911 Coverup Facts: 10-Page Summary
Was 911 Allowed to Happen?
Summary of 911 Coverup Facts Compiled by Paul Thompson
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911 was one of the most pivotal events in world history. Its impact
will be felt for years to come. You owe it to yourself to go beyond the
sound bites and the simplified official story. This is an extremely
complicated story with numerous players and motives. Not all the 911 facts
make sense or fit neatly together. It's a story full of espionage,
deceit, and lies. But if there are forces out there tricking us, they can
only succeed if we, the general public, remain ignorant and passive.
I am limiting my sources on this 911 coverup summary to those one might
call "mainstream." Why? It's not that I believe one can only trust the
mainstream media. In fact, I feel the opposite is true - much of the
best reporting today is coming from alternative media. But many people
are initially very skeptical. A lot of 911 coverup facts I found looking
around the web seemed very hard to believe when I first saw them. My
goal is to use mainstream sources to open eyes to new possibilities.
After seeing the importance of what’s being hidden from us, you will very
likely want to join in working together to build a brighter future.
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America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people
and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into
supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in writing by the
Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a
US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war. [ABC, 5/1/01]
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1980s: Osama bin Laden runs a front organization for the
mujaheddin—Islamic freedom fighters rebelling against the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan. The CIA secretly backs the mujaheddin. Pakistan's President
Benazir Bhutto, understanding the ferocity of Islamic extremism, tells then
President George Bush, "You are creating a Frankenstein." [MSNBC,
8/24/98, Newsweek, 10/1/01]
1993: An expert panel commissioned by the Pentagon raises the
possibility that an airplane could be used to bomb national landmarks.
[Washington Post, 10/2/01]
1994: Two attacks take place which involve hijacking planes to crash
them into buildings, including one by an Islamic militant group. In a
third attack, a lone pilot crashes a plane at the White House. Yet after
Sep . 11, over and over aviation and security officials say they are
shocked that terrorists could have hijacked airliners and crashed them
into landmark buildings. [New York Times, 10/3/01]
Oct 1995: The oil company Unocal signs a contract for a “the perfect
pipeline” through Afghanistan. Unocal edges out a more experienced
Argentinean company for the contract. Henry Kissinger, a Unocal consultant,
calls it "the triumph of hope over experience." But not long afterward,
the Taliban alienates the US and the contract falls through.
[Washington Post, 10/5/98]
1996: Analysts start working through the night in a chamber, deep in
the bowels of CIA headquarters, known as the Bin Laden Room.
Approximately 10-15 individuals are assigned to the unit, which is part of the
CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center. By September 10, 2001, there are
approximately 35-40 personnel assigned. Recognizing the danger posed by Bin
Laden, the FBI also created a unit in 1999 at FBI headquarters to focus on
him. [Newsweek, 10/1/01, Senate Intelligence (Witness Hill), 9/18/02]
1996: The Saudi Arabian government is financially supporting Osama bin
Laden's Al Qaeda and other extremist groups. After 911, the Bush
Administration chooses not to confront the Saudi leadership over its support
of terror organizations and its refusal to help in the investigation.
[New Yorker, 10/22/01]
1996-1999: The CIA officer in charge of operations against Al Qaeda
from Washington writes, “I speak with firsthand experience (and for
several score of CIA officers) when I state categorically that during this
time senior White House officials repeatedly refused to act on sound
intelligence that provided multiple chances to eliminate Osama bin Laden.”
[Los Angeles Times, 12/5/04]
1996-2001: Federal authorities have known for years that suspected
terrorists with ties to bin Laden were receiving flight training at schools
in the US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confessed that his
planned role in a terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters.
