In an article on March 18, 1995, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “said Pakistan could not stop new recruits from crossing the border to join the Taliban. ‘I cannot fight [Afghan President] Mr [Burhanuddin] Rabbani’s war for him. If Afghans want to cross the border, I do not stop them. I can stop them from […]
3/15/1995
When Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir interviewed Osama bin Laden in March 1995, “the al-Qaeda leader passionately condemned Saddam, saying, ‘The land of the Arab world, the land is like a mother and Saddam Hussein is fucking his mother.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Bergen, The Longest […]
3/15/1995
In March 1995, “Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick signs the infamous ‘wall memo,’ in which she calls for a separation of intelligence between FBI investigators probing past terror crimes and agents seeking to prevent future acts of terror. Gorelick admits that the memo goes ‘beyond what is legally required.’ Some analysts see the memo as […]
3/8/1995
Journalist Peter Bergen described communiqué #17 from the Advice and Reformation Committee (ARC), founded by bin Laden to undermine the Saudi regime: “[Communiqué] #17 of March 8, 1995, is a rambling indictment of the Saudi regime, criticizing it for a wide variety of sins. These include its use of ‘man-made laws’ that are not part […]
3/4/1995
On March 4, 1995, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick wrote a classified memo to FBI Director Louis Freeh and others, which reinforced ‘the wall’ between communication of criminal and intelligence investigations. ” ‘…we believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, […]
3/1/1995
Although an intercept from Iran on March 1, 1995, stating that the CIA was plotting to kill Saddam Hussein was false information, “the fact that a national security advisor [Anthony Lake] believed the Iranian government over his own intelligence service showed the low regard for U.S. intelligence held by the president [Bill Clinton] and his […]
2/18/1995
“As international and domestic pressure mounted on Pakistan to explain its position, [Prime Minister Benazir] Bhutto made the first formal denial of any Pakistani backing of the Taliban in February 1995. ‘We have no favourites in Afghanistan and we do not interfere in Afghanistan,’ she said [according to a February 18, 1995 article in The […]
2/15/1995
In Afghanistan, “The Clinton administration…knew full well what to expect, because the Taliban themselves informed the U.S. government of their plans. Maulavi Abul Abbas, the mayor of Kandahar, told visiting U.S. diplomats in February 1995 that the Taliban intended to take Kabul, disarm all the commanders, and install one government across Afghanistan that would institute […]
2/15/1995
After being arrested in the Philippines, bombing conspirator Abdul Hakim Murad was interrogated by Col. Rodolfo Mendoza. ” ‘He discussed with me,’ said Mendoza, ‘even without me mentioning, that there is really formal training [going on] of suicide bombers. He said that there were other Middle Eastern pilots training and he discussed with me the […]
2/15/1995
At the Day of Terror trial in February 1995, “The Feds accuse Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman of leading a ‘jihad army’ dating back to the first firing range sessions at Calverton, L.I. [Long Island], in 1989. Included in the ongoing plot are the slaying of Rabbi Kahane by [El Sayyid] Nosair…and the WTC bombing. Siddig […]