“In July 1996, a path-breaking report dealing with Israeli strategy entitled ‘A Clean Break–A New Strategy for Securing the Realm‘ was produced. The report had a wide circulation as its signatories were Americans with a record of conservative affiliations and powerful connections inside Washington. It explicitly called for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power […]
7/10/1996
“The Americans were the ‘main enemy’ of Muslims worldwide, an angry bin Laden told a British journalist [Robert Fisk, for an article published in The Independent on July 10, 1996] who visited him in an eastern Afghan mountain camp weeks after his arrival in Jalalabad. Saudi Arabian authorities were only ‘secondary enemies,’ he declared. As […]
7/5/1996
In early July 1996, “Robert Fisk of London’s Independent newspaper interviewed bin Laden in Afghanistan. Bin Laden said the recent bombings in Saudi Arabia were ‘the beginning of the war between Muslims and the United States. …The Saudis now know their real enemy is America.’ “ [The 5th of the month used for date sorting […]
7/1/1996
Following bin Laden’s arrival in Afghanistan, a top secret CIA memo dated July 1, 1996, said: ” ‘We have no unilateral sources close to bin Laden, nor any reliable way of intercepting his communications…We must rely on foreign intelligence services to confirm his movements and activities.’ ” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 104 […]
7/1/1996
” ‘We have no unilateral sources close to bin Laden, nor any reliable way of intercepting his communications,’ CIA analysts stated in a report on July 1, 1996. …’We must rely on foreign intelligence services to confirm his movements and activities.’ ” – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page 10 […]
6/25/1996
“The earliest known NSA [National Security Agency] reporting on bin Laden’s activities dates back to 1995 and was based in large part on monitoring the telephone calls coming in and out of his ranch near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. For example, the agency intercepted a series of telephone calls congratulating bin Laden on the […]
6/25/1996
The Clinton Administration “never responded to the [June 25] 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia, despite (or because of) evidence of involvement by Iran, which the Clinton team was then attempting to ‘engage.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 61 […]
6/25/1996
Following the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996, President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished. Let me say again: we will pursue this, America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished.’ The next day, the president […]
6/25/1996
“…on the night of June 25 [1996], a tanker truck loaded with the equivalent of 20,000 pounds of TNT was driven into the parking lot in front of the Khobar Towers, a residential complex housing U.S. service personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Though roof sentries spotted the truck and called for an immediate evacuation, they […]
6/25/1996
On June 25, 1996, “Iran and its ally, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, had orchestrated the [Khobar Towers] attack [in Saudi Arabia] using local Shia to conduct the actual operation. Tehran [Iran] ordered it, Lebanon’s Hezbollah provided the bombmaker, and Saudi Hezbollah the terrorists.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Pages 51-52 […]