“General Boris V. Gromov, the commander of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, walked across the Friendship Bridge into Uzbekistan on February 15, 1989. ‘…Our nine-year stay ends with this.’ The Soviets had lost fifteen thousand lives and suffered more than thirty thousand casualties. Between a million and two million Afghans perished, perhaps 90 percent of […]
2/15/1989
“The withdrawal of the last Soviet soldier [from Afghanistan] took place in February [15] 1989, the first full month of the administration of George H. W. Bush.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 53 […]
1/20/1989
-George H.W. Bush – Republican president inaugurated -James D. Quayle – Vice President – […]
1/20/1989
“George H.W. Bush was inaugurated as the forty-first president of the United States on January 20, 1989.” – Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice, Page 31 […]
1/15/1989
“The U.S. embassy in Kabul had been shut for security reasons since January 1989, so there was no CIA station in Afghanistan from which to collect intelligence about the Taliban or the sources of their newfound strength.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 5 […]
12/21/1988
“After the bombing of [Pan Am] Flight 103 in [December 21] 1988, the Department of State was criticized for not making public in advance confidential intelligence that indicated there might be an attack on U.S. civil aviation. The result was the ‘no double standard policy,’ which requires the release of sanitized versions of threat intelligence […]
12/21/1988
“One of the most devastating acts of Islamic terror perpetrated against the west had been the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 on the night of December 21, 1988. When a Toshiba boom box packed with ten to fourteen ounces of Semtex (a Czech version of C-4 plastic explosives) detonated over Lockerbie, Scotland, it ripped […]
12/21/1988
“On December 21, 1988, 270 people were killed when a bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. …Two weeks before, on December 5, an alert from Mossad, Israel’s famed intelligence service, had been passed to the CIA. It warned that a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to the U.S. would be bombed within […]
12/15/1988
“In December 1988…Dow Chemical sold $1.5 million worth of pesticides to Iraq, despite concerns expressed by some in the U.S. government that they could be used as chemical warfare agents. According to The Washington Post [on July 19, 1992], ‘An Export-Import Bank official reported in a memorandum that he could find *no reason* to stop […]
11/8/1988
-George H.W. Bush – Republican president elected -James D. Quayle – Vice President – […]