JULY 1999 : (CHINA : CHINESE COLONELS' BOOK, "UNRESTRICTED WAR" ) "...The Chinese press has highly praised a newly published book called 'Go-beyond-the-limit War' recently. Inside the Chinese army, some scholars believe that this book will give a birth to a new military thinking in China. Co-authored by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, both the senior colonels of the Chinese air force, this book was published by the Literature and Art Publishing House of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. .... The so-called 'GBLW' means mainly include the action of computer hacking, the city guerillas, and the 'financial terrorism' etc.. The book states, 'although China is not wealthy, it is not a problem for it to spend 100 billion US dollars in attacking an unprepared power. This is enough to create a financial crisis'. ...."Kanwa news 7/10/99 via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
AUGUST 1999 : (NIGER ADOPTS NEW CONSTITUTION AFTER REFERENDUM GRANTS AMNESTY TO THOSE INVOLVED IN COUP AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT MAINASSARA) In August 1999 a new constitution was adopted following a referendum which granted an amnesty for those involved in the coup. - "On this Day 9 April 1999: President of Niger 'killed in ambush,' BBC News
AUGUST 9, 1999 : (AL QAEDA MEMBER SAYS HE HAD BEEN TRAINED BY A NORTH KOREAN IN THE USE OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : "...One year after terrorist bombs ravaged its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 224 people, the United States is no closer to arresting the man it believes masterminded the attacks. Washington has put suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden on its 10 Most Wanted List, offered a $5 million reward for his arrest and tried to make international pariahs of his hosts, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. The efforts have largely failed. Because of fresh but unspecified terrorist threats, the United States is closing embassies and halting its popular public tours of FBI headquarters in Washington......The Taliban, who control 90 percent of the country and preach probably the harshest brand of Islam operating in the world today, seem unlikely to give up a man extolled as a hero by radical Islamic groups. In July, however, the Taliban did end their pretense of not knowing where bin Laden was, acknowledging he still lived in Afghanistan and still was a guest to be protected. They also denied reports he was planning to seek sanctuary in another Islamic country....``Bin laden is training his own people for terrorist activities around the world,'' said an Afghan who once trained with bin Laden at Tora Bora, also in eastern Afghanistan. ``They include Sudanese, Algerians, Tajiks, Iranians and Egyptians,'' he said. ``Osama has dozens of camps. They train on anti-aircraft guns, explosives, chemical and biological weapons.'' The same Afghan warrior, who didn't want to be identified because he feared for his life, said he had been trained to use chemical and biological weapons. The training was conducted by a North Korean. -- AP via Hot Daily News, 8/9/99 via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
AUGUST 1999 : (SEC OF STATE ALBRIGHT VOWS TO WAGE AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST TERRORISM; BUT CLINTON OFFERS TO COMMUTE THE SENTENCES OF 14 FALN TERRORISTS) "...Just last week, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking on the first anniversary of the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, vowed to wage an all-out war against terrorism. This week, President Clinton turned that promise into a joke by offering to commute the justifiably harsh prison sentences of 14 FALN terrorists, including the wife of its bomb-maker mastermind, the notorious William Morales. The FALN, for those who may have forgotten, was a small group of separatists who launched a deadly "war of nerves" to bring about independence for Puerto Rico. Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people. New Yorkers had particular reason to fear the FALN: In 1975, it bombed Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street area, killing four...." -- New York Post, 8/13/99 via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
AUGUST 27, 1999 : (TANZANIA HANDS 14 FOREIGNERS, INCLUDING FIVE IRAQIS, OVER TO IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES AFTER BOMBING INVESTIGATION) DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Tanzania has expelled 14 foreigners questioned in last month's bombing of the U.S. Embassy.Five Iraqis, five Sudanese, two Libyans, one Turk and another person whose nationality was not given were handed over by police to immigration authorities on Aug. 27 for expulsion, Immigration Department spokesman Herbert Chilambo said Thursday.''Lack of direct evidence to connect them to the bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy in the city was a major reason for their release,'' Chilambo said. He said the five Iraqis were sent to Iraq on Sept. 9 and 10, and three Sudanese, two Libyans, a Turk and the person of unidentified nationality were expelled Sept. 12. He said two Sudanese remained in his department's custody pending investigation to determine whether they will be deported as well. The Aug. 7 blast at the embassy in a residential neighborhood killed 11 people. In neighboring Kenya, an almost simultaneous explosion at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi killed 247 people, 12 of them Americans. Two men are in custody in the United States in connection with the murder of the 12 Americans in Nairobi, and a third is being sought. Adadi Rajabu, director of the police Criminal Investigations Division and head of the task force looking into the bombing, said police are still holding two principal suspects - a Tanzanian and a foreigner whose nationality he would not reveal. Rajabu said three other people, including the owner of a metal workshop where the explosive device reportedly was attached to a vehicle, were in detention and helping police with the investigation.- "Tanzania expels 14 in bombing probe," AP via USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/bomb136.htm.
