Tilsendt fra Ulla Røder d. 16.03.06
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om 11. september 200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns'
Found in
the Mainstream Media
PLANNED BEFORE, FUTURE
IDEAS...
1. 1962 - US military drafted 'Operation Northwoods'
plan to commit terror acts in US cities, kill innocent Americans,
and hijack airplanes to trick the public into
supporting a war against Cuba. (ABC)
2. March '00 - Filming begins for The Lone Gunmen's
'Pilot' episode that depicts a US plot to crash an electronically hijacked
Boeing 727 into WTC and blame foreign terrorists to provoke war and increase
military's budget (KC Star), March '01 - 'Pilot' episode airs on FOX TV, 6 months
before attacks (TV Guide), Lone Gunmen co-producer hopes WTC attack wasn't
'somehow inspired' by anything they did. (KC Star)
PREPARATION...
3. 1999 - NORAD starts conducting exercises in which
airplanes are hijacked and crashed into targets which include the WTC and
Pentagon (USA Today), April '01 - NORAD requested a war games event of
having a terrorist group hijack a commercial airline and fly it into the
Pentagon. (Boston Globe)
4. Oct '00 - Pentagon conducts emergency training
exercises of a mock passenger plane crash into the Pentagon. (Army)
5. June '01 - Terrorist act exercise involving an
explosion is conducted near the Pentagon to test first team's 'external
response.' (Military District of Washington)
6. Aug '01 - Raytheon and US Air Force successfully land
pilot-less Boeing 727 using military GPS landing system that enables ground
control to take control of hijacked plane. (Der Spiegel, Raytheon)
7. Sept '01 - 25,000 British troops ensemble in Oman
near Afghanistan for 'Operation Swift Sword' and will help US in attacking OBL. (BBC, Telegraph)
8. Sept '01 - US pulls the plug on Muslim websites days
before 9/11. (Guardian, BBC)
9. Sept 10 - FEMA rescuer says he was deployed to NYC,
arrives night before attacks. (CBS video)
10. Sept 11 - Fort Belvoir near the Pentagon was conducting an exercise to
test the security at the base in case of a terrorist attack. (Connection Newspapers)
11. Sept 11 - An airport emergency operations exercise is being conducted at
Fort Myer, a mile from the Pentagon. (MDW, DC Military)
12. Sept 12 - FEMA was scheduled to participate in
an attack drill in NYC. (9/11 Panel, NYC.gov)
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE...
13. June '01 - Attorney General John Ashcroft stops
flying commercial aircrafts because of a 'threat assessment'. (CBS)
14. Sept 3 - Author Salman Rushdie given US air ban. (Ananova)
15. Sept 4 - An Israeli owned shipping company moves out of the WTC. (Virginian-Pilot, Real Estate Weekly)
16. Sept 7 - Jeb Bush puts the Florida
National Guard on alert (WorldNetDaily, MyFlorida.com), Sept 10-11 - President Bush is in FL, state that
controversially handed him 2000 presidency (Telegraph), 9/11 - Jeb Bush declares state of emergency in FL
immediately after 2nd tower fell (WorldNetDaily), At least 15 of the 19 hijackers have Florida ties. (Augusta Chronicle)
17. Sept 8 - Marine Aviation group moves further away
from where explosion at the Pentagon will happen. (Leatherneck)
18. Sept 10 - Group of top Pentagon officials canceled
travel plans for next morning because of 'security concerns'. (Newsweek)
19. Sept 10 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives
travel warning 8 hours before attacks. (SF Chronicle)
20. 9/11 - Employees at Israeli instant messaging company
received text message warnings about attacks 2 hours prior. (Haaretz, Washington Post)
21. 9/11 - Donald Rumsfeld predicts terrorist attack in
US 2 minutes before 1st WTC plane crash (Fayetteville Observer), later predicts Pentagon crash minutes prior.
(Telegraph)
22. 9/11 - White House staff given Cipro, a full month
before first cases of anthrax reported. (Washington Post)
23. 9/11 - President Bush's cousin escaped death from the WTC thanks to a
'schedule change' the night before. (Ananova)
24. 9/11 - Larry Silverstein is not in his office on the
88th floor of the North Tower because of a 'doctors appointment.' (NY Magazine)
DECOYING, STAND DOWN...
