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9/11 Facts Timeline: Ten-Page
Summary
Verifiable Media Timeline of 9/11
Facts

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9/11 was one of the most pivotal
events in world history. Its impact will be felt for years to
come. You owe it to yourself to go beyond the sound bites and
the simplified official story. This is an extremely
complicated story with numerous players and motives. The 9/11
timeline facts don't all make sense or fit neatly together.
It's a story full of espionage, deceit, and lies. But if
forces out there are tricking us, they can only succeed if we,
the general public, remain ignorant and
passive.

We limit our sources on this 9/11
timeline to the mainstream media. It's not that one can only
trust the major media. Much of the best reporting today is
coming from alternative media. Yet many people are initially
very skeptical. Some of the 9/11 timeline facts below are very
hard to believe. Yet remember that each entry is reported by
respected mainstream media sources and can easily be verified
by clicking on the links provided to the original source.
After seeing the importance of what's being hidden, you will
very likely want to join in working together to build a brighter future.

America's
top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and
commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into
supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in
writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods
even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a
false pretext for war. [ABC News, 5/1/01, Pentagon Documents]

1980s: Osama bin Laden runs a front
organization for the mujaheddin—Islamic freedom fighters
rebelling against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The
CIA secretly backs the mujaheddin. Pakistan's Prime Minister
Bhutto, understanding the ferocity of Islamic extremism, tells
then President George Bush, "You are creating a Frankenstein."
[MSNBC, 8/24/98, Newsweek, 10/1/01, more]

1994: Two attacks take place which involve
hijacking planes to crash them into buildings, including one
by an Islamic militant group. In a third attack, a lone pilot
crashes a plane at the White House. Yet after Sept. 11, over
and over aviation and security officials say they are shocked
that terrorists could have hijacked airliners and crashed them
into landmark buildings. [New York Times, 10/3/01]

1996: The Saudi Arabian government is
financially supporting Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and other
extremist groups. After 9/11, the Bush Administration does not
to confront the Saudi leadership over its support of terror
organizations and its refusal to help in the investigation.
[New Yorker, 10/22/01, more]

1996-1999: The CIA officer
in charge of operations against Al Qaeda from Washington
writes, "I speak with firsthand experience (and for several
score of CIA officers) when I state categorically that during
this time senior White House officials repeatedly refused to
act on sound intelligence that provided multiple chances to
eliminate Osama bin Laden." [Los Angeles Times,
12/5/04]

1996-2001: Federal authorities have known for
years that suspected terrorists with ties to bin Laden were
receiving flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One
convicted terrorist confessed that his planned role in a
terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington Post, 9/23/01]

1996-Sept 11, 2001: Taliban envoys repeatedly discuss
turning bin Laden over, but the US wants to be handed bin
Laden directly, and the Taliban want to turn him over to some
third country. About 20 more meetings on giving up bin Laden
take place up till 9/11, all fruitless. [Washington Post, 10/29/01]

1997: Former National Security Advisor
Brzezinski publishes a book portraying Eurasia as the key to
world power, and Central Asia with its vast oil reserves as
the key to domination of Eurasia. He states that for the US to
maintain its global primacy, it must prevent any adversary
from controlling that region. He notes that because of popular
resistance to US military expansionism, his ambitious strategy
can't be implemented "except in the circumstance of a truly
massive and widely perceived direct external threat." [The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its
Geostrategic Imperatives]

1998: An Oklahoma City FBI agent sends a
memo warning that "large numbers of Middle Eastern males" are
getting flight training and could be planning terrorist
attacks. [CBS, 5/30/02] A separate CIA intelligence
report asserts that Arab terrorists are planning to fly a
bomb-laden aircraft into the WTC (World Trade Center). [New York Times, 9/19/02, Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, more]

Aug 1998: Within minutes of each other, truck
bombs blow up the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing
more than 220. For some of the time that bin Laden's men were
plotting to blow up the two embassies, US intelligence was
tapping their phones. [Newsweek, 10/1/01]

Dec 1998: A Time magazine cover story
entitled "The Hunt for Osama," reports that bin Laden may be
planning his boldest move yet - a strike on Washington or
possibly New York City. [Time, 12/21/98]

Late 1998-Early 2000: On at least three occasions, spies in
Afghanistan report bin Laden's location. Each time, the
president approves an attack. Each time, the CIA Director says
the information is not reliable enough and the attack cannot
go forward. [New York Times, 12/30/01, more]

Sept 1999: A US intelligence report states bin Laden and
Al-Qaeda terrorists could crash an aircraft into the Pentagon.
The Bush administration claims not to have heard of this
report until May 2002, though it was widely shared within the
government. [CNN, 5/18/02, AP,
5/18/02, Guardian, 5/19/02]

