The Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, signed into law on August 5, 1996, stated: ” ‘The efforts of the government of Iran to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them and its support of acts of international terrorism endanger the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and those countries […]
7/18/1996
“On July 18, 1996, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence Research, which has a well-deserved reputation for the consistently excellent quality of its analysis, prepared a top-secret document titled ‘Terrorism/Usama bin Ladin: Who’s Chasing Whom?‘ The document summarized the bureau’s understanding of al Qaeda’s leader after his departure from Sudan and its analysis of the […]
7/17/1996
A Boeing 747-100 exploded on July 17, 1996, near Peconic Bay in Long Island, New York. Although initially believed by authorities to be the result of a bomb or a missile, “The National Transportation Safety Board theorized that a spark from a bad wire had set off a spontaneous combustion of fumes that had built up […]
7/17/1996
After the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, “The FBI picks up a message in Baluchi [the native dialect of terrorist Ramzi Yousef]. It reads, ‘TWA #800…What had to be done has been done.’ …FBI chief metallurgist William Tobin declares ‘no indicia’ of bomb damage, but […]
7/17/1996
“On the night of July 17 [1996], TWA Flight 800 bound from JFK to Paris crashes near Long Island, killing 230 people. The explosion takes place near row 26, adjacent to the center fuel tank–an area identical to the detonation point aboard PAL Flight 434 [on which Ramzi Yousef detonated a bomb on December 11, […]
7/17/1996
Regarding the crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996: “In the absence of any physical evidence to justify the NTSB’s [National Transportation Safety Board’s] mechanical [failure] theory, the weight of circumstantial evidence now supports the argument that the crash of TWA 800 was the second biggest act of terror and mass murder in […]
7/17/1996
“On the night of July 17 [1996], TWA Flight 800 took off from John F. Kennedy airport with 230 passengers and crew aboard, bound for Paris. The 747 was identical to the PAL Flight 434 aircraft that [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef had used for his Bojinka plot ‘wet test’ in 1994.” Off the […]
7/17/1996
“At the end of April 2006, Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, interviewed a recently retired NSA [National Security Agency] staffer who had joined her organization. The twenty-seven-year veteran of the NSA told her about an intercepted message relating to TWA 800 that was picked up in July […]
7/15/1996
“Soon after [Taleban leader] Mullah [Mohammed] Omar’s forces occupied Jalalabad [Afghanistan] in July 1996, [al-Qaeda theorist Abu Musab] al-Suri reported that Taleban officials likewise pledged to protect bin Laden, though they knew him only by reputation and did not invite him to Afghanistan, and so had no obligation to him.” [The 15th of the month […]
7/15/1996
In a CIA senior executive memorandum from September 13, 2002, according to a ‘well-placed’ source connected to bin Laden: ” ‘The Director of Iraqi Intelligence, Mani-abd-al-Rashid-al-Tikriti, met privately with bin Laden at his farm in Sudan in July 1996. Tikriti used an Iraqi delegation traveling to Khartoum to discuss bilateral cooperation as his ‘cover’ for his […]