25. Sept 9 - NORAD conducts operation 'Northern
Vigilance,' planned months in advance, which deploys fighter jets to Alaskan
region. (NORAD, Toronto
Star)
26. 9/11 - Three F-16 jetfighters from Andrews AFB, 15
miles from Pentagon, are flown 180 miles away for training mission in the
morning. (Aviation Week)
27. 9/11 - Andrews AFB, home to DC Air National Guard and
Air Force 1 & 2, had no jetfighters on alert. (Newsday, USA Today)
28. 9/11 - US intel agency planned exercise in the
morning to simulate plane crash into government building. (Boston Globe, USA Today)
29. 9/11 - NORAD was running war game called 'Vigilant
Guardian' in which the commander in charge thought first hijacking was
"part of the exercise." (Aviation Week, NY
Observer)
30. 9/11 - FAA bans takeoffs at 9:26 am for all civilian, military, or law
enforcement aircraft (FAA, Time)
31. 9/11 - Shoot-down authorization not communicated to
NORAD until 28 minutes after Flight 93 crashed. (9/11 Panel, Seattle Post)
WTC ATTACK...
33. July '01 - WTC landlord leased the entire WTC complex
6 six weeks before attacks. (CBS, Washington Times)
34. Twin Towers were hated, poorly designed money-losers
subsides by the State and weren't torn down before because of expensive
asbestos removal in which 9/11 benefited the owners by efficiently destroying
the complex in a way that they didn't have to pay for any of it. (Baltimore Sun, Salon, Front Page)
35. Sept 6 - WTC officials recently took steps to secure towers against
aerial attacks by installing bulletproof windows and fireproof doors in the
22nd-floor computer command center (Newsday)
36. Two week heightened security alert at WTC is lifted
and bomb-sniffing dogs are abruptly removed days before 9/11. (Newsday)
37. Occupant in WTC says weeks before attacks they had
"unusual" amount of evacuations from WTC and says he thinks
"they had an inkling something was going on." (People)
38. 9/11 - CEO from South WTC is invited to early morning
charity event at Offutt AFB hosted by billionaire Warren Buffett and is escorted
to TV by military officers and sees 2nd plane crash into her offices. (Forbes, SF Business Times)
39. 9/11 - A missile was reportedly launched from the Woolworth Building near
the WTC. (NIST, WNBC, NY Daily)
40. 9/11 - Rudy Giuliani says he was told South WTC was
going to collapse. (ABC video)
41. Company hired to help clean up Ground Zero is control
demolition experts, Controlled Demolition Inc. (Waste Age)
42. Preliminary tests show steel quality did not
contribute to twin towers' collapse. (Boston Globe, Pittsburg Live)
43. Oct '04 - Fire in 56-story Venezuelan skyscraper
spreads over 26 floors and burns for over 17 hours, but does not collapse. (CBS)
44. WTC Ground Zero workers claim they helped FBI find 3
of the 4 black boxes from planes that struck WTC, contradicting official
accounts that none were found. (Philadelphia Daily News)
45. Jan '01 - Frank De Martini, deceased Mgr of WTC
Construction & Project Mgmt, says in documentary before 9/11 that he
believes WTC towers could sustain multiple hits from large jetliners, comparing
it to poking a pencil through mosquito netting. (WTC-A Modern Marvel, DVD Talk)
Bombs,
other explosions, flashes
46. 9/11 - EMT Jeff Birnbaum near the South Tower says he
heard an eerie high-pitched noise and a 'popping sound' then an explosion
before the top of the tower leaned toward him and started coming down. (CEE News)
47. 9/11 - Firefighter Louie Cacchioli in elevator going
to 24th floor hears a bomb go off and thinks bombs were set in the building. (People)
48. 9/11 - Firefighter Edward Cachia says the South Tower
gave at a lower floor then where the plane hit because they thought there was
internal explosions going off from hearing successions of 'boom, boom, boom,
boom' before the tower came down. (NY Times)
49. 9/11 - Fire Captain Karin Deshore says there was
orange and red flashes followed by explosions that were getting bigger going
both up and down and then all around the WTC 2. (SF Gate)
50. 9/11 - Tom Elliott on 67th floor floor in WTC 2 felt
explosion below him as plane hit, firemen going up told him of an explosion
near 60th floor. (CS Monitor)
51. 9/11 - Commissioner Stephen Gregory along with a
Lieutenant Evangelista from Ladder 146 say they both saw multiple flashes
coming from the lower level of the WTC 2 right before it collapsed and mentions
the flashes they saw are like what you'd see when they 'blow up a building.' (NY Times)
52. 9/11 - Nadine Keller from her balcony in Soho, NY
says she 'heard the bomb' before she saw the buildings collapse. (BBC)
53. 9/11 - EMT Joseph Lovero reports
hearing 'additional explosions' to dispatcher. (WNBC)
54. 9/11 - Edmund McNally phoned his wife from 97th floor
of WTC 2 following the plane crash, says he heard explosions below him. (NY Times)
55. 9/11 - Mike Pecoraro and co-worker here a loud
explosion in WTC 1 basement and believes a bomb went off after seeing major
damage to the basement floors. (Chief Engineer)
56. 9/11 - Janitor William Rodriguez in WTC 1 basement
hears explosion below him, then the plane crash above him seconds later, then
saw severely burnt man come out of basement elevator. (CNN)
58. 9/11 - Kim White from 80th floor of WTC 1 hears an
explosion near the 74th floor. (People|2)
59. 9/11 - Witnesses reported hearing another explosion
just before WTC 1 collapse, police said collapse looked almost like a 'planned
implosion' designed to 'catch bystanders watching from the street.' (Guardian)
60. 9/11 - Third explosion reported at WTC 2 and part of
the tower collapses afterward. (TCM News, TCM News)
WTC
7
61. 9/11 - 6:47am, WTC 7's fire alarm is placed on 8 hr
'test' mode which any alarms received are ignored.
