A March 13, 1994, New York Times article quoted Charlie Cogan, the CIA’s operations chief in the Near East and South Asia from 1979-1984. He said: ” ‘The hypothesis that the mujaheddin would come to the United States and commit terrorist actions did not enter into our universe of thinking at the time. We were […]
3/10/1994
“March 10 [1994]: Osama bin Laden and three accomplices murder two German nationals in Surt, Libya, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 151 […]
3/5/1994
In March 5, 1994, the Saudi government “took away his [bin Laden’s] citizenship, in effect making him stateless. It urged his family to persuade him to give up his criticism of the House of Saud, and failing that, to restrict his access to family funds. Before long, his monthly stipend from the Bin Laden construction […]
3/5/1994
“On March 5, 1994, the exasperated Saudi government took the extraordinary step of stripping Osama of his citizenship, citing in a succinct communiqué ‘irresponsible behavior and his refusal to obey instructions issued to him.’ …His bank accounts and liquid assets were frozen and his inheritance thereafter effectively confiscated. His family the same day took its […]
3/5/1994
“On March 5, 1994, [Saudi King] Fadh personally decided to revoke bin Laden’s Saudi citizenship. …Immediately after the king canceled bin Laden’s citizenship, Bakr bin Laden, the eldest brother, publicly condemned Osama, turning the family’s back to him. Many of bin Laden’s countrymen date the moment of his total radicalization to the announcement of the […]
3/4/1994
On March 4, 1994, “[Mahmud] Abouhalima, [Mohammed] Salameh, [Nidal] Ayyad, and [Mohammed] Ajaj are convicted in the World Trade Center bombing. But [Ramzi] Yousef and [Eyad] Ismoil are still at large. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mary Jo White, declares that the verdict should send ‘an unmistakable message that we […]
3/1/1994
“In a [March 1] 1994 review of Crusade, Rick Atkinson’s book on the conflict [Operation Desert Storm], [former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul] Wolfowitz argued: ‘With hindsight, it does seem like a mistake to have announced, even before the war was over, that we would not go to Baghdad [Iraq], or to give Saddam […]
2/15/1994
“In February 1994, family chief Bakr bin Laden–in tandem with Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]‘s termination of Osama’s citizenship–issued a statement cutting the family’s ties to Osama and expressing its ‘regret, denunciation, and condemnation’ of his activities.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Page 28 […]
2/15/1994
“In February 1994, Bakr bin Laden, who had succeeded Salem as head of the extended bin Laden family, sought to disassociate himself, his family, and the Saudi Binladen Group from his terrorist half-brother. He sent a faxed message to the Saudi press that expressed the family’s ‘regret, denunciation, and condemnation of all acts that Osama […]
2/13/1994
According to the Riegle Report, which was delivered to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans: “On February 13, 1994, a clandestine radio service in Iraq, the Voice of the Iraqi People, reported that Saddam Hussein’s government was still attempting to hide chemical and biological weapons from international inspectors […]