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1998 United States embassy bombings

1998 United States embassy bombings

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Two bombs killed 224 people and injured about 4000. Colin Powell remarked soon after that the bombings were "the cost of doing business".

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
Al-Yamamah arms deal	September 1985	August 2006	A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
Operation Mass Appeal	1990	2003	An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
Foster child drug trials	1992	2004	National Institutes of Health and Big Pharma force fed experimental pharmaceuticals to infants, toddlers, children and teenagers in New York and elsewhere in the United States.
Mani pulite	17 February 1992	2002
Bill Clinton/Presidency	20 January 1993	20 January 2001	The Bill Clinton administration
Cash-for-questions affair	October 1994	2000
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
Saville Inquiry	1998	24 March 2010	An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
Plan Colombia	1998		This was officially intended to decrease cocaine production and export to the US. On its announcement, Peter Dale Scott predicted that increased involvement of the US military would have an entirely converse effect. His prediction, that the amount of cocaine produced and exported would increase, proved correct.
Clinton–Lewinsky scandal	1998	1998
Kosovo War	28 February 1998	11 June 1999	An armed conflict in Kosovo
Bilderberg/1998	14 May 1998	17 May 1998	The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
Le Cercle/1998 (Istanbul)	23 May 1998	23 May 1998	Other dates uncertain
1998 United States embassy bombings	7 August 1998	7 August 1998	A pair of simultaneous explosions in Kenya and Tanzania, blamed on Al Qaeda.
Omagh bombing	15 August 1998	15 August 1998
Swissair Flight 111	2 September 1998	2 September 1998	A 1998 crash of the "UN shuttle". It was subject to the most expensive transport accident investigation in Canadian history, the chief forensic scientist of which claimed in 2011 that he was not allowed to pursue clear evidence of an incendiary device.
1998 bombing of Iraq	16 December 1998	19 December 1998

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Bahçeşehir University			Private Turkish university founded "to teach the future leaders of the country".
Otpor!			Expert in astroturf colour revolution s
Emergent BioSolutions			"One of the most politically-connected yet scandal ridden vaccine companies in the United States"
National Crime Squad
PayPal			Online payment website
NXIVM			An American cult with deep state connections that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering
UBS			Swiss bank many employees of which reportedly suffered a premature death.
Romero Institute
Middle East Media Research Institute		501(c)(3) non-profit
International Center for Missing and Exploited Children			Launched by Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair...
Foreign Policy Centre			Think tank sponsored by deep state foundations
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security			US Deep state connected group interested in bioweapons and pandemic preparation
15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group		Propaganda Military	A UK army psyop group.
PwC
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance		IGO
Panel 2000			Blairite propaganda committee to polish the UK's image abroad.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
StartPage		https://startpage.com	Search engine in cooperation with Linux Mint
Assassinationscience.com		http://assassinationscience.com/	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot, a now rather dated website about the JFK assassination that has been online since 1998.
Radio4All.net		http://www.Radio4All.net	The internet's first site to permit free up and download of MP3s, now has over 70,000 MP3s available for download, including a lot of independently produced radio shows on political topics
Focal Point Publications		http://www.fpp.co.uk/	The personal website and blog of British historian David Irving
World Socialist Web Site		http://www.wsws.org/en/	The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.
Institute for Historical Review		http://www.ihr.org	Website of The Institute for Historical Review, a research and publishing organisation concerned especially with continuing research and critical examination of the established official narratives of the two 20th century world wars.
Newsmax		https://www.newsmax.com/	A conservative American news and opinion website