(NIST)
62. 9/11 - WTC landlord Larry Silverstein says he gets a
call from a fire chief about the WTC 7 and he recommends to him to 'pull it'
and after they 'decided to pull,' they all watched the 7 collapse. (PBS video)
63. 9/11 - Firefighter Scott Holowach says he and his
crew were just 'hanging out' until tower WTC 7 came down and went right to work
put the 7's fires out. (NY Times)
64. 9/11 - Paramedic Steven Pilla says he and his crew
didn't do any further because they were 'waiting' for WTC 7 to come down. (NY Times)
65. 9/11 - Firefighter Lt William Ryan says he and his
crew were told WTC 7 was going to collapse 'around 3 pm' and 'fell back' until
it came down. (NY Times)
66. 9/11 - Firefighter Frank Sweeney says he and his crew
were sent back down near the WTC 7 and 'stood and waited' for it to come down. (NY Times)
67. 9/11 - WTC 7 becomes first steel high-rise building
in history to collapse solely from an alleged fire. (Chicago Tribune,
Stanford Report)
68. The collapse of the 47 story WTC 7 skyscraper hardly
gets any media attention. (NY Times)
69. FEMA report concludes specifics of WTC 7 fires and
how they caused it to collapse remain unknown and call for further
investigation. (FEMA)
PENTAGON
ATTACK...
70. Sept 10 - Pentagon medic is on the phone with FBI
talking about who has command of their emergency plane crash plan. (Army)
71. 9/11 - Emergency equipment for Pentagon's emergency
plane crash plans were already out of storage for inventory check before
Pentagon crash. (Army)
72. 9/11 - Hours before crash, a Pentagon medic was
studying disaster plan based on unlikely scenario of a plane crashing into
building. (Washington Post)
73. 9/11 - Flight 77's radar stops near Ohio/Kentucky
border and is the only one of the four hijacked planes that wasn't able to be
tracked all the way. (Flight Explorer, Washington Post)
74. Flight 77 is piloted by ex-Navy fighter pilot who
worked on anti-terrorism strategies in same area of Pentagon hit by his plane
and a passenger on board is an ex-Navy Admiral, jet fighter pilot, and American
Airlines captain who also worked at Pentagon. (Newsday, Washington Post)
75. 9/11 - Multiple fire and medical units dispatched
near Pentagon minutes before crash for high-rise apt. fire that was reported
out when 1st responder arrived. (Arlington County,
Fire Engineering)
76. Pentagon crash happened right in the middle of the
only section being renovated to bolster it against an attack which severely
limited damage and loss of life. (USA Today, Army)
77. 9/11 - Gas station and hotel's security cameras
recorded Pentagon crash, but FBI arrived within minutes and confiscated films. (CNN, National Geographic)
79. Pentagon construction worker says on Larry King Live
that plane that hit Pentagon had 'fewer engines' than the other 9/11 planes. (CNN)
80. 9/11 - Air traffic controllers thought alleged Boeing
757 flying towards the Pentagon flew like a 'military jetfighter.' (ABC, Washington Post)
81. Alleged Flight 77 hijacker pilot, Hani Hanjour, was
described as a horrible pilot by his flight instructors and was the only
hijacker who didn't have a passenger number or seat assignment. (CBS, NY Times, Washington Post)
Describing
a missile...
82. 9/11 - USA TODAY reporter Richard Benedetto says
aircraft he saw hit the Pentagon 'sounded like an artillery shell.' (USA Today)
83. 9/11 - Pentagon Renovation project coordinator
Michael DiPaula says aircraft that hit the Pentagon 'sounded like a missile.' (Baltimore
Sun)
84. 9/11 - Space News editor Lon Rains was 'convinced a
missile' hit the Pentagon by the way it sounded and how fast it flew in. (Space News)
85. 9/11 - Pentagon network engineer Tom Seibert said he
heard what 'sounded like a missile' crash into the building. (Guardian)
Describing
aircraft very different than a Boeing 757...
