“In less than two months from the time he officially went under, [FBI informant] Emad Salem uncovered a plot by [militant Islamist] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman and eleven other coconspirators to strike at New York’s landmarks with a series of ammonium-nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) bombs. In what the Feds dubbed the Day of Terror plot, the […]
7/23/1993
According to a July 23, 1993, article in The Los Angeles Times, “The greatest problem Washington thought it still had in Afghanistan…was that the CIA had sent more Stinger surface-to-air missiles to the mujahedin than needed to defeat the Soviet forces, and these highly accurate weapons were starting to get out to the world black […]
7/3/1993
On July 3, 1993, “After a siege outside a Brooklyn mosque the Feds take [New York bombing conspirator] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman into custody. Two of his loyal followers are Egyptian naturalized citizens and government employees; Ahmed Amin Refai, the FDNY accountant, and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, a U.S. postal worker.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, […]
7/2/1993
“Several senior FBI officials did not want him [New York bombing conspirator Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman] arrested because he was a magnet for militants, drawing them out of the woodwork and helping the FBI keep tabs on extremist activity. But political pressure was intense, and on the afternoon of 2 July [1993] the Sheikh was finally […]
6/27/1993
In The Iraq War Reader, Seymour M. Hersh wrote: “The media and a majority of the American public saw the American raid on Baghdad as a success, and as evidence that the struggling new President had finally demonstrated toughness when toughness was needed. Public-opinion polls showed that Clinton’s approval rating climbed by eleven percentage points on […]
6/26/1993
In The Iraq War Reader, Seymour M. Hersh wrote: “On Saturday, June 26, 1993, twenty-three Tomahawk guided missiles, each loaded with a thousand pounds of high explosives, were fired from American Navy warships in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea at the headquarters complex of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service, in downtown Baghdad. […]
6/26/1993
Following the June 26, 1993, assassination attempt on former President George H.W. Bush in Kuwait, President Bill Clinton “ordered air strikes on the Iraqi intelligence headquarters. Clinton explained the decision in an address to the nation. ‘[T]here is compelling evidence that there was, in fact, a plot to assassinate former President Bush; and that this […]
6/26/1993
As a response to the Iraqi attempt to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush in April 1993, President Bill Clinton ordered a retaliatory attack against Saddam. On June 26, 1993, “twenty-three tomahawk cruise missiles streaked across the skies of southern Iraq toward Baghdad. Their mission: to lay waste the headquarters of the Iraqi Mukhabarat, Saddam […]
6/26/1993
“Subsequent to that June [26] 1993 retaliation [against Iraq for the attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush], the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities never developed any evidence of further Iraqi support for terrorism directed against Americans.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Pages 81-82 […]
6/26/1993
“According to a senior administration official during the Clinton administration [in a briefing on June 26, 1993], ‘During and immediately after the Persian Gulf war, Saddam, through his controlled media, indicated that [the first] President Bush would be held personally responsible for the war and would be hunted down and punished even after he left […]