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9/11 was one of the most pivotal = events in=20 world history. Its impact will be felt for years to come. = You owe it=20 to yourself to go beyond the sound bites and the simplified = official=20 story. This is an extremely complicated story with numerous = players=20 and motives. The 9/11 facts listed here don't all make sense = or fit=20 neatly together. It's a story full of espionage, deceit, and = lies.=20 But if there are forces out there tricking us, they can only = succeed=20 if we, the general public, remain ignorant and=20 passive.

We are limiting our sources on = this 9/11=20 facts summary to those one might call "mainstream." It's not = that=20 one can only trust the mainstream media. In fact, much of = the best=20 reporting today is coming from alternative media. But many = people=20 are initially very skeptical. Some of the 9/11 coverup facts = below=20 may seem very hard to believe. Yet remember that each entry = below is=20 reported by respected major media sources and can easily be = verified=20 by clicking on the links provided to the original source. = After=20 seeing the importance of what=92s being hidden from us, you = will very=20 likely want to join in working together to build a = brighter=20 future.

America=92s=20 top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people = and=20 commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public = into=20 supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved = in=20 writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods = even=20 proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a = false=20 pretext for war. [ABC = News,=20 5/1/01, Pentagon=20 Documents]=20

1980s: Osama bin Laden runs a front = organization=20 for the mujaheddin=97Islamic freedom fighters rebelling = against the=20 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The CIA secretly backs the = mujaheddin. Pakistan's President Benazir Bhutto, = understanding the=20 ferocity of Islamic extremism, tells then President George = Bush,=20 "You are creating a Frankenstein." [MSNBC, = 8/24/98, Newsweek, = 10/1/01, more]

1994: Two attacks take place which = involve=20 hijacking planes to crash them into buildings, including one = by an=20 Islamic militant group. In a third attack, a lone pilot = crashes a=20 plane at the White House. Yet after Sep. 11, over and over = aviation=20 and security officials say they are shocked that terrorists = could=20 have hijacked airliners and crashed them into landmark = buildings.=20 [New = York Times,=20 10/3/01]

1996: The Saudi Arabian government is = financially=20 supporting Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and other extremist = groups.=20 After 911, the Bush Administration chooses not to confront = the Saudi=20 leadership over its support of terror organizations and its = refusal=20 to help in the investigation. [New= =20 Yorker, 10/22/01, more]<= /SPAN>

1996-1999: The CIA = officer in=20 charge of operations against Al Qaeda from Washington = writes, =93I=20 speak with firsthand experience (and for several score of = CIA=20 officers) when I state categorically that during this time = senior=20 White House officials repeatedly refused to act on sound=20 intelligence that provided multiple chances to eliminate = Osama bin=20 Laden.=94 [Los = Angeles Times,=20 12/5/04]

1996-2001: Federal authorities have known = for years=20 that suspected terrorists with ties to bin Laden were = receiving=20 flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One = convicted=20 terrorist confessed that his planned role in a terror attack = was to=20 crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington=20 Post, 9/23/01, more]

1996-Sep 11, 2001: Taliban envoys repeatedly discuss = turning=20 bin Laden over, but the US wants to be handed bin Laden = directly,=20 and the Taliban want to turn him over to some third country. = About=20 20 more meetings on giving up bin Laden take place up till = 911, all=20 fruitless. [Washington = Post,=20 10/29/01]

1997: Former National Security Advisor = Brzezinski=20 publishes a book portraying Eurasia as the key to world = power, and=20 Central Asia with its vast oil reserves as the key to = domination of=20 Eurasia. He states that for the US to maintain its global = primacy,=20 it must prevent any adversary from controlling that region. = He notes=20 that because of popular resistance to US military = expansionism, his=20 ambitious strategy can=92t be implemented "except in the = circumstance=20 of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external = threat."=20 [The=20 Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic=20 Imperatives]

1998: An Oklahoma City FBI agent sends = a memo=20 warning that "large numbers of Middle Eastern males" are = getting=20 flight training and could be planning terrorist attacks. [CBS,=20 5/30/02] A separate CIA intelligence report asserts that = Arab=20 terrorists are planning to fly a bomb-laden aircraft into = the WTC=20 (World Trade Center). [New York = Times,=20 9/19/02, Senate=20 Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, mor= e]