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Southern Air Transport
European Commission of Human Rights
Executive Outcomes		Military Commercial	A private military contractor which offered "Security management" and "full-service risk management consulting". It operated during the 1990s and boasted 500 military advisers and over 3000 military personnel, largely drawn from the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Lawrence Howard		1998			Mercenary	American mercenary and member of Interpen
Gordon Shanklin		1998			Police officer	In charge of the Dallas Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1963
Sonny Bono	16 February 1935	5 January 1998	US Nevada Stateline		Politician Producer Singer	Suspiciously killed politician
Richard Clutterbuck	22 November 1917	6 January 1998			Spook Academic	Military academic equaling political dissent with political violence, and political violence with terrorism.
Frank Roberts	27 October 1907	7 January 1998			Diplomat	UK diplomat who played a key role in British diplomacy in the early years of the Cold War. Chairman of the steering committee of the Königswinter conference. On the council of Chatham House. Attended the 1969 and 1977 Bilderberg conferences.
Enoch Powell	16 June 1912	8 February 1998	London UK			UK politician
George Middleton	21 January 1910	12 February 1998			Diplomat
Reay Geddes	7 May 1912	19 February 1998			Businessperson	Pro-EEC chairman of Dunlop, Bilderberger
Abraham Ribicoff	9 April 1910	22 February 1998	New York United States
Arkady Shevchenko	11 October 1930	28 February 1998	Washington DC.		Diplomat Spook Defector	Soviet diplomat, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.
Avraham Shifrin	8 October 1923	5 March 1998			Author Lawyer Human rights activist
Jim McDougal	25 August 1940	8 March 1998	United States Texas Fort Worth		Businessperson Clinton body count	A witness to the Whitewater affair who reportedly died of a heart attack while in prison in Texas.
John Jones	17 February 1923	9 March 1998	Boston Lincolnshire		Spook Civil servant
Ian Campbell Dunn	1 May 1943	10 March 1998				PIE co-founder
Ed Gullion	2 March 1913	17 March 1998			Diplomat	US career diplomat
Magdeleine Anglade	5 July 1921	25 March 1998	France Paris		Politician Deep politician	French member of Le Cercle who took over the role of Monique Garnier-Lançon
David Francis Powers	12 April 1912	28 March 1998	United States Massachusetts Arlington
Bella Abzug	24 July 1920	31 March 1998	New York United States		Politician	US Congresswoman who campaigned to expose the US deep state
Robert A. D. Ford	8 January 1915	12 April 1998	France Vichy		Diplomat Poet	Bilderberger diplomat poet
Ian MacGregor	21 September 1912	13 April 1998			Financier Metallurgist Businessperson	Scottish/US businessman chaired British Steel Corporation 1980-83, National Coal Board 1983-86
Maurice Stans	22 March 1908	14 April 1998	United States California Pasadena		Accountant Deep state functionary	Nixon associate who handled black funds
Pol Pot	19 May 1925	15 April 1998	Cambodia Anlong Veng Oddar Meanchey		War criminal
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann	20 January 1917	15 April 1998	Austria Vienna		Financier	Austrian financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit
Terry Sanford	20 August 1917	18 April 1998	North Carolina Durham		Politician	North Carolina Democratic Governor and later Senator from the same state.
James Earl Ray	10 March 1928	23 April 1998	US Tennessee Nashville		Patsy	Charged by the US government for the killing of Martin Luther King. He died in jail having never had a trial.
Konstantinos Karamanlis	8 March 1907	23 April 1998	Greece Athens		Politician	President and Prime Minister of Greece on multiple occasions from 1955-1995
John Bassett	25 August 1915	27 April 1998	Ontario Toronto		Politician Media executive	Spooky Canadian media mogul and "great friend" of the United States and Israel, who attended two Bilderbergs in the early 1960s
Frank Ragano	25 January 1923	13 May 1998	United States Florida Tampa		Lawyer	A mob lawyer. Claimed mafia bosses Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello responsible for the JFK assassination
Frank Sinatra	12 December 1915	14 May 1998	United States Los Angeles California		Criminal Actor Singer	American singer and actor with close Mafia connections.
Richard Jaeger	16 February 1913	15 May 1998			Politician	German politician
Patrick Wall	14 October 1916	15 May 1998			Politician "White Supremacy"
William Hewitt	9 August 1914	16 May 1998			Businessperson	John Deere's sixth president. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the early 1960s
Hugh Cudlipp	28 August 1913	17 May 1998			Journalist Editor	Journalist and newspaper editor noted for his work on the Daily Mirror in the 1950s and 1960s.
Francisco Lucas Pires	19 October 1944	22 May 1998	Portugal Pombal	Heart attack	Politician Academic	Portuguese pro-European Union politician who attended Bilderberg/1988
Barry Goldwater	2 January 1909	29 May 1998	US Arizona Paradise Valley		Politician Businessperson
Robin Jackson	27 September 1948	30 May 1998			Assassin
Lucien Conein	29 November 1919	3 June 1998	US Maryland Bethesda		Spook
Joseph Harsch	25 May 1905	3 June 1998			Journalist	As correspondent for each of the three major broadcast US networks he "shaped as much as has any journalist the American public’s understanding of the breathtaking events of the 20th century". 1958 and 1962 Bilderbergs
Marshall Green	27 January 1916	6 June 1998		Heart attack	Diplomat Spook Deep state actor	US coup master
Agostino Casaroli	24 November 1914	9 June 1998			Clergy
Julian Faux	1935	July 1998			Spook	A Deputy Director General of MI5, currently with no Wikipedia page.
Patrick Walker	28 July 1935	6 July 1998			Spook Civil servant	Little known head of MI5.
John Boyd-Carpenter	2 June 1908	11 July 1998			Politician
William Gossett	1905	20 July 1998			Lawyer	Ford Motor Company executive appointed Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations by JFK (on the advice of Robert S. McNamara)
Tiny Rowland	27 November 1917	25 July 1998	London		Spook Businessperson	"The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism" (PM Edward Heath in 1973)
Zeki Kuneralp	5 October 1914	26 July 1998	Turkey Istanbul		Diplomat	Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Spain.
William M. Martin	17 December 1906	27 July 1998	United States Washington DC
Horacio Estrada		August 1998
Joel Barr	1 January 1916	1 August 1998			Spook	A member of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring.
Harry Tuzo	26 August 1917	7 August 1998	Norwich UK		Soldier	Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland during the early period of the Troubles.
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Keir Mather	1998			Researcher Politician	Became the youngest MP in the House of Commons in 2023
David Sonboly	20 April 1998	Germany Munich	22 July 2016	Student Newspaper delivery boy	Official perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting
Nick Fuentes	18 August 1998	US Illinois		Activist	American conservative activist, his supporters are known as Groypers
Dominique Samuels	12 December 1998	UK		Author Journalist Activist	British political commentator.

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