86. 9/11 - D. S. Khavkin says aircraft she and her
husband saw fly overheard towards the Pentagon appeared to be a 'small'
commercial aircraft. (BBC)
87. 9/11 - Steve Patterson says aircraft he saw crash
into pentagon appeared to hold about '8 to 12 people' and sounded like a
'fighter jet.' (Washington Post)
88. 9/11 - USA Today Editor Joel Sucherman says he saw
the body and tail of the aircraft that hit the Pentagon, but 'did not see the
engines.' (CNN video)
Witnessed
no plane at crash site...
89. 9/11 - CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre live at the
Pentagon scene says there's 'no evidence a plane crashed anywhere near the
building.' (CNN video)
90. 9/11 - Engineer Steve DeChiaro says he was perplexed
that a plane had crashed into Pentagon by seeing only a small hole in the
building and seeing 'no tail, wings, no nothing'. (Memphis
Online)
91. 9/11 - Army Captain Lincoln Liebner says remarkably
there was 'no debris from the airplane' at the Pentagon when he got to the
building. (Army)
92. 9/11 - Army Captain Allan Lindsley says he was 100
meters from the Pentagon crash site and didn’t see 'any of the plane.' (Army)
93. 9/11 - Nurse Eileen Murphy upon reaching the Pentagon
crash scene says she was real surprised that the plane 'wasn't there.' (Army)
94. 9/11 - Sergeant First Class Maybon Pollock says he
was in awe that he saw 'nothing left from the plane' at the Pentagon crash site
after being told the size of the plane that had crashed there. (Army)
95. 9/11 - Will Jarvis of the Office of Secretary of
Defense tried but failed to see the plane at the Pentagon saying there was just
'nothing left' and couldn’t see a 'tail or a wing or anything.' (U of T Magazine)
Smelled
explosives, heard multiple explosions...
96. 9/11 - Pentagon attorney Gilah Goldsmith said she
smelled cordite, or gun smoke near the crash site. (Jewish News Weekly)
97. 9/11 - Don Perkal of the Office of Secretary of
Defense said he heard two explosions minutes apart and heard that a bomb had
gone off in the building and when he smelled cordite, he says he knew
'explosives had been set off somewhere'. (McSweeney's)
PENNSYLVANIA
CRASH...
98. June '01 - A major terrorist exercise 'Mall Strike 2001' is conducted in
a PA county next to the one where Flight 93 crashes. (FEMA, PittsburgLive)
99. 9/11 - Flight 93 reportedly lands at a Cleveland airport,
adjacent to NASA Glenn Research Ctr, due to a bomb scare after a man over
Flight 93's intercom says a bomb is on board and the plane will be 'returning
to the airport' at about the time it is flying over Cleveland. (WCPO-TV, Pitt Post-Gazette)
100.
9/11 - Witness at Flight 93 crash scene says there
was nothing that could 'distinguish that a plane had crashed there.' (FOX video)
101.
9/11 - Somerset county coroner says no remains were
visible at Flight 93 crash site if the plane had 'stopped and let the
passengers off before it crashed' and that the most 'eerie' thing was that he
hadn't seen a 'single drop of blood' there. (Pittsburg Live, Washington Post)
102.
Dec '04 - Donald Rumsfeld says Flight 93 was shot
down in speech. (CNN)
IGNORED
WARNINGS, ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN...
103.
1994 - US intel warned that terrorists might attack US using airplanes as
weapons (CNN, CBS) and was warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes and
attack the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. (CNN)
104.
CIA had low-level spies inside Al Qaeda three years
before attacks (Reuters), US intel overheard discussions of a major pending terrorist attack weeks
prior to 9/11 (USA Today)
105.
Jan '00 - CIA information about 2 alleged 9/11
hijackers in San Diego is squelched before reaching FBI. (LA Times)
106.
US agents told to back off bin Laden's and Saudi
Royals soon after Bush becomes president. (Ananova, BBC)
107.
June '01- Convicted terrorist provided US with
specific info about a terrorist attack, some was used in Aug. 6th memo. (Newsweek)
108.
June '01 - Dept. of Defense changes hijacking rules,
first time since 1997. (DoD)
109.
July '01 - Armed pilots banned 2 months before 9/11.
(WorldNetDaily)
111.
July '01 - Agent's "Phoenix
memo" warned FBI about OBL supporters taking flight training in Arizona,
suggesting schools could be used for terror operations, but doesn't reached
tops at FBI, CIA, and Justice Dept. until after 9/11. (CBS, CNN)
112.
July '01 - Suspected 9/11 mastermind KSM receives US
visa despite '96 terrorist indictment. (ABC)
113.
Aug '01 - Israeli security issued urgent warning to
CIA of large-scale terror attacks. (Telegraph)
114.
