“…it was a June 26, 1995, terrorist plan gone awry that caused Osama and al-Qaeda to be expelled from Sudan. Ironically, Osama bin Laden was not involved in that particular attack. When Abdel Rahman’s al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya Group attempted to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, governments from the area, along with the United States, increased the […]
6/26/1995
Osama bin Laden “helped to fund another attempt on the life of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on 26 June 1995 while the President was visiting Ethiopia.” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 183 […]
6/25/1995
“In mid-[June 25] 1995, the Egyptian terror group al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya mounted a daring assassination attempt against President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during a state visit to Addis Ababa [Ethiopia]. A bin Laden employee was the mastermind.” – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 86 […]
6/21/1995
On June 21, 1995, “In the middle of the Day of Terror trial [for the suspects of the World Trade Center bombing], the president [Bill Clinton] has signed Presidential Decision Directive [PDD] 39, a secret order designed to ‘deter, defeat, and respond vigorously to all terrorist attacks.’ The PDD tasked the CIA to take ‘an […]
6/21/1995
“In 1995, the Center for Disease Control & Prevention [CDC] provided to then-Senator Donald Riegle (D-Mich.) a complete list of all biological materials–including viruses, retroviruses, bacteria, and fungi–that the CDC provided to Iraq from Oct. 1, 1984 through Oct. 13, 1993. Among the materials on the list are several types of dengue and sandfly fever […]
6/15/1995
In June 1995, there was an “[Unsuccessful] assassination attempt on the life of the President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, in Addis Ababa [Ethiopia]. U.S. intelligence sources believe bin Laden was somehow linked.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He […]
5/11/1995
“As FBI agents Frank Pellegrino and Thomas Donlon noted in an FBI 302 [interview summary] transcribed on May 11, 1995, ‘[WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef’s cohort, Abdul Hakim] MURAD advised that RAMZI wanted to return to the United States in the future to bomb the World Trade Center a second time.’ ” – Peter Lance, Cover […]
4/20/1995
The FBI 302 memo dated April 20, 1995, documents “how [terrorist Abdul Hakim] Murad had taken credit for the Oklahoma City bombing on behalf of [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef’s ‘Liberation Army’ cell, and he had specific knowledge of the sealed indictment that had been handed down in January on [senior al Qaeda operative] […]
4/19/1995
“The massive bomb that ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma on 19 April 1995 killed 168 people and injured another 600. Since the bombing there have been extraordinary claims that [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef met and trained Terry L. Nichols, one of the two men charged with the atrocity.” […]
4/19/1995
On April 19, 1995, Army veteran “Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the federal building in Oklahoma City [Oklahoma], killing 168 and wounding hundreds more. The bombing galvanized the Clinton administration to focus on terrorism, but the long investigation drained FBI resources.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 276 […]