WMWG Part 7; 1998

1998...

·         February 23^rd, 1998 ... Bin Laden faxed a Shari’a (an Islamic law) to a London newspaper. In the contents Bin Laden explains that the U.S. had been occupying the land of two Holy places, plundering riches and trying to use the Arabian Peninsula to attack Muslims. He said by committing these ‘sins’ America was declaring war on God and Muslims and also made a call to every Muslim that it was their duty to kill Americans and their allies, whenever possible.

·         More young men and boys started going to al-Qaeda camps to learn how to wage war over Americans.

Now since Bin Laden has the money, power, and protection more and more Muslims, and other ethnic groups from the Middle East, are beginning to listen to him. Plus, he’s in an alliance with Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader and the person who thinks Allah has sent him to bring peace to his nation. This is getting more and more dangerous.

·         August 7^th, 1998 ... Two Saudis detonate a car bomb outside of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. 9 minutes later, An Egyptian detonated a car bomb outside of the American Embassy in Tanzania. Bin Laden directed these attacks.

·         Some people think these attacks that Bin Laden was directing were ploys to lure the U.S. into Afghanistan to kill more Americans.

·         August 17^th, 1998 ... Clinton, dealing with his sex scandal fiasco at the time, decided to conduct a surgical airstrike against Bin Laden.

·         August 20^th, 1998 ... One air strike was to be at the Zawar Kili training camp, which Haqqani and Bin Laden built together. Many battles were also fought here throughout the 80’s and 90’s. This was air strike was called “Operation Infinite Reach”.

·         Unconfirmed reports say that some of the Tomahawk missiles were salvaged when they didn’t explode on impact, and Bin Laden sold them to China.

Since the book actually says these reports have never been confirmed, I’m leaning slightly towards a conspiracy theory.

·         “The war has only just begun; the Americans should not await the answer.” – Al-Zawahri, Deputy of al-Qaeda