the unified Republic of Yemen. Bin Laden runs afoul of the Saudi Interior Ministry for attempting to violently disrupt the unification process. August 2, 1990: Ba'athist Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait. Fearing an Iraqi threat to Eastern Province oilfields, King Fahd rapidly accepts American military assistance to the opposition of Bin Laden. September 1990: Bin Laden makes an offer to Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to defend Saudi Arabia from Ba'athist Iraq with 100,000 fighters after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He is turned down, and becomes embittered by the intervention of non-Islamic troops from the U.S.-led international coalition in the Gulf War. November 5, 1990: El Sayyid Nosair commits the assassination of Meir Kahane at the New York Marriott East Side, one of the first Islamist terrorist attacks in the United States. The FBI subsequently finds documents linking the attack to al-Qaeda, making it the organization's first involvement in attacks in the United States. April 1991: Bin Laden moves to Sudan and begins expanding al-Qaeda using legitimate businesses as front organizations. 1992: Bin Laden begins to target U.S. military forces in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, as well as to consider alliances with Shiite Iranian-backed organizations such as Hezbollah. April 27, 1992: The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapses after Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin seizes Kabul, but a new stage of civil war begins when the Peshawar Accords collapse. December 29, 1992: Al-Qaeda attacks U.S. military forces for the first time in the Yemen hotel bombings in Aden. February 26, 1993: Ramzi Yousef carries out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. October 3–4, 1993: 18 American servicemen are killed by al-Qaeda-trained forces in the Battle of Mogadishu. April 9, 1994: Bin Laden's Saudi citizenship is revoked. September 1994: Mohammed Omar founds the Taliban in Kandahar. December 24, 1994: Armed Islamic Group of Algeria militants attempt to crash Air France Flight 8969 into the Eiffel Tower, influencing al-Qaeda's future planning. January 6, 1995: Operation Bojinka, a planned terrorist attack, is discovered by the Filipino police in Manila on a laptop computer in an apartment after a fire. February 7, 1995: Ramzi Yousef is arrested in Pakistan, and is discovered to have financial links to Bin Laden. June 1995: U.S. intelligence links al-Qaeda to an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. January 8, 1996: As Bin Laden makes bellicose statements regarding United States and