This was all planned before
hand...Now we know why all the shooting are happening NOW !!! I did the red so
it wouldn't be missed.
200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns'
Found in the
Mainstream Media
Connecting the
dots. Where do they point?
(last
updated: 08/14/2006)
1. 1962 - US military drafted 'Operation Northwoods', a plan to commit
terror acts in US cities, kill innocent people, hijack airplanes, and plant
evidence as a way to trick the public into thinking Cuba committed an
unprovoked attack against the US in order to support a war against Cuba. (ABC, Natl Security Archives)
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)
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)
· Sept '01
- 25,000 British troops ensemble in Oman near Afghanistan for 'Operation Swift
Sword' and will help US in attacking OBL. (BBC, Telegraph)
· Sept 10
- FEMA rescuer Tom Kenney says he was deployed to NYC late Monday night before
going into action Tuesday morning, the day of the attacks. (CBS video)
· 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)
· Sept 11 - An airport emergency
operations exercise is being conducted at Fort Myer, a mile from the Pentagon.
(MDW,
DC Military)
13. June '01
- Attorney General John Ashcroft stops flying commercial aircrafts because of a
'threat assessment'. (CBS)
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 Odigo 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)
2. 9/11 -
Fiduciary Trust, located in the south WTC, had scheduled an emergency drill for
the day. (NY
Times)
3. 9/11 -
Larry Silverstein is not in his office on the 88th floor of the North Tower
because of a 'doctors appointment.' (NY
Magazine)
26. Sept 9 -
NORAD conducts operation 'Northern Vigilance,' planned months in advance, which
deploys fighter jets to Alaskan region. (NORAD,
Toronto Star)
27. 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)
28. 9/11 -
Andrews AFB, home to DC Air National Guard and Air Force 1 & 2, had no
jetfighters on alert. (Newsday, USA
Today)
29. 9/11 -
US intel agency planned exercise in the morning to simulate plane crash into
government building. (Boston
Globe, USA
Today)
30. 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)
31. 9/11 - FAA bans takeoffs at
9:26 am for all civilian, military, or law enforcement aircraft (FAA,
Time)
32. 9/11 -
Shoot-down authorization not communicated to NORAD until 28 minutes after
Flight 93 crashed. (9/11 Panel, Seattle
Post)
34. 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)
35. July '01
- WTC landlord leased the entire WTC complex 6 six weeks before attacks.
(CBS,
Washington
Times)
36. 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)
37. 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)
38. Two week
heightened security alert at WTC is lifted and bomb-sniffing dogs are abruptly
removed days before 9/11. (Newsday)
· 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)
· 9/11 - A
Fiduciary Trust CEO from the 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)
· 9/11 - A missile was
reportedly launched from the Woolworth Building near the WTC. (NIST, WNBC, NY
Daily)
· Company
hired to help clean up Ground Zero is control demolition experts, Controlled
Demolition Inc. (Waste
Age)
· Preliminary
tests show steel quality did not contribute to twin towers' collapse.
(Boston
Globe, Pittsburg
Live)
· Oct '04
- Fire in 56-story Venezuelan skyscraper spreads over 26 floors and burns for
over 17 hours, but does not collapse. (CBS)
· 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)
Bombs, flashes, other
explosions
47. 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)
48. Firefighter
Louie Cacchioli in elevator going to 24th floor hears a bomb go off and thinks
bombs were set in the building. (People)
49. 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)
50. 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)
51. 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)
52. 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)
53. Nadine
Keller from her balcony in Soho, NY says she 'heard the bomb' before she saw
the buildings collapse. (BBC)
55. Edmund
McNally phoned his wife from 97th floor of WTC 2 following the plane crash,
says he heard explosions below him. (NY
Times)
56. Mike
Pecoraro and co-worker hear a loud explosion in WTC 1 basement and believes a
bomb went off after seeing major damage to the basement floors.