Nov 1999: The head of Australia's security
services admits the Echelon global surveillance system exists.
The US still denies it exists. BBC describes Echelon's power
as "astounding." Every international telephone call, fax,
e-mail, or radio transmission can be listened to by powerful
computers capable of voice recognition. They home in on key
words, or patterns of messages. [BBC, 11/3/99]

Jan 2000: George Bush Sr. meets with the bin
Laden family on behalf of the Carlyle Group. He also met with
them in 1998. Bush's chief of staff could not remember that
this meeting took place until shown a thank you note
confirming the meeting. [Wall Street Journal, 9/27/01, Guardian, 10/31/01]

Summer 2000: A secret military
operation named Able Danger identifies four future 9/11
hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, as a
potential threat and members of Al Qaeda. Yet none of this is
mentioned later in the 9/11 Commissions' final report. When
questioned, the 9/11 commission's chief spokesman initially
says that staff members briefed about Able Danger did not
remember hearing anything about Atta. Days later, however,
after provided detailed information, he says the uniformed
officer who briefed two staff members had indeed mentioned
Atta. [New York Times, 8/11/05, more]

Sept 2000: The think-tank Project for the New
American Century (PNAC) writes the blueprint for a global "Pax
Americana." Written for the Bush team before the 2000
election, Rebuilding America's Defenses is a plan for
maintaining global US preeminence and shaping the
international security order in line with American principles
and interests. The plan shows Bush intends to take control of
the Persian Gulf whether or not Saddam Hussein is in power. It
advocates the transformation of the US military. But, "the
process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary
change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic
and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbour". [BBC, 2/14/07, Sunday Herald, 9/7/02, read report, more]

2000 - 2001: The military conducts exercises
simulating what the White House later says is unimaginable:
hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and
cause mass casualties. One imagined target is the WTC. [USA Today, 4/19/04] Another is the Pentagon.
[Military District of Washington (Army),
11/3/00]

Jan 2001: A flight school alerts the FAA.
Hijacker Hani Hanjour lacks English and flying skills needed
for his commercial pilot's license. An FAA official then sits
next to him in class. The official offers a translator to help
him pass, but the flight school says this is against the
rules. [AP, 5/10/02] Yet despite poor flying skills,
official reports later state Hanjour executes a 330 to 360
degree turn of AA Flight 77 over Washington on 9/11 in under
four minutes and manages a precision hit on the Pentagon. [NY Times, 10/16/01, NTSB, 2/19/02]

Jan 2001: After the elections, US intelligence
agencies are told to "back off" investigating the bin Ladens
and Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on
investigating Saudis. [BBC, 11/6/01, more]

Spring 2001: Military and government documents are
released that seek to legitimize the use of US military force
in the pursuit of oil. One article advocates presidential
subterfuge in the promotion of conflict and "explicitly
urge[s] painting over the US's actual reasons for warfare as a
necessity for mobilizing public support for a conflict." [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02, more]

May 2001: US security chiefs reject Sudan's
offer to turn over voluminous files about bin Laden and
al-Qaeda. Sudan has made this offer repeatedly since 1995. [Guardian, 9/30/01, more]

May 2001: Secretary of State Powell gives $43
million in aid to the Taliban government. [Los Angeles Times, 5/22/01, CNN 5/17/01] This follows $113 million given
in 2000. [State Dept. Fact Sheet, 12/11/01]

May 2001: The US introduces "Visa Express"
program allowing any Saudi Arabian to obtain visas through
their travel agent instead of appearing at a consulate in
person. [US News and World Report, 12/12/01] Five
hijackers use Visa Express to enter the US. [Congressional Intelligence Committee,
9/20/02]

May-Aug 2001: A number of the 9/11 hijackers make
at least six trips to Las Vegas. These "fundamentalist"
Muslims drink alcohol, frequent strip clubs, and smoke
hashish. Some even have strippers perform lap dances for them.
[San Francisco Chronicle, 10/4/01, Newsweek, 10/15/01]

June 13, 2001: Egyptian President Mubarak through
his intelligence services warns the US that bin Laden's
Islamic terrorist network is threatening to kill Bush and
other G8 leaders at their July economic summit meeting in
Italy. The terrorists plan to use a plane stuffed with
explosives. [NY Times, 9/26/01]

June 28,
2001: CIA Director George J. Tenet has been "nearly
frantic" with concern. A written intelligence summary for
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice says: "It is highly
likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near
future, within several weeks." Rice will later claim that
everyone was taken by complete surprise by the 9/11 attack. By
late summer, one senior political appointee says, Tenet had
repeated this threat "so often that people got tired of
hearing it." [Washington Post, 5/17/02]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney
treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American
Hospital in Dubai. Telephoned several times, the doctor
declines to answer questions. During his stay, bin Laden
allegedly is visited by one or two CIA officers. [Guardian, 11/1/01, Sydney Morning Herald, 10/31/01, Times of London, 11/1/01, UPI,
11/1/01, more]

