“On February 26 [1993], [terrorist Ramzi] Yousef and Ismail Najim, an associate who had flown up from Texas to take part in the operation, drove a rented white Ford Econoline van to the World Trade Center and parked it in the B-2 level of the underground garage. At 12:17 pm, the device exploded. It killed […]
2/25/1993
“On February 25 [1993], [World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammed] Salameh, posing as Kamal Ibrahim, took delivery of three tanks of compressed hydrogen–to be used as an accelerant in the explosion–at the Mallory Avenue storage shed [in New Jersey]….Later that evening, Salameh…called the police to report the Ryder van stolen from the parking lot. However, […]
2/15/1993
On February 15, 1993, World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammed “Salameh drove into Manhattan to scout the World Trade Center bomb location. …On his way to the storage shed [with the bomb components], he was involved in another accident on Jersey City [New Jersey]‘s West Side Avenue. The police wrote a report of the incident […]
2/5/1993
Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Afghan resistance Edmund McWilliams sent a confidential cable to Washington on February 5, 1993, titled, ” ‘Implications of Continued Stalemate in Afghanistan.’ McWilliams argued that the ‘principled U.S. posture of letting Afghans find solutions to *their problems* fails to take into account a central reality: Intense and continuing foreign […]
1/25/1993
“In January [25] 1993, Pakistani citizen Mir Aimal Kansi shot five CIA employees outside the agency’s headquarters [in Langley, Virginia], killing two.” – Steven Emerson, American Jihad, Page 29 […]
1/25/1993
Pakistani citizen Mir Amal Kasi shot five people outside CIA headquarters on January 25, 1993, and fled to Pakistan the next day. “It was an early warning of the violent level of hatred building among Muslims around the world caused by America’s fatally flawed Middle East policies. In Pakistan, Kasi’s actions were greeted with cheers.” […]
1/24/1993
“On January 24 [1993] the [World Trade Center bombing] plot was nearly derailed when [conspirators Mohammed] Salameh and [Ramzi] Yousef got in a car accident. …Yousef, who had been riding in the passenger seat, was hospitalized with lacerations. …using the alias Kamal Ibrahim, he continued calling chemical companies from his hospital bed, arranging for deliveries […]
1/20/1993
-William J. Clinton – Democratic president inaugurated -Albert A. Gore – Vice President – […]
1/20/1993
President Bill “Clinton continued his predecessor’s [George H.W. Bush’s] policy of containment, and, on his very first day in office [January 20, 1993], bombed Iraqi radar sites to enforce the ‘no-fly zones’ in the northern and southern parts of the country.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 120 […]
1/17/1993
“On January 17, 1993, the two-year anniversary of the start of the Gulf War, Saddam again signaled his refusal to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors, flouting the terms he had agreed to at the end of the [first] Gulf War. Dozens of U.S. Tomahawk missiles obliterated sites of strategic importance to Iraq’s continued weapons of […]