[Washington Post, 9/23/01]
1996-Sep 11, 2001: Taliban envoys repeatedly discuss turning bin Laden
over, but the US wants to be handed bin Laden directly, and the Taliban
want to turn him over to some third country. About 20 more meetings on
giving up bin Laden take place up till 911, all fruitless. [Washington
Post, 10/29/01]
1997: Former National Security Advisor Brzezinski publishes a book
portraying Eurasia as the key to world power, and Central Asia with its
vast oil reserves as the key to domination of Eurasia. He states that for
the US to maintain its global primacy, it must prevent any adversary
from controlling that region. He notes that because of popular resistance
to US military expansionism, his ambitious strategy can’t be
implemented "except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived
direct external threat." [The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its
Geostrategic Imperatives]
1998: An Oklahoma City FBI agent sends a memo warning that "large
numbers of Middle Eastern males" are getting flight training and could be
planning terrorist attacks. [CBS, 5/30/02] A separate CIA intelligence
report asserts that Arab terrorists are planning to fly a bomb-laden
aircraft into the WTC. [New York Times, 9/19/02, Senate Intelligence
Committee (Witness Hill), 9/18/02]
Aug 1998: Within minutes of each other, truck bombs blow up the US
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing more than 220. For some of the
time that bin Laden’s men were plotting to blow up the two embassies, US
intelligence was tapping their phones. [Newsweek, 10/1/01]
Dec 1998: A Time magazine cover story entitled "The Hunt for Osama,"
reports that bin Laden may be planning his boldest move yet - a strike on
Washington or possibly New York City. [Time, 12/21/98]
Late 1998-Early 2000: On at least three occasions, spies in Afghanistan
report bin Laden's location. Each time, the president approves an
attack. Each time, the CIA Director says the information is not reliable
enough and the attack cannot go forward. [New York Times, 12/30/01]
Sep 1999: A US intelligence report states bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
terrorists could crash an aircraft into the Pentagon. The Bush administration
claims not to have heard of this report until May 2002, though it was
widely shared within the government. [CNN, 5/18/02, AP, 5/18/02,
Guardian, 5/19/02]
Nov 1999: The head of Australia's security services admits the Echelon
global surveillance system exists. The US still denies it exists. BBC
describes Echelon's power as "astounding." Every international telephone
call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission can be listened to by powerful
computers capable of voice recognition. They home in on key words, or
patterns of messages. [BBC, 11/3/99]
Jan 2000: George Bush Sr. meets with the bin Laden family on behalf of
the Carlyle Group. He also met with them in 1998. Bush’s chief of staff
could not remember that this meeting took place until shown a thank you
note confirming the meeting. [Wall Street Journal, 9/27/01, Guardian,
10/31/01]
Sep 2000: The think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
writes a blueprint for the creation of a global “Pax Americana.” Written
for the Bush team before the 2000 election, the report Rebuilding
America’s Defenses is a plan for maintaining global US preeminence and
shaping the international security order in line with American principles
and interests. The plan shows Bush intends to take control of the Persian
Gulf whether or not Saddam Hussein is in power. [Sunday Herald, 9/7/02
, read report]
2000 – 2001: The military conducts exercises simulating what the White
House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as
weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. One imagined
target is the WTC. [USA Today, 4/19/04] Another is the Pentagon. [Military
District of Washington (Army website), 11/3/00]
Jan 2001: A flight school alerts the FAA. Hijacker Hani Hanjour lacks
English and flying skills needed for his commercial pilot's license. An
FAA official then sits next to him in class. The official offers a
translator to help him pass, but the flight school points out this is
against the rules. [AP, 5/10/02]
Jan 2001: After the elections, US intelligence agencies are told to
“back off” investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have
always been constraints on investigating Saudis. [BBC, 11/6/01]
Spring 2001: Military and government documents are released that seek
to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil. One
article advocates presidential subterfuge in the promotion of conflict
and "explicitly urge[s] painting over the US's actual reasons for warfare
as a necessity for mobilizing public support for a conflict." [Sydney
Morning Herald, 12/26/02]
May 2001: US security chiefs reject Sudan's offer to turn over
voluminous files about bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Sudan has made this offer
repeatedly since 1995. [Guardian, 9/30/01]
May 2001: Secretary of State Powell gives $43 million in aid to the
Taliban government. [Los Angeles Times, 5/22/01] This follows $113 million
given by the US in 2000. [State Dept. Fact Sheet, 12/11/01]
May 2001: The US introduces the "Visa Express" program allowing any
Saudi Arabian to obtain visas through their travel agent instead of
appearing at a consulate in person. [US News and World Report, 12/12/01] Five
hijackers use Visa Express over the next month to enter the US.