(Chief
Engineer)
· 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)
· 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)
· Group of firemen discussing the collapse of WTC 2 said how each floor was pooping out
as by being 'detonated' as if 'they had planned to take down a building'. (9/11 - The Filmmakers' Edit)
· A member
of the FDNY says when trying to get some people out that there was
'secondary explosions' and then subsequent collapses. (11 News)
· A FDNY
Firefighter says as he was getting his gear on and making his way to the
stairway, there was a 'heavy duty explosion'. (CBS)
· MSNBC
Reporter Ann Thompson says at 10:30 when she got outside the building she heard
a 'second explosion' and 'another rumble' then ran inside for cover when a fire
marshal said they had to leave because if there was a third explosion the
building might not last. (MSNBC)
· NBC's
Pat Dawson reports that the chief of safety of the FDNY told him that he
received word of another bomb going off and when he tried to get his men out he
said that there was another explosion which took place and thinks there were
devices that were planted in the building. (NBC)
· Eyewitness
speaking in a studio interview says he was about five blocks away when he heard
three explosions and turned around to see the building he just got out of
collapse. (Studio
interview)
· An
injured witness to one of the towers collapsing said it sounded like 'gunfire'
and then all of a sudden he heard 'three big explosions'. (News interview)
· NBC's
Rick Sanchez reports that police have evacuated an area around the WTC because
of a 'suspicious device' thought to be a bomb and say they think a van with
explosives in it went off inside the WTC and fear that bombs have been planted
in, or nearby the buildings. (MSNBC)
· BBC's
Stephen Evans reports there was a big explosion from 'much, much lower' in the
WTC from where the plane crashed. (BBC)
71. 9/11 -
6:47am, WTC 7's fire alarm is placed on 8 hr 'test' mode which any alarms
received are ignored. (NIST)
72. 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)
·
Firefighter
Scott Holowach says he and his crew were just 'hanging out' until tower WTC 7
came down and went right to work to put the 7's fires out. (NY
Times)
·
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)
·
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)
·
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)
·
WTC 7
becomes first steel high-rise building in history to collapse due to mostly
fire. (Chicago
Tribune, Stanford
Report)
·
WTC 7
debris was removed without investigators having the chance to examine it at the
scene to help determine the cause of failure. (History Channel)
·
FEMA
report concludes specifics of WTC 7 fires and how they caused it to collapse
remain unknown and call for further investigation and also says the building
collapsed as a result of an 'implosion.' (FEMA)
81. Sept 10
- Pentagon medic is on the phone with FBI talking about who has command of
their emergency plane crash plan. (Army)
82. 9/11 -
Emergency equipment for Pentagon's emergency plane crash plans were already out
of storage for inventory check before Pentagon crash. (Army)
83. 9/11 -
Hours before crash, a Pentagon medic was studying disaster plan based on
unlikely scenario of a plane crashing into building. (Washington Post)
84. 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)
85. 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)
86. 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 which
allowed most units to proceed to the Pentagon. (Arlington
County, Fire
Engineering)
87. 9/11 -
Two clocks have their times frozen at about 9:32 from being knocked down from
an explosion at the Pentagon. (Navy, Smithsonian)
88. 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)
89. 9/11 -
Many key emergency response people arrive at the Pentagon within 5 minutes after
the crash. (Arlington
After-Action Report)
90. 9/11 -
Gas station and hotel's security cameras recorded Pentagon crash, but FBI
arrived within minutes and confiscated films. (CNN,
National
Geographic)
92. Pentagon
construction worker says on Larry King Live that plane that hit Pentagon had
'fewer engines' than the other 9/11 planes. (CNN)
93. 9/11 -
Air traffic controllers thought alleged Boeing 757 flying towards the Pentagon
flew like a 'military jetfighter.' (ABC,
Washington
Post)
94. Alleged
Flight 77 hijacker pilot, Hani Hanjour, was described as a horrible pilot by
his flight instructors, was the only hijacker who didn't have a passenger
number or seat assignment, and was unable to rent a single-engine Cessna 172
one month before 9/11 because he had trouble controlling and landing it during
a test flight. (CBS,
NY
Times, Washington
Post, Newsday)
Describing a missile
95. USA
TODAY reporter Richard Benedetto says aircraft he saw hit the Pentagon 'sounded
like an artillery shell.' (USA
Today)
96. Pentagon
Renovation project coordinator Michael DiPaula says aircraft that hit the
Pentagon 'sounded like a missile.' (Baltimore Sun)
97. 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)
98. 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
99. D. S.
Khavkin says aircraft she and her husband saw fly overheard towards the
Pentagon appeared to be a 'small' commercial aircraft. (BBC)
100.
