“In April 1995, [Hezbollah leader] Imad Mughniyah personally traveled to Khartoum [Sudan] to address a conference of international Islamic terrorist chiefs chaired by al-Qaeda.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Samuel M. Katz, Relentless Pursuit, Page 235 […]
4/15/1995
“In an unpublished interview given to a journalist from the French daily France Soir in April 1995, bin Laden confirmed this [his official affiliation with Saudi intelligence], saying that ‘the Saudis had chosen [him] to be their representative in Afghanistan.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jean-Charles Brisard […]
4/15/1995
“In April 1995 [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri tried to unite the various Egyptian jihadist groups under his leadership in Khartoum [Sudan], with the support of the Sudanese government and probably bin Laden. The effort failed, leaving the two largest groups, Zawahiri’s Islamic Jihad and al Gamaa al Islamiyya, deadly foes.” [The 15th […]
4/15/1995
In April 1995, “Col. Rodolfo Mendoza [of the Philippines National Police] turns over the details of [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s cohort Abdul Hakim] Murad’s confession to the U.S. embassy in Manila, including a list of Yousef’s six targets in the airline hijack plot, among them the WTC and the Pentagon.” [The 15th of […]
4/14/1995
“The [Clinton] administration…favored the passage in April [14] 1995 of what became U.N. Security Council Resolution 986, the ‘oil-for-food’ resolution, which enabled Iraq to sell $1 billion of oil every ninety days, roughly half of which would be available to spend on medicine, food, and basic civilian needs. (The rest of the proceeds would pay […]
4/14/1995
“On April 14, 1995, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 986, establishing the Oil-for-Food Program. The program allowed Iraq to sell some of its oil in order to purchase certain limited humanitarian goods. …It became the country’s sole access to such goods until 2003, when the program was officially terminated.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush […]
4/13/1995
According to an FBI memo dated May 11, 1995, in an interview that took place on April 13, 1995, World Trade Center 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, 1000 […]
4/13/1995
“The FBI’s [April 13, 1995] report [on global terrorism, quoted in The Washington Post on June 6, 2002] noted the vulnerability of the American homeland to attacks. It specifically cited [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s cohort Abdul Hakim] Murad’s confessed plot to hijack a plane and fly it into CIA headquarters as an example. […]
4/4/1995
“Revenge for the assistance of the Philippines National Police in [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef’s capture and the arrest of the six other terrorist suspects [who collaborated with him] may have been the motive for an appalling Abu Sayyaf [Islamic militant group] attack on the Christian town of Ipil, north-east of Zamboanga in the […]
3/20/1995
On March 20, 1995, “a Japanese terrorist organization called Aum Shinrikyo released a weapon of mass destruction–sarin nerve gas–into the Tokyo subway, killing twelve people and injuring five thousand…” – John Farmer, The Ground Truth, Page 26 […]