Osama bin Laden is indicted—the most complete federal indictment to date, including 11 other suspected members of al Qaeda. The twelve are charged with conspiring to murder American citizens. Al Qaeda’s objectives, according to the indictment, include: killing members of the American military stationed in Saudi Arabia (1995 and 1996) and Somalia (1991 and 1992); killing United States embassy employees in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (August 1998); and “concealing the activities of the co-conspirators by, among other things, establishing front companies, providing false identity and travel documents, engaging in coded correspondence, and providing false information to the authorities in various countries.”
The indictment also says: “USAMA BIN LADEN, the defendant, and al Qaeda also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with representatives of the government of Iran, and its associated terrorist group Hizballah …”
And that “… al Qaeda (and the affiliated Egyptian Islamic Jihad) sent some of its members to Lebanon to receive training from members of the terrorist group Hizballah.”