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)
101.
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/little plane
debris at crash site
102.
CNN's
Jamie McIntyre live at the Pentagon scene says there's no evidence a plane
crashed anywhere near the building other than pieces that are small enough to
pick up by hand. (CNN video)
103.
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)
104.
Army
Captain Lincoln Liebner says remarkably there was 'no debris from the airplane'
at the Pentagon when he got to the building. (Army)
105.
Army
Captain Allan Lindsley says he was 100 meters from the Pentagon crash site and
didn’t see 'any of the plane.' (Army)
106.
Nurse
Eileen Murphy upon reaching the Pentagon crash scene says she was real
surprised that the plane 'wasn't there.' (Army)
107.
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)
108.
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
109.
Pentagon
attorney Gilah Goldsmith said she smelled cordite, or gun smoke near the crash
site. (Jewish News Weekly)
110.
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)
111.
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)
112.
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)
113.
9/11 -
Witness at Flight 93 crash scene says there was nothing that could 'distinguish
that a plane had crashed there.' (FOX
video)
114.
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)
116.
1994 - US intel warned that
terrorists might attack US using airplanes as weapons (CNN,
CBS);
1995 -
US warned of 'Operation Bojinka' plot to hijack planes and attack the Pentagon
and CIA headquarters (CNN);
July '01
- US and Italian officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to
kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa
summit. (LA Times)
117.
CIA had
low-level spies inside Al Qaeda three years before attacks (MSNBC), US intel overheard discussions
of a major pending terrorist attack weeks prior to 9/11 (USA
Today)
118.
Jan '00
- CIA information about 2 alleged 9/11 hijackers in San Diego is squelched
before reaching FBI. (LA Times)
119.
US
agents told to back off bin Laden's and Saudi Royals soon after Bush becomes
president. (Ananova,
BBC)
120.
June
'01- Convicted terrorist provided US with specific info about a terrorist
attack, some was used in Aug. 6th memo. (Newsweek)
123.
July '01
- Briefing for senior US officials warns of spectacular attacks by terrorists
with little or no warnings. (CNN)
·
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)
·
Aug '01
- Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks. (Telegraph)
·
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)
·
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)
·
All 4
hijacked planes were well below normal passenger loads, averaging only 27%
full. (CNN, Washington
Post)
·
FBI
whistle-blower Coleen Rowley accuses bosses of ignoring 9/11 warnings and
sabotaging investigation attempts. (Time, USA
Today)
·
FBI
translator Sibel Edmonds: 'I Saw Papers That Show US Knew al-Qaida Would
Attack Cities With Airplanes' (Independent-UK)
136.
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)
137.
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)
138.
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)
140.
Nov '01
- Bush signs Executive Order 13233 which limits public access to presidential
records. (Boston
Globe, NS
Archives) Mar '03
- Bush signs Executive Order 13292 allowing for a broad range of documents to
be kept secret for up to 25 years and gives classification powers to the Vice
President. (Boston
Globe, National Review)
The
number of documents classified by the Bush administration increased by over 50
percent since 2001 (Boston
Globe) and they
have classified more records in their first 2 years than President Clinton's
last four years. (US News) Ex-Nixon
legal aide says Bush Admin is the most secretive ever. (Telegraph)
141.
Jan '02
- Steel from the WTC is shipped to China and India for recycling which has
angered investigators, engineers and victim's families who say the steel could
hold vital clues about why the towers collapsed and GPS trackers were installed
on trucks hauling the 'highly sensitive' steel scraps away to be melted. (USA Today, China.org, ACSS)
142.
