“Even after the Feds’ takedown of the Queens [New York] warehouse [used by the Day of Terror conspirators] on June 24 [1993], the [co-conspirator] Sheikh [Omar Abdel Rahman] had not been charged. Despite the evidence [FBI informant Emad] Salem had unearthed, [Attorney General Janet] Reno seemed troubled about jailing a religious figure.” – Peter Lance, […]
6/24/1993
“During simultaneous raids [by the FBI on June 24, 1993], investigators collared three more [New York terror] cell members, including [Clement] Hampton-El, at their residences. …Five more defendants, including [Sheikh Omar] Abdel-Rachman, [El Sayyid] Nosair, and [Ibraham] el-Gabrowny, were either arrested or rearrested under the expanded charges [of seditious conspiracy], bringing the total number of […]
6/24/1993
After returning to his position as an informant for the FBI, Emad Salem was able to once again relay important information regarding the members of the al Qaeda cell in New York. “When the Feds finally busted the cell, on June 24, 1993, ultimately indicting [Blind] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman, [El Sayyid] Nosair, and ten […]
6/23/1993
Following an assassination attempt by Iraq on former President George H.W. Bush on June 23, 1993, Tony Lake (along with Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Secretary of State Warren Christopher) said to Richard Clarke: “We’d like you to plan a retaliation mission against Iraq.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 81 […]
6/15/1993
“In June 1993, a group of terrorists consisting of Egyptians, Sudanese, a Jordanian, and a Puerto Rican were apprehended by the FBI in an aborted plot directed at a number of New York City landmarks and various political figures. The terrorists had targeted the United Nations, a New York federal building, the Lincoln and Holland […]
6/15/1993
“From the comfort of his home in Khartoum [Sudan] bin Laden began considering plans for assassination attacks on Middle Eastern leaders he opposed. In June 1993 he was involved in an attempt to murder Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan, now the leader of the country since the death of King Hussein in 1999.” [The 15th […]
6/5/1993
On June 5, 1993, “twenty-four Pakistani soldiers in the U.N. [peacekeeping] force [in Somalia] were killed by gunmen loyal to the Somali clan leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The furious U.N. Security Council, with strong U.S. backing, immediately mandated a military hunt for those responsible, effectively changing the multinational mission from peacekeeping to participation in Somalia’s […]
6/5/1993
“Twenty-four Pakistani peacekeepers were ambushed and shot by [Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah] Aideed’s forces on June 5, 1993. The United Nations, with the Clinton Administration’s agreement, put a $25,000 prize on Aideed’s head and authorized UN peacekeeping forces (including American soldiers) to arrest him for the deaths of the peacekeepers. President Clinton later told the […]
5/18/1993
On May 18, 1993, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Martin Indyk, delivered an address focusing on the Clinton Administration’s strategic overview of Iraq and the region. “The new approach was termed ‘dual containment’ and derived from an assessment that ‘the current Iraqi and Iranian regimes are both hostile to American interests in […]
5/15/1993
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released a written statement for the Joint Inquiry Committee on October 17, 2002. It read: “In May 1993…al-Qa’ida financed the travel of more than 300 Afghan war veterans to Sudan after the Pakistani government launched a crackdown against foreign Islamic extremists based in Pakistan.” [The 15th of the month […]