July 10, 2001: A Phoenix FBI agent sends a
memorandum warning about Middle Eastern men taking flight
lessons. He suspects bin Laden's followers and recommends a
national program to check visas of suspicious flight-school
students. The memo is sent to two FBI counter-terrorism
offices, but no action is taken. [New York Times, 5/21/02] Vice President
Cheney says in May 2002 that he opposes releasing this memo to
congressional leaders or to the media and public. [CNN, 5/20/02]

July 24, 2001: Larry Silverstein's $3.2 billion
99-year lease of the WTC is finalized. Silverstein hopes to
win $7 billion in insurance from the destruction of the WTC
towers. [NY Times, 02/16/03, Newsday, 09/25/02]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops
flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS, 7/26/01] He later walks out of his
office rather than answer questions about this. [AP, 5/16/02, more]

Late July 2001: The US and UN ignore warnings from
the Taliban foreign minister that bin Laden is planning an
imminent huge attack on US soil. The FBI and CIA also fail to
take seriously warnings that Islamic fundamentalists have
enrolled in flight schools across the US. [Independent, 9/7/02, more]

Summer 2001: Intelligence officials know that al
Qaeda both hopes to use planes as weapons and seeks to strike
a violent blow within the US, despite government claims
following 9/11 that the World Trade Center and Pentagon
attacks came "like bolts from the blue." [Wall
Street Journal, 09/19/02, CNN, 9/12/02]

Summer 2001: Russian President Putin later says
publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert
the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets.
[Fox, 5/17/02]

Late summer 2001: Jordanian intelligence agents go to
Washington to warn that a major attack is planned inside the
US and that aircraft will be used. Christian Science
Monitor calls the story "confidently authenticated" even
though Jordan later backs away from it. [CS Monitor, 5/23/02]

Aug 5-11, 2001: Israel warns US of an imminent Al
Qaeda attack. [Fox News, 5/17/02]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush is warned by US
intelligence that bin Laden might be planning to hijack
commercial airliners. The White House waits eight months after
9/11 to reveal this fact. [New York Times, 5/16/02] Titled "Bin Ladin
Determined To Strike in US," the intelligence briefing
specifically mentions the World Trade Center. Yet Bush later
states the briefing "said nothing about an attack on America."
[CNN, 4/12/04, Washington Post, 4/12/04, White House, 4/11/04, CNN, 4/10/04, Intelligence Briefing, 8/6/01, more]

Aug 22, 2001: Top counter-terrorism expert John
O'Neill quits the FBI due to repeated obstruction of his
al-Qaeda investigations and a power play against him. He was
the government's "most committed tracker of bin Laden and
al-Qaeda." The next day he starts a new job as head of
security at the WTC. He is killed weeks later in the World
Trade Center during the 9/11 attack. [New Yorker, 1/14/02]

Aug 24, 2001: Frustrated with lack of response from
FBI headquarters about detained suspect Moussaoui, the
Minnesota FBI begins working with the CIA. The CIA sends
alerts calling him a "suspect 747 airline suicide hijacker."
Three days later an FBI Minnesota supervisor says he is trying
to make sure that Moussaoui does not "take control of a plane
and fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02] FBI
headquarters chastises Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA.
[Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will
later say "there was nothing the agency could have done to
anticipate and prevent the [9/11] attacks." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, more]

Sept 10, 2001: A particularly urgent warning may
have been received the night before the attacks, causing some
top Pentagon brass to cancel a trip. "Why that same
information was not available to the 266 people who died
aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot
topic on the Hill." [Newsweek, 9/13/01] "A group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns." [Newsweek, 9/24/01, more]

Sept 10, 2001: Former president Bush is with a
brother of Osama bin Laden at a Carlyle business conference.
The conference is interrupted the next day by the attacks. [Washington Post, 3/16/03]

Sept 10, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces
that by some estimates the Department of Defense "cannot track
$2.3 trillion in transactions." CBS later calculates that 25%
of the yearly defense budget is unaccounted for. A defense
analyst says, "The books are cooked routinely year after
year." [DOD, 9/10/01, CBS, 1/29/02] This announcement was
buried by the next day's news of 9/11.