[Congressional Intelligence Committee, 9/20/02, (Witness Hill)]
May-Aug 2001: A number of the 911 hijackers make at least six trips to
Las Vegas. These "fundamentalist" Muslims drink alcohol, frequent strip
clubs, and smoke hashish. Some even have strippers perform lap dances
for them. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10/4/01, Newsweek, 10/15/01]
June 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA, Britain's MI6, and
Israel's Mossad that Middle Eastern terrorists are training for hijackings
and targeting US and Israeli symbols. [Fox News, 5/17/02]
June 13, 2001: Egyptian President Mubarak through his intelligence
services warns the US that bin Laden's Islamic terrorist network is
threatening to kill Bush and other G8 leaders at their July economic summit
meeting in Italy. The terrorists plan to use a plane stuffed with
explosives. [NY Times, 9/26/01]
July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from
Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr.
Callaway is unavailable for comment. During his stay, bin Laden allegedly
is visited by one or two CIA officers. [Guardian, 11/1/01, London Times
11/1/01, UPI, 11/1/01]
July 10, 2001: A Phoenix FBI agent sends a memorandum warning about
Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons. He suspects bin Laden's
followers and recommends a national program to check visas of suspicious
flight-school students. The memo is sent to two FBI counter-terrorism
offices, but no action is taken. [New York Times, 5/21/02] Vice President
Cheney says in May 2002 that he opposes releasing this memo to
congressional leaders or to the media and public. [CNN, 5/20/02]
July 24, 2001: Larry Silverstein's $3.2 billion 99-year lease of the
WTC is finalized. Silverstein hopes to win $7 billion in insurance from
the 911 destruction of the WTC towers. [New York Times, 02/16/03,
Newsday, 09/25/02]
July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial
airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS, 7/26/01] He later walks out of his
office rather than answer questions about this. [AP, 5/16/02]
Late July 2001: The US and UN ignore warnings from the Taliban foreign
minister that bin Laden is planning an imminent huge attack on US soil.
The FBI and CIA also fail to take seriously warnings that Islamic
fundamentalists have enrolled in flight schools across the US. [Independent,
9/7/02]
Summer 2001: Intelligence officials know that al Qaeda both hopes to
use planes as weapons and seeks to strike a violent blow within the US,
despite government claims following 911 that the World Trade Center and
Pentagon attacks came “like bolts from the blue.” [Wall Street Journal,
09/19/02]
Summer 2001: Russian President Putin later says publicly that he
ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US of suicide pilots training
for attacks on US targets. [Fox, 5/17/02]
Late summer 2001: Jordanian intelligence agents go to Washington to
warn that a major attack is planned inside the US and that aircraft will
be used. Christian Science Monitor calls the story "confidently
authenticated" even though Jordan later backs away from it. [CS Monitor,
5/23/02]
Aug 5-11, 2001: Israel warns US of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [Fox
News, 5/17/02]
Aug 6, 2001: President Bush is warned by US intelligence that bin Laden
might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The White House waits
eight months after 911 to reveal this fact. [New York Times, 5/16/02]
Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the intelligence briefing
specifically mentions the World Trade Center. Yet Bush later states the
briefing “said nothing about an attack on America.” [Washington Post,
4/11/04, White House, 4/11/04, Intelligence Briefing, 8/6/01]
Aug 22, 2001: Top counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill quits the FBI
due to repeated obstruction of his al-Qaeda investigations and a power
play against him. He was the government's "most committed tracker of bin
Laden and al-Qaeda." The next day he starts a new job as head of
security at the WTC. He is killed weeks later in the World Trade Center
during the 911 attack. [New Yorker, 1/14/02]
Aug 24, 2001: Frustrated with lack of response from FBI headquarters
about detained suspect Moussaoui, the Minnesota FBI begins working with
the CIA. The CIA sends alerts calling him a "suspect 747 airline suicide
hijacker." Three days later an FBI Minnesota supervisor says he is
trying keep Moussaoui from “taking control of a plane and fly it into the
WTC." [Senate Intelligence Committee (Hill #2), 10/17/02] FBI
headquarters chastises Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA. [Time, 5/21/02] FBI
Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the agency could have
done to anticipate and prevent the [911] attacks." [Senate Intelligence
Committee (Witness Breitweiser), 9/18/02]
Sep 10, 2001: A particularly urgent warning may have been received the
night before the attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel a
trip. “Why that same information was not available to the 266 people who
died aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot
topic on the Hill." [Newsweek, 9/13/01] "A group of top Pentagon officials
suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because
of security concerns." [Newsweek, 9/24/01, fifth paragraph from end]
Sep 10, 2001: Former president Bush is with a brother of Osama bin
Laden at a Carlyle business conference. The conference is interrupted the
next day by the attacks. [Washington Post, 3/16/03]
Sep 10, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces that by some
estimates the Department of Defense "cannot track $2.3 trillion in
transactions." CBS later calculates that 25% of the yearly defense budget is
unaccounted for. A defense analyst says, “The books are cooked routinely
year after year." [DOD, 9/10/01, CBS, 1/29/02] This announcement was
buried by the next day’s news of 911.
