On March 6, 1993, “The U.S. State Department finally took some responsibility for allowing [World Trade Center bombing conspirator Sheikh Omar Abdel] Rahman into the country in the first place. In a New York Times story, officials admitted that the U.S. embassy in Khartoum [Sudan] had overlooked the Sheikh’s presence on the Watch List when […]
3/5/1993
World Trade Center bombing conspirator Abdul Rahman “Yasin, an Iraqi who was born in Bloomington, Indiana… traveled from Baghdad to New Jersey in early September [1992], approximately six months before the bombing, and moved into a modest apartment in Jersey City [New Jersey] with his brother Musab Yasin and his mother. …Yasin would later admit […]
3/4/1993
“Overall, the level of funding given by Al Qaeda for external operations is exaggerated. …The following examples support the theory that financial contributions to its operatives are not in fact lavish; sometimes they are inadequate. …[On March 4, 1993] the World Trade Centre…co-bomber Muhammad Salameh had to reclaim his $400 deposit from Ryder truck rental […]
3/4/1993
On March 4, 1993, “A VIN number discovered in the rubble [of the World Trade Center bombing] leads the FBI to the Ryder agency, where [bombing co-conspirator Mohammed] Salameh is arrested after demanding a refund of his $400 deposit.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, (Timeline) Page 10 […]
3/4/1993
World Trade Center bombing conspirator “Muhammad Salahme was arrested while seeking his deposit at the Ryder [truck rental] office on March 4 [1993]. [Co-conspirator] Abdul Yasim, interrogated on March 4, was released because he convinced FBI he was not involved and would cooperate. He flew immediately to Iraq, where, we believe, he was incarcerated by […]
3/4/1993
“Mohammed Salameh, who had rented the truck [used for the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993] and reported it stolen, kept calling the rental office to get back his $400 deposit. The FBI arrested him there on March 4, 1993.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 72 […]
3/2/1993
The following excerpt is from a letter written by World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef to The New York Times, where it was published on March 2, 1993: ” ‘We are, the fifth battalion in the Liberation Army, declare our responsibility for the explosion on the mentioned building. This action was done in response for […]
2/26/1993
“A more serious FBI and CIA investigation was conducted into the suggestions that Iraq was involved in [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s career, or that Yousef was actually an Iraqi agent from the beginning of his terrorist career… 26 February [1993], the date of the [World Trade Center] bombing, was the second anniversary of the liberation of […]
2/26/1993
“…it was not until after Neil Herman’s FBI team began investigating the February [26] 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center that the CIA really identified bin Laden as a major problem. The initial investigation into [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef’s gang of conspirators–which revealed that many militants in New York had fought in Afghanistan with US […]
2/26/1993
“…the FBI eventually concluded [the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was the ‘largest by weight and by damage of any improvised explosive device that we’ve seen since the inception of forensic explosive identification–and that’s since 1925.’ ” – Simon Reeve, The New Jackals, Page 154 […]