“Key Al Qaeda leaders have also visited the United States in recent years, including [Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law] Muhammad Jamal Khalifa. When US immigration arrested him in San Francisco in December [16] 1994, a search of his luggage revealed, inter alia, documents setting out the ‘outline of the institution of jihad’ which includes ‘the Wisdom […]
12/16/1994
On December 16, 1994, “In Morgan Hill, California…Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law Mohamed Jamal Khalifa is arrested by INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] agents. Khalifa’s PDA contains evidence linking bin Laden to the two [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef cells (in New York and Manila [Philippines]).” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, (Timeline) Page 14 […]
12/16/1994
On December 16, 1994, “Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (MJK), Osama bin Laden’s best friend and former roommate, was captured at a Holiday Inn just twenty-six miles from Ali Mohamed’s house in Santa Clara, California. The arrest took place in Morgan Hills, the very Silicon Valley town where [Mohamed’s FBI monitor] Special Agent John Zent lived. If […]
12/15/1994
“CIA reporting included in the [Undersecretary of Defense Douglas] Feith memo [on October 27, 2003] claims that Czech intelligence reports not two, but four trips to Prague by [9/11 hijacker Mohamed] Atta. ‘CIA can confirm two Atta visits to Prague–in Dec 1994 and in June 2000; data surrounding the other two–on 26 October 1999 and […]
12/15/1994
“In December [1994] Osama [bin Laden] wrote an open letter to the chief mufti of Saudi Arabia [Abdul Aziz bin Baz]…with a list of complaints against the House of Saud and its clerical supports. He criticized the Saudis for alleged corruption, for inviting Americans to defend the kingdom against Saddam in 1990, for not being […]
12/11/1994
“On December 11, 1994, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef went to Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila [Philippines] to try out his newly developed air bomb. …To get past security, he had removed the liquid from a small bottle of contact lens solution and replaced it with cotton balls soaked in…nitroglycerine. …After takeoff, Yousef […]
12/11/1994
On December 11, 1994, “Using apparently innocuous parts consisting of a Casio DBC-61 watch as a timer and diluted nitroglycerine in a contact lens cleanser bottle, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef boards PAL Flight 434 and builds the bomb on the first leg of the two-leg flight.” After placing the assembled device under a […]
11/13/1994
“On November 13, 1994, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef and his cell [in Manila, Philippines] bombed a Wendy’s hamburger restaurant at the corner of Nagtahan and J.P. Laurel Street near Malacanang.” – Samuel M. Katz, Relentless Pursuit, Page 107 […]
11/12/1994
“Bin Laden, his emissaries explained, wanted [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef to assassinate President [Bill] Clinton when he visited the Philippines on 12 November 1994, at the start of a five-day tour of Asia. Yousef appears to have been keen on the operation, relishing the prestige of his target, but he was also concerned […]
11/3/1994
” ‘The Taliban have been characterized as simultaneously Pakistani tools and anti-Pakistan,’ the Peshawar [Pakistan] consulate told Washington in a Confidential cable dispatched on November 3, 1994, as [Taliban leader] Mullah [Mohammed] Omar consolidated control. The consulate said it was ‘very possible’ that the Taliban had received aid from ‘a number of sources, including Pakistan,’ […]