Sep 11, 2001: Warren Buffett, the second richest man on Earth [BBC,
6/22/01], schedules a charity event inside Offutt Air Force Base in
Nebraska. A small group of business leaders attend, including at least one
who would otherwise have died in the WTC. [SF Business Times, 2/1/02]
Bush flies to this same base that day, where there is an underground
command center. [CNN, 9/12/01, CBS, 911/02]
Sep 11, 2001: Recovery experts extract data from 32 WTC computer drives
revealing a surge in financial transactions just before the attacks.
Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have been made through some
WTC computer systems immediately before and during the disaster.
[Reuters, 12/18/01, CNN, 12/20/01]
Sep 11, 2001: In what the government describes as a bizarre
coincidence, a US intelligence agency (the National Reconnaissance Office or NRO)
was all set for an exercise at 9 AM on September 11th in which an
aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [AP,
8/22/02]
Sep 11, 2001: The entire US is defended by only seven air bases.
[Newsday, 9/23/01]
September 11, 2001—Timeline for the Day of the Attacks
Department of Defense (6/1/01) and FAA (7/12/01) procedure: In the
event of a hijacking, the FAA hijack coordinator on duty at Washington
headquarters requests the military to provide escort aircraft. Normally,
NORAD escort aircraft take the required action. The FAA notifies the
National Military Command Center by the most expeditious means. [DOD/,
6/1/01, FAA, 7/12/01, FAA 7/12/01]
If NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) hears of any
difficulties in the skies, they begin the work to scramble jet fighters [take
off and intercept aircraft that are off course]. Between Sep 2000 and
June 2001 fighters were scrambled 67 times. [AP, 8/12/02] When the Lear
jet of golfer Payne Stewart didn’t respond in 1999, F-16 interceptors
were quickly dispatched. According to an Air Force timeline, a series of
military planes provided an emergency escort to Payne’s stricken Lear
about 20 minutes after ground controllers lost contact with his
plane.[Dallas Morning News, 10/26/99]
8:20 AM (approx.): Air traffic controllers suspect Flight 11 has been
hijacked. [NY Times, 9/15/01]
8:40 AM: NORAD is notified of hijacking. [NY Times, 10/16/01, 8:38 AM
Washington Post, 9/15/01]
8:46 AM: Flight 11 crashes into the WTC (World Trade Center) north
tower. [approximately 26 minutes after controllers lost contact][New York
Times, 9/12/01]
8:46 AM: Bush later states, "I was sitting outside the classroom and I
saw an airplane hit the tower. The TV was on.” [CNN, 12/4/01] “When we
walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first
building.” [White House, 1/5/02] There was no live coverage of the first
crash on TV.