Aug '01 - Taliban warns US of huge attack from bin
Laden. (BBC)
115.
Aug '01 - FBI supervisor said in conversation with
headquarters that he wanted to prevent Zacarias Moussaoui from flying a plane
into the WTC. (USA Today)
116.
Aug 6 - CIA memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined To
Strike in US" warns Bush of attacks and plane hijackings in the US by OBL. (ABC, FOX)
117.
FAA chiefs received 52 warnings in 6 months time
period before 9/11. (NY Times)
118.
All 4 hijacked planes were well below normal
passenger loads, averaging only 27% full. (CNN, Washington Post)
119.
FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley accuses bosses of
ignoring 9/11 warnings and sabotaging investigation attempts. (Time, USA Today)
120.
FBI translator Sibel Edmonds: 'I Saw Papers
That Show US Knew al-Qaida Would Attack Cities With Airplanes'
(Independent-UK)
121.
9/11 Panel Chairman: 'Attack Was Preventable.' (CBS)
COVER-UP...
122.
9/11 - Ari Fleischer claims that Bush received no
warnings about the attacks (White House), May '02 - Fleischer confirms that Bush was told by
CIA a month before attacks about possibility of OBL terrorists hijacking planes
in the US. (SF Gate)
123.
President Bush (White
House) Gen. Richard Myers (DoD)
Condoleezza Rice (CBS)
Sect. Mineta and some NORAD officials all deny
anybody was aware of the idea that terrorists would use airplanes as weapons
(Seattle Post), 1999 - NORAD conducted exercises simulating hijacked
airliners used as weapons. (USA Today)
124.
Sept 22 - 'Airline Transportation Stabilization Act'
becomes law which if 9/11 victim's families except, they can't sue airlines or
US gov't for any reason. (Guardian, LA Times)
125.
Sept 26 - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani bans all video and
photography at Ground Zero. (Boston Globe)
126.
Jan '02 - Fire Engineering says official WTC
investigation is a 'half-baked farce' that may already have been 'commandeered
by political forces' whose primary interests lie 'far afield of full
disclosure.' (Fire Engineering)
128.
May '02 - Bush Administration oppose a 9/11
investigation. (CBS)
129.
June '02 - Records of 9/11 response not for public, New York City says. (NY Times)
130.
Sept '02 - American Airlines continues to gag all
employees from talking about Sept 11 hijackings. (WorldNetDaily)
131.
Sept '02 - Bush admin denies lawmakers investigating
9/11 permission to reveal whether the president or White House staff received
warning of potential terrorist attacks against US, including plans by al Qaida
linked terrorists to use hijacked planes as weapons. (UPI)
132.
Nov '02 - Bush names former National Security advisor
and Unocal consultant Henry Kissinger to head 9/11 investigations. (CNN,
CBS)
133.
Dec '02 - WTC surveillance tapes and maintenance logs
are among the missing evidence as investigators try to figure out why the WTC
collapsed. (Ft Wayne Sentinel)
134.
Dec '02 - Bush names Homeland Security Project
Co-Chair who has business link to husband of OBL's sister to head 9/11 panel. (Fortune)
135.
Jan '03 - 9/11 investigations get only $3 million
budget and 16 month time frame. (Washington
Times)
136.
May '03 - White House refuses to release 900-page
Sept. 11 congressional report. (Miami Herald)
137.
July '03 - 9/11 panel criticizes Defense, Justice
dept's for not cooperating fully and CIA, FBI for intimidating witnesses. (ABC, Guardian)
138.
July '03 - White House, CIA kept key portions of 9/11
report classified dealing with Saudi Arabia and reject Saudi requests to
declassify. (Washington Post, Reuters)
139.
Jan '04 - 9/11 Panel has to interview two of it's own
members about attacks. (UPI)
140.
Jan '04 - Bush and Speaker Hastert oppose granting
more time for 9/11 Panel. (Washington
Post)
141.
April '04 - Bush admin gags FBI translator Sibel
Edmonds from speaking to 9/11 Panel about attack foreknowledge. (Independent-UK)
143.
FAA manager mangled, cut, and destroyed 9/11 tapes. (Washington Post)
144.
President Bush's phone logs on 9/11 don't exist. (NY Daily News)
145.
June '04 - 9/11 tapes reveal ground personnel
covered-up attack response, kept things 'hush-hush.' (New York Observer)
146.
July '04 - Almost 3 years after 9/11, technology only
now exists to enable cell phones to work on airplanes at flying altitudes. (USA Today, New York Press)
147.
9/11 report shows much of common wisdom about 9/11
was wrong. (9/11 Panel, Straights
Times)
148.
