"Conspiracy Theories" & FACTS!
The greatest threat to liberty is a government obsessed with alleged "public safety" concerns.
Conspiracy: 1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement,
between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason;
a plot.
"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania..
“Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the world government.” - Henry Kissinger (Bilderburg Conference 1991 Evians, France)
"Some of the biggest men in
the United States in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of
something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better
not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it..." -
Woodrow Wilson
The Secret Government
Google Video - Tuesday April 10, 2007
Bill Moyers, the respected TV journalist, analyzes the threats to
constitutional government posed by an illegitimate network of
"superpatriots", spies, profiteers, mercenaries and ex-generals.
His documentary gives a fascinating overview of what has actually
happened in the last 50 years regarding the CIA and the Cold War
(including Iran, Guatamala, Cuba, Vietnam and Chile). He features
such people as Ralph McGeehee and Phil Retinger (both former
CIA agents), Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque (Ret. U.S.N.),
Theodore Bissell (active in the CIA at the time), Sen. Frank
Church and many others.
Debunking Conspiracy Theorists Paranoid Fantasies About Sept 11
Distract From the Real Issues
Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable eventDistract From the Real Issues
there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy
theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" "The Pope
had John Lennon murdered", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens
replaced Nixon with a clone", etc, etc. The bigger the event, the more
ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate
in relation to it.
So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned
their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there
is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager
to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has
attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is
that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded
by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation
other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of
this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of
delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage
across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of
otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the
effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little
rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as
all such silly conspiracy theories. These crackpots even contend that
the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no
hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it
had been able.
Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider
trading on airline stocks -- linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior
of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of
the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other
documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the
conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab
hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and
fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into
important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any
idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent
even more preposterous stories to distract from its core silliness,
and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly
gargantuan proportions.
It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated
stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of
conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called
evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one
delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and
deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned
full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-
invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus
beginning the circle once more.
This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy
theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their
(ill)logical conclusions. According to the practitioners of the fruit
loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and
crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then used
electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly
the planes to their targets.
The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is
only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they
conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs
on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got
on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and
without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly
question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too
mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague
mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never
specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were
traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to
relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious
fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked
suspicious.
However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply
paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed
to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched? And if
they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected
themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage. "Excuse me
sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas
mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?" "A present for
your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get." "Very strange", thinks
the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic
name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas
mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time
one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."
Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely
to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on
board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had
purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that
identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used
false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time, the fruit loop is
in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist
tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational
analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at
the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical
faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a
revelation of questionable sanity. Hmm? So they got on board with
false IDs but took their real passports with them?
However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely
circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who
said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting
in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts
again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?" "You numbskull!
They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...
Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of
creative delusion, the rational sceptic will allow them to get away
with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what
further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid
story. "Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that
completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? "
The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-
incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to
time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in
a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...
This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist.
The "improbability drive", in which they decide upon a conclusion
without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually
speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-
incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each
event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens
(just about all the time in their world).
There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most
likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor. Having
for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the
silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of
how they are supposed to have taken over the planes. Hijacking a plane
is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able
to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to
punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking.
Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy
buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over
the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with
boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their
masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the
crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just
on one plane, but on all four.
At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to
call upon the services of the improbability drive. So now that our
incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four
pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery
end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift
meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our
freedoms", it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them
to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because
according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs,
these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before
their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really
impeccable Islamic behavior -- and then got up at 5am the next morning
to pull off the greatest covert operation in history.
This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed
enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals
in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because
they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find. It gets
better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas
and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching
certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided
them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight
training with these tools, which would be available just about
anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to
risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the
training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but
such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy
theorist, too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit
loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-
believable.
Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the
mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult
question of why there's nothing left of the planes.
Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second
plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with
explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that
manner when they crash. Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap
of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that
they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely
vapourizing the plane?
This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at
this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in
order to keep the delusion rolling along. There weren't any
explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing
from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet
fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum
temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a
ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of
aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size
contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the
melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion
temperature of kerosine -- let alone the boiling point -- which is
what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50
tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for
each gallon of kerosine.
For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely
dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their
answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer
pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically
insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine,
something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered
by them, this very minute.
Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation
history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel
load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the
effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the
intellects of these cretins. "Its a well known fact that planes blow
up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch
any Bruce Willis movie." "Care to provide any documented examples? If
it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs
from some kind of documentation -- other than Bruce Willis movies?"
At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will
narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into,
and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip. "Ah, but
planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of
telling." they counter with a sly grin.
Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since,
and not vapourized into nothing. "But not big planes, with that much
fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to
vapourize. "Yes but not hijacked planes!"
"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental
affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?" "Now you're just being
silly". Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently
crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the
ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into
nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass?
But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily
around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode
into nothing on impact." Effortlessly weaving back and forth between
the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened
before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist
has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the
WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant
vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any
other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the
fruit. loop...
But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and
they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly
discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have to
explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of
both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is
to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the
buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine. For
this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics
and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but
also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of
degradation of energy.
You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic
fireball, vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back
for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact
point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was
doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires
all through the building.
When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law
which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once,
something which is readily observable in the real world, even for
those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no
problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few
thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to: completely vapourize a 65
ton aircraft: have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for
over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about
double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel ): still have
enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly
destructive fires all through the building.
This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that
those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were
deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire
street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take
kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding
the lamp -- the next -- kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with with
the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly
stuff to start a massive forest fire.
These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly
created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning
kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the
skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC
was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not
particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building
of 2000 C, without a shred of evidence to support this curious
suspension of the laws of physics. Not content with this ludicrous
garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they
came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling
sideways.
Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the
structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws
of gravity get in the way?
The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling
object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically
impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors
smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy
theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the
morning of Sept 11.
It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no
bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of
their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically
impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any
resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to
resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a
Boeing passenger jet straying off course.
Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at
school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for
why. "Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir" "No miss, the kerosine
heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my
passport." "You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs who
destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."
Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and
mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their
science homework. The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly
kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so
many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat.
(Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the
job.)
This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy
theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different
city. That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your
DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by
an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it
can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton
aircraft.
You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the
missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of
the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to
a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly
claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified
from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the
plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain
these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one
identified by DNA testing.
So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending
upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story
you're trying to sell at any particular time. This concoction about
one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler.
For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of
5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of
building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open
space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the
Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular
hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A
little later
a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since
the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for
the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there
was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building,
and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf
on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.
But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the
properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of
thermodynamics, so what the hell -- why not throw in a little spatial
impossibility as well? I would have thought that the observation that
a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without
leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science.
But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts
with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong"
although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong
is a futile endeavour.
Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon
missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was
vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as
evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.)
Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in
its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole
is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up
outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile
hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the
building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the
building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the
wings -- here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off
and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the
building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.
When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its
belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing
alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from
an "irrecoverable angle."