Sept 11, 2001: Warren Buffett, the second richest man
on Earth [BBC, 6/22/01], schedules a charity event
inside Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. A small group of
business leaders attend, including at least one who would
otherwise have died in the WTC. [SF Business Times, 2/1/02, Forbes 10/15/01] Bush flies to this same
base that day, where there is an underground command center.
[CNN, 9/12/01, CBS, 9/11/02]

Sept 11, 2001: Recovery experts extract data from 32
WTC computer drives revealing a surge in financial
transactions. Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have
been made through some WTC computer systems immediately before
and during the disaster. [Reuters, 12/18/01, CNN, 12/20/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: In what the government describes as a
bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency (the National
Reconnaissance Office or NRO) was all set for an exercise at 9
AM on September 11th in which an aircraft would crash into one
of its buildings near Washington, DC. [AP, 8/22/02] Four wargames were also in
progress at the time of the attacks. [C-SPAN Congressional Testimony, 3/11/05, more]

Sept 11, 2001: The entire continental United States
is defended by only seven air bases and 14 military jets. [CNN, 9/9/03, Newsday, 9/23/01]

September 11, 2001—Timeline for the
Day of the Attacks

Department of Defense (6/1/01) and FAA
(7/12/01) procedure: In the event of a hijacking, the FAA
hijack coordinator on duty at Washington headquarters requests
the military to provide escort aircraft. Normally, NORAD
escort aircraft take the required action. The FAA notifies the
National Military Command Center by the most expeditious
means. [DOD/, 6/1/01, FAA,
7/12/01, FAA 7/12/01]

If NORAD (North American Aerospace
Defense Command) hears of any difficulties in the skies, they
begin the work to scramble jet fighters [take off and
intercept aircraft that are off course]. Between Sep 2000
and June 2001 fighters were scrambled 67 times. [AP,
8/12/02] When the Lear jet of golfer Payne Stewart didn't
respond in 1999, F-16 interceptors were quickly dispatched.
According to an Air Force timeline, a series of military
planes provided an emergency escort to Payne's stricken Lear
about 20 minutes after ground controllers lost contact
with his plane.[Dallas Morning News, 10/26/99, more]

8:20 AM (est.): Air traffic controllers suspect Flight
11 has been hijacked. [NY Times, 9/15/01, more]

8:40 AM: NORAD is notified of hijacking. [NY Times, 10/16/01, 8:38 AM Washington Post, 9/15/01]

8:46 AM: Flight 11 crashes into the WTC (World
Trade Center) north tower. [approximately 26
minutes after controllers lost contact][New York Times, 9/12/01]

8:46 AM: President Bush later
states, "I was sitting outside the classroom and I saw an
airplane hit the tower. The TV was on." [CNN, 12/4/01] "When we walked into the
classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building."
[White House, 1/5/02] There was no live
coverage of the first crash on TV and President Bush was in a
classroom reading with children at the time of the second
crash. How could he possibly have seen an airplane thit the
tower?

8:52 AM: Two F-15s take off from Otis Air
Force Base. [Washington Post, 9/15/01] They go after
Flight 175. Major General Paul Weaver, director of the Air
National Guard, states "the pilots flew like a scalded ape,
topping 500 mph but were unable to catch up to the airliner.
We had a nine-minute window, and in excess of 100 miles to
intercept 175,'' he said. ''There was just literally no way.''
[Dallas Morning News, 9/15/01] F-15's fly at up to 2.5 times the speed of
sound [1875 mph or 30+ miles a minute or 270+ miles in
nine minutes] and are designed for low-altitude,
high-speed, precision attacks. [BBC]

8:56 AM: By this time, it is evident that
Flight 77 is lost. The FAA, already in contact with the
Pentagon about the two hijackings out of Boston, reportedly
doesn't notify NORAD of this until 9:24, 28 minutes
later. [see 9:10 AM for comparison, New York Times, 10/16/01]

9:03 AM: Flight 175 crashes into the south WTC
tower. [23 minutes after NORAD notified, 43 minutes
after air traffic control lost contact with pilots][New York Times, 9/12/01, CNN, 9/12/01]

9:10 AM: Major General Paul Weaver states
Flight 77 came back on the (radar) scope at 9:10 in West
Virginia. [Dallas Morning News, 9/15/01] Another report
states the military was notified of Flight 77 several minutes
after 9:03. [Washington Post, 9/15/01]

9:24 AM [? - see above]: The
FAA, who 28 minutes earlier had discovered Flight 77 off
course and heading east over West Virginia, reportedly
notifies NORAD. A Pentagon spokesman says, "The Pentagon was
simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way." [Newsday, 9/23/01, New York Times, 10/16/01] Yet since the
first crash, military officials in a Pentagon command center
were urgently talking to law enforcement and air traffic
control officials about what to do. [New York Times, 9/15/01]

9:28 AM: Air traffic control learns that Flight
93 has been hijacked. [MSNBC, 7/30/02]

9:38 AM: Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
[42 minutes or more after contact was lost, one hour
after NORAD notification of first hijacking][New York Times, 10/16/01, 9:43 CNN, 9/12/01]

