From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “November 9, 2005: Amman, Jordan: Simultaneous bombings in three different American-franchise hotels kill fifty-seven people and injure 120 others.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 321 […]
10/21/1995
“The effort to track the bin Laden group’s money began in earnest when President Bill Clinton signed a classified presidential order on Oct. 21, 1995. The secret order, Presidential Decision Directive 42, ordered the Departments of Justice, State and Treasury, the National Security Council, the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies to increase and integrate their […]
10/21/1995
“On October 21, 1995, executives from Unocal and Delta Oil signed an agreement with the president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Niyazov, based on gas exports evaluated at $8 billion–which included a plan for the construction of a gas pipeline that would cross Afghanistan.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 18 […]
10/15/1995
“The FBI had not even opened a file on bin Laden until October 1995…” At the same time, “the CIA had forty thick file folders on bin Laden. Although much of it was raw, and often not reliable, intelligence, it was an indicator to the FBI agents of how far behind the Bureau was in […]
10/15/1995
“As the only candidate, he [Saddam Hussein] scored a landslide victory with 99.96 percent of the vote in a presidential referendum in October [15] 1995 and won another seven-year term [as president of Iraq].” – “Profile: Former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein,” China Daily, June 30, 2004 […]
10/1/1995
On October 1, 1995, “the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. history ended when the Sheikh [Omar Abdel Rahman] and the remaining nine defendants were found guilty on forty-eight of the fifty charges. The government have even succeeded in convicting El Sayyid Nosair for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
10/1/1995
“On October 1, 1995, the defendants [on trial for planning to attack four N.Y. landmarks] were convicted on 48 of the 50 counts in the indictments, including the most serious charges.” – John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell, The Cell, Page 147 […]
10/1/1995
“After the conviction of the blind sheikh [Omar Abdel Rahman] and his ‘jihad army’ [on October 1, 1995], the official position of the Feds had been that they had eliminated the Islamic terror threat to New York City.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 232 […]
10/1/1995
On October 1, 1995, what had been “characterized by the New York Times as ‘the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. history’…ended with guilty verdicts for Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman and the nine remaining codefendants…Hailed as a ‘sweeping victory’ for the Feds, the verdict was also a vindication for [FBI informant] Emad Salem and the FBI […]
9/21/1995
During an interview conducted by CNN’s Brent Sadler on September 21, 1995, Iraqi defector General Hussein Kamal said, ” ‘Iraq does not possess any weapons of mass destruction. I am being completely honest about this.’ ” – Philip Taylor, The War in Iraq, Page 23 […]