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verbally congratulated. Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 163-68; 9/11 REPORT, p. 60. 59 Twomonths later, in August 1996, Osama bin Laden would cite the Khobar Towers bombingin his first fatwa, a ―Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land ofthe Two Holy Places‖: ―The crusader army became dust when we detonated al Khobar . .. .‖ Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 52, 166, p. 66, n. 29 (emphasis added). (Witness Zprovides additional evidence of Iranian involvement in the Khobar Towers attack.)8. 1998: Osama bin Laden’s Second Fatwa. On February 23, 1998, Osamabin Laden issued his second public fatwa in the name of a ―World Islamic Front‖ againstAmerica, calling for the murder of Americans ―as the individual duty for every Muslimwho can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.‖ It would not be long beforeone of his terrorist cells, trained by Hizballah, struck another direct blow against the U.S.9/11 REPORT, pp. 47-48, 69.9. 1998: U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. On August 7, 1998, twonearly simultaneous truck bombings destroyed the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya,and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, killing more than three hundred (300) persons andwounding more than five thousand (5,000). Although known to have been committed byal Qaeda operatives (due to the confession of Ali Mohamed, who led the team thatstudied the embassy in Nairobi, beginning as early as December 1993, shortly after theKhartoum meeting, 9/11 REPORT, p. 68, Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 180), the twin EastAfrica U.S. Embassy bombings also bore the unmistakable modus operandi of ImadMughniyah: multiple, simultaneous, spectacular suicide bombings against American59 Former CIA analyst and 9/11 Commission staff member Douglas MacEachin subsequently testifiedthat ―. . . intelligence . . . showed a far greater potential for collaboration between Hezbollah and alQaeda than many had previously thought.‖ ―In sum, . . . we have seen now strong but indirectevidence that bin Laden‘s organization did in fact play some as yet unknown role in the Khobarattack.‖ Ex. 6, Lopez-Tefft Affid. 163; see also 168 (citations omitted).65