9:59 AM: The south tower of the World Trade
Center collapses. [New York Times, 9/12/01]

10:10 AM:
Flight
93 crashes in Pennsylvania. [42 minutes after contact
was lost, 90 minutes after NORAD notification of first
hijacking. What happened to sophisticated military radar
systems and jet fighter scramble procedures?
][CNN, 9/12/02]

10:28 AM: The World Trade Center north tower
collapses. [CNN, 9/12/01, NY Times, 9/12/01]

5:20 PM: Building 7 of the World Trade Center
collapses. [CNN, 9/12/01] Though the media claims fires
brought the building down, the building's owner Larry
Silverstein later recounts the story of the collapse of this
47-story skyscraper in a PBS documentary America
Rebuilds, "I remember getting a call from the fire
department commander. ... I said ... maybe the smartest thing
to do is to pull it. And they made that decision to pull, and
then we watched the building collapse." [PBS Documentary, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Did the Air Force send up planes after
the hijacked aircraft? The Air Force won't say. It says they
keep about 20 F-15 and F-16 fighters on duty with Air National
Guards along the nation's coastline, ready to inspect unknown
aircraft entering U.S. airspace. "We can scramble and be
airborne in a matter of minutes," said an Air Force
spokesperson. Some airline pilots are wondering whether the
FAA did enough to try to prevent the crashes. [Wall
Street Journal, 09/14/01]

Sept 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt
with two of the hijacked airliners make a tape recording
describing the events, but the tape is later destroyed by a
supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even
listening to it. [Washington Post, 5/6/04, New York Times, 5/6/04]

Sept 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow
government" is formed. Key congressional leaders say they
didn't know President Bush had established this
government-in-waiting. Some Congressmen state the
administration should have conferred about its plans. [CBS, 3/2/02, Washington Post, 3/2/02, more]

Sept 11, 2001: A National Public Radio correspondent
states: "I spoke with Congressman Ike Skelton who said that
just recently the director of the CIA warned that there could
be an attack - an imminent attack - on the United States of
this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected." [NPR,
9/11/01]

Sept 12, 2001: Senator Orrin Hatch says the US was
monitoring bin Laden supporters and overheard them discussing
the attack. [AP, 9/12/01] Why has the media not
explored the fact that the US could monitor private
communications of al-Qaeda on 9/11?

Sept 13-19, 2001: Members of bin Laden's family are
driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret assembly
point in Texas and then to Washington, where they leave the
country on a private plane when most flights were still
grounded. Top White House officials personally approve these
evacuations. [New York Times, 9/4/03, Boston Globe, 9/20/01, New York Times, 9/30/01, more]

Sept 14, 2001: The two black boxes for Flight 77 are
found. [PBS, 9/14/01] FBI Director Robert Mueller
later says Flight 77's data recorder provides altitude, speed,
headings and other information, but the voice recorder
contains "nothing useful." [CBS, 2/23/02] Yet they refuse to release
the recordings.

Sept 15-16, 2001: U.S. military sources give the FBI
information that several of the 9/11 hijackers, including
leader Mohamed Atta, may have received training at U.S.
military installations. Three hijackers listed their address
on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air
Station in Pensacola, Fla. Atta graduated from the US
International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base,
Alabama. The media drops the story after the Air Force issues
a statement saying that while the names are similar, "we are
probably not talking about the same people." [Newsweek, 9/15/01, Washington Post, 9/16/01, Los Angeles Times, 9/15/01, more] Yet the military provides
no detailed information to refute the claims in these
articles.

Sept 19, 2001: The FBI claims that there may have
been six hijacking teams on the morning of 9/11. [New York Times, 9/19/01] Authorities have
identified teams that total as many as 50 infiltrators who
supported or carried out the strikes. About 40 of the men have
been accounted for. [Los Angeles Times, 9/13/01] Yet only one
person, Moussaoui, is later charged.

Sept 20-23, 2001: "Five of the alleged hijackers have
emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their names and
photographs appearing on satellite television. ... The
hijackers were using stolen identities, and investigators are
studying the possibility that the entire suicide squad
consisted of impostors." [quote from London Times, 9/20/01, see also BBC]. Yet these same individuals are later
officially established as the 9/11 hijackers in the 2004 9/11 Commission Report. For more on this, click here.