Oct '04 - NORAD takes their 9/11 response timeline
off website after US Senator accuses them and FAA of lying. (NORAD, Star Tribune)
149.
Oct '04 - Inquiry begins about unreleased 9/11 report
about civilian, military response timeline and will stay unreleased until after
elections. (NY Times)
150.
Alleged 9/11 hijacker rented room from FBI informant,
FBI covered fact up. (Village Voice)
151.
Box cutters weren't allowed pre-9/11 by airlines
industry. (9/11 Panel, CBS)
MOTIVES...
152.
1997 - CFR & Trilateral Comm member Zbigniew Brzezinski publishes a
book urging the US to control the world's natural resources to maintain global
domination despite public's uneasiness about US projecting external power and
cautions it will become more difficult to get consensus on foreign policy with
an increasingly diverse US society unless public perceives a massive direct
external threat. (Brzezinski: 'Grand Chessboard'),
Sept 14 - Council on Foreign Relation member Gary
Hart says 9/11 attacks is chance for Bush to carry out a "new world
order." (CFR)
153.
Sept 10 - Donald Rumsfeld announces Pentagon has lost
track of $2.3 trillion (CBS, DoD), attacks came near end of fiscal year & important
budget information was located in the damaged area
(Arlington County),
large number of fatalities at Pentagon were civilian
accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. (Pitt Post-Gazette)
154.
Oct '01 - Only 1 1/2 months after 9/11, the 342 page
USA PATRIOT ACT is signed into law. (White
House)
155.
Nov '02 - Dept of Homeland Security is created to
lead the fight against domestic terrorism. (CBS)
156.
Poll Cites GOP Gains Since 9/11
(Washington Post), Gov't terrorist warnings boost Bush's approval
ratings. (Cornell U), '9/11 effect' won Bush votes on Democratic turf near
Ground Zero. (New York Post)
157.
Military budget increase:
·
FY 2002 budget request is a $37.8 billion, or 11.5% increase from '01
request. (DoD)
·
FY 2003 budget request is a $40.1 billion, or 10.9%
increase from '02 request. (DoD)
Afghanistan
158.
War in Afghanistan would have been politically
impossible pre-9/11. (USA Today)
159.
July '00 - Taliban bans cultivation of opium poppies
in Afghanistan (BBC), Mar '05, Afghanistan opium production surges. (USA Today)
160.
July '01 - US plans to invade Afghanistan by Oct '01
(BBC, Guardian), Sept 4 - White House approves plan to invade Afghanistan
(CBS, USA Today), Sept 10 - Plan awaits Bush's approval
(MSNBC), Oct '01 - US invades Afghanistan. (DoD)
161.
Gas/oil pipeline:
·
1997 - Taleban are in Texas for talks with Unocal
about an Afghan pipeline. (BBC)
·
Feb '98, Unocal rep testifies before congress that an
Afghan pipeline can't happen without a single stable Afghan gov't and asks the
US to use it's influence to end conflicts there. (US House of Reps)
·
Dec '98 - Unocal drops out of Afghan pipeline
consortium. (Unocal)
·
May '01, US gives $43 million to Afghanistan and
becomes their largest donor two years in a row. (CNN)
·
Some say current military campaign in Afghanistan has hidden objective -
revive gas pipeline and open the way for U.S. companies to build further
facilities to carry central Asian oil. (BCC)
·
Dec '02 - Afghan gas pipeline deal signed. (BBC,
SF Chronicle)
·
May '05 - Afghan pipeline draws closer to reality,
Afghan President said project was a 'top priority.' (Christian Science Monitor)
Iraq
162.
White House officials say privately 9/11 was main
reason for war in Iraq (ABC), Bush says US is in Iraq because of 9/11. (CNN, White House)
163.
Oil:
·
1998 - PNAC calls for a war in Iraq to oust Saddam
Hussein who they say threatens Israel and the world's oil supply. (ABC, PNAC)
·
Jan '01 - Bush had pre-9/11 Iraq war plan according to Treasury Dept memo.
(CNN)
·
Bush made plans for ousting Saddam and for Iraq's oil
before 9/11. (BBC)
·
9/11 - Barely 5 hrs after the Pentagon crash,
Rumsfeld begins strike plans against Iraq. (CBS)
·
Feb '02 - Bush admin was warned statements that Iraq
trained Al Qaeda in weapon making was fabricated, yet they would later use same
statements as foundation for military action in Iraq.
(NY Times, AFP)
·
Sept '03 - Poll later finds 70% Americans believe
Saddam-9/11 link. (CNN, White House)
·
Downing Street Memo warned Saddam not a threat and US
fixed intel around their war policy. (London
Times)
·
9/11 Panel says no evidence connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda.