Aug 1998: Within minutes of each other, = truck bombs=20 blow up the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing more = than=20 220. For some of the time that bin Laden=92s men were = plotting to blow=20 up the two embassies, US intelligence was tapping their = phones. [Newsweek, = 10/1/01]

Dec 1998: A Time magazine cover = story entitled=20 "The Hunt for Osama," reports that bin Laden may be planning = his=20 boldest move yet - a strike on Washington or possibly New = York City.=20 [Time,=20 12/21/98]

Late 1998-Early 2000: = On at least three occasions, spies = in=20 Afghanistan report bin Laden's location. Each time, the = president=20 approves an attack. Each time, the CIA Director says the = information=20 is not reliable enough and the attack cannot go forward. [New York = Times,=20 12/30/01, more]

Sep 1999: A US = intelligence=20 report states bin Laden and Al-Qaeda terrorists could = crash an=20 aircraft into the Pentagon. The Bush administration claims = not to=20 have heard of this report until May 2002, though it was = widely=20 shared within the government. [CNN,=20 5/18/02, AP,=20 5/18/02, Guardian,=20 5/19/02]

Nov 1999: The head of Australia's security = services=20 admits the Echelon global surveillance system exists. The US = still=20 denies it exists. BBC describes Echelon's power as = "astounding."=20 Every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio=20 transmission can be listened to by powerful computers = capable of=20 voice recognition. They home in on key words, or patterns of = messages. [BBC,=20 11/3/99]

Jan 2000: George Bush Sr. meets with the bin = Laden=20 family on behalf of the Carlyle Group. He also met with them = in=20 1998. Bush=92s chief of staff could not remember that this = meeting=20 took place until shown a thank you note confirming the = meeting. [Wall=20 Street Journal, 9/27/01, G= uardian,=20 10/31/01]

Summer 2000: A secret = military=20 operation named Able Danger identifies four future 9/11 = hijackers,=20 including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, as a potential threat = and=20 members of Al Qaeda. Yet none of this is mentioned later in = the 9/11=20 Commissions' final report. When questioned, the 9/11 = commission's=20 chief spokesman initially says that staff members briefed = about Able=20 Danger did not remember hearing anything about Atta. Days = later,=20 however, after provided detailed information, he says the = uniformed=20 officer who briefed two staff members had indeed mentioned = Atta. [New=20 York Times, 8/11/05, more]=

Sept 2000: The think-tank Project for the New = American=20 Century (PNAC) writes the blueprint for a global =93Pax = Americana.=94=20 Written for the Bush team before the 2000 election, = Rebuilding=20 America=92s Defenses is a plan for maintaining global US = preeminence and shaping the international security order in = line=20 with American principles and interests. The plan shows Bush = intends=20 to take control of the Persian Gulf whether or not Saddam = Hussein is=20 in power. It advocates the transformation of the US = military. But,=20 "the process of transformation, even if it brings = revolutionary=20 change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic = and=20 catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbour". [BBC,=20 2/14/07, S= unday=20 Herald, 9/7/02, read=20 report, more]

2000 =96 2001: The military conducts exercises = simulating=20 what the White House later says is unimaginable: hijacked = airliners=20 used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass = casualties. One=20 imagined target is the WTC. [U= SA=20 Today, 4/19/04] Another is the Pentagon. [Military=20 District of Washington (Army), = 11/3/00]

Jan 2001: A flight school alerts the FAA. = Hijacker=20 Hani Hanjour lacks English and flying skills needed for his=20 commercial pilot's license. An FAA official then sits next = to him in=20 class. The official offers a translator to help him pass, = but the=20 flight school points out this is against the rules. [AP,=20 5/10/02]

Jan 2001: After the elections, US = intelligence=20 agencies are told to =93back off=94 investigating the bin = Ladens and=20 Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on = investigating=20 Saudis. [BBC,=20 11/6/01, more]=20

Spring 2001: Military and government documents = are=20 released that seek to legitimize the use of US military = force in the=20 pursuit of oil. One article advocates presidential = subterfuge in the=20 promotion of conflict and "explicitly urge[s] painting over = the US's=20 actual reasons for warfare as a necessity for mobilizing = public=20 support for a conflict." [Syd= ney=20 Morning Herald, 12/26/02, more]=