How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a
study in stupidity. Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure
that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance.
The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the
remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall,
just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help
get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin
Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his
perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting
from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical
Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the
extremist Bush regime.
At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused
detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was
perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in
"retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self
indulgence to go unchallenged.
Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a
more appropriate outlet for their paranoia. Its time to stop loony
conspiracy theories about Sept 11.
Copyright © 2003 Gerard Holmgren
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A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF THE CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
WHAT ROLE DID CANADA'S CSIS OR
MILITARY HAVE, GIVEN THEIR INTIMATE TIES TO
U.S. INTELLIGENCE?
by Michael C. Ruppert
[Expanded and Revised Sept. 4, 2002 - Evidence of Bush Administration
Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Since our last revision
July 11, 2002, 16 New Items!]
Nov. 2, 2001, 12:00 PST -- On Oct. 31 the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic
kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official --
presumably the chief of station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's private
suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a
wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and last year's
attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a
2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving
office in January. Yet on July 14, 2001 he was allowed to leave Dubai on a
private jet, and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down.
In 1985 Oliver North -- the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn't appear to have a hand in the current war -- sent the Navy and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography "Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before Sept. 11 and ask the same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events
both before and after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, which have been blamed
on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests
that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in
their execution. It also makes clear that the events that have taken place
since Sept. 11 are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the
attacks.
[June 19, 2002] -- As the revelations of Bush Administration foreknowledge
have progressed from silence, to trickle, to cascade, the question has now
changed from forcing the evidence into the open into one of forcing both the
media and the people to avoid denying this information in the hopes that
their desire for a sense of "normalcy" can be fulfilled. As many of us have
known for years, normalcy went out the window forever when the first plane
hit the tower. And what has been revealed will not be resolved with an
expensive fact-finding commission, a few firing, or even an impeachment
proceeding. What is needed in America -- and in the global economic
system -- is an overhaul, not a tune up.
1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil, Texaco,
Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in cash bribing
heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge oil
reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay
exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines, the major oil
companies have no way to recoup their investments. [Source: "The Price of
Oil" by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia Times, "The
Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]
2. January 1995 - Philippine police investigating a possible attack on
the Pope uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, connected to World Trade
Center (WTC) bomber Ramsi Youssef. Parts of the plan call for crashing
hijacked airliners into civilian targets. Details of the plan are disclosed
in Youssef's 1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing. [Source: Agence
France-Presse, Dec. 7, 2001]
3. Dec. 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to the
Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the pipeline.
Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations failed, allegedly
because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]
4. Feb. 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca -- later to become
a special ambassador to Afghanistan -- testifies before the House that until
a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built.
[Source: Testimony before the House International Relations Committee:
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm]
5. August 1998 - After the U.S. cruise missile attacks on Al Qaeda targets
in Afghanistan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings, Unocal
officially withdraws from participation in the CentGas trans-Afghani gas
pipeline project. [Various sources, Unocal]
6. 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer that Saudi
Arabia was harboring an Al Qaeda cell led by two known terrorists. A more
detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in August
2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times Jan. 21, 2001; "See No Evil" by
Robert Baer (release date February 2002)]
7. April 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an electrical
generating plant at Dabhol, India loses access to plentiful LNG supplies
from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make the
investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by Unocal
from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at the city of
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]
8. July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order 13129, which
freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits trade between the Afghan
fundamentalist regime and U.S. entities. [Source: Federal Register, Vol. 64,
No. 129, July 7, 1999]
9. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi
Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest
defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept.
27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No. 7 - "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy"
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html]
10. March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in Carnivore
that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging to
Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin Laden's
colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, May
29, 2002]
11. 2000 (est.) - The FBI refuses to disclose the date of an internal memo
stating that a Middle Eastern nation had been trying to purchase a flight
simulator. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2002]
12. August 2000 -- Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped by Italian
police made apparent references to plans for major attacks involving
airports, airplanes and the United States according to transcripts obtained
by the Los Angeles Times. The Times suggests that the information might not
have been passed to U.S. authorities (hard to believe), but it did report
that Italian authorities would not comment on the report. The Times also
noted that "Italian and U.S. anti-terrorism experts cooperate closely."
[Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002]
13. Oct. 24-26, 2000 - Pentagon officials carry out a "detailed" emergency
drill based upon the crashing of a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon.
[Source: The Mirror, May 24, 2002]
14. January 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and intelligence
agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family,
including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were
living in Falls Church, Va. -- right next to CIA headquarters. This followed
previous orders dating back to 1996 that frustrated efforts to investigate
the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast,
Nov. 7, 2001]
15. Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was questioned in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE, Middle Eastern, European, and
U.S. sources were cited in this CNN report, which said the CIA requested
Jarrah be interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was suspected
to have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman said the other sources'
claims that the agency knew anything about Jarrah before Sept. 11 were
"flatly untrue." Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in Dubai, UAE
came six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was released
because "U.S. officials were satisfied," said the report. [Source: CNN, Aug.
1, 2002 http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html]
16. Feb. 13, 2001 - UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale -- while
covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers -- reports that the
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February, it does
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been
planned for years.
17. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to
the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the
Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]
18. May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert
operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour, while
CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with
Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani
intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume that while in
Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long meeting," also
met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI.
[Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]
19. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel that
Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2001; See
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html]
20. June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publishes a
story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to Drug
Trade." According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a report by
the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent of
the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that 80
percent traveled through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers
headquartered in Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers by
providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by a
Russian intelligence officer who told the Moscow News weekly, "You can come
to an arrangement [with custom officials] so that the search of military
transport planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys
carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]." [Source:
www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp]
21. July 2001 - FBI agents in Arizona write a memorandum warning about
suspicious activities involving a group of Middle Eastern men taking flight
training lessons in Phoenix. The memorandum specifically mentions Osama bin Laden and warns of connections to terrorist activities. [Source: The New
York Times, May 14, 2002]
22. summer 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol working
group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by the
Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion Monitor,
Feb. 28, 2002]
23. summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The Guardian,
correspondent David Leigh reported that "U.S. department of defense
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian's
Felicity Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training special
troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."
24. summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see above) orders
an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to the
FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently resigned
after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. The
individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Ahmad Umar
Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]
25. summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. 14 that an
Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the WTC in the week of Sept. 9. German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. [Source:
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1512332.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html ]
26. summer 2001 - Jordanian intelligence, the GID, makes a communications
intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah's men relay it to
Washington, probably through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure
the message got through it was passed through an Arab intermediary to a
German intelligence agent. The message: A major attack was planned inside
the U.S., and aircraft would be used. The code name of the operation was
"The Big Wedding." "When it became clear that the information was
embarrassing to Bush Administration officials and congressmen who at first
denied that there had been any such warnings before Sept. 11, senior
Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier confirmations." This case
was authenticated by ABC reporter John K. Cooley. [Source: International
Herald Tribune (IHT), May 21, 2002]
27. summer 2001 (est.) - The National Security Agency intercepts telephone
conversations between bin Laden aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohammed Atta and does not share the information with any other agencies. [Source: Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002]
28. June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that "India and
Iran will 'facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans for 'limited military action'
against the Taliban." The story indicates that the fighting will be done by
U.S. and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001]
29. summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist
pilots have been specifically training for missions involving hijacked
airliners. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are
translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently on
the Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key paragraph.) [Source:
Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html]
30. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatment for kidney disease
at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official, who returns
to CIA headquarters on July 15. [Source: Le Figaro, Oct. 31, 2001]
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le Figaro_osama_dubai.html
31. July 15, 2001 - Members of the G8, meeting in Genoa, Italy, discuss the
Taliban, pipelines, and the handing over of Osama bin Laden. According to
Pakistani representative Ambassador Naiz Naik, the U.S. delegation, led by
former Clinton Ambassador to Pakistan Tom Simmons warned of a "military
option" if the Taliban did not change position. [Source: Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, "Bin Laden: La Verite Interdite," pp76-7.
Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
32. July 2001 - Immediately after the G8 Summit three American officials --
Tom Simmons (former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former
assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren
(former State Department expert on South Asia) -- meet with Pakistani and
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is
planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French book
released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite Interdite," discloses that
Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers confirm
that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source: The
Guardian, Sept. 22, 2001; the BBC, Sept. 18, 2001; The Inter Press Service,
Nov. 16, 2001; Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, Feb. 21, 2002]
33. July 2001 - The G8 summit at Genoa, Italy is surrounded by
anti-aircraft guns, and local airspace is closed off after Italian and
Egyptian officials (including President Hosni Mubarak) warn American
intelligence that airliners stuffed with explosives might be used to attack
President Bush. U.S. officials state that the warnings were
"unsubstantiated." (But I wonder if they would have taken away the
anti-aircraft artillery?) [Source: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 2001]
34. July 26, 2001 - CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has stopped flying
commercial airlines due a threat assessment. Ashcroft told the press that he
didn't know anything about what had caused it.
35. Aug. 2, 2001 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Christine Rocca (a former
CIA officer), meets in Islamabad with a Taliban ambassador and demands the
extradition of bin Laden. This was the last known meeting on the subject.
[Source: Brisard and Dasquie, p 79. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
36. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden
in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member
of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying
lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, Sept.
13, 2001]
37. Aug. 11 or 12, 2001 , U.S. Navy Lt. Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, jailed in
Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer with U.S. naval
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and seals them in an
envelope, which he gives to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star,
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]
38. August 2001 - As reported in the IHT both a French magazine (name not
given) and a Moroccan newspaper simultaneously report that a Moroccan agent named Hassan Dabou had penetrated Al Qaeda to the point of getting close to bin Laden, who was "very disappointed" that the 1993 bombing had not toppled the WTC. Dabou was called to the U.S. after reporting this, which curtailed his ability to stay in touch with the organization and gather additional intelligence that might have prevented the attacks. Though not proved beyond a doubt, these stories have been met with a wall of silence. [The IHT, May 21, 2002]
39. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian
intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible terms"
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MSNBC
interview with Putin, Sept. 15, 2001]
40. August 2001 - President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings
at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might be
planning to hijack commercial airliners. [CBS News; CNN, May 15, 2002]
41. late-August 2001 - Prince Turki, the pro-U.S. head of Saudi
intelligence (also known to be close to bin Laden), is replaced by his more
neutral half-brother, Prince Nawwaf who is an ally of Crown Prince Abdullah.
[Source: Saudi Arabian Information Resource, Aug. 31, 2001;
http://www.saudinf.com/ - Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
42. August/September 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly
900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market
crash is imminent.
43. August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page memo written by Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley, FBI headquarters ignores
urgent, direct warnings from French intelligence services about pending
attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in Washington
expends extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of Zacarias
Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit for a search warrant to
search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's memo uses terms like "deliberately
sabotage," "block," "integrity," "omitted," "downplayed," "glossed over,"
"mis-characterize," "improper political reasons, "deliberately thwarting,"
"deliberately further undercut," "suppressed," and "not completely honest."
These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate acts.
FBI field agents desperately attempt to get action, but to no avail. One
agent speculates that bin Laden might be planning to crash airliners into
the WTC, while Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed these deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11. [Source:
Associated Press, May 21, 2002]
44. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on Sept. 16 that a caller to a Cayman
Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on the
U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9-11.
45. early-September 2001 - An FBI internal document, based upon field notes
from Minnesota field agents discloses that the agents had been investigating
and had questioned the "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. The field notes
speculate that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons, might crash an
airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field agents' requests to obtain a
search warrant for his personal computer were denied. French intelligence
confirms to the FBI that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and may have
traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no knowledge of the Phoenix
memo (See Item #18). One news story states that agents were in "a frenzy,"
absolutely convinced that he was "going to do something with a plane."
[Source: Newsweek, May 20, 2002 issue, story by Michael Isikoff].
46. Sept. 1-10 2001 - In an exercise, called Operation "Swift Sword" and
planned for four years, 23,000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.
Although the 9-11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment, the massive
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani
coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000
NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces are in
place before the first plane hits the WTC. [Sources: The Guardian; CNN; Fox;
The Observer; International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of
Illinois.]
47. Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht High School who
had recently emigrated from Pakistan reportedly predicts the destruction of
the World Trade Center a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to the
JournalNews newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing "three police sources and
a city official familiar with the investigation" as well as confirmation
from the FBI that the bureau had received this information, the paper
reported that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student pointed
to the World Trade Center from a third story window and said, "Do you see
those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week." New York City
Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the JournalNews "that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes of the Sept. 11 attack" and students told the paper that "FBI agents and NYPD detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the student [who made the prediction] and others in his class," which was "an English class for Arab-American students." [Source: The JournalNews, Oct. 11, 2001, http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html]
48. Sept. 5, 2001 - "Five hundred websites -- many of them with an Arab or
Muslim connection -- crash when an anti-terrorism taskforce raids InfoCom
Corp. in Texas," reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. A
taskforce of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the FBI,
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IRS, and
Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office building in the Dallas suburb
of Richardson, Texas for four days, "copying every hard disc they could
find." InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and is located
across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable organization
which has been alleged to have connections with terrorist groups. InfoCom's
vice president of marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of the
Holy Land Foundation. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.html]
49. Sept. 7, 2001 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year emergency
executive order (01-261) making new provisions for the Florida National
Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management personnel in the event of large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism. [Source:
State of Florida website listing of Governor's executive orders]
50. Sept. 6-7, 2001 - Put options (a speculation that the stock will go
down) totaling 4,744 are purchased on United Air Lines stock, as opposed to
only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a
dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the United
puts are purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed until
1998 by the current executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.
[Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism
(ICT), http://www.ict.org.il/, Sept. 21, 2001 (Note:The ICT article on
possible terrorist insider trading appeared eight days *after* the 9/11
attacks.); The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; The San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 29, 2001]
51. Sept. 10, 2001 - Put options totaling 4,516 are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: Herzliyya Institute -
above]
52. Sept. 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading patterns
to those experienced by United and American. The put option purchases on
both airlines were 600 percent above normal. This at a time when Reuters
(Sept. 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised
to take off."
