While campaigning in Washington, D.C., on September 29, 1992, vice presidential candidate Al Gore said Saddam ” ‘had already conducted extensive terrorism activities, and [President George H.W.] Bush had looked the other way. He was already deeply involved in the effort to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and bush knew it […]
9/29/1992
“Republican administrations over the past decade had propped up Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran, ignoring bountiful evidence of Hussein’s horrors, [vice presidential candidate Al] Gore argued [in a speech on September 29, 1992]. Saddam Hussein, he exclaimed, ‘had already launched poison gas attacks repeatedly, and [President George H.W.] Bush looked the other way. […]
9/29/1992
“In a scathing speech one month before the election [on September 29, 1992], Senator Al Gore [D-TN], the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, accused the first Bush administration of ‘a blatant disregard for brutal terrorism’ and ‘a dangerous blindness to the murderous ambitions of a despot [Saddam Hussein].’ In all, Gore made more than a dozen […]
9/29/1992
While campaigning in Washington, D.C., on September 29, 1992, vice presidential candidate Al “Gore listed a series of terrorist attacks that were launched from Iraqi soil or conducted with Iraqi complicity and claimed that the [George H.W.] Bush administration ignored ‘evidence that he [Saddam] was not only promoting terrorism, but was also pursuing a nuclear […]
9/29/1992
Vice presidential candidate Al Gore “attacked President [George H.W.] Bush for not taking the threat posed by Saddam Hussein seriously enough. Iraq, he said [on September 29, 1992], was a well-known state sponsor of terror. Gore lamented that the Iraqi ‘tyrant remains firmly in power, resisting by every means the will of the international community,’ […]
9/1/1992
Future World Trade Center bombing conspirator Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj was arrested when he tried to enter the U.S. on September 1, 1992. He essentially served as a decoy for bomber Ramzi Yousef, who was on the same flight. Ajaj’s phony passport raised suspicions, and after bomb making manuals and various fake IDs were found in […]
9/1/1992
World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and co-conspirator Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj were stopped by customs at JFK airport in New York after flying in from Pakistan on September 1, 1992. Ajaj “was charged with passport fraud and soon sentenced to six months in prison. …Yousef told the immigration inspector that he was fleeing from the […]
9/1/1992
On September 1, 1992, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef (aka Abdul Basit) and co-conspirator Mohammed Ajaj were stopped by customs at JFK airport in New York. While Ajaj was detained for using a forged passport, Yousef “carried what appeared to be a valid Iraqi passport in the name of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. But the […]
9/1/1992
On September 1, 1992, “After [FBI informant Emad] Salem leaves the [work-in-progress World Trade Center] bomb plot, [conspirator] Sheikh [Omar Abdel] Rahman calls Pakistan, and [bombmaker] Ramzi Yousef arrives at JFK [airport in New York]. With him is Mohammed Ajaj, carrying multiple passports and bomb books. He’s arrested and gets the last INS [Immigration and […]
8/14/1992
In an August 14, 1992, speech to the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said, regarding the decision to pull out of Iraq without invading Baghdad or overthrowing Saddam: ” ‘I don’t think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties. And while everybody was tremendously impressed with […]