“On April 14, 1993, George H.W. Bush arrived in Kuwait to commemorate the victory in the Gulf War. …On that trip, the Kuwaiti secret police arrested seventeen men and charged them with a plot to kill Bush with a car bomb–close to two hundred pounds of plastic explosives hidden in a Toyota Land Cruiser. Under […]
4/12/1993
“…On April 12 [1993]…the Iraqi Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat) held a secret meeting in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. …According to Justice and FBI documents, the meeting was to carry out the final arrangements for the assassination of former President [George H.W.] Bush and the Emir of Kuwait [Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah].” – James Bamford, […]
4/2/1993
“In the wake of the [February 1993] World Trade Center bombing, [perpetrator] Ramzi Yousef became a celebrity in the circles of radical Islam. …Yousef’s reputation was only enhanced on April 2 [1993], when the FBI expanded its Ten Most Wanted list to include his name. The bounty was two million dollars. Interpol issued a ‘Red […]
4/2/1993
“On April 2, 1993, [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, and became the object of a worldwide manhunt. The State Department issued a $2 million reward for his capture, and Interpol tagged him with a ‘red notice,’ indicating his status as a fugitive.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, […]
4/2/1993
“A CIA paper circulated on April 2, 1993, described bin Laden as an ‘independent actor [who] sometimes works with other individuals or governments’ to promote ‘militant Islamic causes.’ ” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Pages 255-256 […]
4/2/1993
“On 2 April 1993, the FBI’s famous ‘Ten Most Wanted List’ was extended to 11 to accommodate the new quarry. [World Trade Center bomber] Ramzi Ahmed Yousef instantly became the most wanted man in the world.” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 43 […]
3/29/1993
In a March 29, 1993, New York Times article, a retired CIA official stated: “bin Laden ‘housed newly arrived recruits near Peshawar [Pakistan] and funded the Ma’sadar Al-Ansar military training camp,’ on the other side of the legendary Khyber Pass in Afghanistan. ‘He built landing strips to allow rebel leaders to meet each other and […]
3/28/1993
According to The New York Times on March 28, 1993, “The United States and the Central Intelligence Agency invested close to $3.3 billion in the foreign volunteers [that served with the anti-Soviet mujahadeen efforts in Afghanistan during the 1980s]; Saudi Arabia was reported to have matched the CIA dollar for dollar.” – Samuel M. Katz, […]
3/15/1993
In an interview conducted by CNN in March 1993, Osama bin Laden said: ” ‘America escalated its campaign against the Muslim world in its entirety, aiming to get rid of Islam itself.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, […]
3/10/1993
“On Wednesday, March 10 [1993], cops and agents from the JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] grabbed Nidal Ayyad as he left his New Jersey home. Ayyad was the engineer from Allied Signal who had helped [World Trade Center bomber Ramzi] Yousef obtain some of the hard-to-get chemicals for his bomb. …his computer contained the draft […]