Please Let the old 103 Reasons post die, as it only contains
36 Reasons. Thanks
There was such an avalanche of posts dealing with the hearings
yesterday that allot of people did not get to read this. So,
here it is again. I suggest that you bookmark this list so you
can return to it. Feel free to cut and paste to make your own
posts based on what you find here.
In summery, this time line points to a conspiracy (and I'm not
afraid to use that word) by oil and gas corporations to rescue
their $35 billion investments in central Asia by getting their
men, the present Bush administration, into office, and having
them allow, and maybe even aid, a terrorist Pearl Harbor which
they could then use to mobilize the nation behind their
imperialist adventure. From there, they would further
consolidate their wealth and power by using the momentum of
the Afghan invasion to move into Iraq. As we can see from this
modest time line derived from mainstream sources, the Bush
administration not only had forewarning of 9/11, but had
already begun planning for an invasion of Afghanistan, and
even had some shady connections with those involved, such as
Mohammad Atta. That's a very basic overview, although it does
deal with other objectives, such as control of the Afghan drug
trade, but these are too fleeting and nebulous to focus on.
Former LAPD narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert's infamous
time line
(www.fromthewilderness.com )
Read and weep.
1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil,
Texaco, Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest
billions in cash bribing heads of state in Kazakhstan to
secure equity rights in the huge oil reserves in these
regions. The oil companies further commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to
pay exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines, the
major oil companies have no way to recoup their investments.
Source: "The Price of Oil" by Seymour Hersh, The New
Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia Times, "The Roving Eye
Part I Jan. 26, 2002
2. January 1995 - Philippine police investigating a
possible attack on the Pope uncover plans for Operation
Bojinka, connected to World Trade Center (WTC) bomber Ramsi
Youssef. Parts of the plan call for crashing hijacked
airliners into civilian targets. Details of the plan are
disclosed in Youssef's 1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing.
Source: Agence France-Presse, Dec. 7, 2001
3. Dec. 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited
guests to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their
support for the pipeline. Subsequent reports will indicate
that the negotiations failed, allegedly because the Taliban
wanted too much money. Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997
4. Feb. 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca --
later to become a special ambassador to Afghanistan --
testifies before the House that until a single, unified,
friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be
built. [Source: Testimony before the House International
Relations Committee:
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm]
5. August 1998 - After the U.S. cruise missile attacks on Al
Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in retaliation for the African
embassy bombings, Unocal officially withdraws from
participation in the CentGas trans-Afghani gas pipeline
project. Various sources, Unocal
6. 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert
Baer that Saudi Arabia was harboring an Al Qaeda cell led by
two known terrorists. A more detailed list of known terrorists
is offered to Saudi intelligence in August 2001 and refused.
Source: Financial Times Jan. 21, 2001; "See No Evil"
by Robert Baer (release date February 2002)
7. April 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build
an electrical generating plant at Dabhol, India loses access
to plentiful LNG supplies from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its
only remaining option to make the investment profitable is a
trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by Unocal from
Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at
the city of Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28,
2002]
8. July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order
13129, which freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits
trade between the Afghan fundamentalist regime and U.S.
entities. [Source: Federal Register, Vol. 64, No. 129, July 7,
1999]
9. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels
to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle
Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While
there he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the
bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27,
2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No. 7 - "The Best Enemies
Money Can Buy"
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html]
10. March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch
in Carnivore that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted
emails with those belonging to Al Qaeda, destroys all of the
FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin Laden's colleagues in a
terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, May 29,
2002]
11. 2000 (est.) - The FBI refuses to disclose the date of an
internal memo stating that a Middle Eastern nation had been
trying to purchase a flight simulator. [Source: Los Angeles
Times, May 30, 2002]
12. August 2000 -- Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped
by Italian police made apparent references to plans for major
attacks involving airports, airplanes and the United States
according to transcripts obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
The Times suggests that the information might not have been
passed to U.S. authorities (hard to believe), but it did
report that Italian authorities would not comment on the
report. The Times also noted that "Italian and U.S.
