“On September 14, 1993, with [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Yousef and [co-conspirator] Ahmed Yassin still at large, the first World Trade Center bombing trial against the remaining four defendants began in the U.S. Courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Almost five months later, the jury returned a verdict convicting [co-conspirators] Mohammed Salalmeh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmoud Abouhalima […]
9/13/1993
“…on September 13, 1993, [President] Bill Clinton presided at the White House as [Israeli prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin and [chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser] Arafat met for the ceremonial signing of the Oslo Accords. Twenty-seven years after the Six-Day War, Israel had finally agreed to relinquish Palestinian territory.” – Craig Unger, The Fall […]
9/13/1993
“In [August 12] 1993, when Sudan was placed on the State Department’s list of countries supporting terrorism, [former President] Jimmy Carter expressed his disdain for the decision.” According to Reuters Financial Service on September 13, 1993, ” ‘They declared that Sudan was a terrorist training center, I think without proof,’ said the former president. ‘In […]
9/3/1993
“After dispensing the final $2 million in grant aid to Afghanistan for the year beginning September 3, 1993, the Clinton administration closed the [USAID] program; it sent $38.5 million to UN agencies or private agencies for refugee relief. As [USAID director Brian] Atwood later explained, ‘The Cold War is over. We don’t have to be […]
8/25/1993
On August 25, 1993, “After holding him for weeks on the immigration charges, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White indicted [New York bombing conspirator] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman and eleven others, including Siddig Siddig Ali and El Sayyid Nosair, alleging that they were engaged in a plot to wage ‘a war of urban terrorism against the […]
8/22/1993
After fighting with Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid escalated, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell “recommended they [the U.S. military] send a 400-troop contingent of Rangers and Delta Force soldiers. [President Bill] Clinton…signed off on the order on August 22 [1993], and the elite task force arrived in Mogadishu [Somalia] four days […]
8/15/1993
“In August 1993, while working at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the small intelligence shop inside the State Department, [CIA analyst Gina] Bennet had authored a paper that was the first warning of the threat posed by a man named ‘Osama Bin Laden,’ who was ‘enabling hundreds of jihadists and training even more’ in […]
8/15/1993
“Al-Jihad [the Egyptian Islamist group run by Ayman al-Zawahiri] began its assault on Egypt with another attempt on the life of the interior minister, Hasan al-Alfi, who was leading the crackdown on Islamic militants. In August 1993 a bomb-laden motorcycle exploded next to the minister’s car, killing the bomber and his accomplice. ‘The minister escaped […]
8/12/1993
“By 1993 CIA analysts in Africa and the Middle East had realized there had been a tremendous upsurge in Sudanese support for Islamic militants, and [on August 12, 1993] the State Department put Sudan on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism, preventing many companies from trading with the country. It was a heavy blow […]
8/12/1993
“Sudan was added to the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism in August [12] 1993.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 112 […]