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1996 NEA convention offers delegate bounty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that at the 1996 NEA convention the union offered members a $1000 bounty for getting elected as delegates to the Democratic National Convention. He uses it to show the NEA's political alignment. ●●

1996 Vermont Senate forces a loan on Benson ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that in January 1996 the Vermont State Senate passed a bill forcing Benson to accept a 'loan' equal to its rejected school budget, plus interest. He uses it as an example of the state overriding local voters. ●●

1996 CIA creates the bin Laden station ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA set up a dedicated counterterrorism unit of about a dozen people focused entirely on Osama bin Laden. There was a sense he might begin aiming at American targets abroad. ●●

1996 Saddam crushes CIA-backed coup plot ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Saddam's spies penetrated a CIA-supported coup plan and he arrested at least two hundred officers around Baghdad. He executed at least eighty of them, including a general's sons. ●●

1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani support for Taliban ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A December 1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani intelligence secretly supplying cash, equipment, and military advisers to the Taliban, with ISI officers fighting inside Afghanistan. ●●

1996 Taliban Captures Kabul and Takes Control of Afghanistan ai_extracted 2 cit. Taliban forces entered Kabul on September 27, 1996, establishing control over Afghanistan with support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Osama bin Laden. ●●

1996 Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1996 manifesto, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”: “Governments of the Industrial World,…on behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone ●●

1996 Russian Duma declares Soviet dissolution invalid ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1996, the Russian Duma went so far as to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Union to be invalid, reflecting nationalist rejection of Russia's reduced geopolitical status. ●●

1996 Russia and Belarus sign integration agreements ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During spring 1996, Russia signed agreements providing for closer economic and political integration with Belarus and other CIS members, attempting to recreate post-Soviet imperial structures. ●●

1996 Zaire's army collapses under AFDL invasion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zaire had a large army that looked impressive on paper, but when the country was invaded from the east by troops of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire in 1996, its military collapsed overnight. ●●

1996 Mamdani publishes 'Citizen and Subject' 1 cit. Mahmood Mamdani argued that colonial states split their populations in two, ruling settlers and elites as citizens under civil law while ruling Africans as subjects under a tribal customary law run by appointed chiefs. In this reading, indirect rule made ethnicity the very basis of local power and left a bifurcated state that outlasted independence. It is an influential interpretation of the colonial legacy, attributed to Mamdani, and it frames much of the debate on tribalism in Africa. The book's publication is a documented fact. politics / society ●●

1996 Bin Laden returns to Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 1996, expelled from Sudan and stripped of Saudi citizenship, Osama bin Laden flew into Jalalabad on his own jet with scores of Arab radicals. Afghanistan's collapsed state gave him a sanctuary from which to organize violence against the United States. ●●●

1996 Bin Laden issues his declaration of war on America ai_extracted 1 cit. In August 1996, from Afghanistan, bin Laden publicly issued his "Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," targeting the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia and calling on followers to attack Americans and Israelis. ●●

1997 New Bank of Japan Law proposed ai_extracted 1 cit. The new Bank of Japan Law was proposed in 1997 as part of Prime Minister Hashimoto's administrative reform program. Deputy governor Toshihiko Fukui lobbied press and politicians in its favor. ●●●

1997 Asian financial crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1997 investors pulled out of Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia while central banks forced commercial banks to restrict credit; the asset bubbles burst and by late 1997 all three countries were insolvent. ●●●●

1997 Bill to revise the Bank of Japan Law submitted ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1997 the Hashimoto coalition government, blaming MoF for Japan's troubles, submitted a bill to the Diet to revise the Ministry of Finance Establishment Law and the Bank of Japan Law. ●●●

1997 to April 1998 BoJ reorganizes its credit control departments ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1997 the BoJ split its Credit and Market Management Department, and in a further reorganization in April 1998 the tasks of the former Banking Department were dispersed across several new departments, obscuring the center of credit control policy. ●●