8:52 AM: Two F-15s take off from Otis Air Force Base. [Washington Post,
9/15/01] They go after Flight 175. Major General Paul Weaver, director
of the Air National Guard, states "the pilots flew like a scalded ape,
topping 500 mph but were unable to catch up to the airliner. We had a
nine-minute window, and in excess of 100 miles to intercept 175,'' he
said. ''There was just literally no way.'' [Dallas Morning News, 9/15/01]
F-15's fly at up to 2.5 times the speed of sound [1875 mph or 30+ miles
a minute or 270+ miles in nine minutes] and are designed for
low-altitude, high-speed, precision attacks. [BBC]
8:56 AM: By this time, it is evident that Flight 77 is lost. The FAA,
already in contact with the Pentagon about the two hijackings out of
Boston, reportedly doesn’t notify NORAD of this until 9:24, 28 minutes
later. [see 9:10 AM for comparison, New York Times, 10/16/01]
9:03 AM: Flight 175 crashes into the south WTC tower. [23 minutes after
NORAD notified, 43 minutes after air traffic control lost contact with
pilots][New York Times, 9/12/01, CNN, 9/12/01]
9:10 AM: Major General Paul Weaver states Flight 77 came back on the
(radar) scope at 9:10 in West Virginia. [Dallas Morning News, 9/15/01]
Another report states the military was notified of Flight 77 several
minutes after 9:03. [Washington Post, 9/15/01]
9:24 AM [? – see above]: The FAA, who 28 minutes earlier had discovered
Flight 77 off course and heading east over West Virginia, reportedly
notifies NORAD. A Pentagon spokesman says, "The Pentagon was simply not
aware that this aircraft was coming our way." [Newsday, 9/23/01, New
York Times, 10/16/01] Yet since the first crash, military officials in a
Pentagon command center were urgently talking to law enforcement and air
traffic control officials about what to do. [New York Times, 9/15/01]
9:28 AM: Air traffic control learns that Flight 93 has been hijacked.
[MSNBC, 7/30/02]
9:38 AM: Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. [42 minutes or more after
contact was lost, one hour after NORAD notification of first
hijacking][New York Times, 10/16/01, 9:43 CNN, 9/12/01]
9:59 AM: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses. [New
York Times, 9/12/01]
10:10 AM: Flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania. [42 minutes after contact
was lost][CNN, 9/12/02]
10:28 AM: The World Trade Center north tower collapses. [CNN, 9/12/01,
NY Times, 9/12/01]
5:20 PM: Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses. [CNN, 9/12/01]
Sep 11, 2001: Did the Air Force send up planes after the hijacked
aircraft? The Air Force won't say. It says they keep about 20 F-15 and F-16
fighters on duty with Air National Guards along the nation's coastline,
ready to inspect unknown aircraft entering U.S. airspace. "We can
scramble and be airborne in a matter of minutes," said an Air Force
spokesperson. Some airline pilots are wondering whether the FAA did enough to
try to prevent the crashes. [Wall Street Journal, 09/14/01]
Sep 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the
hijacked airliners make a tape recording describing the events, but the
tape is later destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a
transcript or even listening to it. [Washington Post, 5/6/04, New York Times,
5/6/04]
Sep 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government" is formed.
Key congressional leaders say they didn’t know President Bush had
established this government-in-waiting. Some Congressmen state the
administration should have conferred about its plans. [CBS, 3/2/02, Washington
Post, 3/2/02]
Sep 11, 2001: A National Public Radio correspondent states: "I spoke
with Congressman Ike Skelton who said that just recently the director of
the CIA warned that there could be an attack – an imminent attack – on
the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected."
[NPR, 911/01]
Sep 12, 2001: Senator Orrin Hatch says the US was monitoring bin Laden
supporters and overheard them discussing the attack. [AP, 9/12/01] Why
has the media not explored the fact that the US could monitor private
communications of al-Qaeda on 911?
Sep 13-19, 2001: Members of bin Laden's family are driven or flown
under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to
Washington, where they leave the country on a private plane when airports
reopen three days after the attacks. [New York Times, 9/30/01][Boston
Globe, 9/20/01]
Sep 14, 2001: The two black boxes for Flight 77 are found. [PBS,
9/14/01] FBI Director Robert Mueller later says Flight 77's data recorder
provides altitude, speed, headings and other information, but the voice
recorder contains “nothing useful.” [CBS, 2/23/02]
Sep 15-16, 2001: Several 911 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta,
may have trained at secure US military installations. [Newsweek,
9/15/01, New York Times, 9/15/01, Washington Post, 9/16/01]
Sep 19, 2001: The FBI claims that there may have been six hijacking
teams on the morning of 911. [New York Times, 9/19/01, CBS, 9/14/01]
Authorities have identified teams that total as many as 50 infiltrators who
supported or carried out the strikes. About 40 of the men have been
accounted for. [Los Angeles Times, 9/13/01] Yet only one person,
Moussaoui, is later charged.
