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1998 United States embassy bombings
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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
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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