“…in mid-December [1995], the FBI had apprehended the third missing coconspirator from [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s Bojinka plot. Wali Khan Amin Shah was arrested in Malaysia after reportedly leading the Bureau on a manhunt through half a dozen countries.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
11/19/1995
“On November 19, 1995, the eighteenth anniversary of [former Egyptian President] Anwar Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem, [al-Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri’s men bombed the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Although the bombing was an al-Jihad operation, it would become the prototype for future al-Qaeda attacks, in terms of both the target and the means of […]
11/19/1995
“Just six days after the Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] bombing, on November 19, 1995, the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan was bombed, killing 16 people and wounding 60. …A year earlier, Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto had extradited Ramzi Yousef, a conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and more than a dozen Egyptian militants, to […]
11/13/1995
On November 13, 1995, “two men in their mid-twenties drove a beat-up pickup truck into a parking lot outside a U.S. training mission to the Saudi Arabian National Guard in Riyadh. The two men disembarked, fiddled with something in the back of the truck, then left the area. Minutes later, the truck exploded killing five […]
11/13/1995
On November 13, 1995, “Five Americans and two Indians are killed in the truck bombing of a US-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]. Bin Laden denies involvement but praises the attack.” – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He Want? A Chronology of His Political Life,” PBS […]
11/13/1995
On November 13, 1995, assassins blew up a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, communications center for the Saudi National Guard, killing seven and injuring 60. “Five of the dead were Americans. …[FBI agent in charge of counterterrorism] John O’Neill…had sent several agents to try to question the suspects, but they had been executed before the Americans got […]
11/13/1995
“On November 13 [1995], a car bomb in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], widely attributed to followers of Osama bin Laden, kills seven people, including five Americans, and wounds several American advisers with Vinnell, the Carlyle-owned firm that trains the Saudi Arabian National Guard.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 303 […]
11/13/1995
“On November 13, 1995, just before the midday call to prayers in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], a car bomb exploded outside the offices housing the Military Cooperation Program…The explosion killed seven people–five of them Americans–and wounded 60 others, among them several American advisers with Vinnell, the mysterious military consulting firm that trained the Saudi Arabian National […]
11/12/1995
The attack on a U.S. Military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 12, 1995, “was the beginning of a string of terrorist attacks by bin Laden and related terrorist groups that left the Clinton administration confused and unable to respond.” – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Pages 7-9 […]
11/10/1995
“In early November 1995, [Israel] provided UNSCOM [United Nations Special Commission on Iraq] a tip about an ongoing effort by Iraq to import prohibited Russian missile gyroscopes… On November 10, 1995, Jordanian customs seized crates at the port of Aqaba, opened them, and found guidance units from Soviet SSN-18 submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles. The units […]