June 1997 to April 1998 Revised Bank of Japan Law passed ai_extracted 1 cit. In June 1997 a revised Bank of Japan Law was passed, effective April 1998, giving the central bank independence from the Ministry of Finance after half a century of subordination. ●●●●

1997 to 1998 Asian currency crisis erupts ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1997 the currencies of key Southeast Asian countries collapsed by 60 to 80 percent against the dollar, and Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia, facing possible national default, sought IMF emergency funding; their economies deteriorated throughout 1998. ●●●●

May 1997 Thai baht crisis breaks in Bangkok ai_extracted 1 cit. The baht crisis broke in Bangkok in May 1997, prompting Thailand's leaders to seek bridge financing rather than IMF intervention. ●●●

16 July 1997 Thai finance minister seeks Japanese help in Tokyo ai_extracted 1 cit. On July 16, 1997, Thai finance minister Thanong Bidaya flew to Tokyo for urgent talks with senior Japanese government and Finance Ministry figures, seeking around 20 billion dollars to bridge the crisis. ●●

c. 1997 Washington blocks Japan's Asian Monetary Fund proposal ai_extracted 1 cit. After Japan proposed an Asian crisis fund, with vice finance minister Sakakibara suggesting an Asian Monetary Fund to bypass the IMF, the United States forced Tokyo to withdraw the initiative and also barred Taiwan from lending to its neighbors. ●●●

1997 Hashimoto administration's 1997 structural reforms ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1997 the Hashimoto government tightened fiscal policy and enacted structural reforms, including legal independence for the Bank of Japan, dismantling the Ministry of Finance, and creating an independent Financial Supervisory Agency. ●●●●

1997 to 1998 Post-reform contraction of 1997-98 ai_extracted 1 cit. After 4 percent growth in 1996, the 1997 reforms were immediately followed by the largest postwar contraction of nominal GDP and consumer prices. ●●●

1997 Gatto hears the Dalai Lama at Naropa Institute ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts attending a 1997 Spirituality in Education conference at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he heard the Dalai Lama speak. He was invited to speak at the non-sectarian gathering. ●●

1997 Tony Lake withdraws as CIA nominee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Facing a hostile Senate hearing, Tony Lake withdrew his nomination to lead the CIA, calling it a political circus. The job then fell to George Tenet. ●●

1997 George Tenet becomes CIA director ai_extracted 2 cit. no story George Tenet was sworn in as the eighteenth director of central intelligence. He inherited a nearly bankrupt agency with a clandestine service in disarray. ●●

1997 Travelers acquires Salomon Brothers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sandy Weill's Travelers Insurance acquired Salomon Brothers for $9 billion and merged it with Smith Barney, creating a major investment banking operation. ●●

1997 CIA briefs Congress on Afghan intelligence operations ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1997, the CIA's Counterterrorist Center briefs Congress in closed session about running operations to collect intelligence in Afghanistan. ●●

1997 Pakistan recognizes Taliban government ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pakistan's foreign ministry announces on May 26, 1997 that Pakistan recognizes the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government. ●●

1997 United States closes the Afghan embassy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1997, the State Department closes the Afghan embassy in Washington, formally suspending Afghanistan's status as a recognized government. ●●

1997 Paulo Freire dies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paulo Freire died on May 2, 1997, ending a life dedicated to the struggle for liberation education. His work had profoundly influenced educational movements and critical pedagogy across the world. ●●

1997 Hong Kong reverts to Chinese sovereignty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Attempts to settle or annex their territories in the nineteenth century were all defeated or reversed, up to the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. ●●

1997 Chongqing split from Sichuan as a municipality ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The city of Chongqing, which was split off from Sichuan Province as a separate administrative unit in 1997, by itself has a population of almost thirty million. ●●

1997 John Barger coins the term weblog ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Barger coined 'weblog' to describe his website Robot Wisdom. ●●