53. Sept. 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are purchased
in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25 percent of
American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly
impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Oct. 18, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html]
54. 2001-2002 - It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad,
and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time
using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis
software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such kinds
of attacks. Promis was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in Osama bin
Laden's possession and, as a result of recent stories by Fox, both the FBI
and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence
gathering through at least summer 2002. This would confirm that CIA had
additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington
Times, June 15, 2001; Fox, Oct. 16, 2001;
FTW, Oct. 26, 2001, -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.html
FTW, Vol. IV, No. 6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. III, No. 7, Sept. 30, 2000 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html]
55. Sept. 9, 2001 - President George W. Bush is presented with detailed war
plans to overthrow Al Qaeda, according to U.S. and foreign sources speaking
to NBC News. [Source: MSNBC, May 16, 2002. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
56. Sept. 10, 2001 - This item has been removed solely at the request of
the party previously named in this entry. Recent court proceedings - which
occurred after the news story we had cited - have indicated that there was
no connection between the story listed here, the person named therein and
the attacks of 9-11-01. At the request of the previously named party, FTW
has replaced the $1,000 reward with a $1,000 donation to The Childrens
Defense Fund on behalf of the named party and the issue is now amicably
resolved without any hard feelings between that party and FTW.
57. Sept. 10, 2001 - According to Newsweek, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, apparently
because of security concerns. [Source: Newsweek, Sept. 24, 2001]
58. Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI was notified of
a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told his teacher, "Tomorrow, World
War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United
States will lose." The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when Garland,
Texas school district officials told the FBI about the incident, but it was
some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and the story's publication date of Sept.
19, 2001. [Source: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222]
59. Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a call from
what he described as "his security people at the airport" eight hours before
the terrorist attacks "advising him that Americans should be cautious about
their air travel," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Brown was
scheduled to fly to New York from San Francisco International Airport. He
told the Chronicle the call "didn't come in any alarming fashion, which is
why I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement." [Source: San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml]
60. Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the federal
agency that runs many of the nation's spy satellites, schedules an exercise
involving a plane crashing into one of the agency's buildings. "On the
morning of Sept. 11, 2001," according to a website advertising a homeland
security conference in Chicago run by the National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute, CIA official John Fulton and his team "were running a
pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would
be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that
the scenario would come true in a dramatic way." Fulton is the head of the
NRO's strategic gaming division. [Source: National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute, http://www.nlsi.net,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_ge/us_se
pt_11_plane_exercise_1]
61. Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's congressional correspondent David
Welna reports, "I spoke with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat from
Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, 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." [Source: http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm]
62. Sept. 11, 2001 - United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled to fly from New
York City to Los Angeles was delayed after four Muslim passengers began
demanding that the plane take off immediately. This happened apparently
after the first plane had hit the WTC. The passengers were thrown off the
flight. [Source: The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002]
63. Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend of Mohammed
Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting with
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Rep. Porter
Goss, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]
64. Sept. 11, 2001 - Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the world's
largest instant messaging companies with offices in New York, receive threat
warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than two hours before the
first plane hits. Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about any
investigation of this. The Odigo research and development offices in Israel
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of Tel Aviv that is the
same location as the Institute for Counter Terrorism, which eight days later
reports details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN's Daniel Sieberg,
Sept. 28, 2001; MSNBC Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, Sept. 27, 2001; Ha'aretz, Sept. 26, 2001]
65. Sept. 11, 2001 - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it
widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred.
[Source: CNN; ABC; MSNBC; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times;
www.tenc.net]
66. Sept. 11-12, 2001 - Nearly a month before the first reported outbreak,
White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to treat
anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain of
anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced by
CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle Memorial
Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground. [Source: NBC; CNN;
www.tetrahedron.org, www.judicialwatch.org]
67. Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization
quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York Times,
Sept. 30, 2001]
68. Sept. 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers open the sealed envelope from Mike
Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes attacks against the WTC and
Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged as
a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior
Court records]
69. Sept. 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has
resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex Brown (A.B.) unit of
Deutschebank.
70. Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5 million
in put options on American and United airlines are unclaimed. This is likely
the result of the suspension in trading on the New York Stock Exchange after
the attacks, which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to be
waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
71. Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports that
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal gas pipeline project from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan is now back on the table "in
view of recent geopolitical developments."
72. Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over all
terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York, which has
had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist cases
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2001]
73. mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses.
Although still weak and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash has
been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense
programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax cuts for
corporations.
74. Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts "an executive order that
would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the
former president wanted to make them public," wrote the Washington Post. The order also required members of the public to prove "at least a
Ôdemonstrated, specific need'" for a president's papers to be released.
Critics contend this would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which
releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained that a Supreme Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for their
records. [Source: Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2001,
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=printer]
75. Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a story
headlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban." The story
reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the country.
76. Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined "Victorious
Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that farmers are being encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are "being
encouraged to plant as much opium as possible."
77. Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is
recruited by the U.S. government to help establish control in Afghanistan by
unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one of
the CIA's leading assets in the war against the Russians is released from
prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4, 2001]
78. Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is
revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le Monde]
79. Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as a special
envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also wrote
op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.
[Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]
80. Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a surge
of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources away from
drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new surge of cocaine and
heroin from South America. [The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2002]
81. Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open court, attorneys
for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's switchboard operator, who confirms
that Vreeland is indeed a naval lieutenant on active duty. She provides an
office number and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the
Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; Toronto Superior Court records]
82. Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself from the
Enron investigation because Enron had been a major campaign donor in his
2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himself from involvement in two sitting
federal grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges against
ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, which have massive oil interests in Central Asia.
Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; FTW,
"The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I," April 4, 2002,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html]
83. Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped
in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21. Lead suspect Ahmad Umar
Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad, is arrested on Feb. 12 and named as
the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to the
Pakistani government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating the ISI. [Source:
CNN.com]
84. Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan leader Hamid
Karzai announce their agreement to "cooperate in all spheres of activity,"
including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10
million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan government workers. [Source: The
Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]
85. Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the estimated opium
harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002 will reach a world record
4,500 metric tons.
86. mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at the opening of
the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he has held talks about financing
the Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. He confirms $100 million in new grants
for the interim Afghani government. Wolfensohn also states that a number of
companies have already expressed interest in the project. [Source:
Alexander's Gas and oil Connections, citing an Agence France-Presse story]
87. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a deal
for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan to
Pakistan and India. The story states, "work on the project will start after
an agreement is expected to be struck" at a summit scheduled for the end of
the month. Unocal will build the pipeline. [Source: BBC, May 13, 2002]
88. May 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both oil and gas
pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will re-emerge as a pipeline
contender after withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline project in 1998.