AUGUST 1999 late : (ITALIAN DIPLOMAT'S DAUGHTER, SILVIA BARALDINI, IS SENT TO SERVE HER REMAINING SENTENCE IN ITALY - WAS THE CLINTON ADMIN TRYING TO PLACATE THE ITALIAN LEFTWING GOVERNMENT? - see FALN) "...Maybe the White House is telling the truth, after all. Maybe President Clinton's clemency offer to 16 FALN terrorists really wasn't motivated by his wife's Senate campaign. The evidence: The Clinton administration is acting as though it believes that violent terrorists just don't belong in U.S. prisons. Two weeks ago, to scant public notice, the Justice Department opened the prison gates to violent radical Silvia Baraldini. An Italian diplomat's daughter, she was sentenced to 40 years in prison in connection with several robberies carried out by black militants - including the 1981 Brink's armored-care holdup in Nyack, in which two cops and a security guard were murdered. Baraldini also has been linked to the jail break in which Joanne Chesimard - now living in Cuba - fled a New Jersey prison. And she was sentenced to an additional three years in a separate case for criminal contempt after she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating the FALN. Over the past decade, the Justice Department - citing the violent nature of her crimes - had rejected five requests by the Italian government to let Baraldini serve the remainder of her sentence in a Rome prison. This year, however, the request was granted. Why? Because the Clinton administration felt it needed to make a conciliatory gesture in order to placate Italy's left-wing government, which was angered by the bizarre acquittal last spring of U.S. Marine pilot Richard Ashby, whose low-flying plane sliced a gondola cable in the Alps, killing 20 people...." -- New York Post 9/8/99 Editorial via ALAMO-GIRL'S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01
SEPTEMBER 9 & 10, 1999 : (TANZANIA EXPELS FIVE IRAQIS TO IRAQ THAT HAD BEEN QUESTIONED IN THE CASE OF THE US EMBASSY BOMBINGS)- "Tanzania expels 14 in bombing probe," AP via USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/bomb136.htm.
OCTOBER 1999 - MARCH 2002 : (NY CITY : SUSAN LINDAUER SECRETLY WORKS FOR IRAQI REGIME) During this time, Lindauer allegedly made multiple visits to the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, where she met with several members of the Iraqi intelligence service, according to the indictment. - "American charged in Iraqi conspiracy [Andy Card's distant cousin]," CNN, March 11, 2004
OCTOBER 1999 : (AFGHANISTAN : TALIBAN TAKE MAZAR-I-SHARIF ; MASS EXECUTIONS) The Taliban take Mazar-i-Sharif. There are unconfirmed reports of mass arrests and executions (numbering in the thousands) of Shiites, especially of the Hazara ethnic group.