anti-terrorism experts cooperate closely." [Source: The
Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002]
13. Oct. 24-26, 2000 - Pentagon officials carry out a
"detailed" emergency drill based upon the crashing
of a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon. [Source: The Mirror,
May 24, 2002]
14. January 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and
intelligence agencies to "back off" investigations
involving the bin Laden family, including two of Osama bin
Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls
Church, Va. -- right next to CIA headquarters. This followed
previous orders dating back to 1996 that frustrated efforts to
investigate the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight,
Correspondent Gregg Palast, Nov. 7, 2001]
15. Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was
questioned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE,
Middle Eastern, European, and U.S. sources were cited in this
CNN report, which said the CIA requested Jarrah be
interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was
suspected to have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman
said the other sources' claims that the agency knew anything
about Jarrah before Sept. 11 were "flatly untrue."
Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in Dubai, UAE came
six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was
released because "U.S. officials were satisfied,"
said the report. [Source: CNN, Aug. 1, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html]
16. Feb. 13, 2001 - UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale
-- while covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers --
reports that the National Security Agency has broken bin
Laden's encrypted communications. Even if this indicates that
bin Laden changed systems in February, it does not mesh with
the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been
planned for years.
17. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43
million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist
hungry farmers who are starving since the destruction of their
opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime.
[Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]
18. May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a
career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India
on a publicized tour, while CIA Director George Tenet makes a
quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader Gen.
Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani
intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume
that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as
"an unusually long meeting," also met with his
Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI.
[Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]
19. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA
and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning
to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack
important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2001; See
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html]
20. June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
publishes a story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link
Russian Military to Drug Trade." According to the
article, figures for 1999 published in a report by the United
Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent
of the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half
of the drugs in that 80 percent traveled through Central Asia.
A study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers headquartered in
Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers by
providing them with transportation facilities. This was
confirmed by a Russian intelligence officer who told the
Moscow News weekly, "You can come to an arrangement [with
custom officials] so that the search of military transport
planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys
carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]."
[Source:
www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp]
21. July 2001 - FBI agents in Arizona write a memorandum
warning about suspicious activities involving a group of
Middle Eastern men taking flight training lessons in Phoenix.
The memorandum specifically mentions Osama bin Laden and warns
of connections to terrorist activities. [Source: The New York
Times, May 14, 2002]
22. summer 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a
Dabhol working group as revealed in a series of government
e-mails obtained by the Washington Post and the New York Daily
News. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]
23. summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's
The Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that
"U.S. department of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr,
visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian's Felicity
Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training
special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports
that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska
and Montana."
24. summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see
above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed
Atta who was, according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the
suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently resigned after the transfer
was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. The
individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is
Ahmad Umar Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and
murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source:
The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]
25. summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on
Sept. 14 that an Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to
warn of an imminent attack on the WTC in the week of Sept. 9.
German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret
Service would not reveal any further information. [Source:
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1512332.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html
]
26. summer 2001 - Jordanian intelligence, the GID, makes a
communications intercept deemed so important that King
Abdullah's men relay it to Washington, probably through the
CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure the message got
through it was passed through an Arab intermediary to a German
intelligence agent. The message: A major attack was planned
inside the U.S., and aircraft would be used. The code name of
the operation was "The Big Wedding." "When it
became clear that the information was embarrassing to Bush
Administration officials and congressmen who at first denied
that there had been any such warnings before Sept. 11, senior
Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier
confirmations." This case was authenticated by ABC
reporter John K. Cooley. [Source: International Herald Tribune
(IHT), May 21, 2002]
27. summer 2001 (est.) - The National Security Agency
intercepts telephone conversations between bin Laden aide
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohammed Atta and does not share
the information with any other agencies. [Source: Jonathan
Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002]
28. June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that
"India and Iran will 'facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans
for 'limited military action' against the Taliban." The
story indicates that the fighting will be done by U.S. and
Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
[Source: indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001]
29. summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that
25 terrorist pilots have been specifically training for
missions involving hijacked airliners. This is reported in the
Russian press and news stories are translated for FTW by a
retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently on the
Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key paragraph.)