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)
143.
March
'02 - Pentagon security photos of crash are released, but Pentagon says gov't
didn't 'officially' release them. (Washington
Post)
146.
Sept '02
- American Airlines continues to gag all employees from talking about Sept 11
hijackings. (WorldNetDaily)
147.
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)
148.
Nov '02
- Bush names former National Security advisor and Unocal consultant Henry
Kissinger to head 9/11 investigations. (CNN,
CBS)
149.
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)
150.
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)
151.
Jan '03
- 9/11 investigations get only a $3 million budget and 16 month time frame
compared to the over $40 million spent on the 5-year investigation of the
Clintons. (Washington
Times, Washington
Post)
152.
May '03
- White House refuses to release 900-page Sept. 11 congressional report.
(Miami
Herald)
153.
July '03
- 9/11 panel criticizes Defense, Justice dept's for not cooperating fully and
CIA, FBI for intimidating witnesses. (ABC,
Guardian)
154.
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)
157.
April
'04 - Bush admin gags FBI translator Sibel Edmonds from speaking to 9/11 Panel
about attack foreknowledge. (Independent-UK)
158.
April
'04 - Bush, Cheney meet together behind closed doors with 9/11 Panel without
recorders, stenographer, or being under oath. (CNN)
161.
June '04
- 9/11 tapes reveal ground personnel covered-up attack response, kept things
'hush-hush.' (New York Observer)
162.
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)
164.
Oct '04
- NORAD takes their 9/11 response timeline off website (NORAD)
after US
Senator accuses them and FAA of lying. (Star Tribune)
165.
Oct '04
- Inquiry begins about unreleased 9/11 report about civilian, military response
timeline and will stay unreleased until after elections. (NY Times)
167.
Some in
9/11 panel concluded the Pentagon may have lied about how they first reacted to
the 9/11 attacks and debated referring the matter to the Justice Dept for a
criminal investigation. (Washington
Post)
169.
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)
170.
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)
171.
Oct '01
- Only 1 1/2 months after 9/11, the 342 page USA PATRIOT ACT is signed into
law. (White
House)
172.
Oct '01
- Hundreds of gold bars that was stored under WTC 4 are discovered in a
delivery tunnel under WTC 5 that was being transported on the morning of 9/11
by a 10-wheel truck that was crushed along with several other cars by debris,
yet no bodies were recovered. (NY Daily News, Times Online)
173.
Nov '02
- Dept of Homeland Security is created to lead the fight against domestic
terrorism. (CBS)
174.
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)
175.
Military budget increase:
·
Sept '00
- PNAC calls to increase US defense budget, but says won't happen absent a
catastrophic event like a "new Pearl Harbor." (ABC,
PNAC)
·
Sept 5,
'01 - Rumsfeld asks Senate to approve new '02 defense budget which has largest
spending increase since the mid 80's. (DoD)
Afghanistan, opium,
pipeline
176.
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)
War in
Afghanistan would have been politically impossible pre-9/11. (USA
Today)
177.
July '00
- Taliban bans cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan (BBC), Mar '05,
Afghanistan opium production surges. (USA
Today)
·
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)
·
Aug '98
- Unocal suspends Afghan pipeline activities because of deteriorating political
conditions there. (Unocal)
·
1999 -
US paid entire annual salary of Taliban gov't in hopes to secure a stable
Afghan gov't to allow US companies to build a pipeline there to connect to the
Caspian Sea. (SF
Chronicle)
·
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)
·
May '05
- Afghan pipeline draws closer to reality, Afghan President said project was a
'top priority.' (Christian Science Monitor)
Iraq, oil
1. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. Jan '03
- Memo reveals Bush was determined to invade Iraq despite UN backing and
discusses ways to provoke Saddam into a confrontation. (NY
Times, BBC)
9. Downing
Street Memo warned Saddam not a threat and US fixed intel around their war
policy. (London
Times)
11. Oct '04
- CIA report later concludes no WMD's in Iraq as Bush used to help justify war.
