1998 US Embassy Bombings

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  • March 1991: FBI Begins Investigating Bin Laden’s Future Personal Secretary

    March 1991: FBI Begins Investigating Bin Laden’s Future Personal Secretary

    The FBI begins to investigate Wadih El-Hage, who will soon work as bin Laden’s personal secretary.

  • January 1992-Summer 1993: Texas Arrest Could Help Investigators Link WTC Bombers to Bin Laden

  • February 26, 1993: WTC Is Bombed but Does Not Collapse, as Bombers Had Hoped

    February 26, 1993: WTC Is Bombed but Does Not Collapse, as Bombers Had Hoped

    Mahmud Abouhalima is arrested for his role in the February 1993 WTC bombing. He meets with US investigators without his lawyer and provides a detailed account of the Al-Kifah Refugee Center, bin Laden’s main support base in the US in the early 1990s
  • March 4, 1995: Deputy Attorney General Extends ‘Wall’ for WTC Bombing Cases

    March 4, 1995: Deputy Attorney General Extends ‘Wall’ for WTC Bombing Cases

  • 1996: Al-Qaeda Supposedly Loses Trust in Ali Mohamed

    The New York Times will later report that Ali Mohamed “[runs] afoul of the bin Laden organization after 1995 because of a murky dispute involving money and [is] no longer trusted by bin Laden lieutenants.” This is according to 1999 court testimony from Khaled Abu el-Dahab, the other known member of Mohamed’s Santa Clara, California, al-Qaeda cell
  • 1998 United States embassy bombings

    1998 United States embassy bombings