OCTOBER 1999 : (INTEL ON INDIA INTERCEPTION OF N KOREAN MISSILE COMPONENT SHIPMENT TO PAKISTAN, MISSILE STEEL TO EGYPT, IRAN & LIBYA , EVEN CONGO, POSSIBLY INVOLVED FOR URANIUM) "….. Other recent activities by the North Koreans outlined in classified intelligence reports include: North Korea last summer tried to ship missile components to Pakistan but the ship was intercepted during a stop in India. In July, North Korea sent specialty steel with missile applications through a Chinese company in Hong Kong to Egypt, which is secretly cooperating with Pyongyang in building Scud missiles. Iranian officials recently traveled to North Korea to discuss missile cooperation. Iran is building two types of medium-range missiles, mostly with Russian and Chinese assistance. There are some signs that North Korea is assisting Libya with its efforts to develop missiles. North Koreans are helping train the Congo military and may be paid for the training with uranium ore from the African nation's Shinkolobwe mine -- where fuel for the first U.S. nuclear weapons originated….." - The Washington Times 10/28/99 Bill Gertz
OCTOBER 1999 : (N KOREA PLANS TO EXPORT DAEPODONG -I MISSILES, OFFERS TO SELL SUDAN MISSILE FACTORY, SUPPLIED MISSILE-RELATED GOODS TO SYRIA, PAKISTAN, EGYPT, IRAN, LIBYA, & CONGO; N KOREA SAYS IT WILL STOP IF US PAYS ) "….North Korea plans to export its long-range Daepodong-I missile from next year, South Korean government officials said yesterday. The weapons would sell for US$6 million (HK$46 million) each, one official said. A report also said the communist country had demanded US$500 million in compensation from the United States to halt exports of ballistic weapons…… The news agency said that during bilateral talks in Berlin in September, North Korea demanded US$500 million from the US in return for stopping missile sales abroad. ……The Washington Times says that according to a Pentagon intelligence agency report earlier this month, North Korea offered to sell Sudan an entire factory for assembling Scud missiles and also supplied missile-related goods to such countries as Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Libya and Congo. ….. " - South China Morning Post 10/30/99
OCTOBER 12, 1999 : (PAKISTAN : COUP OUSTS CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT; GENERAL MUSHARRAF TAKES OVER) How to deal with Pakistan since a coup on Oct. 12 ousted a civilian government has been the subject of a debate within the [Clinton] administration. - "Jet Hijackers Are Backed by Pakistan, U.S. Contends ," By JANE PERLEZ , January 24, 2000, The New York Times
OCTOBER 14, 1999 : (NY CITY : SPIES : SUSAN LINDHAUER MEETS WITH IRAQI ISS OFFICER) On or about October 14, 1999, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met with an officer of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (“IIS”) in Manhattan. - "Text of indictment against American spying for Iraq," Findlaw. com, March 11, 2004
OCTOBER 23, 1999 : (ROCK CREEK CORP & ALAMOUDI) To: Shermy
The Letter of The Indian Ocean
October 23, 1999(Some) Well introduced businessmen
American buinessmen who will go from November 6-14 to Addis - Abeba at the instigation of the Ethio-American Trade and Investment Council (EATIC, organization close to the government Ethiopian and directed by Gezahegn Kebede) have solid support in American administration. This visit is sponsored by Osyka Corporation, an oil firm of Texas whose president, Michael F Harness, is at the same time a member of EATIC and the National Petroleum Council, an organization charged to advise the American minister of Energie Bill Richardson. Other sponsors: F.C. Schaffer & Associates, a sugar company whose president, Mina Nedelcovych, is also the owner of Corporate Council of Africa (CCA) which assembles the active American companies in Africa.
Several companies controlled by the Saudi-Ethiopic billionaire Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi helped with the organisation of the voyage: Westar Group, which manages the interests dof Al Amoudi in Washington and which is chaired by Derige Mekonen after being directed a long time by the banker Jeff Wilson; Sheraton of Addis-Abeba whose council of administration includes the ex - American ambassador in Ethiopia Irvin Hicks and group MIDROC Ethiopia; but also the Rock Creek Corporation, an investment company controlled by Al Amoudi and chaired since 1997 by a Lebanese businessman very connected into the power circles of Washington, Elias Aburdene. Former adviser of the Franklin Bank National in Washington DC, Aburdene at the start of his accession to the head (position) of Rock Creek Corporation hired the ex - adviser to Bill Clinton for African affairs, Joseph Wilson IV. The latter had already met Mohamed Al Amoudi in 1997 at the time of a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group (LAW n.794). In addition to his responsibilities with the Rock Creek Corporation, Elias Aburdene is the executive chairman very influential National Association of Arab Americans. Alumnus of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he is also very active in the old networks of the university, where teaches the ex-under-secretary of State for African Affairs Chester A. Crocker and the American mediator between Ethiopia and Eritrea, former National Security Advisor of Bill Clinton Anthony Lake.
