“After being warned that the government was planning to arrest him, Osama left Saudi Arabia for Pakistan in April 1991, where he launched a campaign against the land of his birth. In addition to re-establishing communication with, and lending support to, the dissidents he had cultivated in Saudi Arabia, Osama dispatched Al Qaeda cadres to […]
4/15/1991
In April 1991, “Saddam’s regime systematically slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites and buried them in mass graves, while the United States stood by. ‘They drove busloads of people in, they dug ditches with bulldozers, and then machine-gunned them in industrial fashion,’ [Coalition Provisional Authority regional coordinator Michael] Gfoeller said. ‘Others had their arms […]
4/15/1991
“Coalition forces had destroyed some stockpiles of chemical weapons before withdrawing from southern Iraq in April 1991.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier, Page 170 […]
4/15/1991
“When, in April 1991, bin Laden hurriedly packed up his belongings, his wives, and his children and fled [from Saudi Arabia] to Sudan, Saudi authorities were alarmed. He was now completely outside their control.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 107 […]
4/15/1991
“Bin Laden fled Saudi Arabia in April 1991. He arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, where the new Islamic regime welcomed him with a small reception at the separate VIP terminal at the Khartoum airport… Within days, bin Laden was sipping tea at the world’s largest convention of international terrorists, formally known as the Popular Arab and […]
4/15/1991
In April 1991, “Bin Laden flees Saudi Arabia, after being confined to Jiddah for his opposition to the Saudi alliance with the United States.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – “Hunting Bin Laden; Who is Bin Laden & What Does He Want? A Chronology of His Political Life,” PBS […]
4/15/1991
“To mitigate that danger [of Iraq’s confident military apparatus], the UN Security Council adopted a resolution in April 1991 ordering Iraq to destroy its chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles and stop pursuing nuclear weapons. That resolution created the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) to monitor Iraqi disarmament; it demanded that Iraq renounce […]
4/15/1991
“Why did Bush ‘leave’ Hussein in power rather than remove him during the first Gulf War?…Dick Cheney, Bush Sr.’s defense secretary, explained the administration’s reasoning in April 1991: ‘Once you’ve got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. It’s not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one […]
4/13/1991
“In an interview with New York Times columnist Patrick Tyler published on April 13, 1991, [Secretary of Defense Dick] Cheney declared: ‘If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad. Once you’ve got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. It’s not clear what […]
4/5/1991
U.N. Security Council Resolution 688, adopted on April 5, 1991, “demanded that Iraq end all internal repression and established a basis for the international community to intervene to protect Iraq’s population from its government.” – Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice, Page 150 […]