“Before leaving office, President George H.W. Bush deployed 25,000 U.S. troops (on December 9, 1992) to Somalia to assist the United Nations in humanitarian aid for famine victims. By June 1993, President Bill Clinton had reduced U.S. presence to 4,200 troops for peacekeeping operations only.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in […]
12/9/1992
“On December 9, 1992, American troops waded ashore in Somalia, one of Sudan’s neighbors. The U.S. intervention (dubbed Operation Restore Hope) was part of a United Nations mission to prevent humanitarian aid from falling into the hands of rival warlords and to get it instead to starving Somalis. …But according to Sudanese who were with […]
12/5/1992
“On December 5, 1992, former Sudanese labor minister George Logokwa…told reporters that radicals had established seven terrorist training camps in and around Khartoum. Logokwa further alleged that [Sudan’s foreign minister Hassan al] Turabi’s government had accepted $30 million from Iran for the camps, and that instruction was sometimes provided by members of the Iranian Revolution […]
11/30/1992
On November 30, 1992, future World Trade Center bomber Ramzi “Yousef, also using the name ‘Kamal Ibraham,’ one of 11 aliases he used during his six months in the US, began ordering chemicals from a local firm called City Chemical, including 1,000lbs (454kg) of urea, 105 gallons of nitric acid, and 60 gallons of sulphuric […]
11/3/1992
-William J. Clinton – Democratic president elected -Albert A. Gore – Vice President – […]
10/15/1992
” ‘President [George H.W.] Bush had ample information early on to suggest that Saddam Hussein was a major danger to the [Middle East] region and to U.S. interests,’ [vice presidential candidate Al] Gore claimed in a speech on October 15, 1992, ‘including information that he was aggressively seeking technologies for weapons of mass destruction and […]
10/15/1992
“Few people knew that in October 1992 [Former FBI informant Emad] Salem had admonished the FBI to ‘follow’ [WTC bombing conspirators Mohammed] Salameh and [Mahmud] Abouhalima, or that his advice had been ignored by the FBI. Only a handful of Feds in the two ‘offices of origin’ knew that Salem, who was now [after the […]
10/15/1992
“The CIA, in turn, passed along a sizable amount of money to the Rendon Group [an international strategic communications consultancy based in Washington, D.C.] to turn world opinion against Hussein. One of the company’s first actions was to create the Iraqi National Congress…as a Hussein opposition group; and in October 1992… [Potential Iraqi president] Ahmed […]
10/15/1992
In their May 25, 1994, report titled ‘U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Gulf War,’ also known as ‘The Riegle Report,’ Donald W. Riegle, (D-MI) and Alfonse M. D’Amato, former (R-NY) and Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on […]
10/8/1992
In a New York Times article on October 8, 1992, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell wrote “that the United States should not intervene in Bosnia because the conflict has ‘deep ethnic and religious roots that go back a thousand years.’ Nor should America aid the Iraqi insurgents, lest it end up […]