1997 Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov ai_extracted 1 cit. no story IBM's chess computer Deep Blue beat world champion Garry Kasparov, reviving popular debate about artificial intelligence. ●●

August 1997 Fresh clashes hit the coast and Rift at the 1997 election 12 cit. Around the 1997 general election, deadly violence flared again, most sharply at Likoni on the coast where armed gangs attacked residents seen as up-country outsiders, and once more in parts of the Rift Valley. Dozens were killed and thousands displaced ahead of the vote. Investigators again pointed to political organization behind the attacks rather than spontaneous ethnic hatred. The killings and displacement are documented; the reading that they were engineered for electoral advantage rests on the official inquiries. politics / war ●●

December 1997 Kibaki becomes Leader of the Official Opposition 1 cit. In 1997 Kibaki again ran for president on the Democratic Party ticket, came second to Moi, and then became Leader of the Official Opposition. The role gave him a formal national platform against KANU during Moi's last term, including criticism of corruption and calls for constitutional overhaul. politics ●●●●

1997 Uhuru enters KANU branch politics in Gatundu 1 cit. In 1997 Uhuru Kenyatta was elected chairman of his local KANU branch in Gatundu. It was a modest formal office, but it placed him inside the old ruling-party machine while Daniel arap Moi was managing the final years of KANU power. The event begins the shift from family businessman to Moi-backed national politician. politics ●●●

1997 Lake Turkana National Parks enter the World Heritage list 5 cit. UNESCO listed Lake Turkana National Parks as World Heritage for fossil deposits, ecological importance and the lake landscape. The listing made Turkana globally visible as natural and human-origins heritage, while local people still faced marginalisation in services, water and development. environment / science ●●●

1998 Bank of Japan independence and creation of the FSA ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1998 monetary policy was placed in the hands of the newly independent Bank of Japan, and financial-sector regulation was given to the new independent Financial Services Agency, ending the Ministry of Finance's dominance. ●●●●

15 June 1998 Yen collapses to nearly 147 per dollar ai_extracted 1 cit. Amid the renewed slump of 1997-1998, the yen collapsed to nearly 147 to the dollar on June 15, 1998, about 80 percent weaker than its April 1995 peak, and was read as a sign of capital flight. ●●●

March 1998 BoJ sharply boosts credit creation ai_extracted 1 cit. In March 1998 the Bank of Japan suddenly boosted credit creation to its highest level since January 1974, which was followed by the sharp economic recovery and stock market rise of 1999 before the taps were turned off again. ●●●

April 1998 New Bank of Japan Law makes the BoJ independent ai_extracted 1 cit. The new BoJ Law took effect in April 1998, stripping the Ministry of Finance of the power to set monetary policy and making the Bank of Japan legally fully independent. ●●●●

1998 Ministry of Finance stripped of its powers ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1998 MoF lost its monopoly on budgeting, control over banking supervision to an independent financial supervisory authority, its licensing power through the Big Bang deregulation, and monetary policy to the independent BoJ. ●●●●

1998 Fukui resigns with Governor Matsushita ai_extracted 1 cit. Toshihiko Fukui, appointed deputy governor in December 1994 as long planned, had to resign together with Governor Matsushita in early 1998, after which he vied to succeed interim Governor Hayami. ●●

1998 Prosecutors raid the Ministry of Finance ai_extracted 1 cit. In early 1998, public prosecutors raided the Ministry of Finance for the first time, amid scandals, arrests of senior bureaucrats, and public demonstrations against the ministry. ●●●

June 1998 Financial Supervisory Authority opens and closes LTCB and NCB ai_extracted 1 cit. Bank supervision was transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the new independent Financial Supervisory Authority, which began business in June 1998 by closing the LTCB and NCB banks. ●●●

April 1998 Big Bang begins with foreign exchange deregulation ai_extracted 1 cit. Japan's Big Bang financial deregulation started in April 1998 with the liberalization of the foreign exchange law, symbolically ending the war economy that the foreign exchange laws of the 1930s had begun. ●●●●

