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Debunking Conspiracy Theorists

Paranoid Fantasies About Sept 11 Distract From the Real Issues

Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event
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.

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Debunking Conspiracy Theorists Paranoid Fantasies About Sept 11
Distract From the Real Issues

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.

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.

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.

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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. [
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1> ABC News, 5/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501operationnorthwoods> Pentagon Documents]

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1996–2001: Federal authorities are aware for years before 9/11 that suspected terrorists
with ties to Osama bin Laden are receiving flight training at schools in the US and
abroad. One convicted terrorist confesses that his planned role in a terror attack was
to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conte...
p22> Washington Post, 9/23/01,
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/30/national/main510607.shtml> CBS, 5/30/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#training> more]

1996–2001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports on bin Laden's location.
Each time, the CIA director or top White House officials prevent bin Laden's
elimination. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/041205latimes> Los Angeles Times, 12/5/04,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011230nytimes> New York Times, 12/30/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenstrikeaborted> more]

2000–2001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa documents properly in Saudi
Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15 should have been denied entry to the US. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conte...
t21&notFound=true> Washington Post, 10/22/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/021023abc>
ABC, 10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State Department personnel had merely
followed the law, 9/11 would not have happened. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/021218ap>
AP, 12/18/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#visas> more]

2000–2001: The military conducts exercises simulating hijacked airliners used as weapons
to crash into targets causing mass casualties. One target is the World Trade Center
(WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White House and security
officials say they’re shocked that terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into
landmark buildings. [ <http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm>
USA Today, 4/19/04, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/001103mdwpentagonattack> Military
District of Washington, 11/3/00, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/011003nytimes> New York
Times, 10/3/01, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagondrill> more]

Jan 2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence agencies are told to “back off”
investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on
investigating Saudi Arabians. [
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm> BBC, 11/6/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#backoffsaudis> more]

Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy documents is released that
seek to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil and gas. One
advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare “as a necessity for
mobilizing public support.” [
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/25/1040511092926.html> Sydney Morning Herald,
12/26/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#subterfuge> more]

May 2001: For the third time, US security chiefs reject Sudan’s offer of thick files on
bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls it “the worst single intelligence
failure in the business.” [
<http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,560675,00.html> Guardian,
9/30/01, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#sudanfiles> more]

June-Aug 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA that Middle Eastern terrorists are
training for hijackings and targeting American interests. Russian President Vladimir
Putin alerts the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. In late July,
a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a huge attack on American
soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html> Fox News, 5/17/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020907independent> Independent, 9/7/02,
<http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/18/intelligence.hearings/> CNN, 9/12/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#foreknowledge> more]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained
Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Callaway declines to comment. During
his stay, bin Laden is allegedly visited by one or two CIA agents. [
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html> Guardian, 11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011031smhbinladenkidneyshospitalized> Sydney Morning Herald,
10/31/01, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101londontimes> London Times 11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101upi> UPI, 11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#kidney> more]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial airlines due to a
threat assessment. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml> CBS, 7/26/01] In
May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather than answer questions about it. [
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52982,00.html> Fox News/AP, 5/16/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#ashcroftstops> more]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing warning that bin Laden
might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike
in US,” the briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later claims it “said
nothing about an attack on America.” [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/040412postbinladenattackmemo> Washington Post, 4/12/04,
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf> Briefing, 8/6/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#briefing> more]

Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor says he’s trying to keep a hijacker from “flying a plane
into the WTC.” [
<http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/intelligcomm/oct172002.html> Senate Report
(Hill #2), 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the CIA. [
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html> Time, 5/21/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#moussaouiwtc> more]

Sep 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon brass suddenly cancel travel plans for the next
morning, apparently because of security concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010913newsweek> Newsweek, 9/13/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010924newsweek> Newsweek, 9/24/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagoncancels> more]

9/11/2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32 damaged WTC computer drives. The
data reveals a surge in financial transactions shortly before the attacks. Illegal
transfers of over $100 million may have been made through WTC computer systems
immediately before and during the 9/11 disaster. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011218reuters> Reuters, 12/18/01,
<http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.idg/> CNN, 12/20/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#911transactions> more]

9/11/2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency was scheduled
for an exercise on 9/11 at 9:00 AM in which an aircraft would crash into one of its
buildings near Washington, DC. [
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-11-plane-drill-_x...> USA
Today/AP, 8/22/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#nro> more]

9/11/2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government" is formed. Key congressional
leaders say they didn’t know this government-in-waiting had been established. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/01/attack/main502530.shtml> CBS, 3/2/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020302post> Washington Post, 3/2/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#shadowgovt> more]

9/11/2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners make
a tape recording describing the events within hours of the attacks. The tape is never
turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a supervisor without anyone
making a transcript or even listening to it. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6632-2004May6> Washington Post, 5/6/04,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/national/06CND-TAPE.html> New York Times, 5/6/04]

Sep 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI supervision to a secret assembly
point. They leave the country by private plane when airports reopen days after the
attacks. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/010930nytimes> New York Times, 9/30/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920globe> Boston Globe, 9/20/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenkin> more]

Sep 15-16, 2001: Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta,
may have had training at secure US military installations. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915newsweek> Newsweek, 9/15/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010916post> Washington Post, 9/16/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915nytimes> New York Times, 9/15/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersmilitary> more]

Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the
<http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm> 9/11 Commission Report turn up
alive. "Five of the alleged hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to
see their names and photographs appearing on satellite television...The hijackers were
using stolen identities." [quote in
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920londontimes.hijackers> London Times, 9/20/01, see also
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm> BBC, 9/23/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersalive> more]

Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two former Unocal Oil
employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the
US envoy. The big American bases created in the Afghan war are identical to the route of
the projected oil pipeline. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/020318chicagotribune> Chicago
Tribune, 3/18/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#unocalappointees> more]

May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists haven't been properly
investigating since 9/11. He graphically describes the pressures to conform that built
up after the attacks. [ <http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,717097,00.html>
Guardian, 5/17/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#rather> more]

May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to establishing an independent
commission to probe 9/11. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml> CBS, 5/23/02] Vice
President Cheney earlier opposed any public hearings on 9/11. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020204newsweek> Newsweek, 2/4/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#bushopposes> more]

May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing
investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he
talks to Congress about this. [ <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54070,00.html> Fox
News, 5/30/02, <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright3> more]

July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is published. It fails to mention that a year
before the attacks a secret Pentagon project had identified four 9/11 hijackers,
including leader Mohamed Atta. The Commission spokesperson initially states members were
not informed of this, but later acknowledges they were. [
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800...
91&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> New York Times, 8/11/05,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledanger911> more]

2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government officials and public leaders express
disbelief in the official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 9/11 family
members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence suggesting
high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the attacks to occur. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911> Various Publications]

Aug 9, 2006: A
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307263770/sr=1-1/qid=1156207288/ref...
640-4229555?ie=UTF8&s=books> book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines
repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines of Flights 77 and
93. CNN News: "The fact that the government would...perpetuate the lie suggests that we
need a full investigation of what is going on." [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060809cnn.911commissioners> CNN, 8/9/06 ,
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14191255/> MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060811newsarticles#commission> more]

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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>
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>
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>
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>
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:
<http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp>
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.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1512332.
<http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html>
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>
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>
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/> 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>
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,
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