Though Sudan had become a haven for terrorists following its June 1989 coup, “In September 1995, it had ended visa-free travel for Arabs, making it harder for terrorists to enter or stay in the country.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 116 […]
8/22/1995
“On the evening of August 22 [1995], in a three-hour session [with a UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) official], [Saddam’s estranged son-in-law Hussein] Kamel described aspects of the WMD program that had not been admitted previously by Iraq but also confirmed some parts. …Kamel did not dispute Iraq’s contention that it had eliminated […]
8/22/1995
In an article in The Washington Post on August 10, 2003, Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus wrote: ” ‘In one of many debriefings by U.S., Jordanian and U.N. officials, [Iraqi defector General Hussein] Kamal said on Aug. 22, 1995, that Iraq’s uranium enrichment programs had not resumed after halting at the start of the Gulf […]
8/22/1995
“President George Bush, [British] Prime Minister Tony Blair, [Australian] Prime Minister John Howard, and other senior government officials were aware of the [Iraqi defector General Hussein] Kamal interview [of August 22, 1995] and they quoted it in public, even though the general stated that the weapons [of mass destruction in Iraq] had been destroyed.” – […]
8/22/1995
During an interview conducted by the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency on August 22, 1995, Iraqi defector and son-in-law of Saddam, General Hussein Kamal said: ” ‘All chemical weapons [in Iraq] were destroyed. I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons–biological, chemical, missiles, nuclear were destroyed.’ ” […]
8/22/1995
On August 22, 1995, Saddam Hussein’s defector son-in-law, General Hussein Kamal “told the UN that Iraq’s WMD program, larger and more advanced than the CIA had believed before the first Gulf War in 1991, had been closed down ‘after visits of [UN] inspection teams. …All chemical weapons were destroyed. I ordered destruction of all chemical […]
8/15/1995
“In August 1995, one of Saddam Hussein’s sons-in-law, General Hussein Kamel, defected to Jordan…Kamel was Iraq’s minister of industry and director of its Military Industrial Corporation (MIC), with responsibility for all of the country’s weapons programs. During debriefings in Jordan, he claimed that all chemical and biological weapons had been destroyed on his orders in […]
8/15/1995
Saddam’s son-in-law and former Iraqi weapons chief, General Hussein Kamal, defected and spoke with UN weapons inspectors in August 1995. “Kamal had taken thousands of documents about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program out of the country with him. Talking about the 1991 Gulf War, Kamal told the UN inspectors that Saddam had feared a […]
8/15/1995
The head of Iraq’s weapons procurement program, Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel, defected to Jordan in August 1995 and “was fully debriefed by both the CIA and Britain’s MI6 [Secret Intelligence Service], and then by Rolf Ekeus, the head of UNSCOM [UN Special Commission on Iraq]. He provided a detailed account of Iraq’s weapons program, including […]
8/15/1995
In an open letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in August 1995, bin Laden declared, “A calamity has taken place and ‘for the first time the Crusaders have managed to achieve their historic ambitions and dreams…by gaining control over the Islamic holy places and the Holy Sanctuaries…turning the Arabian Peninsula into the biggest air, […]