31 March 1998 Bank of Japan begins rapid money creation ai_extracted 1 cit. On 31 March 1998 the Bank of Japan suddenly began creating money at the fastest rate in a quarter century, one day before the new Bank of Japan Law took effect granting it legal independence; the injections drove the yen to 147 per dollar in mid-1998 and produced a surprise recovery in 1999. ●●●

1998 Bank of Korea reflates sharply ai_extracted 1 cit. In mid-1998 the Bank of Korea increased credit creation by the largest amount in twenty-five years, and Korean growth expanded sharply in the first quarter of 1999 with double-digit industrial production gains by mid-1999. ●●

17 August 1998 Russia defaults on domestic debt ai_extracted 1 cit. On August 17, 1998, Russia defaulted on its domestic debt as the Asian crisis spread to other emerging markets, with Brazil soon teetering on the verge of collapse. ●●●●

September 1998 Mahathir imposes capital controls in Malaysia ai_extracted 1 cit. In September 1998 Malaysian leader Mohammad Mahathir imposed controls on short-term capital movements, stabilizing the exchange rate while the central bank stepped up credit creation and the government cleaned up bank balance sheets without IMF-style reforms. ●●●

September 1998 New York Fed organizes LTCM bailout ai_extracted 1 cit. At the end of September 1998, New York Fed chairman William McDonough summoned the heads of major Wall Street and European banks and organized a cartel-like bailout of the failing hedge fund LTCM, averting a full-blown default. ●●●

April 1998 Bank of Japan stops publishing sectoral loan data ai_extracted 1 cit. In April 1998, upon gaining legal independence, the Bank of Japan stopped publishing the monthly sectoral bank loan data it had compiled since 1942 as the basis of its window guidance credit allocation. ●●

September 1998 Call rate lowered to near zero ai_extracted 1 cit. In September 1998 the overnight call rate was lowered to about 0.3 percent while ten-year government bond yields dropped to 0.7 percent, sparking debate that interest rate policy had reached its limit. ●●

1998 Bank of Japan granted independence ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1998 the Bank of Japan was granted independence in its operational and policy goals from the elected government, making externally imposed policy targets hard to implement. ●●●

1998 Big Bang financial deregulation begins ai_extracted 1 cit. A sweeping financial sector deregulation program known as the Big Bang began in Japan in 1998 as part of the Hashimoto reforms. ●●●

1998 Japanese suicides peak amid recession ai_extracted 1 cit. Suicides in Japan rose to 31,755 in 1998, a rise linked by observers to the recession. ●●

1998 Hayami becomes BoJ governor after 1998 resignation scandal ai_extracted 1 cit. Masaru Hayami stepped in as Bank of Japan governor in early 1998 after deputy governor Fukui and governor Matsushita resigned over a scandal. ●●●

7 August 1998 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi 6 cit. Al-Qaeda detonated a truck bomb outside the United States embassy in Nairobi, killing about 213 people and wounding thousands. The attack brought Osama bin Laden to global prominence and reshaped US counterterrorism policy. politics / war ●●●●

1998 IPv6 internet addressing standard formalized ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The IPv6 internet addressing standard was initially formalized in 1998, vastly expanding the pool of unique device addresses. Wood argues this makes the Internet of Things and remote control of appliances possible. ●●

1998 Zuckerman essay on the American economy in Foreign Affairs ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto analyzes a June 1998 Foreign Affairs essay by Mortimer Zuckerman praising the American economy's structural lead, which Gatto attributes to attitudes trained by schooling. ●●

1998 Daniele Ganser begins researching Operation Gladio ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says that in 1998 Daniele Ganser chose Operation Gladio as a PhD topic and uncovered secret CIA- and NATO-linked armies across Europe. It uses his work to support its claims about hidden Western operations. ●●

1998 India tests a nuclear bomb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story India exploded a nuclear bomb, catching the CIA by surprise and remaking the global balance of power. It exposed a systemic breakdown in the agency's espionage and analysis. ●●