May 2001: US security chiefs reject Sudan's = offer to=20 turn over voluminous files about bin Laden and al-Qaeda. = Sudan has=20 made this offer repeatedly since 1995. [Guardian,=20 9/30/01, more]=

May 2001: Secretary of State Powell gives = $43 million=20 in aid to the Taliban government. [Los = Angeles=20 Times, 5/22/01, CNN=20 5/17/01] This follows $113 million given in 2000. [State = Dept. Fact=20 Sheet, 12/11/01]

May 2001: The US introduces "Visa Express" = program=20 allowing any Saudi Arabian to obtain visas through their = travel=20 agent instead of appearing at a consulate in person. [US=20 News and World Report, 12/12/01] Five hijackers use Visa = Express=20 to enter the US. [Congressiona= l=20 Intelligence Committee, 9/20/02]

May-Aug 2001: A number of the 911 hijackers = make at least=20 six trips to Las Vegas. These "fundamentalist" Muslims drink = alcohol, frequent strip clubs, and smoke hashish. Some even = have=20 strippers perform lap dances for them. [San=20 Francisco Chronicle, 10/4/01, Newsweek, = 10/15/01]

June 13, 2001: Egyptian President Mubarak = through his=20 intelligence services warns the US that bin Laden's Islamic=20 terrorist network is threatening to kill Bush and other G8 = leaders=20 at their July economic summit meeting in Italy. The = terrorists plan=20 to use a plane stuffed with explosives. [NY Times,=20 9/26/01]

June 28, = 2001:=20 CIA Director George J. Tenet has been "nearly frantic" with = concern.=20 A written intelligence summary for national security adviser = Condoleezza Rice says: "It is highly likely that a = significant al=20 Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." = Rice will=20 later claim that everyone was taken by complete surprise by = the 9/11=20 attack. By late summer, one senior political appointee says, = Tenet=20 had repeated this threat "so often that people got tired of = hearing=20 it." [Washin= gton=20 Post, 5/17/02]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly = receives kidney=20 treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American = Hospital in Dubai. Telephoned several times, the doctor = declines to=20 answer questions. During his stay, bin Laden allegedly is = visited by=20 one or two CIA officers. [Guardian,=20 11/1/01, = Sydney=20 Morning Herald, 10/31/01, London = Times=20 11/1/01, UPI,=20 11/1/01, more]

July 10, 2001: A Phoenix FBI agent sends a = memorandum=20 warning about Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons. He = suspects=20 bin Laden's followers and recommends a national program to = check=20 visas of suspicious flight-school students. The memo is sent = to two=20 FBI counter-terrorism offices, but no action is taken. [New York = Times,=20 5/21/02] Vice President Cheney says in May 2002 that he = opposes=20 releasing this memo to congressional leaders or to the media = and=20 public. [CNN,= =20 5/20/02]

July 24, 2001: Larry Silverstein's $3.2 billion = 99-year=20 lease of the WTC is finalized. Silverstein hopes to win $7 = billion=20 in insurance from the destruction of the WTC towers. [NY Times,=20 02/16/03, Newsday,=20 09/25/02]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops = flying=20 commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS,=20 7/26/01] He later walks out of his office rather than = answer=20 questions about this. [AP,=20 5/16/02, more]=20

Late July 2001: The US and UN ignore warnings = from the=20 Taliban foreign minister that bin Laden is planning an = imminent huge=20 attack on US soil. The FBI and CIA also fail to take = seriously=20 warnings that Islamic fundamentalists have enrolled in = flight=20 schools across the US. [Independent,=20 9/7/02, more]

Summer 2001: Intelligence officials know that = al Qaeda=20 both hopes to use planes as weapons and seeks to strike a = violent=20 blow within the US, despite government claims following 911 = that the=20 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks came =93like bolts = from the=20 blue.=94 [Wall Street=20 Journal, 09/19/02, CNN,=20 9/12/02]

Summer 2001: Russian President Putin later says = publicly=20 that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US of = suicide=20 pilots training for attacks on US targets. [Fox,=20 5/17/02]