[Source: Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html]
30. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatment for
kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets
with a CIA official, who returns to CIA headquarters on July
15. [Source: Le Figaro, Oct. 31, 2001]
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le
Figaro_osama_dubai.html
31. July 15, 2001 - Members of the G8, meeting in Genoa,
Italy, discuss the Taliban, pipelines, and the handing over of
Osama bin Laden. According to Pakistani representative
Ambassador Naiz Naik, the U.S. delegation, led by former
Clinton Ambassador to Pakistan Tom Simmons warned of a
"military option" if the Taliban did not change
position. [Source: Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie,
"Bin Laden: La Verite Interdite," pp76-7. Thanks to
Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
32. July 2001 - Immediately after the G8 Summit three
American officials -- Tom Simmons (former U.S. ambassador to
Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former assistant secretary of
state for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State
Department expert on South Asia) -- meet with Pakistani and
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the
U.S. is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in
October. A French book released in November, "Bin Laden -
La Verite Interdite," discloses that Taliban
representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers
confirm that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the
Taliban. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 22, 2001; the BBC, Sept.
18, 2001; The Inter Press Service, Nov. 16, 2001; Alexander's
Gas and Oil Connections, Feb. 21, 2002]
33. July 2001 - The G8 summit at Genoa, Italy is surrounded
by anti-aircraft guns, and local airspace is closed off after
Italian and Egyptian officials (including President Hosni
Mubarak) warn American intelligence that airliners stuffed
with explosives might be used to attack President Bush. U.S.
officials state that the warnings were
"unsubstantiated." (But I wonder if they would have
taken away the anti-aircraft artillery?) [Source: Los Angeles
Times, Sept. 27, 2001]
34. July 26, 2001 - CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has
stopped flying commercial airlines due a threat assessment.
Ashcroft told the press that he didn't know anything about
what had caused it.
35. Aug. 2, 2001 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Christine
Rocca (a former CIA officer), meets in Islamabad with a
Taliban ambassador and demands the extradition of bin Laden.
This was the last known meeting on the subject. [Source:
Brisard and Dasquie, p 79. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
36. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked
to bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm
that the man is a key member of bin Laden's network and the
FBI learns that he has been taking flying lessons. At the time
of his arrest the man is in possession of technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source:
Reuters, Sept. 13, 2001]
37. Aug. 11 or 12, 2001 ‚ U.S. Navy Lt. Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland, jailed in Toronto on U.S. fraud
charges and claiming to be an officer with U.S. naval
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and
seals them in an envelope, which he gives to Canadian
authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto
Superior Court Records]
38. August 2001 - As reported in the IHT both a French
magazine (name not given) and a Moroccan newspaper
simultaneously report that a Moroccan agent named Hassan Dabou
had penetrated Al Qaeda to the point of getting close to bin
Laden, who was "very disappointed" that the 1993
bombing had not toppled the WTC. Dabou was called to the U.S.
after reporting this, which curtailed his ability to stay in
touch with the organization and gather additional intelligence
that might have prevented the attacks. Though not proved
beyond a doubt, these stories have been met with a wall of
silence. [The IHT, May 21, 2002]
39. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders
Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the
strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports
and government buildings. [Source: MSNBC interview with Putin,
Sept. 15, 2001]
40. August 2001 - President Bush receives classified
intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating
that Osama bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial
airliners. [CBS News; CNN, May 15, 2002]
41. late-August 2001 - Prince Turki, the pro-U.S. head of
Saudi intelligence (also known to be close to bin Laden), is
replaced by his more neutral half-brother, Prince Nawwaf who
is an ally of Crown Prince Abdullah. [Source: Saudi Arabian
Information Resource, Aug. 31, 2001; http://www.saudinf.com/ -
Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
42. August/September 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average
drops nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the
attack. A major stock market crash is imminent.
43. August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page
memo written by Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley,
FBI headquarters ignores urgent, direct warnings from French
intelligence services about pending attacks. In addition, a
single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in Washington expends
extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of
Zacarias Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit
for a search warrant to search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's
memo uses terms like "deliberately sabotage,"
"block," "integrity," "omitted,"
"downplayed," "glossed over,"
"mis-characterize," "improper political
reasons, "deliberately thwarting,"
"deliberately further undercut,"
"suppressed," and "not completely honest."