(CNN,
BBC)
180.
Of the
18 PNAC members who urged Clinton to remove Saddam in '98, 10 will be in the
new Bush administration such as Dick Cheney, Zalmay Khalilzad, Lewis Libby,
Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. (ABC,
PNAC)
181.
PNAC
member Vice President Dick Cheney was former Defense Secretary under the Bush
Sr. Administration (DoD)
and
former CEO of Halliburton. (CNN)
Cheney is still
being paid by Halliburton (Guardian)
and his
stock options with them rose 3,281% in '04. (Raw
Story) Halliburton
was a large donor to Bush/Cheney campaign, is the top Iraq war contract
recipient (Newsday),
was
awarded no-bid contracts by the Pentagon (CBS)
and
announced a 2005 second quarter 284% profit increase. (Halliburton)
182.
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)
183.
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. (SF
Chronicle)
184.
Sept 10
- 'Rumsfeld's Rules' are revised for the first and only time to include the
rule, 'America ain't what's wrong with the world.' (Daily Kos, DoD)
185.
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)
187.
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)
188.
9/11 -
An elite Israeli military commando who understands Arabic is seated near all
hijackers on Flight 11. (WorldNetDaily)
189.
9/11 -
Bush proceeds with scheduled reading event after Rice tells him a commercial
plane hit the WTC. (9/11 Panel)
190.
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)
191.
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)
192.
9/11 -
Bush gives speech at school exactly the same time he was scheduled to make
speech there day before. (Federal News Service)
193.
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)
194.
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)
196.
Air
Force Gen. Myers claims was never informed 2nd WTC crash and only became aware
of it about same time Pentagon hit. (DoD)
197.
9/11 -
Former Israeli PM Netanyahu is asked what 9/11 attacks meant Israeli/US
relations and he replies "It's very good." (NY Times)
198.
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)
199.
Oct '01
- Donald Rumsfeld says in a magazine interview that Pentagon was hit by a
'missile.' (DoD)
200.
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)
14. Bush
refers to 9/11 as 'an interesting day' (White
House), says 2001 was a 'fabulous
year' for Laura and he. (White
House)
15. 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)
204.
Osama 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),
FBI's
'Most Wanted List' does not mention OBL is wanted for 9/11 because they have
'no hard evidence' connecting him to the attacks. (Muckraker, Milli
Gazette, FBI)
207.
The five
alleged Flight 77 hijackers lived in a motel right outside the gates of the
NSA. (BBC)
208.
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)
209.
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)
210.
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),
211.
Sept 13
- Airplane passenger lists from all four hijacked planes list no Arab names.
(Guardian - 11,
175,
77,
93)
212.
7 of
alleged 19 hijackers are reported alive, FBI Director admits some identities
are in doubt. (BBC, LA Times)
213.
Hijacker
remains from Flight 77, 93 hijackers were identified at same military base and
by a 'process of elimination.' (CBS)
214.
Secret
FBI report doubts Al Qaeda can stage another 9/11-type attack and says it knows
of no sleeper cells in US. (ABC)
Framing
216.
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)
217.
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)
218.
Sept 10
- Atta and two Arab men allegedly spew anti-American sentiments and leave a
Quran and business card behind. (USA
Today)
219.
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)
220. 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)
221. 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, but later is shown to be
staged (LA
Times, 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)
222. 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)
224. 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)
225. 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), 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)
226. 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)
227. 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)
228. July-Aug
- Alleged hijacker Majed Moqed seen in two stores in Maryland looking over
adult videos and books (Newsday,
MSNBC),
Sept 10
- Alleged hijacker Hamza Alghamdi watches a porno in his hotel. (Wall
Street Journal)
229. Sept 5 -
Two or three of the alleged hijackers go gambling on a SunCruz Casino boat.
(St
Petersburg Times, USA
Today)
230. Sept 7 -
Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi both seen 'wasted' at Florida bar called Shuckums.
(St
Petersburg Times)
231. 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)
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