--- Source: 100 posted on 06/26/2004 6:42:46 PM PDT by Shermy
OCTOBER 31, 1999 : (EGYPT AIR FLIGHT SENT PLUMMETING INTO THE OCEAN OFF US COAST BY SUICIDAL EGYPTIAN PILOT) A suspected suicidal Muslim pilot was believed to have purposely crashed an Egypt Air Flight into the sea shortly after takeoff from New York on October 31, 1999 killing all 217 on board - "A Short History of World War IIIA Lesson of the Future.," by Sal Rosken, The Partial Observer , 2 March 2003
NOVEMBER 1999 : (NIGER : MAMADOU ELECTED PRESIDENT IN CLOSE ELECTION) a former army officer, Tandja Mamadou, was elected president after a close-run election. - "On this Day 9 April 1999: President of Niger 'killed in ambush,' BBC News
DECEMBER 14, 1999 : (MILLENIUM PLOT : RESSAM CAUGHT BY US CUSTOMS SERVICE) "Thanks to the quick response of US Customs Agents to behavior deemed suspicious at the Canadian border in Port Angeles on December 14, 1999, Ahmed Ressam was caught trying to smuggle RDX explosives. A wide-ranging investigation, unprecedented in its sweep and scope, succeeded in identifying and arresting other members of the hitherto unknown terrorist cell to which Ressam belonged. A plot to bomb and destroy targets in the United States, although still not publicly identified, had been narrowly averted." - PREPARED TESTIMONY OF STEVEN EMERSON, TERRORIST EXPERT AND INVESTIGATOR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TERRORISM NEWSWIRE, INC. BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS SUBJECT - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND IMMIGRATION POLICY, January 26, 2000
DECEMBER 25, 1999 : (UK LABOUR MP GALLOWAY SPENDS CHRISTMAS WITH IRAQI OFFICIAL TARIQ AZIZ) - Source Galloway, on Radio 4 program "On the Ropes." on June 17, 2003 according to the story "I was in Iraq on day alleged in memos, admits Galloway," By Sally Pook, Daily Telegraph - UK, June 18, 2003
DECEMBER 26, 1999 : (BOXING DAY HOLIDAY : UK LABOUR MP GALLOWAY WAS IN IRAQ, MET WITH IRAQI INTELLIGENCE AGENT OVER GALLOWAY'S CUT OF THE OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAM) One of the documents [found by the UK Telegraph in Iraq in 2003] was a memorandum suggesting that on Boxing Day 1999 Mr Galloway met an Iraqi intelligence agent in Baghdad and laid out his demands for a larger slice of the revenue from the sale of three million barrels of oil every six months. It also purported to show him as asking for "exceptional" commercial opportunities. Saddam Hussein's office rejected these alleged requests for more money, explaining that they were unaffordable. -"I was in Iraq on day alleged in memos, admits Galloway," By Sally Pook, Daily Telegraph - UK, June 18, 2003
DECEMBER 29, 1999 : ( IRAQ'S AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN WISSAM AL ZAHAWIE aka ZAHAWI HAS ANOTHER LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ; IN IT HE SAYS THE UN IS TRYING TO GIVE THE US AND UK AN EXCUSE TO KEEP BOMBING) - Zenit
DECEMBER 30, 1999 : (IRAQ'S AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN WISSAM AL ZAHAWIE aka ZAHAWI HAS ANOTHER LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ; THIS ONE OBJECTS TO RESUMPTION OF UN INSPECTIONS) On December 30, 1999, 10 months after his trade mission to Niger, the International Herald Tribune published a letter from Zahawie objecting to resumption of UN weapons inspections. "It should come as no surprise that Iraq should resist the return of the so-called inspectors who were relaying to the United States and Britain the information they need to choose the targets for their systematic bombing of Iraq," Zahawie wrote.- "Iraqi Nuke Hawk Went to Niger," by Terence P. Jeffrey, Human Events , 8/1/03
