A commission led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Donald Riegle to investigate Gulf War Syndrome delivered its findings to the U.S. Senate on February 9, 1994. “Commonly referred to as the ‘Riegle Report,’ it found that from 1985 to the beginning of the Gulf War in 1990, pathogenic (disease producing) and toxigenic (poisonous) materials were […]
1/15/1994
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released a written statement for the Joint Inquiry Committee on October 17, 2002. It read: “By January 1994, al-Qa’ida had begun financing at least three terrorist training camps in northern Sudan. Among the trainers were Egyptian, Algerian, Tunisian, and Palestinian extremists.” [The 15th of the month used for date […]
1/15/1994
In the January/February 1994 issue of Foreign Affairs, former Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz wrote: ” ‘In the future, the real threats to U.S. interests are *backlash states* like North Korea, Iraq and Iran….’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page […]
1/15/1994
“According to US intelligence analysts, by January 1994, bin Laden was financing at least three terrorist training camps in North Sudan, where rebels from a half-dozen nations received training.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He Want? A Chronology […]
12/15/1993
“In December 1993, Defense Secretary Les Aspin launched a counterproliferation program that included initiatives to prevent WMD attacks by, among other things, developing preemptive weapons that could penetrate underground bunkers to destroy chemical and biological arsenals.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The […]
12/8/1993
In a lecture at the American Enterprise Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C., on December 8, 1993, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We have turned inward as a nation and signed on to the proposition that the only truly important matters on the public policy agenda are domestic issues… It is more important […]
11/26/1993
On November 26, 1993, “during a visit to UN headquarters in New York, [Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister] Tariq Aziz announced that Baghdad had finally accepted the second fundamental UN resolution…calling for a permanent monitoring system to be established by UNSCOM [UN Special Commission on Iraq] and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] in Iraq.” – […]
11/25/1993
“In November [25, 1993], during the ongoing trials of al-Jihad, [al-Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri attempted to kill Egypt’s prime minister, Atef Sidqi. A car bomb exploded as the minister was driven past a girls’ school in Cairo. The minister, in his armored car, was unhurt, but the explosion injured twenty-one people and killed a […]
11/15/1993
“In November 1993, [Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader Ahmed] Chalabi approached the Clinton administration with a plan for regime change in Iraq. According to Colonel Patrick Lang, a former intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), End Game, as it was called, was meant to start with a revolt by Kurdish and Shi’ite insurgents […]
10/3/1993
Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan visited Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan for a few days, starting on November 23, 1996. “Bin Laden told me that his Afghan Arabs had been involved in the [October 3-4] 1993 ambush on American troops in Mogadishu, Somalia. He described how the Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid had been blamed. ‘But […]