(Washington Post)
·
Oct '04 - CIA report later concludes no WMD's in Iraq
as Bush used to help justify war. (CNN,
BBC)
·
Dec '04 - Ex-CIA agent says he was sacked for not faking
Iraq WMD reports. (Washington Times)
CULPRITS...
165.
May '01 - PNAC member Dov Zakheim sworn in as the
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and CFO for Defense Dept and was
former VP of a defense contractor which makes remote control and flight
termination products. (DoD, SPC)
166.
Sept 6 - large put options placed on United, American
Airlines, Boeing and some purchases made through bank which used to be headed
by Exec. CIA Director Buzzy Krongard. (Chicago
Tribune, SF Chronicle)
167.
Sept 10 - Former Pres. and ex-CIA dir. Bush Sr. met
with Osama's brother at Carlyle Group meeting in DC. (Washington Post), is at the White House morning of attacks. (CBS)
168.
9/11 - The official bin Ladin family's website domain
expires. (Yahoo, Philly City Paper)
169.
9/11 - Sen. Graham, Rep. Goss, and other US Intel
committee members have meeting in the morning with Paki ISI director who had
authorized $100,000 wire transfer to Atta. (Wall St Journal, Washington Post)
170.
9/11 - Elite Israeli military commando who
understands Arabic is seated near all hijackers on Flight 11. (WorldNetDaily)
171.
9/11 - Bush proceeds with scheduled reading event
after Rice tells him a commercial plane hit the WTC. (9/11 Panel)
172.
9/11 - Chief of Staff Card whispers to Bush about 2nd
WTC crash and says 'America is under attack' and immediately leaves without
seeing if Bush would respond. (Boston
Herald)
173.
9/11 - After being told of attacks, Bush picks up
book and reads with kids for 11 mins and after finishing, takes a few questions
from kids before leaving. (FOX, St
Petersburg Times)
174.
9/11 - Bush gives speech at school exactly the same
time he was scheduled to make speech there day before. (Federal News Service)
175.
9/11 - Solicitor Gen. Ted Olson--who has admitted the
US gov't lies and helped stopped FL recount that sealed '00 Bush win--claims
wife Barbara called him collect from Flight 77 twice and is sole source that
hijackers used box cutters. (9/11 Panel,
MSNBC, USA Today)
176.
9/11 - Israeli spies caught celebrating while filming
themselves with WTC burning in background and later arrested and found with
boxcutters, multiple foreign passports, maps linking them to the attack,
explosives detected, and large amount of cash in their white van
(ABC, The Forward, Bergen Record)
177.
9/11 - Bush is never evacuated by Secret Service from
School. (Globe & Mail)
180.
Sept 13 - Bush Admin allows Bin Laden family and top
Saudi officials to evacuated from US before general public flight restrictions
were lifted. (NY Times, Tampa Tribune)
181.
Oct '01 - Donald Rumsfeld says in a magazine
interview that Pentagon was hit by a 'missile.' (DoD)
182.
Bush twice says he saw WTC plane crash live on TV at
Booker Elementary (Boston Herald, White House|2), 1st crash happened at 8:46 am (9/11 Panel), Bush arrived at school at 8:52 am. (ABC)
183.
Bush refers to 9/11 as 'an interesting day' (White House), says 2001 was a 'fabulous year' for Laura and he. (White House)
184.
WTC leaseholder receives $861 million settlement for
WTC 7, debt on 7 only $383 million (Insurance Journal),
May '04 - Silverstein awarded single payout of $3.5
billion for WTC (CNN), Dec '04 - Silverstein wins extra $1.1 billion from
court ruling saying attacks constituted 'two separate events'. (USA Today)
185.
March '04 - Madrid bombings happen exactly 911 days
after 9/11. (News 24, Snopes.com)
PATSIES,
OPERATIVES...
186.
Osama bin Laden had ties to the CIA (MSNBC), July '01 - OBL wanted by US since '98, undergoes
medical treatment at the American Hospital in Dubai and is met by the local CIA
chief (Guardian), Sept 10 - OBL undergoes kidney dialysis at Pakistani
military hospital in which a "secret team" replaces regular urology
staff. (CBS)
187.
Five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers receive training
at secure US military bases. (MSNBC)
188.
CIA had tracked two of the alleged Flight 77
hijackers. (BBC)
189.
July '01 - Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed receives a US visa despite authorities chasing him since 1994 and a
1996 terrorist indictment (ABC, LA Times), Oct '04 - KSM 'missing' in US custody. (SJ Mercury)
190.
CIA says 1st WTC plane crash was an attack and Dir. Tenet blames OBL for
attacks even before 2nd plane crashes (ABC)
and the US is claiming Osama bin Laden is behind the
attacks before the day is over. (ABC, The
Post)
191.