DECEMBER 1999 : (RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT GUSEV IS EXPELLED FROM STATE DEPT FOR SPYING) Russian diplomat Stanislav Borisovich Gusev was expelled from the State Department last December after reportedly being caught gathering department information with an eavesdropping device. - 'Highly classified' State Department computer missing," CNN.com - US - 'Highly classified' State Department computer ..., April 17, 2000
1990s late : (ANN PINCUS TRANSFERS TO OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND MEDIA REACTION AT STATE DEPT BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH, THE SAME OFFICE WHICH WOULD 'LOSE' LAPTOP WITH CLASSIFIED INFO IN APRIL 2000) Timmerman said that after several years at the U.S. Information Agency, Ann Pincus was transferred in the late 1990s to the Office of Research and Media Reaction at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the same office that "lost" a laptop computer loaded with highly classified intelligence documents in April 2000. http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/08/28.html via 42 posted on 10/09/2003 3:49 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
DECEMBER 1999/JANUARY 2000 : (MALAYSIA TERROR SUMMIT? ALHAZMI & ALMIHDHAR MEET WITH KHALLAD OF USS COLE BOMBING FAME) Just days before their Jan. 15, 2000, arrival in the United States, Alhazmi and Almihdhar traveled to Malaysia to meet with an al-Qaida lieutenant named Tawfiq Attash Khallad, labeled the mastermind of the USS Cole attack. Those who attended the meeting scouted potential targets, the law enforcement source said. - "Hijackers Said to Seek Navy Targets," By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer , AP via Yahoo.com, Tue Aug 20, 2002
DECEMBER 1999 : (MILLENIUM PLOT, ORGANIZERS OF PLOT TO BOMB RADISSON HOTEL N JORDAN ARE ZUBAYDAH & ZARQAWI) Officials believe Abu Musab Zarqawi and Abu Zubaydah, Osama bin Laden's operations chief, were chief organizers of a foiled plot to bomb the Radisson SAS Hotel, in Amman, Jordan, which is popular with American and Israeli tourists. The attack was to take place during millennium celebrations, but Jordanian authorities stopped it in late 1999. - "U.S.: Top al-Qaeda operative recently in Baghdad," AP, October 2, 2002
1999 late : (EVIDENCE ESTABLISHES MONTES TO BE A CUBAN MOLE : DIA BLOCKS MONTES' SELECTION TO MOVE TO CIA DIRECTOR TENET'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL) DIA senior intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes originally came under suspicion of being a spy for Cuba's communist government in 1994. However, DIA and FBI counterspies could not prove she was engaging in espionage and Montes continued passing secrets to Havana until she was discovered in late 1999. ... Montes was placed under surveillance in late 1999 and at one point was selected to work for CIA Director George J. Tenet's National Intelligence Council. The DIA blocked Montes' move by freezing all transfers. - "DIA fears Cuban mole aided Russia, China," by Bill Gertz, washtimes, 2/1/2003
1999 : (THE NAME OF CIA FRONT COMPANY IS USED ON DONATION VALERIE PLAME MADE TO AL GORE'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN) The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. - "Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm," Washington Post, October 4, 2003 by Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40012-2003Oct3.html *
Addition items on Wilson regarding Iraq:
AUGUST 1, 1990 : (US DIPLOMAT JOE WILSON AND HIS SECOND WIFE JACQUELINE DINE WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN'S CHIEF BUYER OF FRENCH ARMS ON THE EVE OF THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT) And why were they dining with Saddam's chief buyer for French arms on the eve of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait? Hmm -- 66 posted on 05/09/2004 4:39:19 PM PDT by Shermy via source: Joe Wilson, in Vanity Fair via
AUGUST 2, 1990 : (IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT)
WOW!!!
fyi
A little more on Richardson:
U.S. ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson