“On April 11, 1996, when [future 9/11 hijacker Mohammed] Atta was twenty-seven years old, he signed a standardized will he got from the al-Quds mosque [in Hamburg, Germany]. It was the day Israel attacked Lebanon in Operation Grapes of Wrath. According to one of his friends, Atta was enraged, and by filling out his last […]
4/1/1996
On April 1, 1996, Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney said: ” ‘The problem is that the good Lord didn’t see fit to always put oil and gas resources where there are democratic governments.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 122 […]
3/19/1996
Regarding the spread of terrorism in the U.S., Muslim and peace activist Seifeldin Ashmawy said, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 19, 1996: ” ‘…what I have discovered is that the heart, if not the soul, of the extremists is in fact largely in the United States, where these radicals have […]
3/19/1996
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 19, 1996, Muslim and peace activist Seifeldin Ashmawy said: ” ‘most of our [Islamic] institutions in the United States are controlled by either extremists or profiteers. Both are abusing the freedom which we enjoy and…are being supported and financed by…the Saudis, Kuwaitis, and the Gulf […]
3/15/1996
“On February 6, 1996, his final night in Khartoum [Sudan], [U.S. Ambassador Timothy] Carney had dinner with Ali Othman Taha, the Sudanese foreign minister. Carney demanded that Sudan expel bin Laden. A month later [March 1996], Maj. Gen. Elfatih Erwa, the Sudanese minister of state for defense, appeared in Washington for talks at which senior […]
3/15/1996
Regarding Osama bin Laden, “The Saudis also tried the velvet glove, dispatching members of his family to beg him to apologize to King Fahd and return to Saudi Arabia. ‘They sent my mother, my uncle, and my brothers on almost nine visits to Khartoum [Sudan],‘ he later told an interviewer. As late as March 1996, […]
3/15/1996
In March 1996, the Clinton “administration made it clear that a well-defined exit strategy had to be developed before entering another country by force. In any case, military intervention could take place only when justified by some combination of the following seven reasons: (1) to defend against direct attacks on the United States, U.S. citizens, […]
2/23/1996
“In February [23] 1996 [Saddam’s son-in-law General Hussein] Kamel was persuaded to return to Iraq, where the regime took its revenge by assassinating him. – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 30 […]
2/15/1996
Mansoor Ijaz, former mediator between Sudan and the U.S., revealed: “In order to relax the economic sanctions weighing on Sudan, President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir offered to extradite Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia or seize bin Laden’s economic network in Sudan. In February 1996, several Sudanese officials visited the United States to press their […]
2/15/1996
“In February [1996], Sudan’s defense minister, General Elfatih Erwa, secretly visited the United States to propose a trade: Osama bin Laden’s extradition to Saudi Arabia to stand trial in return for an easing of U.S. economic sanctions against Khartoum. …the White House contacted the FBI’s JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the SDNY [Southern District […]