Oct 2, 2001: The Patriot Act is introduced in
Congress. The next day, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Patrick Leahy (D) accuses the Bush administration of reneging
on an agreement on this anti-terrorist bill. [Washington Post, 10/4/01] Anthrax letters
are sent to Leahy and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D)
on October 9. [CNN, 11/18/01]

Oct 10-11, 2001: After consulting with the FBI and
CDC, Iowa State University in Ames destroys anthrax spores
collected over seven decades. On Oct 25, the White House
homeland security director confirms publicly the anthrax
letters sent to Leahy and others contained the Ames strain.
[New York Times, 11/9/01]

Nov 12, 2001—Mar 25,
2002: 13 renowned microbiologists mysteriously die over
the span of less than five months. All but one are killed or
murdered under unusual circumstances. Some are world leaders
in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others are the
best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because
of biological weapons. Still others are experts in the theory
of bioterrorism. [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] Nov 12: Benito Que,
52, an expert in infectious diseases—killed in carjacking,
later deemed possible stroke. [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] Nov. 16: Don Wiley,
57, one of the world's leading researchers of deadly
viruses—body found in Mississippi River. [CNN, 12/22/01] Nov 21: Dr. Vladimir
Pasechnik, 64, an expert in adapting germs and viruses for
military use—stroke. [New York Times, 11/23/01] Dec 10: Dr. Robert
Schwartz, 57, a leading researcher on DNA sequencing
analysis—slain at home. [Washington Post, 12/12/01] Dec 14: Nguyen
Van Set, 44, his research organization had just come to fame
for discovering a virus which can be modified to affect
smallpox—dies in an airlock in his lab. [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/12/01] Jan 2002:
Ivan Glebov (bandit attack) and Alexi Brushlinski (killed in
Moscow), both world-renowned members of the Russian Academy of
Science. [Pravda, 2/9/02] Feb 9: Victor Korshunov, 56,
head of the microbiology sub-faculty at the Russian State
Medical University—killed by cranial injury. [Pravda, 2/9/02] Feb 11: Ian Langford, 40,
one of Europe's leading experts on environmental risk—murdered
in home. [London Times, 2/13/02] Feb 28 (2): Tanya
Holzmayer, 46, helped create drugs
that interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS,
and Guyang Huang, 38, a
brilliant scholar highly regarded in
genetics—murder/suicide. [San Jose Mercury News, 2/28/02] Mar 24:
David Wynn-Williams, 55, an astrobiologist with NASA Ames
Research Center—killed while jogging. [London Times, 3/27/02] Mar 25: Steven
Mostow, 63, an expert on the threat of bioterrorism—private
plane crash. [KUSA TV/NBC, 3/26/02]

Dec 2001: The US engineers the rise to power of
a former Unocal Oil employee, Hamid Karzai, as the interim
president of Afghanistan. Looking at the map of the big US
bases in Afghanistan, one is struck that they are identical to
the route of the projected oil pipeline. [Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02, more]

Dec 25, 2001: Leading structural engineers and
fire-safety experts believe the investigation into the
collapse of the WTC is "inadequate." They note that the
current team of 20 or so investigators has inadequate
financial and staff support, has been prevented from
interviewing witnesses and from examining the disaster site.
They couldn't even get detailed blueprints of the World Trade
Center. The decision to rapidly recycle the steel beams from
the WTC means definitive answers may never be known. [New York Times, 12/25/01]

Jan 1, 2002: Zalamy Khalilzad is appointed by Bush
as special envoy to Afghanistan. [BBC, 1/1/02, Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02] Khalilzad once
lobbied for the Taliban and worked for an American oil company
that sought concessions for pipelines in Afghanistan. [Independent, 1/10/02]

Jan 4, 2002: An editorial in the respected trade
magazine Fire Engineering states that there is good
reason to believe that the "official investigation," blessed
by FEMA, into the WTC collapse is a "half-baked farce" that
may already have been commandeered by political forces whose
primary interests are clearly not full disclosure. "Respected
members of the fire protection engineering community are
beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating theory has
emerged: The structural damage from the planes and the
explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough
to bring down the towers." [Fire Engineering, 1/02]

Jan 24, 2002: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
claims that on this day Cheney calls him and urges that no
9/11 inquiry be made. He is repeatedly pressured thereafter.
[CNN, 1/29/02, Newsweek, 2/4/02, more]

Feb 6, 2002: CIA Director Tenet tells a Senate
hearing that there was no 9/11 intelligence failure. When
asked about the CIA on 9/11, he states that the 9/11 plot was
"in the heads of three or four people." He rejects any
suggestion that the CIA failed to do its job. [USA Today, 2/7/02]

Feb 21, 2002: A ban on poppy growing by the Taliban
in July 2000 along with severe droughts reduced Afghanistan's
opium yield by 91% in 2001. Yet the UN expects its 2002 opium
crop to be equivalent to the bumper one of three years ago.
Afghanistan is the source of 75% of the world's heroin. [Guardian, 2/21/02] Why is the US unable
to control opium production which had almost
stopped?

