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A comprehensive timeline of events surrounding the 9/11 events
Sometimes, if you look too closely at events you can miss the bigger picture of what's going on which led up to the events, or how those events prepared the agenda for future events. This timeline has been composed in order to allow people to step back from the narrow picture of Sept 11th itself, and to observe it's position and relevance to the bigger picture of things, and to put other events into context. We are constantly updating this timeline to contain every snippet of related information our investigations can uncover. Please bookmark this page and check periodically for updates. If you discover any errors, have additional information or would like to comment on anything in this timeline, please contact us. Anonymity is guaranteed if requsted. To aid cross-referencing, some of the entries are colour coded. These are categorised as follows:-
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| Oct 12th | USS Cole attacked by suicide bombers, killing 17 Americans. Suspects included Jamal al-Badawi and Mohammed Omar al-Harazi, including tenuous links with Osama bin Laden. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 24th | The Pentagon conduct the first of two training exercises called NASCAL, which simulate a Boeing 757 crashing into the building. Charles Burlingame an ex navy f4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon participates in this exercise before retiring and starting his new career with American Airlines. Less than 1 year later the Boeing 757 that crashed into the building just happened to be piloted by him. Source: Loose Change 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 |
Mar 4th | Fox TV, a branch of Murdoch's media empire, broadcast the pilot episode of a 'spin-off' series based on characters from the popular Fox program 'X-Files'. The short-lived series was called 'The Lone Gunman'. A Murdoch-owned company called Canadian Millennium Productions, Ltd. (News Corp. owns 83 percent), produced the pilot episode for 'The Lone Gunman' in Vancouver, Canada, and New York City from March 20 to April 7, 2000. Source: Global Research and YouTube | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| April | NORAD proposes an exercise where a plane crashes into the pentagon but it is rejected due to being to realistic. Source: Loose Change 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May | The Port Authority (owners of the WTC complex) agree to lease the WTC complex to Silverstein and his partner, Los Angeles-based real estate investment trust Westfield America after an opposing bid by Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust (the biggest owner of commercial real estate in Manhattan) fell through. Ref. Funding Universe and The New York Observer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jul 4th | bin Laden reportedly checked into the American Hospital Dubai. Source: Washington Post and The Guardian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jul 26th | Attorney General John Ashcroft starts travelling exclusively by leased jet, rather than commercial airliners - due to a "threat assessment" by the FBI. Source: CBS News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 3rd | The Federal Aviation Authority made an emergency ruling to prevent Mr Rushdie from flying unless airlines complied with strict and costly security measures. Mr Rushdie told The Times that the airlines would not upgrade their security. The FAA confirmed that it had banned Rushdie from flying in the US and Canada but refused to say why. The author himself - who is famously hated by Muslims for his novel The Satanic Verses - says he believes the authorities knew the attack was coming. Source: Disinformation, from The Times (27th Sep 2001) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 10th | San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown gets a call from airport security advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. (San Francisco Chronicle) The Guardian reports that five hundred websites - many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an anti-terrorism taskforce raided InfoCom Corporation in Texas. Record number of 'put options' being traded on the US stock market. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sep 14th | U.S. Department of Justice releases the names of the 19 alleged hijackers, although numerous will be proven to be subsequently still alive! Source: FBI Press Release | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 16th | Osama bin Laden issued the following statement via al Jazeera in reference to the 9/11 attacks: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation." Source: Fox News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 18th | BBC News reported that the US 'planned attack on Taleban' before Sept 11th attacks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 26th | Patriot Act signed into law by President George W.Bush. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 7th | President Lyndon Johnson admitted in a secret tape recording that the incident he used to win congressional approval for the Vietnam war probably never happened, according to a book published yesterday. Source: nucnews | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dec 4th | Holy Land Foundation shut down and its assets are seized. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dec 13th | Bin Laden video 1 - Military forces in Jalalabad find a video tape of Bin Laden. US State Department release video tape apparently showing Bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi, somewhere in Afghanistan. Sources: U.S. Department of Defense's English Translation of tape. BBC News claims tape 'proves Bin Laden's guilt'. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002 |
Sep 9th | An audio tape allegedly made by bin Laden was broadcast on al Jazeera, reported by BBC News. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 9th | 78-minute tape released of firefighter communications from Sept. 11 flatly contradicts the city's version of what went wrong. It also raises questions about the thoroughness of the city's investigations into the worst loss of life any fire department has ever experienced - 343 men. Source: New York Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 12th | Quatar Al Jazeera broadcasted the unauthenticated bin Laden Recording. US law enforcement officials report bin Laden is probably the speaker on the tape. US experts who have heard or processed the tape usually support that conclusion. The result of IDIAP Research shows that the tape is fake at 93% of accuracy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 26th | An internal inquiry has cleared the F.B.I. agents who obtained a false confession from an Egyptian student in the Sept. 11 attacks, and has raised new questions about the value of lie-detector tests. Source: New York Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003 |
Jan 15th | NY Governor Eliot Spitzer filed an amicus brief on 1/15/03 on behalf of the World Trade Center's controversial lease-holder, the real estate magnate Larry Silverstein. Source: New York Megaphone | Feb 12th | CNN reported that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Senate panel that he had reviewed a transcript of a message from bin Laden stating he was in "partnership with Iraq" which was to be broadcast on al Jazeera. Al Jazeera initially denied having the tape, but subsequently located it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sept 26th | A federal appeals court in a ruling issued today, substantially affirmed the position taken by the insurance industry that Silverstein Properties, the leaseholder to the devastated World Trade Center, likely can claim no more than the $3.5 billion insurance policy limit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004 |