These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather,
deliberate acts. FBI field agents desperately attempt to get
action, but to no avail. One agent speculates that bin Laden
might be planning to crash airliners into the WTC, while
Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed these
deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11.
[Source: Associated Press, May 21, 2002]
44. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on Sept. 16 that a
caller to a Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several
warnings of an imminent attack on the U.S. by bin Laden in the
week prior to 9-11.
45. early-September 2001 - An FBI internal document, based
upon field notes from Minnesota field agents discloses that
the agents had been investigating and had questioned the
"20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. The field notes
speculate that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons,
might crash an airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field
agents' requests to obtain a search warrant for his personal
computer were denied. French intelligence confirms to the FBI
that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and may have
traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no knowledge of
the Phoenix memo (See Item #18). One news story states that
agents were in "a frenzy," absolutely convinced that
he was "going to do something with a plane."
[Source: Newsweek, May 20, 2002 issue, story by Michael
Isikoff].
46. Sept. 1-10 2001 - In an exercise, called Operation
"Swift Sword" and planned for four years, 23,000
British troops are steaming toward Oman. Although the 9-11
attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment, the massive
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two
U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of
Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also at the same time,
some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in
Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these
forces are in place before the first plane hits the WTC.
[Sources: The Guardian; CNN; Fox; The Observer; International
Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of Illinois.]
47. Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht
High School who had recently emigrated from Pakistan
reportedly predicts the destruction of the World Trade Center
a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to the JournalNews
newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing "three police
sources and a city official familiar with the
investigation" as well as confirmation from the FBI that
the bureau had received this information, the paper reported
that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student
pointed to the World Trade Center from a third story window
and said, "Do you see those two buildings? They won't be
standing there next week." New York City Board of
Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the
JournalNews "that school officials reported the matter to
police within minutes of the Sept. 11 attack" and
students told the paper that "FBI agents and NYPD
detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate
the student [who made the prediction] and others in his
class," which was "an English class for
Arab-American students." [Source: The JournalNews, Oct.
11, 2001,
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html]
48. Sept. 5, 2001 - "Five hundred websites -- many of
them with an Arab or Muslim connection -- crash when an
anti-terrorism taskforce raids InfoCom Corp. in Texas,"
reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. A taskforce
of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the FBI,
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security,
IRS, and Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office
building in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas for four
days, "copying every hard disc they could find."
InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and is
located across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a
charitable organization which has been alleged to have
connections with terrorist groups. InfoCom's vice president of
marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of the Holy
Land Foundation. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.html]
49. Sept. 7, 2001 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a
two-year emergency executive order (01-261) making new
provisions for the Florida National Guard to assist law
enforcement and emergency-management personnel in the event of
large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism.
[Source: State of Florida website listing of Governor's
executive orders]
50. Sept. 6-7, 2001 - Put options (a speculation that the
stock will go down) totaling 4,744 are purchased on United Air
Lines stock, as opposed to only 396 call options (speculation
that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic and abnormal
increase in sales of put options. Many of the United puts are
purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed
until 1998 by the current executive director of the CIA, A.B.
"Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The Herzliyya
International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT),
http://www.ict.org.il/, Sept. 21, 2001 (Note:The ICT article
on possible terrorist insider trading appeared eight days
*after* the 9/11 attacks.); The New York Times; The Wall
Street Journal; The San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 29, 2001]
51. Sept. 10, 2001 - Put options totaling 4,516 are purchased
on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source:
Herzliyya Institute - above]
52. Sept. 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar
trading patterns to those experienced by United and American.
The put option purchases on both airlines were 600 percent
above normal. This at a time when Reuters (Sept. 10) issues a
business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised to
take off."