Late summer 2001: Jordanian intelligence agents go = to=20 Washington to warn that a major attack is planned inside the = US and=20 that aircraft will be used. Christian Science Monitor = calls=20 the story "confidently authenticated" even though Jordan = later backs=20 away from it. [CS=20 Monitor, 5/23/02]

Aug 5-11, 2001: Israel warns US of an imminent Al = Qaeda=20 attack. [Fox News,=20 5/17/02]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush is warned by US = intelligence=20 that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial = airliners. The=20 White House waits eight months after 911 to reveal this = fact. [New York = Times,=20 5/16/02] Titled =93Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in = US,=94 the=20 intelligence briefing specifically mentions the World Trade = Center.=20 Yet Bush later states the briefing =93said nothing about an = attack on=20 America.=94 [Washingt= on=20 Post, 4/12/04, Wh= ite=20 House, 4/11/04, In= telligence=20 Briefing, 8/6/01, more]=20

Aug 22, 2001: Top counter-terrorism expert John = O'Neill=20 quits the FBI due to repeated obstruction of his al-Qaeda=20 investigations and a power play against him. He was the = government's=20 "most committed tracker of bin Laden and al-Qaeda." The next = day he=20 starts a new job as head of security at the WTC. He is = killed weeks=20 later in the World Trade Center during the 911 attack. [New= =20 Yorker, 1/14/02]

Aug 24, 2001: Frustrated with lack of response = from FBI=20 headquarters about detained suspect Moussaoui, the Minnesota = FBI=20 begins working with the CIA. The CIA sends alerts calling = him a=20 "suspect 747 airline suicide hijacker." Three days later an = FBI=20 Minnesota supervisor says he is trying=20 to make sure that Moussaoui does not "take control of a = plane and=20 fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate=20 Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02] FBI headquarters = chastises=20 Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA. [Ti= me,=20 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was = nothing=20 the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the = [911]=20 attacks." [Senate=20 Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, more]

Sep 10, 2001: A particularly urgent warning may = have been=20 received the night before the attacks, causing some top = Pentagon=20 brass to cancel a trip. =93Why that same information was not = available=20 to the 266 people who died aboard the four hijacked = commercial=20 aircraft may become a hot topic on the Hill." [Newsweek, = 9/13/01] "A group of top Pentagon officials suddenly = canceled=20 travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of = security=20 concerns." [Newsweek, = 9/24/01, more= ]

Sep 10, 2001: Former president Bush is with a = brother of=20 Osama bin Laden at a Carlyle business conference. The = conference is=20 interrupted the next day by the attacks. [Washington = Post,=20 3/16/03]

Sep 10, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld = announces that by=20 some estimates the Department of Defense "cannot track $2.3 = trillion=20 in transactions." CBS later calculates that 25% of the = yearly=20 defense budget is unaccounted for. A defense analyst says, = =93The=20 books are cooked routinely year after year." [D= OD,=20 9/10/01, CBS,=20 1/29/02] This announcement was buried by the next = day=92s news=20 of 911.

Sep 11, 2001: Warren Buffett, the second richest = man on=20 Earth [BBC,=20 6/22/01], schedules a charity event inside Offutt Air = Force Base=20 in Nebraska. A small group of business leaders attend, = including at=20 least one who would otherwise have died in the WTC. [SF=20 Business Times, 2/1/02, Forbes=20 10/15/01] Bush flies to this same base that day, where = there is=20 an underground command center. [CNN,=20 9/12/01, = CBS,=20 911/02]

Sep 11, 2001: Recovery experts extract data from = 32 WTC=20 computer drives revealing a surge in financial transactions = just=20 before the attacks. Illegal transfers of over $100 million = may have=20 been made through some WTC computer systems immediately = before and=20 during the disaster. [Reuters,=20 12/18/01, CNN,=20 12/20/01, more= ]

Sep 11, 2001: In what the government describes = as a=20 bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency (the National=20 Reconnaissance Office or NRO) was all set for an exercise at = 9 AM on=20 September 11th in which an aircraft would crash into one of = its=20 buildings near Washington, DC. [AP,=20 8/22/02] Four wargames were also in progress at the time = of the=20 attacks. [C-SPAN = Congressional Testimony, 3/11/05, more]=20