March | Larry Silverstein Properties bought the lease from MetLife for Chicago's Sears Tower. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apr 29th | Larry Silverstein, the real-estate developer who holds the lease on the World Trade Center, lost a major chunk of his legal bid to double the $3.55 billion face value of the insurance coverage for the twin towers. Ref. Real Estate Journal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 18th | Fire breaks out on the 34th floor of a 56 floor skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela. It burns for more than 17 hours and spreads over 26 floors, but the building remained standing. Source: CBS News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 29th | Bin Laden video 2 - Shortly before the U.S. presidential election on 29 October 2004, Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcast an 18 minute video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressed to citizens of the United States. According to the English translation distributed by BBC News and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers, and describes his motivation: "I will explain to you the reasons behind these events, and I will tell you the truth about the moments when this decision was taken, so that you can reflect on it. God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance's oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon." Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dec 8th | Silverstein Wins Latest World Trade Center Insurance Payment Case. Ref. Architectural Record and Real Estate Journal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 |
Feb 12th | Fire breaks out on the 21st floor of the Windsor Building, a 32 floor high-rise building in Madrid, Spain. Part of the building collapsed, but it remained standing. Source: Emporis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jul 7th | London Bombings coinciding with another 'exercise' which spookily mirrored real events. Source: Live TV interview | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aug 12th | The New York Fire Department on Friday began releasing thousands of transcripts of oral histories collected from firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians who responded to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Source: National Public Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 30th | NSA releases declassified documents on the Gulf of Tonkin event. Source: NSA archives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 |
Jan 19th | Al Jazeera broadcast an audiotape of Osama bin Laden again addressing citizens of the United States. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apr 23rd | Al Jazeera broadcast parts of an audiotape. On this tape bin Laden accuses the Western world of waging a Zionist crusade against Islam. He comments on Hamas, Darfur and the situation in Iraq. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May 23rd | Al Jazeera broadcasted a 5 minute audiotape from bin Laden were he claims he alone assigned the hijackers to perform the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bin Laden comments on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and the imprisoned journalists Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni, denying any of them (apart from a few Guantanamo Bay prisoners) were connected with Al-Qaeda. Bin Laden tells viewers Zacarias Moussaoui "had no connection at all with Sept. 11. I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jun 28th | Silverstein asks a court to declare that insurers not be allowed to back out of billions in payments on the destroyed twin towers following a recent reshuffling of the rebuilding plan. Ref. Real Estate Journal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jun 30th | Bin Laden video 3 - An Islamist website posted a recording in which bin Laden praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a "lion of holy war". The nineteen-minute video shows a still picture of Bin Laden next to video celebrating al-Zarqawi. US officials said the tape was authentic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 7th | Bin Laden video 4 - BBC News reports that a videotape of previously un-aired footage of Osama bin Laden and two of the hijackers was broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV. The videotape was believed to have been shot in Afghanistan some weeks before the attack and includes scenes of men training with weapons and box cutters, and hand to hand combat. The video was released four days prior to the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael P. Jackson, suggested at the time the video might be a signal to Al-Qaeda supporters in the United States to initiate a terrorist attack on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, but no such attack occurred. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 16th | Release of Bond film Casino Royale in which mention is made of 'put options' being placed just before 9/11. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007 |
Jul 14 | Bin Laden video 5 - a few days after the Lal Masjid siege, by the Pakistani government, and after a video released by Ayman al-Zawarihhi, bin Laden released a tape. He was shown with a fatigued expression. He appeared in a video clip, less than a minute long, on a militant website. BBC News reports that it was "undated and correspondents say it may be re-run footage. Its authenticity also cannot be independently verified." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May 23rd | State achieves $2 billion settlement of outstanding World Trade Center insurance claims. Ref. New York State Governor Press Office | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aug 15th | Fire breaks out near the top of the 101-storey Shanghai World Financial Centre. Source: China View | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sep 7th | Bin Laden video 6 - (Sept 7th seems to be a good day for releasing videos...) an entirely new videotape of Osama Bin Laden was aired. In the tape he mentions no acts of terrorism or war against the United States, but targets the Democrats, the War in Iraq and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain. He strongly urges the United States to convert to Islam, and stop the war. In it he also mentions that if they do not convert, then even more American soldiers will die. In the video Bin Laden mentions the new President of France, and Global warming. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 15th - 20th | Operation Vigilant Shield '08 which might be a good time to stage further terrorist events under cover of another 'exercise'.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nov 29th | Bin Laden audio tape - In a 'new' audio tape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera television, Osama Bin Laden confesses that he was solely responsible for the attacks on 9/11 and that it was unjust for the United States to have invaded Afghanistan. Source: Info Wars |
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