Azerbaijan’s President Heydar “Aliyev threw open its oil industry to foreign investors, in particular the American majors. Aliyev signed his first major oil contract on September 20, 1994, granting Amoco, Pennzoil, UNOCAL, Ramco, Statoil, Delta, and BP drilling rights for three offshore Caspian fields. The companies would work as part of the Azerbaijan International Operating […]
9/15/1994
In September 1994, “Working out of the Philippines, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef conceives three plots. (1) He will kill Pope John Paul II on a visit to Manila in January 1995. (2) He will create an undetectable liquid-based bomb to be smuggled on board eleven U.S. jumbo jets entering the United States from […]
8/15/1994
World Trade Center bomber Ramzi “Yousef arrived in the Philippines in August 1994, along with several close friends, some from his childhood in Kuwait, who would join him in his most audacious and cold-blooded terrorist attack yet [the planned ‘Bojinka’ operation to down multiple airliners over the Pacific Ocean]. They included Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, a […]
7/27/1994
In an address covering President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy efforts on July 27, 1994, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said: ” ‘President Clinton has used bold words to assert that under no circumstances will North Korea be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. But North Korea’s dictators go right along pursuing their nuclear program. …A […]
7/15/1994
In July 1994, Osama bin Laden established “the Advice and Reformation Committee (ARC), which issued press releases, pamphlets and letters critical of the Saudi government. In his writings and speeches, Osama’s anger towards the Saudi regime became increasingly apparent. When referring to Saudi Arabia, Osama refrained from using the term ‘Saudi,’ the name of the […]
7/15/1994
Regarding bin Laden: “The Saudis gradually escalated their pressure against the terrorist. By July 1994, he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 107 […]
6/24/1994
One of the most important conclusions of the Pentagon’s June 24, 1994, secret report titled ‘Terror-2000: The Future Face of Terrorism,’ “was that rather than bombing a single target, terrorists would soon try to conduct simultaneous bombings and attacks, perhaps even in different countries, to maximize the devastation and publicity for their cause.” – Simon […]
6/24/1994
“To consider and study the likely future of terrorism, the Pentagon conducted a secret study, called ‘Terror 2000‘ [released on June 24, 1994], which was designed to help the intelligence world prepare to meet the threat. ‘…We were very concerned about the future tracks that terrorism might take,’ said Peter Probst, an expert on terrorism […]
6/20/1994
“According to numerous reports, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef was also involved in bombing a Shiite religious shrine in Mashad, Iran, on June 20, 1994. Twenty-five people were killed in the bombing, and an additional 100 were wounded.” – Samuel M. Katz, Relentless Pursuit, Page 102 […]
5/24/1994
In August 1993, “the first World Trade Center bombing trial of Mohammed Salameh, Mahmud Abouhalima, Nidal Ayyad and Ahmad Ajaj began. …On 24 May [1994] the four men were each sentenced to 240 years in prison, and taken to the high-security US Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Pages 62-63 […]