53. Sept. 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options
are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA
Re(insurance) which owns 25 percent of American Airlines, and
Munich Re. All of these companies are directly impacted by the
Sept. 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Oct. 18, 2001,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html]
54. 2001-2002 - It has been documented that the CIA, the
Israeli Mossad, and many other intelligence agencies monitor
stock trading in real time using highly advanced programs
reported to be descended from Promis software. This is to
alert national intelligence services of just such kinds of
attacks. Promis was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in
Osama bin Laden's possession and, as a result of recent
stories by Fox, both the FBI and the Justice Department have
confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence gathering through at
least summer 2002. This would confirm that CIA had additional
advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington
Times, June 15, 2001; Fox, Oct. 16, 2001;
FTW, Oct. 26, 2001, -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.html
FTW, Vol. IV, No. 6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. III, No. 7, Sept. 30, 2000 -
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html]
55. Sept. 9, 2001 - President George W. Bush is presented
with detailed war plans to overthrow Al Qaeda, according to
U.S. and foreign sources speaking to NBC News. [Source: MSNBC,
May 16, 2002. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]
56. Sept. 10, 2001 - This item has been removed solely at the
request of the party previously named in this entry. Recent
court proceedings – which occurred after the news story we had
cited - have indicated that there was no connection between
the story listed here, the person named therein and the
attacks of 9-11-01. At the request of the previously named
party, FTW has replaced the $1,000 reward with a $1,000
donation to The Childrens Defense Fund on behalf of the named
party and the issue is now amicably resolved without any hard
feelings between that party and FTW.
57. Sept. 10, 2001 - According to Newsweek, a group of top
Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the
next morning, apparently because of security concerns.
[Source: Newsweek, Sept. 24, 2001]
58. Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI
was notified of a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told
his teacher, "Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will
begin in the United States, and the United States will
lose." The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when
Garland, Texas school district officials told the FBI about
the incident, but it was some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and
the story's publication date of Sept. 19, 2001. [Source:
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222]
59. Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
receives a call from what he described as "his security
people at the airport" eight hours before the terrorist
attacks "advising him that Americans should be cautious
about their air travel," as reported by the San Francisco
Chronicle. Brown was scheduled to fly to New York from San
Francisco International Airport. He told the Chronicle the
call "didn't come in any alarming fashion, which is why
I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement." [Source:
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,
http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml]
60. Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office
(NRO), the federal agency that runs many of the nation's spy
satellites, schedules an exercise involving a plane crashing
into one of the agency's buildings. "On the morning of
Sept. 11, 2001," according to a website advertising a
homeland security conference in Chicago run by the National
Law Enforcement and Security Institute, CIA official John
Fulton and his team "were running a pre-planned
simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would
be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did
they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic
way." Fulton is the head of the NRO's strategic gaming
division. [Source: National Law Enforcement and Security
Institute, http://www.nlsi.net,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_ge/us_sept_11_plane_exercise_1]
61. Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's
congressional correspondent David Welna reports, "I spoke
with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat from Missouri and a
member of the Armed Services Committee, who said that just
recently the director of the CIA warned that there could be an
attack -- an imminent attack - on the United States of this
nature. So this is not entirely unexpected." [Source:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm]
62. Sept. 11, 2001 - United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled to
fly from New York City to Los Angeles was delayed after four
Muslim passengers began demanding that the plane take off
immediately. This happened apparently after the first plane
had hit the WTC. The passengers were thrown off the flight.
[Source: The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002]
63. Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend
of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the
Taliban. He is meeting with the Chairmen of the House and
Senate Intelligence Committees, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., and
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; The New
York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]
64. Sept. 11, 2001 - Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one
of the world's largest instant messaging companies with
offices in New York, receive threat warnings of an imminent
attack on the WTC less than two hours before the first plane
hits. Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about any
investigation of this. The Odigo research and development
offices in Israel are located in the city of Herzliyya, a
ritzy suburb of Tel Aviv that is the same location as the
Institute for Counter Terrorism, which eight days later
reports details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN's
Daniel Sieberg, Sept. 28, 2001; MSNBC Newsbytes, Brian
McWilliams, Sept. 27, 2001; Ha'aretz, Sept. 26, 2001]
65. Sept. 11, 2001 - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05
AM, with it widely known within the FAA and the military that
four planes have been simultaneously hijacked and taken off
course, no one notifies the President of the United States. It
is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are scrambled to
intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before
scrambling aircraft, even though it was known that four
simultaneous hijackings had occurred. [Source: CNN; ABC;
MSNBC; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; www.tenc.net]
66. Sept. 11-12, 2001 - Nearly a month before the first
reported outbreak, White House officials start taking the
powerful antibiotic Cipro to treat anthrax. By the end of the
year it will be known that the Ames strain of anthrax used in
the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced by
CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle
Memorial Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground. [Source:
NBC; CNN; www.tetrahedron.org, www.judicialwatch.org]
67. Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade
Organization quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts.