Mar 2, 2002: The 9/11 collapse of the 47-story WTC
building 7 was the first time a modern, steel-reinforced
high-rise in the US has ever collapsed in a fire. [New York Times, 3/2/02] Building 7 was where
the SEC was storing files related to numerous Wall Street
investigations. The files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000
cases were destroyed. [National Law Journal, 9/17/01] Lost files
include documents that could show the relationship between
Citigroup and the WorldCom bankruptcy. [The Street, 8/9/02, more]

Mar 13, 2002: Bush says of bin Laden: "I truly am
not that concerned about him." [White House, 3/13/02] Military chief Myers
states: "the goal has never been to get bin Laden." [CNN/DOD, 4/6/02]

Apr 19, 2002: FBI Director Mueller: "We have not
uncovered a single piece of paper that mentioned any aspect of
the 9/11 plot. The hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no
storage media of any kind." [FBI, 4/19/02, Los Angeles Times, 4/30/02] Yet
investigators have amassed a ''substantial'' amount of e-mail
traffic among the hijackers. [USA Today, 10/1/01] The laptop computer of
Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, was confiscated weeks
before 9/11, yet FBI headquarters
systematically dismissed and undermined requests by
Minneapolis FBI agents to search the computer. [Time, 5/21/02, CNN, 5/27/02]

May 15, 2002: For the first time, the White House
admits that Bush was warned about bin Laden hijacking aircraft
and wanting to attack the US in Aug 2001. It is unclear why
they waited eight months to reveal this. The Press Secretary
states that while Bush had been warned of possible hijackings,
"the president did not receive information about the use of
airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." Yet the August
presidential memo left little doubt that the hijacked
airliners were intended for use as missiles and that US
targets were intended. [New York Times, 5/16/02, Washington Post, 5/16/02, Guardian, 5/19/02]

May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other
journalists haven't been properly investigating since 9/11. He
graphically describes the pressures to conform after the
attacks. [Guardian, 5/17/02, more]

May 21, 2002: A memo is released in which Minnesota
FBI agent Coleen Rowley writes to FBI Director Mueller, "I
have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing
of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI
management has occurred and is occurring." [Time, 5/21/02] CNN calls the memo a
"colossal indictment of our chief law-enforcement agency." [CNN, 5/27/02] Time magazine later
names Rowley one of three "Persons of the Year" for 2002. [Time, 12/22/02]

May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to
establishing a special, independent commission to probe how
the government dealt with terror warnings before 9/11. [CBS, 5/23/02]

May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Robert Wright formally
accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing investigations that
might have prevented 9/11. He is under threat of retribution
if he talks to members of Congress about what he knows. [Fox News/Reuters, 5/30/02, more] He also accuses the agency of shutting
down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training
camps in Chicago and Kansas City. Wright has written a book,
but the agency won't let him publish it or even give it to
anyone. [LA Weekly, 8/2/02]

July 23, 2002: The New York City government decides
that many of the audio and written records of the Fire
Department's actions on 9/11 should never be released. The
New York Times had filed a lawsuit seeking numerous
records concerning the terrorist attack on the World Trade
Center, including firsthand accounts by scores of firefighters
and chiefs. [New York Times, 7/23/02]

Sept 11, 2002: On the first anniversary of 9/11,
New York Times writes, "One year later, the public
knows less about the circumstances of 2,801 deaths at the foot
of Manhattan in broad daylight than people in 1912 knew within
weeks about the Titanic." The former police commissioner of
Philadelphia says: "You can hardly point to a cataclysmic
event in our history when a blue-ribbon panel did not set out
to establish the facts and suggest reforms. That has not
happened here." [New York Times, 9/11/02]

Oct 5, 2002: Congressional investigators say the
FBI's efforts to block their inquiry makes them skeptical of
FBI assertions. They also say the Justice Department has
joined the FBI in fighting congressional requests for
information, while the CIA has been antagonistic. [New York Times, 10/5/02]

Oct 16, 2002: The CIA, FBI, and NSA all testify that
no individual at their agencies has been punished or fired for
any of the missteps surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. [Washington Post, 10/18/02]

Oct 21, 2002: No more than six of the 19 hijackers
were interviewed by US officials before being granted visas.
This contradicts the State Department's claim that 12 had been
interviewed. Of 15 hijackers, none filled in the visa
documents properly. All 15 of them
should have been denied entry to the country. "The system was
rigged in their favor from the get-go." [Washington Post, 10/22/02, ABC News, 10/23/02] In December 2002, two
top Republican senators report that if State Department
personnel had merely followed the law in Saudi Arabia, 9/11
would not have happened. [AP,
12/18/02, more]

