Prince Turki recalled [in a December 10, 2001, interview on Nightline], the Taliban sent a message to the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia]: ‘We have this fellow [bin Laden] here. Do you want us to hand him to you, […]
9/15/1996
In a September 1996 meeting with CIA Islamabad station chief Gary Schroen, Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud complained that, “The CIA and the United States had walked away from Afghanistan, leaving its people bereft, he said. Yes, Massoud and his colleagues were grateful for the aid the CIA had provided during the years of […]
9/9/1996
On September 9, 1996, “the FBI confirmed that [WTC bomber Ramzi] Yousef told [mobster turned FBI informant Greg] Scarpa [Jr.], ‘BOJINGA [his alias for bin Laden] contacted him during his trial and said that his people’ were ‘going to prepare to hijack an airplane and kidnap a United States Ambassador at the time, if he […]
9/9/1996
“… on September 9, 1996, [President Bill] Clinton formally requested $1.097 billion for counterterrorism-related activities. One month to the day after he filed the request, the funds were approved by Congress…” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 130 […]
9/5/1996
“As Morris Busby, the State Department’s former coordinator for counterterrorism…said [in a New York Times article on September 5, 1996], intelligence experts would come to view [WTC bomber Ramzi] Yousef with a combination of contempt and respect: ‘I don’t want to glorify him, but he is something of a genius bomber.’ ” – Peter Lance, […]
9/5/1996
“Fourteen weeks from the start of the trial, on 5 September 1996, [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Yousef and his conspirators Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah were all convicted of plotting to bomb United States-based airliners in Asia. Yousef was also convicted of the [December 1994] PAL bombing and the death of […]
9/5/1996
On September 5, 1996, “the jury of eight men and four women found Ramzi Yousef guilty of planting the bomb that killed Haruki Ikegami aboard PAL Flight 434 [on December 11, 1994]. Along with [co-conspirators Abdul hakim] Murad and [Wali Khan Amin] Shah, he was also convicted in the Bojinka plot to down eleven jumbo […]
9/5/1996
“On September 5, 1996, after back-to-back convictions of the original WTC bombing plotters and the Day of Terror cell, [Ramzi] Yousef, [Abdul Hakim] Murad, and Wali Khan [Amin Shah] were found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women in the Bojinka [plot to blow up multiple U.S.-bound flights originating from Asia, with […]