Sept 11, 2001: The entire continental United = States is=20 defended by only seven air bases and 14 military jets. [CNN,=20 9/9/03, Newsday,=20 9/23/01]

September 11, 2001=97Timeline = for the Day=20 of the Attacks

Department of Defense (6/1/01) and = FAA=20 (7/12/01) procedure: In the=20 event of a hijacking, the FAA hijack coordinator on duty at=20 Washington headquarters requests the military to provide = escort=20 aircraft. Normally, NORAD escort aircraft take the required = action.=20 The FAA notifies the National Military Command Center by the = most=20 expeditious means. [DOD/, = 6/1/01, FAA, = 7/12/01, FAA=20 7/12/01]

If NORAD (North American Aerospace = Defense=20 Command) hears of any difficulties in the skies, they begin = the work=20 to scramble jet fighters [take off and intercept aircraft = that=20 are off course]. Between Sep 2000 and June 2001 fighters = were=20 scrambled 67 times. [AP, = 8/12/02] When the=20 Lear jet of golfer Payne Stewart didn=92t respond in 1999, = F-16=20 interceptors were quickly dispatched. According to an Air = Force=20 timeline, a series of military planes provided an emergency = escort=20 to Payne=92s stricken Lear about 20 minutes after ground=20 controllers lost contact with his plane.[Dallas=20 Morning News, 10/26/99, more]

8:20 AM (approx.): = Air traffic controllers suspect = Flight 11=20 has been hijacked. [NY = Times, 9/15/01=20 , more]

8:40 AM: NORAD is notified of hijacking. = [NY Times,=20 10/16/01, 8:38 AM Washington=20 Post, 9/15/01]

8:46 AM: Flight 11 crashes into the WTC = (World Trade=20 Center) north tower. [approximately 26 minutes = after=20 controllers lost contact][New York = Times,=20 9/12/01]

8:46 AM: President Bush = later states,=20 "I was sitting outside the classroom and I saw an airplane = hit the=20 tower. The TV was on.=94 [CNN,=20 12/4/01] =93When we walked into the classroom, I had = seen this=20 plane fly into the first building.=94 [= White=20 House, 1/5/02] There was no live coverage of the = first crash=20 on TV and President Bush was in a classroom reading with = children at=20 the time of the second crash. How could he forget = this?

8:52 AM: Two F-15s take off from Otis Air = Force=20 Base. [Washington=20 Post, 9/15/01] They go after Flight 175. Major General = Paul=20 Weaver, director of the Air National Guard, states "the = pilots flew=20 like a scalded ape, topping 500 mph but were unable to catch = up to=20 the airliner. We had a nine-minute window, and in excess of = 100=20 miles to intercept 175,'' he said. ''There was just = literally no=20 way.'' [Dallas=20 Morning News, 9/15/01] F-15's fly at=20 up to 2.5 times the speed of sound [1875 mph or 30+ miles = a=20 minute or 270+ miles in nine minutes] and are = designed=20 for low-altitude, high-speed, precision attacks. [BBC]

8:56 AM: By this time, it is evident that = Flight 77=20 is lost. The FAA, already in contact with the Pentagon about = the two=20 hijackings out of Boston, reportedly doesn=92t notify NORAD = of this=20 until 9:24, 28 minutes later. [see 9:10 AM for=20 comparison, New York = Times,=20 10/16/01]

9:03 AM: Flight 175 crashes into the south = WTC tower.=20 [23 minutes after NORAD notified, 43 minutes after air = traffic=20 control lost contact with pilots][New York = Times,=20 9/12/01, CNN,=20 9/12/01]

9:10 AM: Major General Paul Weaver states = Flight 77=20 came back on the (radar) scope at 9:10 in West Virginia. [Dallas = Morning=20 News, 9/15/01] Another report states the military was = notified=20 of Flight 77 several minutes after 9:03. [Washington=20 Post, 9/15/01]

9:24 AM [? =96 see above]: = The FAA, who=20 28 minutes earlier had discovered Flight 77 off course and = heading=20 east over West Virginia, reportedly notifies NORAD. A = Pentagon=20 spokesman says, "The Pentagon was simply not aware that this = aircraft was coming our way." [Newsday,=20 9/23/01, New=20 York Times, 10/16/01] Yet since the first crash, = military=20 officials in a Pentagon command center were urgently talking = to law=20 enforcement and air traffic control officials about what to = do. [New York = Times,=20 9/15/01]