[Source: The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001]
68. Sept. 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers open the sealed
envelope from Mike Vreeland in Toronto and see that is
describes attacks against the WTC and Pentagon. The U.S. Navy
subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged as a seaman
in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001;
Toronto Superior Court records]
69. Sept. 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo
Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of
the Alex Brown (A.B.) unit of Deutschebank.
70. Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that
$2.5 million in put options on American and United airlines
are unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in
trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the attacks,
which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to be
waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
71. Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post
reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call
on the Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal
gas pipeline project from Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to
Pakistan is now back on the table "in view of recent
geopolitical developments."
72. Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes
over all terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office
in New York, which has had a highly successful track record in
prosecuting terrorist cases connected to Osama bin Laden.
[Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2001]
73. mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average,
after having suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of
its pre-attack losses. Although still weak and vulnerable to
negative earnings reports, a crash has been averted by a
massive infusion of government spending on defense programs,
subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax
cuts for corporations.
74. Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts "an
executive order that would usher in a new era of secrecy for
presidential records and allow an incumbent president to
withhold a former president's papers even if the former
president wanted to make them public," wrote the
Washington Post. The order also required members of the public
to prove "at least a demonstrated, specific need'"
for a president's papers to be released. Critics contend this
would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which
releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained
that a Supreme Court decision in 1977 allows presidents
various privileges for their records. [Source: Washington
Post, Nov. 1, 2001,
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=printer]
75. Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a
story headlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of
the Taliban." The story reports that massive opium
planting is underway all over the country.
76. Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined
"Victorious Warlords Set To Open the Opium
Floodgates." It states that farmers are being encouraged
by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are
"being encouraged to plant as much opium as
possible."
77. Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub
Afridi is recruited by the U.S. government to help establish
control in Afghanistan by unifying various Pashtun warlords.
The former opium smuggler who was one of the CIA's leading
assets in the war against the Russians is released from prison
in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4,
2001]
78. Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister
Hamid Karzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for
Unocal. [Source: Le Monde]
79. Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as
a special envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee
of Unocal, also wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997
supporting the Taliban regime. [Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]
80. Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after
9-11. In a surge of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the
diversion of resources away from drug enforcement has opened
the floodgates for a new surge of cocaine and heroin from
South America. [The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2002]
81. Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open
court, attorneys for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's
switchboard operator, who confirms that Vreeland is indeed a
naval lieutenant on active duty. She provides an office number
and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the
Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; Toronto Superior
Court records]
82. Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses
himself from the Enron investigation because Enron had been a
major campaign donor in his 2000 Senate race. He fails to
recuse himself from involvement in two sitting federal grand
juries investigating bribery and corruption charges against
ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, which have massive oil interests in
Central Asia. Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000.
[Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; FTW, "The Elephant in the
Living Room, Part I," April 4, 2002,
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html]
83. Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
is kidnapped in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21.
Lead suspect Ahmad Umar Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad,
is arrested on Feb. 12 and named as the lead suspect in the
kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to the Pakistani
government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating the ISI.
[Source: CNN.com]
84. Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan
leader Hamid Karzai announce their agreement to
"cooperate in all spheres of activity," including
the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10
million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan government workers.
[Source: The Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]
85. Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the
estimated opium harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002
will reach a world record 4,500 metric tons.
86. mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at
the opening of the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he
has held talks about financing the Trans-Afghanistan gas
pipeline. He confirms $100 million in new grants for the
interim Afghani government. Wolfensohn also states that a
number of companies have already expressed interest in the
project. [Source: Alexander's Gas and oil Connections, citing
an Agence France-Presse story]
87. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about
to close a deal for construction of the $2 billion gas
pipeline to run from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. The
story states, "work on the project will start after an
agreement is expected to be struck" at a summit scheduled
for the end of the month. Unocal will build the pipeline.