Oct 2, 2001: The Patriot Act is introduced in Congress. The next day,
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D) accuses the Bush
administration of reneging on an agreement on this anti-terrorist bill.
[Washington Post, 10/4/01] Anthrax letters are sent to Leahy and Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) on October 9. [CNN, 11/18/01]
Oct 10-11, 2001: After consulting with the FBI and CDC, Iowa State
University in Ames destroys anthrax spores collected over seven decades. On
Oct 25, the White House homeland security director confirms publicly
that the tainted letters contained the Ames strain. [New York Times,
11/9/01]
Nov 12, 2001—Mar 25, 2002: 13 renowned microbiologists mysteriously die
over the span of less than five months. All but one or two are killed
or murdered under unusual circumstances. Some are world leaders in
developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others are the best in figuring
out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons.
Still others are experts in the theory of bioterrorism. [Globe and Mail,
5/4/02, New York Times 08/11/02] Nov 12: Benito Que, 52, an expert in
infectious diseases—killed in carjacking, later deemed possible stroke.
[Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] Nov. 16: Don Wiley, 57, one of the world's
leading researchers of deadly viruses—body found in Mississippi River. [CNN,
12/22/01] Nov 21: Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, an expert in adapting
germs and viruses for military use—stroke. [New York Times, 11/23/01] Dec
10: Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, a leading researcher on DNA sequencing
analysis—slain at home. [Washington Post, 12/12/01] Dec 14: Nguyen Van
Set,
44, his research organization had just come to fame for discovering a
virus which can be modified to affect smallpox—dies in an airlock in
his lab. [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/12/01] Jan 2002: Ivan Glebov (bandit
attack) and Alexi Brushlinski (killed in Moscow), both world-renowned
members of the Russian Academy of Science. [Pravda, 2/9/02] Feb 9:
Victor Korshunov, 56, head of the microbiology sub-faculty at the Russian
State Medical University—killed by cranial injury. [Pravda, 2/9/02] Feb
11: Ian Langford, 40, one of Europe's leading experts on environmental
risk—murdered in home. [London Times, 2/13/02] Feb 28 (2): Tanya
Holzmayer, 46, helped create drugs that interfere with replication of the
virus that causes AIDS, and Guyang Huang, 38, a brilliant scholar highly
regarded in genetics—murder/suicide. [San Jose Mercury News, 2/28/02] Mar
24: David Wynn-Williams, 55, an astrobiologist with NASA Ames Research
Center—killed while jogging. [London Times, 3/27/02] Mar 25: Steven
Mostow, 63, an expert on the threat of bioterrorism—private plane
crash. [KUSA TV/NBC, 3/26/02]
Dec 2001: The US engineers the rise to power of a former Unocal Oil
employee, Hamid Karzai, as the interim president of Afghanistan. Looking
at the map of the big US bases in Afghanistan, one is struck that they
are completely identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline.
[Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02]
Dec 25, 2001: Leading structural engineers and fire-safety experts
believe the investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center is
"inadequate.” They note that the current team of 20 or so investigators
has inadequate financial and staff support, has been prevented from
interviewing witnesses and from examining the disaster site. They couldn’t
even get detailed blueprints of the World Trade Center. The decision to
rapidly recycle the steel beams from the WTC means definitive answers
may never be known. [New York Times, 12/25/01]
Jan 1, 2002: Zalamy Khalilzad is appointed by Bush as special envoy to
Afghanistan. [BBC, 1/1/02, Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02] Khalilzad once
lobbied for the Taliban and worked for an American oil company that sought
concessions for pipelines in Afghanistan. [Independent, 1/10/02]
Jan 4, 2002: An editorial in the respected trade magazine Fire
Engineering states that there is good reason to believe that the "official
investigation," blessed by FEMA, into the WTC collapse is a half-baked
farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose
primary interests are clearly not full disclosure. Respected members of
the fire protection engineering community are beginning to raise red
flags, and a resonating theory has emerged: The structural damage from the
planes and the jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the
towers. [Fire Engineering, 1/02]
Jan 24, 2002: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle claims that on this
day Cheney calls him and urges that no 911 inquiry be made. He is
repeatedly pressured thereafter. [Newsweek, 2/4/02]
Feb 6, 2002: CIA Director Tenet tells a Senate hearing that there was
no 911 intelligence failure. When asked about the CIA on 911, he states
that the 911 plot was "in the heads of three or four people." He
rejects any suggestion that the CIA failed to do its job. [USA Today, 2/7/02]
Feb 21, 2002: A ban on poppy growing by the Taliban in July 2000 along
with severe droughts reduced Afghanistan's opium yield by 91% in 2001.
