Jennifer Borthwick

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

On this day in 1998, U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania were simultaneously attacked with car bombs by a group called al-Qaeda, meaning “the base,” and led by a Saudi dissident named Osama bin Laden. 224 people were killed in the attacks and over 5000 were wounded, most of them citizens of Kenya and Tanzania. 12 U.S. citizens were killed including two CIA employees and two members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Prior to the bombings, the ambassador to Kenya had requested the embassy relocate based on an analysis of the security situation. That request was denied. Though bin Laden had issued a “fatwā” in August 1996 titled “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places” and a second in February 1998 calling for the deaths of Americans, civilian and military, anywhere in the world, he would not be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists lists until after the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa for which he was indicted. The bombings were planned for August 7, 1998 - the 8th anniversary of the date U.S. forces arrived in Saudi Arabia in response to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Bin Laden considered U.S. troops on Saudi soil an affront to Islam, and in his “fatwās” he made the case that killing innocent civilians was justified in defense of the faith. A war had been declared against the United States, a war that only one side recognized.

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@JackCarrUSA You too! You continue to produce excellent work!
Is that fresh or salt water you are looking at out the window?

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@JackCarrUSA What can’t you do??❤️

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@NewsNation How about sticking up for the girls and women that were Epstein’s victims!

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@Girlpatriot1974 Wow!💔❤️Amazing, just amazing!

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@weartv As he should!

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@JackCarrUSA @BravoCompanyUSA @Huxwrxsafetyco @staccato2011 We love it!!

[Mike's Weather Page @tropicalupdate]

Happy birthday Florida. 181 years old today. Proud to be a native and where I call home!!!

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@tropicalupdate Thank you Mike! ❤️🎊🥳🎉💫

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@tropicalupdate You got here! I missed it, damn it! What time did it happen? I slept through it!😭Thank you for posting!

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@CBSNews Right

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@louisestpierre4 @RapidResponse47 @PressSec @POTUS Sargasso Sea

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@Huberton I’m sure we will hear the real reason at some point.

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS I’ve got some news Mr. President; these wars are not over.

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@WhiteHouse @POTUS They deserve a hell of a lot more than that!!!!🤬

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS Who is running the show??

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS Didn’t we have to have a bibliography when we wrote a paper in school?? What happened to that?

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS I want the stats on everything he said. That’s what we don’t have. Don’t make statements you can’t back up with information. Don’t expect me to believe you if you can’t show it to me in black and white!

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

Earl Wisener, a homebound 96-year-old Army and Air Force veteran plagued with numerous ailments, is appealing the denial of his claim for VA benefits that has been stymied by the lack of proof he was honorably discharged from service. (from @WyattwOlson) https://t.co/J1laj0w52q

[Jennifer Borthwick @JenniferB57]

@itsSaulGoodman Brilliant!❤️