[Source: BBC, May 13, 2002]
88. May 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both
oil and gas pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will
re-emerge as a pipeline contender after withdrawing from the
CentGas pipeline project in 1998. Unocal denies plans to
revive the gas pipeline but curiously neglects to mention
whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline, which
local sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group of
Newspapers, May 7, May 17, May 22, 2002]
89. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,
Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President
Musharraf meet in Islamabad to sign a memorandum of
understanding on the trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project.
The three leaders will meet for more talks on the project in
October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord has
been published and can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm. [Source:
NewsBase, June 5, 2002]
90. May 16, 2002 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
states unequivocally that while President Bush had been warned
of possible hijackings, "The president did not -- not --
receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by
suicide bombers." [Source: CBS News, May 15, 2002]
91. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a
professor at Anne Arundel Community College states on radio
station KISS 98.7 that he has credible evidence suggesting
that the Bush Administration did in fact allow the Sept. 11
attacks to further a hidden agenda. [Source:
http://www.indymedia.org - May 20, 2002]
92. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful
press conference at the National Press Club describing his
lawsuit against the FBI for deliberately curtailing
investigations that might have prevented the 9-11 attacks. He
uses words like "prevented," "thwarted,"
"obstructed," "threatened,"
"intimidated," and "retaliation" to
describe the actions of his superiors in blocking his attempts
to shut off money flows to Al Qaeda and other terrorist
groups. These are not words of negligence. They are words
describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN
website]
93. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had
called President Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the
Sept. 11 attacks to happen, is suspended from his post at the
Defense Language School in Monterey, Calif. and could face a
court martial. [Source: Associated Press, June 4, 2002]
94. June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an
account from a former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion
of the South Carolina National Guard: "My unit reported
for drill in July 2001 and we were suddenly and unexpectedly
informed that all activities planned for the next two months
would be suspended in order to prepare for a mobilization
exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently
for two weekends and even came in on an unscheduled day in
August to prepare for the exercise. By the end of August all
we needed was a phone call, which we were to expect, and we
could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags and
equipment packed." [Source: Common Dreams,
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm]
95. June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has
been resolved without the necessity of a court martial. (I
guess so. There's enough material here to prove him right. --
MCR) [Reuters, June 17, 2002]
96. July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are
unsealed in federal court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to
testify before both a grand jury and Congress about the Sept.
11 attacks. Moussaoui claims to have information showing that
the U.S. government wanted the attacks to happen. [Source: The
Washington Post, July 3, 2002]
97. July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil,
200,000 metric tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow
Times, July 6, 2002].
98. July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir is
assassinated by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports
that Qadir may have been assassinated by opium warlords upset
by Qadir's efforts to reduce the rampant opium farming and
processing that has taken place since the U.S. occupation.
Qadir had been overseeing a Western-backed eradication
program, according to the Times. However, the opium warlords
of the region are same ones sponsored, protected, and in some
cases released from prison by the CIA and who have been
protected by President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad.
It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near U.S.
bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002;
Far Eastern Economic Review, April 18, 2002]
99. July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal
watch-group Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney
with a lawsuit filed on behalf of Halliburton shareholders.
Before becoming vice president Cheney was CEO of Halliburton,
which has filed for bankruptcy. [Source: Cybercast News
Service, cnsnews.com]
100. Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and
Senate intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as
investigators try to determine who leaked information to CNN
about communications in Arabic that made vague references to
an impending attack on the United States. The communications
were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. 10
but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated
Press story published in the Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm]
101. Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's
major role over the last five years in the trafficking of
Afghan heroin into Europe. [Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug.
5, 2002, www.sfnewmexican.com]
102. Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that
members of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have
created a special planning unit for an invasion of Iraq. The
unit is composed primarily of civilians and was spearheaded by
conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such as Deputy
Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined,
"White House Methodically Preparing for Iraq
Campaign." [Source: Knight Ridder Newspapers,
www.truthout.org/docs 02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.htm]
103. Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports
Afghanistan will become the world's top producer of opium this
year, surpassing Southeast Asia. [Source: the Globe and Mail,
Aug. 28, 2002]
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