Taliban rulers condemn attacks and says Bin Laden
didn't have the means to carry out such well-orchestrated attacks
(TCM News), Sept 16 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in press
release (Guardian), Sept 28 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in 'Ummat' Paki
newspaper, suggests Jews or US secret services behind attacks
(Khilafah), Nov 7 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in 'The Dawn'
Paki newspaper (Islam Online),
192.
Sept 13 - Airplane passenger lists from all four
hijacked planes list no Arab names. (Guardian)
193.
7 of alleged 19 hijackers are reported alive, FBI
Director admits some identities are in doubt. (BBC, LA Times)
196.
Mohammed Atta's father says Atta called him on Sept
12. (Guardian,
PittsburgLive)
Framing
197.
Sept 9 - Alleged Flight 175 hijacker pilot Marwan
Al-Shehhi reportedly leaves behind Boeing 757 manuals, east coast flight maps,
an airplane fuel tester, and a protractor in his hotel room. (Augusta Chronicle),
Flight 175 was a Boeing 767. (9/11 Commission)
198.
Sept 10 - Flight 93 hijacker Ziad Jarrah reportedly
sends farewell letter and flight training documents to girlfriend of 5 years in
Germany, but allegedly wrote address wrong and letter comes back and is passed
to FBI; relatives say letter was fabricated to frame him. (BBC)
199.
Sept 10 - Atta and two Arab men allegedly spew
anti-American sentiments and leave a Quran and business card behind. (USA Today)
200.
9/11 - Alleged Flight 11 hijackers
Atta and Al-Omari caught on Portland, ME airport security video
(ABC-AU, USA
Today), Father says it's not Atta on security video. (PittsburgLive)
201.
9/11 - Atta was only passenger among 81 people aboard
Flight 11 whose luggage didn't make the flight and where found with
incriminated evidence. (USA Today, WorldNetDaily)
202.
9/11 - Press reports a group with 'Palestine' in the
name claimed responsibility for attacks (CNN video), caught Israeli spy who was filming WTC burning says
'We are not your problem, Palestinians are the problem'
(ABC), video
shows Palestinians rejoicing over news of attacks (CNN Video, Israel Insider, LA Times),
Palestinian celebrations were staged (Der Spiegel), '02 - Palestinian says Mossad sought to induce him to
set up fake al Qaeda cell in Gaza and declare responsibility for various
bombings. (Arabia Online)
203.
Sept 13 - Student ID card of Flight 77 hijacker Majed Moqed reportedly
found at Pentagon, still able to read name on it. (9/11 Panel)
204.
Sept 17 - Passport is found belonging to alleged hijacker
who's plane crashed into WTC. (CNN)
205.
Sept 28 - FBI claims to find Arabic written letter in Atta's suitcase and
additional copies at Flight 93 crash site and in car registered to Flight 77
hijacker at Dulles parking lot. (FBI, PBS)
206.
Dec '01 - Pentagon releases poor quality video
showing 'OBL' bragging about attacks and wearing a gold ring and watch which
are forbidden in Islam, Bush Admin uses this video to vindicate US invading
Afghan. (USA Today, FBI), Dec '01 - Osama bin Laden reportedly died. (FOX, NY Times), Oct '04 - Video of supposedly OBL admitting to
attacks is released 4 days before election and gives Bush a boost in polls
(ABC, NY Daily News)
207.
Many investigators believe that some of the evidence
allegedly left behind by the hijackers was 'meant to be found' and whatever
trail was left was 'left deliberately for the FBI to chase.' (New Yorker)
Fundamentalist
Muslims 'gone wild'
208.
May '01 - Several alleged hijackers seen at Las Vegas
Strip clubs (SF Chronicle), several also patronized Nardone's Go-Go Bar
(Wall Street Journal) Flight 77 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf
Alhazmi hang out at Cheetah's nude bar (LA Times), Sept 10 - Atta and two Arab men allegedly spend
hundreds on drinks and lap dances at FL strip club the Pink Pony. (USA
Today)
209.
Sept 2-6 - Alleged hijacker Majed Moqed seen in two
stores in Maryland looking over adult videos and books
(MSNBC), Sept 10 - Alleged hijacker Hamza Alghamdi watches a
porno in his hotel. (Wall Street Journal)
210.
Sept 5 - Two or three of the alleged hijackers go
gambling on a SunCruz Casino boat. (St Petersburg Times, USA Today)
211.
Sept 7 - Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi both seen 'wasted'
at Florida bar called Shuckums. (St Petersburg Times)
212.
Sept 9 - Alleged Flight 11 hijacker sleeps with a
high-priced prostitute (Boston Herald), Sept 10 - Four alleged hijackers spend the night
looking for prostitutes in Boston. (Boston Globe)