Major Media Reports on 9/11
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America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war. [ABC News, 5/1/01, Pentagon Documents]
1996-2001: Federal authorities are aware for years before 9/11
that suspected
terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden are receiving flight training
at schools
in the US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confesses that his
planned role
in a terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington
Post, 9/23/01, CBS,
5/30/02, more]
1996-2001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports on
bin Laden's
location. Each time, the CIA director or top White House officials
prevent bin Laden's elimination. [Los Angeles Times,
12/5/04, New York
Times, 12/30/01, more]
2000-2001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa
documents properly in Saudi Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15
should have been denied entry to the US. [Washington
Post, 10/22/02, ABC,
10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State Department
personnel had merely followed the law, 9/11 would not have happened. [AP, 12/18/02, more]
2000-2001: The military conducts exercises simulating hijacked
airliners used as weapons to crash into targets causing mass casualties.
One target is the World Trade Center (WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet
after 9/11, over and over the White House and security officials say
they're shocked that terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into
landmark buildings. [USA
Today,
4/19/04, Military
District
of Washington, 11/3/00, New
York Times, 10/3/01, more]
Jan
2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence agencies
are
told to "back off" investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi
royals. There have
always been constraints on investigating Saudi Arabians. [BBC,
11/6/01, more]
Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy
documents
is released that seek to legitimize the use of US military force in
the pursuit
of oil and gas. One advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the
reasons
for warfare "as a necessity for mobilizing public support."
[Sydney
Morning
Herald, 12/26/02, more]
May 2001: For the third time, US security chiefs reject
Sudan's
offer
of thick files on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls
it
"the
worst single intelligence failure in the business." [Guardian,
9/30/01, more]
June-Aug 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA that
Middle
Eastern terrorists are training for hijackings and targeting American
interests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin alerts the US of suicide pilots
training
for attacks on US targets. In late July, a Taliban emissary warns the
US that
bin Laden is planning a huge attack on American soil. In August,
Israel warns
of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [Fox News,
5/17/02,
Independent,
9/7/02, CNN,
9/12/02, more]
July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney
treatment
from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai.
Dr.
Callaway declines to comment. During his stay, bin Laden is allegedly
visited by one or two CIA agents. [Guardian,
11/1/01, Sydney
Morning Herald, 10/31/01, London
Times 11/1/01, UPI, 11/1/01, more]
July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying
commercial
airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS,
7/26/01] In May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather
than
answer
questions about it. [Fox News/AP,
5/16/02, more]
Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing
warning
that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners.
Titled "Bin
Ladin Determined To Strike in US," the briefing specifically
mentions the
WTC. Yet Bush later claims it "said nothing about an attack on
America." [Washington
Post, 4/12/04, Briefing,
8/6/01, more]
Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor says he's trying to keep a
hijacker
from "flying a plane into the WTC." [Senate
Report
(Hill #2), 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the
CIA.
[Time,
5/21/02, more]
Sept 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon
brass suddenly cancel travel plans for the next morning, apparently
because of security concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [Newsweek, 9/13/01,
Newsweek,
9/24/01, more]
Sept 11, 2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32
damaged WTC
computer drives. The data reveals a surge in financial transactions
shortly
before the attacks. Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have
been made
through WTC computer systems immediately before and during the 9/11
disaster.
[Reuters, 12/18/01,
CNN,
12/20/01, more]
Sept 11, 2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US
intelligence
agency was set for an exercise on Sept 11 at 9 AM in which an
aircraft
would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [USA
Today/AP,
8/22/02, more]
Sept 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow
government"
is formed. Key congressional leaders say they didn't know this
government-in-waiting
had been established. [CBS,
3/2/02, Washington Post,
3/2/02, more]
Sept 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who
dealt
with two of the hijacked airliners
make a tape recording describing the events within hours of the
attacks. The tape is never turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally
destroyed
by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even
listening
to
it. [Washington
Post, 5/6/04, New
York Times,
5/6/04]
Sept 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI
supervision
to a secret assembly point. They leave the country by private plane
when airports
reopen days after the attacks. [New York Times,
9/30/01, Boston Globe,
9/20/01,
more]
Sept 15-16, 2001: Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including
lead
hijacker
Mohamed Atta, may have had training at secure US military
installations. [Newsweek,
9/15/01, Washington Post,
9/16/01, New
York Times,
9/15/01, more]
Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the
9/11
Commission Report turn up alive. "Five of the alleged hijackers have
emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their names and
photographs appearing on satellite television...The hijackers were using
stolen identities." [quote in London
Times, 9/20/01, see also BBC,
9/23/01, more]
Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two
former
Unocal Oil employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of
Afghanistan,
and Zalmay Khalizad, the US envoy. The big American bases
created
in
the Afghan war are identical to the route of the projected oil
pipeline. [Chicago Tribune,
3/18/02, more]
May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists
haven't
been properly investigating since 9/11. He graphically describes the
pressures
to conform that built up after the attacks. [Guardian,
5/17/02, more]
May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to
establishing
an
independent commission to probe 9/11. [CBS,
5/23/02] Vice President Cheney earlier opposed any public
hearings
on
9/11. [CNN, 1/29/02, Newsweek, 2/4/02,
more]
May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Robert Wright formally accuses the FBI
of deliberately
curtailing investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is
threatened
with retribution if he talks to Congress about this. [Fox News/Reuters, 5/30/02, more]
July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is
published.
It fails to mention that a year before the attacks a secret Pentagon
project
had identified four 9/11 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta.
The
Commission
spokesperson initially states members were not informed of this, but
later
acknowledges they were. [New
York Times, 8/11/05, more]
2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government
officials and public leaders express disbelief in the official story
of
9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 9/11 family members sign a statement
calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence suggesting high-level
government officials may have deliberately allowed the attacks to
occur.
[Various
Publications]
Aug 9, 2006: A
book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines
repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines
of
Flights 77 and 93. CNN News: "The fact that the government
would...perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation
of
what is going on." [CNN, 8/9/06
, MSNBC/AP,
8/4/06, more]
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