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TIMELINE
PART I
01 • October 6, 1981 (page 7)
Egyptian president An-
war Sadat is assassi- Sadat assassination
nated by radical army
troops loyal to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. One EIJ member associated
with the unit that killed Sadat is Major Ali Abdel Saoud Mohamed. His
alibi at the time is that he is on an officer exchange program studying at
the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where
Green Beret and Delta Force officers receive advanced training.
Mohamed
02 • 1981 (page 9)
One of more than three hundred radicals jailed for the assassination is
young surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri. The English-speaking son of a promi-
nent Egyptian family, al-Zawahiri emerges as the spokesman for the EIJ
suspects and becomes a celebrity in the growing ranks of radical Islam.
al-Zawahiri in 1981
Yousef
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Murad
Dunbar
Bucca
Salameh Abouhalima
Yousef
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Kevin Shea, a close friend of Ronnie Bucca’s from Rescue One, is almost
killed after falling into the four-story crater. Early the next morning, after
visiting Shea in the hospital, Ronnie goes down to the B-2 level to photo-
graph the edge of the ramp from which Kevin had fallen.
Shea
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PART II
01 • February 27, 1993 (page 117)
Ronnie Bucca is determined to investigate the bombing, but the FDNY is
effectively shut out of the probe by the FBI. So Bucca begins his own inves-
tigation, which leads him to the discovery of an unpublished warning from
the bombers: They know what they did wrong in failing to topple the WTC,
they say, and they pledge to return and finish the job. Bucca
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Eiffel Tower
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Yousef As Forlani
Shah Mohammed
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Bureau of Prisons booking mug shots of Abdul Hakim Murad and Ramzi Yousef
Freeh Gorelick
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PART III
01 • August 1997 (page 268)
Since his surveillance for the embassy bombing
plot in late 1993, Ali Mohamed has been in con- Mohamed El-Hage
stant touch with Wadih El-Hage, one of the key
Nairobi cell members, who had been in Brooklyn as far back as 1991 at the time of the Shalabi murder.
The Feds have had a wiretap on El-Hage’s phone since 1996, and in August 1997 Special Agent Dan
Coleman from Squad I-49 finds contact information for Mohamed in a search of El-Hage’s house. El-Hage
is allowed to leave Nairobi even though al Qaeda turncoat Jamal al-Fadl had told Fitzgerald and
Coleman in 1996 that
El-Hage was bin Laden’s
personal secretary. El-
Hage lies to a grand jury
in New York, but the FBI
lets him go.
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