“On November 5 [1990], Rabbi Meir Kahane of the right-wing Jewish Defense League is shot and killed by a militant Islamist [El Sayyid Nosair]. He is the first casualty of Al Qaeda on American soil.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 303 […]
11/5/1990
“Early in the evening of November 5, 1990, in New York City, Rabbi Meir Kahane, the fiery founder of the militant Jewish Defense League, was appearing at a meeting at the New York Marriott Hotel on West Forty-ninth Street in Manhattan. …As Kahane took questions from the audience, a man of Arab descent with an […]
11/5/1990
After Egyptian Islamist El Sayyid Nosair was arrested for the assassination of Rabbi Meier Kahane of the right-wing Jewish Defense League on November 5, 1990, 47 boxes of evidence were removed from his home. These boxes “included the recorded sermons of [future World Trade Center bombing conspirator] blind sheikh Omar [Abdel Rahman], in which he exhorted […]
10/10/1990
On Oct. 10, 1990, Roger Hilsman, Professor of International Politics at Columbia University and former Assistant Secretary of State under President Kennedy, said in a Newsday article: “President George Bush’s decision to send troops to Saudi Arabia and to launch an economic boycott of Iraq is both naive and wildly optimistic. … [T]he best that […]
9/24/1990
“As chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he [Colin Powell] had gone to then-President [George H.W.] Bush not to advise him on whether to send Americans into combat [in Iraq] but to make sure the president would make an informed decision. ‘My responsibility that day,’ Powell later wrote of his visit to the White House on […]
9/16/1990
From a Washington Post article on September 16, 1990: ” ‘Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein aggressively courted U.S. companies and government agencies. …It was a mutual seduction. The U.S. government bitterly opposed to Iran and its leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinei, first tilted toward Iraq to ensure that Iran did not win the war; later, it became […]
9/15/1990
A critic of the Saudi government, Islamic scholar Sheikh Safar bin Abd al-Rahman “Al-Hawali, who had written a book called Kissinger’s Promise, about the West’s treacherous efforts to control Arab oil resources, explained the Gulf War in September 1990 to a crowd in a Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] mosque as another step in the conspiracy, saying, […]
9/15/1990
According to a March 11, 1992, classified GAO (United States Government Accounting Office) report titled, ‘Iraq: U.S. Military Items Exported or Transferred to Iraq in the 1980s,’ “Iraq was again added to the [U.S.] terrorist list in September 1990.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – U.S. General Accounting Office, […]
9/11/1990
Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 11, 1990, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said: ” ‘Once […Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] acquired Kuwait and deployed an army as large as the one he possesses, he was clearly in a position to be able to dictate the future of worldwide energy policy, and that […]
8/16/1990
“On August 1, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Days later [August 16, 1990], President [H.W.] Bush declared, ‘Our jobs, our way of life, our own freedom and the freedom of friendly countries around the world would all suffer if control of the world’s great oil reserves fell into the hands of Saddam Hussein.’ ” – Antonia […]