Egyptian Islamist El Sayyid Nosair was sentenced for the murder of Rabbi Meier Kahane on December 21, 1991. “Nosair’s cousin Ibrahim El-Gabrowny gets $20,000 from bin Laden for Nosair’s defense. The FBI later admits that this is the first time bin Laden’s name comes up in association with the New York cell members around the […]
12/15/1991
According to the United Nations Chronicle in December 1991, in Iraq, “chief weapons inspector David Kay reported that ‘significant documentary material and equipment’ had been removed from several nuclear facilities on the eve of inspections.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War […]
11/15/1991
“The first attack by an al Qaeda operative on European soil actually took place as early as November 1991, when a Portuguese Muslim convert, Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos, attempted to assassinate the former King of Afghanistan, Muhammad Zahir Shah, in Rome. Santos had trained in al Qaeda’s camps in Afghanistan and had three meetings […]
10/11/1991
“On October 11, 1991, the UN Security Council passed a resolution (UNSCR 715) detailing an intrusive, unlimited monitoring system for Iraq. The intent was to verify that Iraq did not reconstitute its WMD programs–in perpetuity. …the Iraqis had to disarm and accept permanent intrusive monitoring, or sanctions would stay on, permanently. Iraq declared the resolution […]
10/5/1991
In a news conference at the International Atomic Energy Agency on October 5, 1991, chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq David Kay said he “believed it would have been only twelve to eighteen months until the [Saddam Hussein] regime reached ‘regular industrial-scale production of fissile material,’ or enriched uranium, that could be used in an […]
9/23/1991
“…it was not until the sixth IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency][Iraqi weapons inspection] mission that, through daring, skill and intelligence, a team, again with David Kay as chief inspector, succeeded on September 23 [1991] in finding a paper describing the planned Iraqi weapons program, and took it out of Iraq. This proved conclusively that Iraq […]
9/15/1991
“…scientists had completed the Petrochemical-3 Centre, which housed the Iraqi nuclear weapons design team. When inspectors examined this facility in September 1991, they recovered thousands of files and documents that described in detail the scope and nature of Saddam’s nuclear weapons programs.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Georges […]
9/15/1991
” ‘An extremist seizure of Kabul would plunge Afghanistan into a fresh round of warfare, which could affect areas adjoining Afghanistan,’ [U.S. Special Envoy to the Afghan resistance] Peter Tomsen warned in a Secret cable to Washington that September 1991. ‘Should [radical Afghan Islamist guerrilla leader Gulbuddin] Hekmatyar or [Saudi-backed Afghan guerrilla leader Abdurrab Rasul] […]
9/15/1991
UN weapons inspector David “Kay returned to Baghdad and in mid-September [1991] his team arrived unannounced at the Iraqi nuclear headquarters in Baghdad, scaled the fence, and burst into the building. To their amazement they discovered millions of pages of documents detailing all of Iraq’s nuclear weapons programs.” [The 15th of the month used for […]
8/4/1991
Les Aspin (D-WI), “chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, appeared on ABC’s This Week [on August 4, 1991] and disparaged the intelligence on Iraq that preceded the [first] Gulf War. Asked about the quality of intelligence on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Aspin described it as ‘not very good, not very good. We missed a […]