9:28 AM: Air traffic control learns that = Flight 93=20 has been hijacked. [MSNBC,=20 7/30/02]

9:38 AM: Flight 77 crashes into the = Pentagon.=20 [42 minutes or more after contact was lost, one hour = after=20 NORAD notification of first hijacking][New York = Times,=20 10/16/01, 9:43 CNN,=20 9/12/01]

9:59 AM: The south tower of the World Trade = Center=20 collapses. [New=20 York Times, 9/12/01]

10:10 AM: = Flight 93 crashes in = Pennsylvania. [42 minutes after contact was lost. 90 = minutes=20 after NORAD notification of first hijacking. What happened = to=20 sophisticated military radar systems and jet fighter = scramble=20 procedures? ][CNN,=20 9/12/02]

10:28 AM: The World Trade Center north tower = collapses. [CNN,=20 9/12/01, NY=20 Times, 9/12/01]

5:20 PM: Building 7 of the World Trade = Center=20 collapses. [CNN,=20 9/12/01] Though the media claims fires brought the = building=20 down, the building's owner Larry Silverstein later recounts = the=20 story of the collapse of this 47-story skyscraper in a PBS=20 documentary America Rebuilds, "I remember getting a = call=20 from the fire department commander. ... I said ... maybe the = smartest thing to do is to pull it. And they made that = decision to=20 pull, and then we watched the building collapse." [PBS=20 Documentary]

Sep 11, 2001: Did the Air Force send up planes = after the=20 hijacked aircraft? The Air Force won't say. It says they = keep about=20 20 F-15 and F-16 fighters on duty with Air National Guards = along the=20 nation's coastline, ready to inspect unknown aircraft = entering U.S.=20 airspace. "We can scramble and be airborne in a matter of = minutes,"=20 said an Air Force spokesperson. Some airline pilots are = wondering=20 whether the FAA did enough to try to prevent the crashes. = [Wall Street = Journal,=20 09/14/01]

Sep 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who = dealt with=20 two of the hijacked airliners make a tape recording = describing the=20 events, but the tape is later destroyed by a supervisor = without=20 anyone making a transcript or even listening to it. = [Washingt= on=20 Post, 5/6/04, New=20 York Times, 5/6/04]

Sep 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow = government" is formed. Key congressional leaders say they = didn=92t=20 know President Bush had established this = government-in-waiting. Some=20 Congressmen state the administration should have conferred = about its=20 plans. [CBS,=20 3/2/02, Washington = Post,=20 3/2/02, more]=

Sep 11, 2001: A National Public Radio = correspondent=20 states: "I spoke with Congressman Ike Skelton who said that = just=20 recently the director of the CIA warned that there could be = an=20 attack =96 an imminent attack =96 on the United States of = this nature.=20 So this is not entirely unexpected." [NPR, = 911/01]=20

Sep 12, 2001: Senator Orrin Hatch says the US = was=20 monitoring bin Laden supporters and overheard them = discussing the=20 attack. [AP, = 9/12/01] Why has the media not explored the fact that = the US=20 could monitor private communications of al-Qaeda on=20 911?

Sept 13-19, 2001: Members of bin Laden's family are = driven or=20 flown under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point in = Texas and=20 then to Washington, where they leave the country on a = private plane=20 when most flights were still grounded. Top White House = officials=20 personally approve these evacuations. [New= =20 York Times, 9/4/03, Boston = Globe,=20 9/20/01, New=20 York Times, 9/30/01, more= ]

Sep 14, 2001: The two black boxes for Flight 77 = are=20 found. [P= BS,=20 9/14/01] FBI Director Robert Mueller later says Flight = 77's data=20 recorder provides altitude, speed, headings and other = information,=20 but the voice recorder contains =93nothing useful.=94 [CBS,=20 2/23/02] Yet they refuse to release the=20 recordings.