1998 East Africa embassy bombings ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Near-simultaneous truck bombs destroyed the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing hundreds including a young CIA officer. The attacks marked al Qaeda's escalating war on the United States. ●●

1998 Russia defaults and devalues the ruble ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia devalued the ruble and defaulted on its international loans, creating a financial crisis that spread globally and threatened major banks. ●●

1998 Bin Laden announces World Islamic Front for Jihad ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bin Laden announces the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders on February 23, 1998 with Egyptian militant leaders including Ayman al-Zawahiri. ●●

1998 Richard Clarke named White House counterterrorism czar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 22, 1998, President Clinton signs PDD-62 formally appointing Richard Clarke as the White House's new counterterrorism czar with unprecedented Cabinet-level authority. ●●

1998 US embassies bombed in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Al Qaeda suicide bombers attack US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, killing 213 people in Nairobi and 11 in Dar es Salaam. ●●

1998 CIA's first secret plan to kidnap bin Laden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tarnak Farm had been the target of the CIA's first secret plan to kidnap bin Laden in 1998. ●●

1998 Al Qaeda Bombs U.S. Embassies in East Africa ai_extracted 2 cit. On August 7, 1998, Al Qaeda operatives under Osama bin Laden's direction bombed the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing over 200 people. ●●

1998 NATO intervention in Kosovo ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As diplomatic negotiations at U.N. Security Council over Kosovo crisis unfolded in 1998, Russia refused authorization and American-led NATO intervened ●●

1998 Brin and Page present Google search paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their foundational paper on Google's search engine at the World Wide Web Conference. ●●

1998 Iceland creates first national DNA database ai_extracted 1 cit. no story every person’s profile should be added to the databank. Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has urged that a DNA fingerprint be recorded for every American at birth.30 That day is coming. In 1998, Iceland created the world’s first national DNA database of its citizens. Almost all of its 275, ●●

1998 Page and Brin present the PageRank paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Page and Brin delivered 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine' at an Australian conference. ●●

1998 Bechtolsheim writes Google's first check ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After meeting Page and Brin, Bechtolsheim wrote a check that let them incorporate Google. ●●

1998 The Akiwumi Commission investigates the clashes 1 cit. President Moi appointed a judicial commission under Justice Akilano Akiwumi to inquire into the tribal clashes of the 1990s. Its report named politicians, administrators, and security officers who should be investigated for their roles and documented how the violence was organized rather than random. Almost none of those named were prosecuted, and the report's call for accountability was largely ignored. The commission and its findings are documented public record. politics / society ●

1998 U.S. launches cruise missile strikes against bin Laden ai_extracted 1 cit. On August 20, 1998, in retaliation for the embassy bombings, the U.S. fired seventy-five Tomahawk cruise missiles at bin Laden's Zawhar Kili camps in Afghanistan and thirteen more at the al Shifa plant in Sudan. At least twenty-one jihadists died, but bin Laden was not among them. ●●●

c. 1998 Killing the Vote documents election violence as a state tool 2 cit. Kenya Human Rights Commission's Killing the Vote did not treat the 1991-98 clashes as random tribal rage. It called them state-sponsored violence and a handy election tool: government surrogate agents killed, displaced and terrorized opposition communities in the Rift Valley, Western Kenya and Coast so the state could reassert dominance without admitting direct responsibility. politics / society / war ●●●●●

February 1999 Zero interest rate policy introduced ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 the Bank of Japan guided the overnight call rate down to 0.1 percent, a stance dubbed the zero interest rate policy, after cutting it to a record low 0.33 percent in October 1998. ●●●

1999 to 2001 Short-lived recovery of 1999 and relapse ai_extracted 1 cit. The economy staged a sharp recovery in 1999 with the Tokyo stock market rising more than 50 percent, but the market peaked in the first quarter of 2000 and both market and economy slumped again in mid-2000 and 2001. ●●