Yet the UN expects its 2002 opium crop to be equivalent to the bumper
one of three years ago. Afghanistan is the source of 75% of the world's
heroin. [Guardian, 2/21/02] Why is the US unable to control opium
production which had almost stopped?
Mar 2, 2002: The 911 collapse of WTC building 7 was the first time a
modern, steel-reinforced high-rise in the US has ever collapsed in a
fire. [New York Times, 3/2/02] Building 7 was where the SEC was storing
files related to numerous Wall Street investigations. The files for
approximately 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed. [National Law Journal,
9/17/01] Lost files include documents that could show the relationship
between Citigroup and the WorldCom bankruptcy. [The Street, 8/9/02]
Mar 13, 2002: Bush says of bin Laden: "I truly am not that concerned
about him." [White House, 3/13/02] Military chief Myers states: "the goal
has never been to get bin Laden." [CNN/DOD, 4/6/02]
Apr 19, 2002: FBI Director Mueller: "We have not uncovered a single
piece of paper that mentioned any aspect of the 911 plot. The hijackers
had no computers, no laptops, no storage media of any kind." [FBI,
4/19/02, Los Angeles Times, 4/30/02] Yet investigators have amassed a
''substantial'' amount of e-mail traffic among the hijackers. [USA Today,
10/1/01] The laptop computer of Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, was
confiscated weeks before 911, yet FBI headquarters systematically
dismissed and undermined requests by Minneapolis FBI agents to search the
computer. [Time, 5/21/02, CNN, 5/27/02]
May 15, 2002: For the first time, the White House admits that Bush was
warned about bin Laden hijacking aircraft and wanting to attack the US
in Aug 2001. It is unclear why they waited eight months to reveal this.
The Press Secretary states that while Bush had been warned of possible
hijackings, "the president did not receive information about the use of
airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." Yet the August memo left
little doubt that the hijacked airliners were intended for use as missiles
and that US targets were intended. [New York Times, 5/16/02, Washington
Post, 5/16/02, Guardian, 5/19/02]
May 16, 2002: Congressional committee members investigating 911 say
there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed.
“We've just scratched the surface,” said Senator Richard Shelby, ranking
Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee. [Washington
Post, 5/17/02]
May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists haven't
been properly investigating since 911. He graphically describes the
pressures to conform after the attacks. [Guardian, 5/17/02]
May 21, 2002: A memo is released in which Minnesota FBI agent Coleen
Rowley writes to FBI Director Mueller, “I have deep concerns that a
delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the
highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring.” [Time,
5/21/02] CNN calls the memo a "colossal indictment of our chief
law-enforcement agency." [CNN, 5/27/02] Time magazine later names Rowley one of
three "Persons of the Year" for 2002. [Time, 12/22/02]
May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to establishing a
special, independent commission to probe how the government dealt with
terror warnings before 911. [CBS, 5/23/02]
May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Robert Wright formally accuses the FBI of
deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented 911. He is
under threat of retribution if he talks to members of Congress about
what he knows. [Fox News, 5/30/02] He also accuses the agency of shutting
down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in
Chicago and Kansas City. Wright has written a book, but the agency won't
let him publish it or even give it to anyone. [LA Weekly, 8/2/02]
July 23, 2002: The New York City government decides that many of the
audio and written records of the Fire Department's actions on 911 should
never be released. The New York Times had filed a lawsuit seeking
numerous records concerning the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,
including firsthand accounts by scores of firefighters and chiefs. [New
York Times, 7/23/02]
Aug 11, 2002: The Observer has learned of three heroin refineries in
Afghanistan. There are believed to be several more, some of them
operating in broad daylight. [Observer, 8/11/02]
Aug 30, 2002: German authorities charge a Moroccan man with complicity
in the 911 attacks. He is only the second person ever to be charged