Sept 15-16, 2001: U.S. military sources give the = FBI=20 information that several of the 9/11 hijackers, including = leader=20 Mohamed Atta, may have received training at U.S. military=20 installations. Three hijackers listed their address on = drivers=20 licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in=20 Pensacola, Fla. Atta graduated from the US International = Officers=20 School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The media drops = the story=20 after the Air Force issues a statement saying that while the = names=20 are similar, "we are probably not talking about the same=20 people." [Newsweek, = 9/15/01, Washington = Post,=20 9/16/01, New=20 York Times, 9/15/01, mo= re]=20 Yet the military provides no=20 detailed information to refute the = claims in=20 these articles.

Sep 19, 2001: The FBI claims that there may = have been six=20 hijacking teams on the morning of 911. [New York = Times,=20 9/19/01, CBS,=20 9/14/01] Authorities have identified teams that total as = many as=20 50 infiltrators who supported or carried out the strikes. = About 40=20 of the men have been accounted for. [Los = Angeles Times,=20 9/13/01] Yet only one person, Moussaoui, is later=20 charged.

Sept 20-23, 2001: "Five of the alleged hijackers = have=20 emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their names = and=20 photographs appearing on satellite television. ... The = hijackers=20 were using stolen identities, and investigators are studying = the=20 possibility that the entire suicide squad consisted of = impostors."=20 [quote from London=20 Times, 9/20/01, see also BBC,=20 9/23/01, more<= /A>]=20 Yet these same individuals are later officially established = as the=20 9/11 hijackers in the 2004 9/11=20 Commission Report.

Oct 2, 2001: The Patriot Act is introduced in = Congress.=20 The next day, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick = Leahy (D)=20 accuses the Bush administration of reneging on an agreement = on this=20 anti-terrorist bill. [Washington=20 Post, 10/4/01] Anthrax letters are sent to Leahy and = Senate=20 Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) on October 9. [= CNN,=20 11/18/01]

Oct 10-11, 2001: After consulting with the FBI and = CDC, Iowa=20 State University in Ames destroys anthrax spores collected = over=20 seven decades. On Oct 25, the White House homeland security = director=20 confirms publicly the anthrax letters sent to Leahy and = others=20 contained the Ames strain. [New York = Times,=20 11/9/01]

Nov 12, 2001=97Mar 25, 2002: 13 = renowned=20 microbiologists mysteriously die over the span of less than = five=20 months. All but one are killed or murdered under unusual=20 circumstances. Some are world leaders in developing = weapons-grade=20 biological plagues. Others are the best in figuring out how = to stop=20 millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still = others are=20 experts in the theory of bioterrorism. [Globe = and Mail,=20 5/4/02, New=20 York Times 08/11/02] Nov 12: Benito Que, 52, an expert = in=20 infectious diseases=97killed in carjacking, later deemed = possible=20 stroke. [Globe = and Mail,=20 5/4/02] Nov. 16: Don Wiley, 57, one of the world's = leading=20 researchers of deadly viruses=97body found in Mississippi = River. [CNN,=20 12/22/01] Nov 21: Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, an expert = in=20 adapting germs and viruses for military use=97stroke. [New York = Times,=20 11/23/01] Dec 10: Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, a leading = researcher=20 on DNA sequencing analysis=97slain at home. [Washington=20 Post, 12/12/01] Dec 14: Nguyen Van Set, 44, his research = organization had just come to fame for discovering a virus = which can=20 be modified to affect smallpox=97dies in an airlock in his = lab. [Sydney Morning = Herald,=20 12/12/01] Jan 2002: Ivan Glebov (bandit attack) and = Alexi=20 Brushlinski (killed in Moscow), both world-renowned members = of the=20 Russian Academy of Science. [Pravda,=20 2/9/02] Feb 9: Victor Korshunov, 56, head of the = microbiology=20 sub-faculty at the Russian State Medical University=97killed = by=20 cranial injury. [Pravda,=20 2/9/02] Feb 11: Ian Langford, 40, one of Europe's = leading=20 experts on environmental risk=97murdered in home. [London = Times,=20 2/13/02] Feb 28 (2): Tanya Holzmayer, 46, helped create drugs that interfere = with=20 replication of the virus that causes AIDS, and Guyang = Huang,=20 38, a brilliant scholar = highly=20 regarded in genetics=97murder/suicide. [San = Jose Mercury=20 News, 2/28/02] Mar 24: David Wynn-Williams, 55, an=20 astrobiologist with NASA Ames Research Center=97killed while = jogging.=20 [London=20 Times, 3/27/02] Mar 25: Steven Mostow, 63, an expert on = the=20 threat of bioterrorism=97private plane crash. [KUSA = TV/NBC,=20 3/26/02]