1999 BoJ credit withdrawal strengthens the yen despite record interventions ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1999 the Bank of Japan withdrew credit from the economy at a record pace, strengthening the yen to close to 100 per dollar by year-end and oversterilizing new record foreign exchange interventions ordered by MoF. ●●●

1999 Bank of Japan withdraws credit in 1999 ai_extracted 1 cit. The Bank of Japan sharply reduced its credit creation in 1999, actively withdrawing credit for most of the year; the yen returned toward 100 per dollar and the 1999 recovery stalled in 2000. ●●●

February 1999 Public money injected into Japanese banks ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 Japanese banks received around 10 trillion yen in public and third-party money, part of the resources that allowed the bubble-era primary bad debts to be largely written off. ●●●

May 1999 to June 1999 Asian leaders call for currency union ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 1999 the head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority argued that Asia should move toward currency union, a call endorsed in June 1999 by the president of the Philippines. ●●

1 January 1999 European Central Bank begins operations ai_extracted 1 cit. The European Central Bank, described by the Maastricht Treaty as independent of any government or elected assembly, started operations as scheduled on January 1, 1999. ●●●●

1999 Tax money injected into Japanese banks ai_extracted 1 cit. Public tax money was injected into Japanese banks in early 1999, and the Koizumi government proposed further injections in late 2002. ●●●

23 July 1999 Omnibus Act abolishes cartel exemptions ai_extracted 1 cit. With the promulgation on July 23, 1999 of the Omnibus Act to Repeal and Reform Cartels and other exempted systems, the number of legal cartels in Japan basically reached zero. ●●●

February 1999 Zero interest rate policy adopted ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 the Bank of Japan let the overnight call rate fall to 0.1 percent, a stance called the zero interest rate policy, after cutting it to 0.33 percent in October 1998. ●●●

1999 75.5 million people involved in U.S. education by 1999 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by the end of 1999, 75.5 million people out of a U.S. population of 275 million were directly involved in giving or receiving education. He uses the figure to show how central schooling had become to national life. ●●

1999 Gatto speaks at Cypress Semiconductor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts going to Silicon Valley in mid-1999 to speak to executives at Cypress Semiconductor about school reform. His thesis there was that forced schooling follows the requirements of business. ●●

1999 Senate passes the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Senate overwhelmingly passed Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, repealing Glass-Steagall and enabling mergers of commercial and investment banks with insurance companies. ●●

1999 CIA locates bin Laden at Helmand hunting camp ai_extracted 2 cit. no story CIA tracking team locates bin Laden at an elaborately provisioned hunting camp in Helmand Province on February 9, 1999, providing opportunity for military strike. ●●

1999 Abdul Haq's wife and children murdered ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Pakistani intelligence operatives murder anti-Taliban commander Abdul Haq's wife and children on January 12, 1999 to prevent him organizing Pashtun opposition. ●●

1999 Musharraf seizes power in Pakistani coup ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Pervez Musharraf seizes power in a military coup on October 12, 1999, dismissing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and assuming control of Pakistan. ●●

1999 Jordanian police seize millennium-plot explosives ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian police arrest militants and discover seventy-one containers of explosives on December 5, 1999 for planned attacks on the Radisson Hotel and movie theater. ●●

1999 Abu Zubaydah directs millennium terror plots ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian intelligence intercepts bin Laden's top lieutenant Abu Zubaydah giving orders for coordinated terror attacks timed for the millennium. ●●

1999 George W. Bush disparages military Wiccan worship ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Governor George W. Bush of Texas criticized military leaders at Fort Hood for accommodating Wiccan worship circles, stating 'I don't think witchcraft is a religion.' Despite this, the military continued to accommodate Wiccan and other nature-based faiths. ●●

1999 Google announces $25 million equity investment ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google held its first press conference announcing a $25 million equity investment, fielding seven million search requests daily. ●●