formally in connection with 911. [Telegraph, 8/30/02]
Sep 11, 2002: On the first anniversary of 911, New York Times writes,
"One year later, the public knows less about the circumstances of 2,801
deaths at the foot of Manhattan in broad daylight than people in 1912
knew within weeks about the Titanic." The former police commissioner of
Philadelphia says: "You can hardly point to a cataclysmic event in our
history when a blue-ribbon panel did not set out to establish the facts
and suggest reforms. That has not happened here." [New York Times,
911/02]
Oct 5, 2002: Congressional investigators say the FBI's efforts to block
their inquiry makes them skeptical of FBI assertions. They also say the
Justice Department has joined the FBI in fighting congressional
requests for information, while the CIA has been antagonistic. [New York
Times, 10/5/02]
Oct 16, 2002: The CIA, FBI, and NSA all testify that no individual at
their agencies has been punished or fired for any of the missteps
surrounding the Sep . 11 attacks. [Washington Post, 10/18/02]
Oct 21, 2002: No more than six of the 19 hijackers were interviewed by
US officials before being granted visas. This contradicts the State
Department’s claim that 12 had been interviewed. Of 15 hijackers, none
filled in the visa documents properly. All 15 of them should have been
denied entry to the country. “The system was rigged in their favor from
the get-go.” [Washington Post, 10/22/02, ABC News, 10/23/02] In December
2002, two top Republican senators report that if State Department
personnel had merely followed the law in Saudi Arabia, 911 would not have
happened. [AP, 12/18/02]
Oct 27, 2002: A report from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's Defense
Science Board recommends the creation of a super-intelligence body (P2OG)
which would launch secret operations to “stimulate reactions” among
terrorists and states owning weapons of mass destruction. It would prod
terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to quick-response attacks by
US forces. [Los Angeles Times, 10/27/02]
Oct 29, 2002: Of over 800 people rounded up since 911, only 10 have
been linked to the hijackings and probably will turn out to be innocent.
[Newsweek, 10/29/02] Though many were held for months, the vast majority
were never charged with anything other than overstaying a visa. [New
York Times, 7/11/02]
Nov 27, 2002: Bush names Henry Kissinger to lead an independent
investigation into the 911 terrorist attacks. [New York Times, 11/28/02] He is
a highly controversial figure. Documents released by the CIA strengthen
suspicions that Kissinger was actively involved in a covert plan to
assassinate thousands of political opponents in six Latin American
countries. He is also famous for his obsession with secrecy. [BBC, 4/26/02]
"Indeed, it is tempting to wonder if the choice of Mr. Kissinger is not a
clever maneuver by the White House to contain an investigation it long
opposed." [New York Times, 11/29/02]
Dec 13, 2002: Kissinger resigns as chairman of the new 911
investigation citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his
business clients. [CNN, 12/13/02, BBC, 12/14/02]
Dec 16, 2002: Bush names Thomas Kean chairman after Henry Kissinger
resigns. Kean promises a thorough investigation. [AP, 12/17/02] He plans
to devote one day a week to the 911 commission. [Washington Post,
12/17/02]
January 13, 2003: The worldwide turmoil caused by President Bush's
policies goes not exactly unreported, but entirely de-emphasized. Guardian
writers are inundated by e-mails from Americans asking why their own
papers never print what is in these columns. If there is a Watergate
scandal lurking in this administration, it is unlikely to be [Washington
Post journalist Bob] Woodward or his colleagues who will tell us about
it. If it emerges, it will probably come out on the web. That is a
devastating indictment of the state of American newspapers." [Guardian,
1/13/03]
Nov 19, 2004: The fear that Afghanistan might degenerate into a
narco-state is becoming a reality. Afghanistan has surpassed Colombia as the
world's biggest gross producer of illicit narcotics, heroin being the
"main engine of economic growth" and the "strongest bond" among tribes
that previously fought constantly. What we have here now is a
narco-economy where 40 to 50 percent of the GDP is from illicit drugs. [San
Francisco Chronicle, 11/19/04] How does a country controlled by the US become
the largest producer of illegal drugs? For a possible answer, click
here.
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