Dec 2001: The US engineers the rise to = power of a=20 former Unocal Oil employee, Hamid Karzai, as the interim = president=20 of Afghanistan. Looking at the map of the big US bases in=20 Afghanistan, one is struck that they are identical to the = route of=20 the projected oil pipeline. [Chicago=20 Tribune, 3/18/02, mor= e]

Dec 25, 2001: Leading structural engineers and = fire-safety=20 experts believe the investigation into the collapse of the = WTC is=20 "inadequate.=94 They note that the current team of 20 or so=20 investigators has inadequate financial and staff support, = has been=20 prevented from interviewing witnesses and from examining the = disaster site. They couldn=92t even get detailed blueprints = of the=20 World Trade Center. The decision to rapidly recycle the = steel beams=20 from the WTC means definitive answers may never be known. = [New York = Times,=20 12/25/01]

Jan 1, 2002: Zalamy Khalilzad is appointed by = Bush as=20 special envoy to Afghanistan. [BBC,=20 1/1/02, Chicago=20 Tribune, 3/18/02] Khalilzad once lobbied for the Taliban = and=20 worked for an American oil company that sought concessions = for=20 pipelines in Afghanistan. [Independent,=20 1/10/02]

Jan 4, 2002: An editorial in the respected = trade=20 magazine Fire Engineering states that there is good = reason to=20 believe that the "official investigation," blessed by FEMA, = into the=20 WTC collapse is a "half-baked farce" that may already have = been=20 commandeered by political forces whose primary interests are = clearly=20 not full disclosure. "Respected members of the fire = protection=20 engineering community are beginning to raise red flags, and = a=20 resonating theory has emerged: The structural damage from = the planes=20 and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were = not enough=20 to bring down the towers." [Fire=20 Engineering, 1/02]

Jan 24, 2002: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle = claims=20 that on this day Cheney calls him and urges that no 911 = inquiry be=20 made. He is repeatedly pressured thereafter. [Newsweek, = 2/4/02, more= ]=20

Feb 6, 2002: CIA Director Tenet tells a Senate = hearing=20 that there was no 911 intelligence failure. When asked about = the CIA=20 on 911, he states that the 911 plot was "in the heads of = three or=20 four people." He rejects any suggestion that the CIA failed = to do=20 its job. [USA=20 Today, 2/7/02]

Feb 21, 2002: A ban on poppy growing by the = Taliban in=20 July 2000 along with severe droughts reduced Afghanistan's = opium=20 yield by 91% in 2001. Yet the UN expects its 2002 opium crop = to be=20 equivalent to the bumper one of three years ago. Afghanistan = is the=20 source of 75% of the world's heroin. [Guardian,=20 2/21/02] Why is the US unable to control opium = production=20 which had almost stopped?

Mar 2, 2002: The 911 collapse of the 47-story = WTC=20 building 7 was the first time a modern, steel-reinforced = high-rise=20 in the US has ever collapsed in a fire. [New York = Times,=20 3/2/02] Building 7 was where the SEC was storing files = related=20 to numerous Wall Street investigations. The files for = approximately=20 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed. [New = York Law Journal, 9/17/01] Lost files include documents = that=20 could show the relationship between Citigroup and the = WorldCom=20 bankruptcy. [= The=20 Street, 8/9/02]

Mar 13, 2002: Bush says of bin Laden: "I truly = am not=20 that concerned about him." [White=20 House, 3/13/02] Military chief Myers states: "the goal = has never=20 been to get bin Laden." [CNN/DOD,=20 4/6/02]

Apr 19, 2002: FBI Director Mueller: "We have = not=20 uncovered a single piece of paper that mentioned any aspect = of the=20 911 plot. The hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no = storage=20 media of any kind." [FBI,=20 4/19/02, Lo= s=20 Angeles Times, 4/30/02] Yet investigators have amassed a = ''substantial'' amount of e-mail traffic among the = hijackers. [USA = Today,=20 10/1/01] The laptop c