Oct 27, 2002: A report from Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld's Defense Science Board recommends the creation of a
super-intelligence body (P2OG) which would launch secret
operations to "stimulate reactions" among terrorists and
states owning weapons of mass destruction. It would prod
terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to
quick-response attacks by US forces. [Los Angeles Times, 10/27/02, more]

Oct 29, 2002: Of over 800 people rounded up since
9/11, only 10 have been linked to the hijackings and probably
will turn out to be innocent. [Newsweek, 10/29/02] Though many were held
for months, the vast majority were never charged with anything
other than overstaying a visa. [New York Times, 7/11/02]

Nov 27, 2002: Bush names Henry Kissinger to lead an
independent investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [New York Times, 11/28/02] He is a highly
controversial figure. Documents released by the CIA strengthen
suspicions that Kissinger was actively involved in a covert
plan to assassinate thousands of political opponents in six
Latin American countries. He is also famous for his obsession
with secrecy. [BBC, 4/26/02] "Indeed, it is tempting to
wonder if the choice of Mr. Kissinger is not a clever maneuver
by the White House to contain an investigation it long
opposed." [New York Times, 11/29/02]

Dec 13, 2002: Kissinger resigns as chairman of the
new 9/11 investigation citing controversy over potential conflicts of
interest with his business clients. [CNN, 12/13/02, BBC, 12/14/02]

Dec 16, 2002: Bush replaces Kissinger with Thomas
Kean as chairman. Kean promises a thorough investigation. [AP,
12/17/02] He will devote one day a week to the commission.
[Washington Post, 12/17/02]

Jan 13, 2003: The worldwide turmoil caused by US
government policies goes not exactly unreported, but entirely
de-emphasized. Guardian writers are inundated by
e-mails from Americans asking why their own papers never print
what is in UK papers. If there is a Watergate scandal lurking
in this administration, it is unlikely to be [Washington
Post's Bob] Woodward or his colleagues who will tell us
about it. If it emerges, it will probably come out on the web.
"That is a devastating indictment of the state of American
newspapers." [Guardian, 1/13/03]

March
26, 2003: Though the investigation into the space
shuttle Columbia tragedy cost $50 million and the Ken Starr
investigation of Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky ran $64
million, the White House balks at increasing funding beyond $3
million for the 9/11 Commission's investigation into the worst
terror attack ever. The latest effort to curtail funding has
angered victims of the attacks. "The White House decision was
another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the
panel's role." [Time, 3/26/03, MSNBC, 9/20/06]

July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is
published. It fails to mention that a year before the 9/11
attacks, a secret Pentagon project named Able Danger had
identified four 9/11 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta.
The Commission spokesperson initially states members were not
informed of this, but later acknowledges they were. [New York Times, 8/11/05, more] The report also completely fails
to investigate the collapse of WTC 7.

Nov 19, 2004: The fear that Afghanistan might
degenerate into a narco-state is becoming a reality.
Afghanistan has surpassed Colombia as the world's biggest
gross producer of illicit narcotics, heroin being the "main
engine of economic growth" and the "strongest bond" among
tribes that previously fought constantly. What we have here
now is a narco-economy where 40 to 50 percent of the GDP is
from illicit drugs. [San Francisco Chronicle, 11/19/04] How
does a country controlled by the US become the largest
producer of illegal drugs? For a possible answer, click here.

Nov 17, 2005: Former FBI Director Louis Freeh: "The
Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the
most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. Yet the
9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it 'was not
historically significant.' This astounding conclusion—in
combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger ...
raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and,
if the facts prove out, might just render the commission
historically insignificant itself." [Wall Street Journal, 11/17/05, more]

2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government
officials and public leaders express disbelief in the official
story of 9/11. Some even believe 9/11 may have been an inside
job. 100 prominent leaders and forty 9/11 family members sign
a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence that
suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately
allowed the attacks to occur. [Various Publications]

August 9, 2006: A
shocking new book by the 9/11 Commission co-chairmen Thomas
Kean and Lee Hamilton says we still don't know the whole truth
about 9/11. The book outlines repeated misstatements by the
Pentagon and the FAA. Untrue—the military's original timeline
of United Flight 93. Equally untrue, the government's timeline
for American Flight 77 and details about fighter jets
scrambled to intercept it. CNN News anchor Lou Dobbs: "The
fact that the government would permit deception ... and
perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation
of what is going on." [CNN, 8/9/06 , MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06, more]

2006-2011: Over 50 senior
government officials from the military, intelligence, Cabinet
and Congress, and over 100 highly respected professors,
including engineers, physicists, architects, philosophers and
theologians publicly criticize The 9/11 Commission
Report as flawed, and call for a new, independent
investigation. Over 1,000 architects and engineers have
created a website calling for a new investigation. Some even
claim rogue elements of government were involved in the
attacks. [Officials, Professors, Architects and
Engineers]

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