Unocal denies plans to revive the gas pipeline but curiously neglects to
mention whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline, which local
sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group of Newspapers, May 7,
May 17, May 22, 2002]
89. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,
Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet in
Islamabad to sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project. The three leaders will meet for more talks on the project
in October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord has been
published and can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm. [Source: NewsBase, June 5, 2002]
90. May 16, 2002 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer states
unequivocally that while President Bush had been warned of possible
hijackings, "The president did not -- not -- receive information about the
use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." [Source: CBS News, May 15,
2002]
91. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professor at Anne
Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7 that he has
credible evidence suggesting that the Bush Administration did in fact allow
the Sept. 11 attacks to further a hidden agenda. [Source:
http://www.indymedia.org - May 20, 2002]
92. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful press
conference at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit against the FBI
for deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented the
9-11 attacks. He uses words like "prevented," "thwarted," "obstructed,"
"threatened," "intimidated," and "retaliation" to describe the actions of
his superiors in blocking his attempts to shut off money flows to Al Qaeda
and other terrorist groups. These are not words of negligence. They are
words describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN website]
93. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had called President
Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, is
suspended from his post at the Defense Language School in Monterey, Calif.
and could face a court martial. [Source: Associated Press, June 4, 2002]
94. June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an account from a
former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion of the South Carolina
National Guard: "My unit reported for drill in July 2001 and we were
suddenly and unexpectedly informed that all activities planned for the next
two months would be suspended in order to prepare for a mobilization
exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently for two weekends
and even came in on an unscheduled day in August to prepare for the
exercise. By the end of August all we needed was a phone call, which we were
to expect, and we could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags and
equipment packed." [Source: Common Dreams,
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm]
95. June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has been resolved
without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There's enough
material here to prove him right. -- MCR) [Reuters, June 17, 2002]
96. July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are unsealed in federal
court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to testify before both a grand jury
and Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui claims to have
information showing that the U.S. government wanted the attacks to happen.
[Source: The Washington Post, July 3, 2002]
97. July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil, 200,000 metric
tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow Times, July 6, 2002].
98. July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir is assassinated
by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports that Qadir may have been
assassinated by opium warlords upset by Qadir's efforts to reduce the
rampant opium farming and processing that has taken place since the U.S.
occupation. Qadir had been overseeing a Western-backed eradication program, according to the Times. However, the opium warlords of the region are same ones sponsored, protected, and in some cases released from prison by the CIA and who have been protected by President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad. It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near U.S.
bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002; Far Eastern
Economic Review, April 18, 2002]
99. July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal watch-group
Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney with a lawsuit filed on
behalf of Halliburton shareholders. Before becoming vice president Cheney
was CEO of Halliburton, which has filed for bankruptcy. [Source: Cybercast
News Service, cnsnews.com]
100. Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and Senate
intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as investigators try to
determine who leaked information to CNN about communications in Arabic that made vague references to an impending attack on the United States. The
communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. 10
but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated Press story
published in the Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm]
101. Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's major role over
the last five years in the trafficking of Afghan heroin into Europe.
[Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2002, www.sfnewmexican.com]
102. Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that members of
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have created a special planning
unit for an invasion of Iraq. The unit is composed primarily of civilians
and was spearheaded by conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such as
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined, "White
House Methodically Preparing for Iraq Campaign." [Source: Knight Ridder
Newspapers, www.truthout.org/docs02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.htm]
103. Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports Afghanistan will
become the world's top producer of opium this year, surpassing Southeast
Asia. [Source: the Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2002]
Now, let's go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that has
Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.
The story says, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden
received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he's a
black sheep! --MCR] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status.
During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people
taking the elevator and going to bin Laden's room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having
visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent
visited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden's departure for
Quetta.
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence
itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own
territory.
"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with
French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact
details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through Dubai
banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry.
When asked the question, What do you fear in the coming days?' the Americans
responded with incomprehensible silence.
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been
put together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends' over the years. The
meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain American
policy.'"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff
that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on Nov. 1
contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On Nov.
1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time.
[Expanded and Revised Sept. 4, 2002 - Evidence of Bush Administration
Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Since our last revision
July 11, 2002, 16 New Items!]
Nov. 2, 2001, 12:00 PST -- On Oct. 31 the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic
kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official --
presumably the chief of station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's private
suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a
wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and last year's
attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a
2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving
office in January. Yet on July 14, 2001 he was allowed to leave Dubai on a
private jet, and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down.
In 1985 Oliver North -- the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn't appear to have a hand in the current war -- sent the Navy and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography "Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before Sept. 11 and ask the same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events
both before and after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, which have been blamed
on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests
that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in
their execution. It also makes clear that the events that have taken place
since Sept. 11 are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the
attacks.
[June 19, 2002] -- As the revelations of Bush Administration foreknowledge
have progressed from silence, to trickle, to cascade, the question has now
changed from forcing the evidence into the open into one of forcing both the
media and the people to avoid denying this information in the hopes that
their desire for a sense of "normalcy" can be fulfilled. As many of us have
known for years, normalcy went out the window forever when the first plane
hit the tower. And what has been revealed will not be resolved with an
expensive fact-finding commission, a few firing, or even an impeachment
proceeding. What is needed in America -- and in the global economic
system -- is an overhaul, not a tune up.
1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil, Texaco,
Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in cash bribing
heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge oil
reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay
exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines, the major oil
companies have no way to recoup their investments. [Source: "The Price of
Oil" by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia Times, "The
Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]
2. January 1995 - Philippine police investigating a possible attack on
the Pope uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, connected to World Trade
Center (WTC) bomber Ramsi Youssef. Parts of the plan call for crashing
hijacked airliners into civilian targets. Details of the plan are disclosed
in Youssef's 1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing. [Source: Agence
France-Presse, Dec. 7, 2001]
3. Dec. 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to the
Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the pipeline.
Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations failed, allegedly
because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]
4. Feb. 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca -- later to become
a special ambassador to Afghanistan -- testifies before the House that until
a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built.
[Source: Testimony before the House International Relations Committee:
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm]
5. August 1998 - After the U.S. cruise missile attacks on Al Qaeda targets
in Afghanistan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings, Unocal
officially withdraws from participation in the CentGas trans-Afghani gas
pipeline project. [Various sources, Unocal]
6. 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer that Saudi
Arabia was harboring an Al Qaeda cell led by two known terrorists. A more
detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in August
2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times Jan. 21, 2001; "See No Evil" by
Robert Baer (release date February 2002)]
7. April 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an electrical
generating plant at Dabhol, India loses access to plentiful LNG supplies
from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make the
investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by Unocal
from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at the city of
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]
8. July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order 13129, which
freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits trade between the Afghan
fundamentalist regime and U.S. entities. [Source: Federal Register, Vol. 64,
No. 129, July 7, 1999]
9. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi
Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest
defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept.
27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No. 7 - "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy"
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html]
10. March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in Carnivore
that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging to
Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin Laden's
colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, May
29, 2002]
11. 2000 (est.) - The FBI refuses to disclose the date of an internal memo
stating that a Middle Eastern nation had been trying to purchase a flight
simulator. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2002]
12. August 2000 -- Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped by Italian
police made apparent references to plans for major attacks involving
airports, airplanes and the United States according to transcripts obtained
by the Los Angeles Times. The Times suggests that the information might not
have been passed to U.S. authorities (hard to believe), but it did report
that Italian authorities would not comment on the report. The Times also
noted that "Italian and U.S. anti-terrorism experts cooperate closely."
[Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002]
13. Oct. 24-26, 2000 - Pentagon officials carry out a "detailed" emergency
drill based upon the crashing of a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon.
[Source: The Mirror, May 24, 2002]
14. January 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and intelligence
agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family,
including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were
living in Falls Church, Va. -- right next to CIA headquarters. This followed
previous orders dating back to 1996 that frustrated efforts to investigate
the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast,
Nov. 7, 2001]
15. Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was questioned in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE, Middle Eastern, European, and
U.S. sources were cited in this CNN report, which said the CIA requested
Jarrah be interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was suspected
to have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman said the other sources'
claims that the agency knew anything about Jarrah before Sept. 11 were
"flatly untrue." Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in Dubai, UAE
came six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was released
because "U.S. officials were satisfied," said the report. [Source: CNN, Aug.
1, 2002 http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html]
16. Feb. 13, 2001 - UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale -- while
covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers -- reports that the
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February, it does
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been
planned for years.
17. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to
the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the
Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]
18. May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert
operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour, while
CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with
Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani
intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume that while in
Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long meeting," also
met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI.
[Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]
19. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel that
Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2001; See
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html]
20. June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publishes a
story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to Drug
Trade." According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a report by
the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent of
the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that 80
percent traveled through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers
headquartered in Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers by
providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by a
Russian intelligence officer who told the Moscow News weekly, "You can come
to an arrangement [with custom officials] so that the search of military
transport planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys
carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]." [Source:
www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp]
21. July 2001 - FBI agents in Arizona write a memorandum warning about
suspicious activities involving a group of Middle Eastern men taking flight
training lessons in Phoenix. The memorandum specifically mentions Osama bin Laden and warns of connections to terrorist activities. [Source: The New
York Times, May 14, 2002]
22. summer 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol working
group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by the
Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion Monitor,
Feb. 28, 2002]
23. summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The Guardian,
correspondent David Leigh reported that "U.S. department of defense
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian's
Felicity Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training special
troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."
24. summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see above) orders
an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to the
FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently resigned
after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. The
individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Ahmad Umar
Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]
25. summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. 14 that an
Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the WTC in the week of Sept. 9. German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. [Source:
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1512332.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html ]
26. summer 2001 - Jordanian intelligence, the GID, makes a communications
intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah's men relay it to
Washington, probably through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure
the message got through it was passed through an Arab intermediary to a
German intelligence agent. The message: A major attack was planned inside
the U.S., and aircraft would be used. The code name of the operation was
"The Big Wedding." "When it became clear that the information was
embarrassing to Bush Administration officials and congressmen who at first
denied that there had been any such warnings before Sept. 11, senior
Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier confirmations." This case
was authenticated by ABC reporter John K. Cooley. [Source: International
Herald Tribune (IHT), May 21, 2002]
27. summer 2001 (est.) - The National Security Agency intercepts telephone
conversations between bin Laden aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohammed Atta and does not share the information with any other agencies. [Source: Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002]
28. June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that "India and
Iran will 'facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans for 'limited military action'
against the Taliban." The story indicates that the fighting will be done by
U.S. and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001]
29. summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist
pilots have been specifically training for missions involving hijacked
airliners. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are
translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently on
the Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key paragraph.) [Source:
Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html]
30. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatment for kidney disease
at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official, who returns
to CIA headquarters on July 15. [Source: Le Figaro, Oct. 31, 2001]
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le Figaro_osama_dubai.html
31. July 15, 2001 - Members of the G8, meeting in Genoa, Italy, discuss the
Taliban, pipelines, and the handing over of Osama bin Laden. According to
Pakistani representative Ambassador Naiz Naik, the U.S. delegation, led by
former Clinton Ambassador to Pakistan Tom Simmons warned of a "military
option" if the Taliban did not change position. [Source: Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, "Bin Laden: La Verite Interdite," pp76-7.
Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
32. July 2001 - Immediately after the G8 Summit three American officials --
Tom Simmons (former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former
assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren
(former State Department expert on South Asia) -- meet with Pakistani and
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is
planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French book
released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite Interdite," discloses that
Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers confirm
that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source: The
Guardian, Sept. 22, 2001; the BBC, Sept. 18, 2001; The Inter Press Service,
Nov. 16, 2001; Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, Feb. 21, 2002]
33. July 2001 - The G8 summit at Genoa, Italy is surrounded by
anti-aircraft guns, and local airspace is closed off after Italian and
Egyptian officials (including President Hosni Mubarak) warn American
intelligence that airliners stuffed with explosives might be used to attack
President Bush. U.S. officials state that the warnings were
"unsubstantiated." (But I wonder if they would have taken away the
anti-aircraft artillery?) [Source: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 2001]
34. July 26, 2001 - CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has stopped flying
commercial airlines due a threat assessment. Ashcroft told the press that he
didn't know anything about what had caused it.
35. Aug. 2, 2001 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Christine Rocca (a former
CIA officer), meets in Islamabad with a Taliban ambassador and demands the
extradition of bin Laden. This was the last known meeting on the subject.
[Source: Brisard and Dasquie, p 79. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
36. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden
in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member
of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying
lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, Sept.
13, 2001]
37. Aug. 11 or 12, 2001 , U.S. Navy Lt. Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, jailed in
Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer with U.S. naval
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and seals them in an
envelope, which he gives to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star,
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]
38. August 2001 - As reported in the IHT both a French magazine (name not
given) and a Moroccan newspaper simultaneously report that a Moroccan agent named Hassan Dabou had penetrated Al Qaeda to the point of getting close to bin Laden, who was "very disappointed" that the 1993 bombing had not toppled the WTC. Dabou was called to the U.S. after reporting this, which curtailed his ability to stay in touch with the organization and gather additional intelligence that might have prevented the attacks. Though not proved beyond a doubt, these stories have been met with a wall of silence. [The IHT, May 21, 2002]
39. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian
intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible terms"
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MSNBC
interview with Putin, Sept. 15, 2001]
40. August 2001 - President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings
at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might be
planning to hijack commercial airliners. [CBS News; CNN, May 15, 2002]
41. late-August 2001 - Prince Turki, the pro-U.S. head of Saudi
intelligence (also known to be close to bin Laden), is replaced by his more
neutral half-brother, Prince Nawwaf who is an ally of Crown Prince Abdullah.
[Source: Saudi Arabian Information Resource, Aug. 31, 2001;
http://www.saudinf.com/ - Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
42. August/September 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly
900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market
crash is imminent.
43. August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page memo written by Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley, FBI headquarters ignores
urgent, direct warnings from French intelligence services about pending
attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in Washington
expends extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of Zacarias
Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit for a search warrant to
search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's memo uses terms like "deliberately
sabotage," "block," "integrity," "omitted," "downplayed," "glossed over,"
"mis-characterize," "improper political reasons, "deliberately thwarting,"
"deliberately further undercut," "suppressed," and "not completely honest."
