In July 1990, “The CIA helps [future World Trade Center bombing conspirator] Sheikh Rahman enter the United States by approving his visa in Sudan even though he is on a U.S. Watch List.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, (Timeline) Page 4 […]
5/10/1990
“In early May 1990, [future World Trade Center bombing conspirator] Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman’s representatives walked into the U.S. embassy…in Khartoum [Sudan] and sought an entry visa for him to the United States. Sheikh Rahman, at the behest of the Egyptian authorities, had been on a terrorist watch list for his role in the assassination […]
4/15/1990
“In April [1990], British customs officials stopped another illegal shipment bound for Iraq, in this case elements of an artillery system or super gun…that in principle could have been used for launching a chemical munition over a significant distance.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard N. Haass, War […]
4/15/1990
“By April 1990, the Reagan Administration had: *Approved exports that ‘allowed Iraq to extend SCUD range far enough to hit allied soldiers in Saudi Arabia and Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv and Haifa.’ *Provided Iraq with deadly bacteria such as anthrax and a source of botulism.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
4/12/1990
“…on April 12, 1990, Senator Bob Dole [R-KS] and a party of five other senators from agricultural states met with Saddam and provided a message from President George H. W. Bush addressing human rights and WMD and assuring the Iraqi president that Washington wanted better relations.” – Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page 59 […]
4/5/1990
Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar met with Saddam Hussein on April 5, 1990, three days after Saddam threatened to ‘make fire eat up half of Israel.’ “When Bandar sat down with Saddam, the Iraqi dictator insisted that he had been misinterpreted. ‘I want to assure President [George H.W.] Bush and His Majesty King Fahd [of Saudi […]
4/3/1990
According to an April 3, 1990, article in The New York Times, Saddam Hussein “announced that he had new, more powerful chemical weapons. He threatened to ‘make fire eat half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq.’ ” – Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page 59 […]
4/2/1990
” ‘By God,’ he [Saddam Hussein] vowed in a [April 2] 1990 speech threatening to use chemical weapons against Israel, ‘we will make fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 22 […]
4/2/1990
The Riegle Report was delivered by Donald Riegle (D-MI) to the Senate on February 9, 1994, regarding the health of Gulf War veterans. It read: “According to some sources, Iraq used mixed agent weapons combining cyanogen, mustard gas, and tabun against the Kurds. Saddam Hussein stated on April 2, 1990, that Iraq had ‘double combined […]
4/2/1990
“By the spring of 1990, Saddam Hussein’s love affair with the White House had survived ten years of the Reagan-[H.W.] Bush era…But on April 2 [1990], Saddam made the kind of slip of the tongue of which diplomatic catastrophes are borne, boasting that he had chemical weapons and would use them to ‘make fire eat […]