These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate acts.
FBI field agents desperately attempt to get action, but to no avail. One
agent speculates that bin Laden might be planning to crash airliners into
the WTC, while Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed these deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11. [Source:
Associated Press, May 21, 2002]
44. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on Sept. 16 that a caller to a Cayman
Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on the
U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9-11.
45. early-September 2001 - An FBI internal document, based upon field notes
from Minnesota field agents discloses that the agents had been investigating
and had questioned the "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. The field notes
speculate that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons, might crash an
airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field agents' requests to obtain a
search warrant for his personal computer were denied. French intelligence
confirms to the FBI that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and may have
traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no knowledge of the Phoenix
memo (See Item #18). One news story states that agents were in "a frenzy,"
absolutely convinced that he was "going to do something with a plane."
[Source: Newsweek, May 20, 2002 issue, story by Michael Isikoff].
46. Sept. 1-10 2001 - In an exercise, called Operation "Swift Sword" and
planned for four years, 23,000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.
Although the 9-11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment, the massive
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani
coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000
NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces are in
place before the first plane hits the WTC. [Sources: The Guardian; CNN; Fox;
The Observer; International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of
Illinois.]
47. Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht High School who
had recently emigrated from Pakistan reportedly predicts the destruction of
the World Trade Center a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to the
JournalNews newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing "three police sources and
a city official familiar with the investigation" as well as confirmation
from the FBI that the bureau had received this information, the paper
reported that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student pointed
to the World Trade Center from a third story window and said, "Do you see
those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week." New York City
Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the JournalNews "that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes of the Sept. 11 attack" and students told the paper that "FBI agents and NYPD detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the student [who made the prediction] and others in his class," which was "an English class for Arab-American students." [Source: The JournalNews, Oct. 11, 2001, http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html]
48. Sept. 5, 2001 - "Five hundred websites -- many of them with an Arab or
Muslim connection -- crash when an anti-terrorism taskforce raids InfoCom
Corp. in Texas," reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. A
taskforce of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the FBI,
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IRS, and
Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office building in the Dallas suburb
of Richardson, Texas for four days, "copying every hard disc they could
find." InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and is located
across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable organization
which has been alleged to have connections with terrorist groups. InfoCom's
vice president of marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of the
Holy Land Foundation. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.html]
49. Sept. 7, 2001 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year emergency
executive order (01-261) making new provisions for the Florida National
Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management personnel in the event of large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism. [Source:
State of Florida website listing of Governor's executive orders]
50. Sept. 6-7, 2001 - Put options (a speculation that the stock will go
down) totaling 4,744 are purchased on United Air Lines stock, as opposed to
only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a
dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the United
puts are purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed until
1998 by the current executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.
[Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism
(ICT), http://www.ict.org.il/, Sept. 21, 2001 (Note:The ICT article on
possible terrorist insider trading appeared eight days *after* the 9/11
attacks.); The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; The San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 29, 2001]
51. Sept. 10, 2001 - Put options totaling 4,516 are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: Herzliyya Institute -
above]
52. Sept. 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading patterns
to those experienced by United and American. The put option purchases on
both airlines were 600 percent above normal. This at a time when Reuters
(Sept. 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised
to take off."
53. Sept. 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are purchased
in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25 percent of
American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly
impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Oct. 18, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html]
54. 2001-2002 - It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad,
and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time
using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis
software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such kinds
of attacks. Promis was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in Osama bin
Laden's possession and, as a result of recent stories by Fox, both the FBI
and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence
gathering through at least summer 2002. This would confirm that CIA had
additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington
Times, June 15, 2001; Fox, Oct. 16, 2001;
FTW, Oct. 26, 2001, -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.html
FTW, Vol. IV, No. 6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. III, No. 7, Sept. 30, 2000 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html]
55. Sept. 9, 2001 - President George W. Bush is presented with detailed war
plans to overthrow Al Qaeda, according to U.S. and foreign sources speaking
to NBC News. [Source: MSNBC, May 16, 2002. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
56. Sept. 10, 2001 - This item has been removed solely at the request of
the party previously named in this entry. Recent court proceedings - which
occurred after the news story we had cited - have indicated that there was
no connection between the story listed here, the person named therein and
the attacks of 9-11-01. At the request of the previously named party, FTW
has replaced the $1,000 reward with a $1,000 donation to The Childrens
Defense Fund on behalf of the named party and the issue is now amicably
resolved without any hard feelings between that party and FTW.
57. Sept. 10, 2001 - According to Newsweek, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, apparently
because of security concerns. [Source: Newsweek, Sept. 24, 2001]
58. Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI was notified of
a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told his teacher, "Tomorrow, World
War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United
States will lose." The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when Garland,
Texas school district officials told the FBI about the incident, but it was
some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and the story's publication date of Sept.
19, 2001. [Source: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222]
59. Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a call from
what he described as "his security people at the airport" eight hours before
the terrorist attacks "advising him that Americans should be cautious about
their air travel," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Brown was
scheduled to fly to New York from San Francisco International Airport. He
told the Chronicle the call "didn't come in any alarming fashion, which is
why I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement." [Source: San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml]
60. Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the federal
agency that runs many of the nation's spy satellites, schedules an exercise
involving a plane crashing into one of the agency's buildings. "On the
morning of Sept. 11, 2001," according to a website advertising a homeland
security conference in Chicago run by the National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute, CIA official John Fulton and his team "were running a
pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would
be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that
the scenario would come true in a dramatic way." Fulton is the head of the
NRO's strategic gaming division. [Source: National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute, http://www.nlsi.net,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_ge/us_se
pt_11_plane_exercise_1]
61. Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's congressional correspondent David
Welna reports, "I spoke with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat from
Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, 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." [Source: http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm]
62. Sept. 11, 2001 - United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled to fly from New
York City to Los Angeles was delayed after four Muslim passengers began
demanding that the plane take off immediately. This happened apparently
after the first plane had hit the WTC. The passengers were thrown off the
flight. [Source: The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002]
63. Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend of Mohammed
Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting with
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Rep. Porter
Goss, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]
64. Sept. 11, 2001 - Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the world's
largest instant messaging companies with offices in New York, receive threat
warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than two hours before the
first plane hits. Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about any
investigation of this. The Odigo research and development offices in Israel
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of Tel Aviv that is the
same location as the Institute for Counter Terrorism, which eight days later
reports details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN's Daniel Sieberg,
Sept. 28, 2001; MSNBC Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, Sept. 27, 2001; Ha'aretz, Sept. 26, 2001]
65. Sept. 11, 2001 - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it
widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred.
[Source: CNN; ABC; MSNBC; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times;
www.tenc.net]
66. Sept. 11-12, 2001 - Nearly a month before the first reported outbreak,
White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to treat
anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain of
anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced by
CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle Memorial
Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground. [Source: NBC; CNN;
www.tetrahedron.org, www.judicialwatch.org]
67. Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization
quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York Times,
Sept. 30, 2001]
68. Sept. 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers open the sealed envelope from Mike
Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes attacks against the WTC and
Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged as
a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior
Court records]
69. Sept. 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has
resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex Brown (A.B.) unit of
Deutschebank.
70. Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5 million
in put options on American and United airlines are unclaimed. This is likely
the result of the suspension in trading on the New York Stock Exchange after
the attacks, which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to be
waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
71. Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports that
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal gas pipeline project from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan is now back on the table "in
view of recent geopolitical developments."
72. Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over all
terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York, which has
had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist cases
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2001]
73. mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses.
Although still weak and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash has
been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense
programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax cuts for
corporations.
74. Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts "an executive order that
would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the
former president wanted to make them public," wrote the Washington Post. The order also required members of the public to prove "at least a
Ôdemonstrated, specific need'" for a president's papers to be released.
Critics contend this would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which
releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained that a Supreme Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for their
records. [Source: Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2001,
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=printer]
75. Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a story
headlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban." The story
reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the country.
76. Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined "Victorious
Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that farmers are being encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are "being
encouraged to plant as much opium as possible."
77. Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is
recruited by the U.S. government to help establish control in Afghanistan by
unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one of
the CIA's leading assets in the war against the Russians is released from
prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4, 2001]
78. Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is
revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le Monde]
79. Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as a special
envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also wrote
op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.
[Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]
80. Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a surge
of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources away from
drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new surge of cocaine and
heroin from South America. [The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2002]
81. Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open court, attorneys
for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's switchboard operator, who confirms
that Vreeland is indeed a naval lieutenant on active duty. She provides an
office number and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the
Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; Toronto Superior Court records]
82. Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself from the
Enron investigation because Enron had been a major campaign donor in his
2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himself from involvement in two sitting
federal grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges against
ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, which have massive oil interests in Central Asia.
Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; FTW,
"The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I," April 4, 2002,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html]
83. Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped
in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21. Lead suspect Ahmad Umar
Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad, is arrested on Feb. 12 and named as
the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to the
Pakistani government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating the ISI. [Source:
CNN.com]
84. Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan leader Hamid
Karzai announce their agreement to "cooperate in all spheres of activity,"
including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10
million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan government workers. [Source: The
Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]
85. Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the estimated opium
harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002 will reach a world record
4,500 metric tons.
86. mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at the opening of
the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he has held talks about financing
the Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. He confirms $100 million in new grants
for the interim Afghani government. Wolfensohn also states that a number of
companies have already expressed interest in the project. [Source:
Alexander's Gas and oil Connections, citing an Agence France-Presse story]
87. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a deal
for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan to
Pakistan and India. The story states, "work on the project will start after
an agreement is expected to be struck" at a summit scheduled for the end of
the month. Unocal will build the pipeline. [Source: BBC, May 13, 2002]
88. May 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both oil and gas
pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will re-emerge as a pipeline
contender after withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline project in 1998.
Unocal denies plans to revive the gas pipeline but curiously neglects to
mention whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline, which local
sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group of Newspapers, May 7,
May 17, May 22, 2002]
89. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,
Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet in
Islamabad to sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project. The three leaders will meet for more talks on the project
in October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord has been
published and can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm. [Source: NewsBase, June 5, 2002]
90. May 16, 2002 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer states
unequivocally that while President Bush had been warned of possible
hijackings, "The president did not -- not -- receive information about the
use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." [Source: CBS News, May 15,
2002]
91. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professor at Anne
Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7 that he has
credible evidence suggesting that the Bush Administration did in fact allow
the Sept. 11 attacks to further a hidden agenda. [Source:
http://www.indymedia.org - May 20, 2002]
92. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful press
conference at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit against the FBI
for deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented the
9-11 attacks. He uses words like "prevented," "thwarted," "obstructed,"
"threatened," "intimidated," and "retaliation" to describe the actions of
his superiors in blocking his attempts to shut off money flows to Al Qaeda
and other terrorist groups. These are not words of negligence. They are
words describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN website]
93. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had called President
Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, is
suspended from his post at the Defense Language School in Monterey, Calif.
and could face a court martial. [Source: Associated Press, June 4, 2002]
94. June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an account from a
former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion of the South Carolina
National Guard: "My unit reported for drill in July 2001 and we were
suddenly and unexpectedly informed that all activities planned for the next
two months would be suspended in order to prepare for a mobilization
exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently for two weekends
and even came in on an unscheduled day in August to prepare for the
exercise. By the end of August all we needed was a phone call, which we were
to expect, and we could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags and
equipment packed." [Source: Common Dreams,
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm]
95. June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has been resolved
without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There's enough
material here to prove him right. -- MCR) [Reuters, June 17, 2002]
96. July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are unsealed in federal
court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to testify before both a grand jury
and Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui claims to have
information showing that the U.S. government wanted the attacks to happen.
[Source: The Washington Post, July 3, 2002]
97. July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil, 200,000 metric
tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow Times, July 6, 2002].
98. July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir is assassinated
by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports that Qadir may have been
assassinated by opium warlords upset by Qadir's efforts to reduce the
rampant opium farming and processing that has taken place since the U.S.
occupation. Qadir had been overseeing a Western-backed eradication program, according to the Times. However, the opium warlords of the region are same ones sponsored, protected, and in some cases released from prison by the CIA and who have been protected by President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad. It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near U.S.
bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002; Far Eastern
Economic Review, April 18, 2002]
99. July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal watch-group
Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney with a lawsuit filed on
behalf of Halliburton shareholders. Before becoming vice president Cheney
was CEO of Halliburton, which has filed for bankruptcy. [Source: Cybercast
News Service, cnsnews.com]
100. Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and Senate
intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as investigators try to
determine who leaked information to CNN about communications in Arabic that made vague references to an impending attack on the United States. The
communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. 10
but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated Press story
published in the Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm]
101. Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's major role over
the last five years in the trafficking of Afghan heroin into Europe.
[Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2002, www.sfnewmexican.com]
102. Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that members of
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have created a special planning
unit for an invasion of Iraq. The unit is composed primarily of civilians
and was spearheaded by conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such as
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined, "White
House Methodically Preparing for Iraq Campaign." [Source: Knight Ridder
Newspapers, www.truthout.org/docs02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.htm]
103. Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports Afghanistan will
become the world's top producer of opium this year, surpassing Southeast
Asia. [Source: the Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2002]
Now, let's go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that has
Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.
The story says, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden
received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he's a
black sheep! --MCR] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status.
During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people
taking the elevator and going to bin Laden's room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having
visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent
visited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden's departure for
Quetta.
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence
itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own
territory.
"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with
French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact
details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through Dubai
banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry.
When asked the question, What do you fear in the coming days?' the Americans
responded with incomprehensible silence.
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been
put together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends' over the years. The
meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain American
policy.'"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff
that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on Nov. 1
contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On Nov.
1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time.
[© COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The
Wilderness Publications, www.fromthewilderness.com. May be copied and
distributed for non-profit purposes only.]
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