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<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 2002 - Steel from the wreckage of the destroyed WTC will be shipped to China and India to
be melted down and recycled which has angered some investigators, engineers and victim's families who say the steel
could hold vital clues about why the towers collapsed and GPS tracking devices were installed on the trucks hauling the
"highly sensitive" steel scraps away to be melted.
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<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>January 2002 - Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani forms Giuliani
Partners, a lucrative investment and security consulting firm with key figures from the 9/11 including the
former NYC Police Commissioner, NYC Fire Commissioner, and head of the NYC Office of Emergency
Management.
Giuliani Partners - "Mr. Giuliani is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Partners LLC, which he founded in January 2002."
Pasquale J. D'Amuro - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC dedicated to security consulting.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mr. D'Amuro was appointed Inspector in Charge of the FBI's investigation of those attacks.
Anthony V. Carbonetti - founding Partner and Managing Director of Giuliani Partners LLC. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Carbonetti served as Chief of Staff to Mayor Giuliani
from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Carbonetti was serving as Chief of Staff on September 11, 2001, and was an integral part of the Giuliani team that helped guide New York City
through the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history.
Richard J. Sheirer - Senior Vice President at Giuliani Partners and is New York Citys former Commissioner of Emergency Management. Mr. Sheirer is a public safety expert
with three decades of experience in law enforcement and crisis management, including having served as the Deputy Commissioner for Administration for the New York City
Police Department and Chief of Staff to the Commissioner.
Before joining the Police Department, Mr. Sheirer served in the New York City Fire Department for 20 years, with an emphasis on emergency communication issues, and
rose to the level of Deputy Commissioner. In February of 2000, he was named Director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management where he was responsible for
mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery for all emergency conditions requiring the involvement of multiple government agencies.
Thomas Von Essen - Mr. Von Essen is a Senior Vice President at Giuliani Partners and is Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani-Von Essen LLC, which is an affiliate of Giuliani
Partners.
Mr. Von Essen was appointed New York Citys 30th Fire Commissioner in 1996.
Dennison Young, Jr. - founding Partner and Managing Director of Giuliani Partners LLC. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Young served as Chief Counsel to Mayor Giuliani during
his eight years at City Hall. During that time, he was the Mayors primary legal advisor on matters involving the City and was responsible for overseeing all public safety
agencies including the New York Police Department, the Fire Department of New York, the Office of Emergency Management, and the Criminal Justice Coordinators Office.
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(See also: December 3, 2004 - Bush nominates Bernard Kerik for Homeland Security; December 22, 2004 - Bernard Kerik resigns from Giuliani
Partners after scandal; March 17, 2005 - Giuliani firm's deal to advise company raises questions)
"Zalmay Khalilzad is the highest-ranking native Afghan and Muslim in the Bush administration.
Khalilzad served under former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush as special assistant to the president for Southwest Asia, the Near East and North Africa.
From 1985 to 1989, Khalilzad served as a senior United States Department of State official advising on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war, and from 1991
to 1992, he was a senior Defense Department official for policy planning.
He served as a counsellor to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Zalmay Khalilzad was an advisor for the Unocal Corporation.
In the mid 1990s, while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for Unocal for a proposed 890-mile, $2-billion, 1.9-
billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project which would have extended from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
He has served in both the State and Defense Departments and is a member of the National Security Council.
Khalilzad became the Bush administration's special envoy to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban as well as is special envoy to the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein."
- Wikipedia
Project for the New American Century who's who: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula
Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan
Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz - PNAC Statement of Principles
(See also: November 8, 2001 - A war for the pipelines?; May 13, 2002 - Afghanistan plans gas pipeline)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 1, 2002 - Wife of FEMA Ground Zero videographer Kurt Sonnenfeld is found shot in the head at
their Denver home in an apparent suicide act.
Sonnenfeld charges dropped; FEMA worker's wife was found shot in head at their Denver home on New Year's Day
"Prosecutors Thursday dismissed first-degree murder charges against former FEMA videographer Kurt Sonnenfeld in the early New Year's morning shooting
death of his wife.
Nancy Sonnenfeld, 36, died of a gunshot wound in the head after she and her husband had celebrated New Year's Eve together. Kurt Sonnenfeld told police
that his wife committed suicide.
Prosecutors wouldn't comment on specific reasons for the dismissal, but the defense investigation found a note written by Nancy Sonnenfeld which police had not taken
into evidence, said public defender Carrie Thompson.
"Our investigators found a letter written in Nancy's own hand consistent with a suicide letter, although it was very cryptic," Thompson said.
She said the letter said, "What is more beautiful than love and death?" with the word "love" scratched out. "Kurt, please get help." The letter was found behind a framed
photograph of Kurt Sonnenfeld.
Lepley said the case will remain under investigation and could be refiled. Because of that, he said he couldn't discuss the role specific evidence played in the decision.
Kurt Sonnenfeld was a videographer who documented disaster sites for FEMA, including the Sept 11 attacks in New York. Nancy Sonnenfeld was a manager for BSA
Advertising.
Denver police said they ruled out suicide because the wound was in the back of the head and could not be self-inflicted. But the coroner's report states that the bullet
entered about 2 inches above and behind her right ear.
Police also noted that the .45-caliber handgun was on the floor 6 to 8 feet away from Nancy Sonnenfeld.
At a preliminary hearing in February, Thompson argued that Nancy Sonnenfeld had been depressed in the preceding months and had tried to commit suicide by overdosing
on pills after a trip to Thailand during which Kurt Sonnenfeld was using heroin. Her sister, Leek, refuted that account.
Sonnenfeld told police that their 8-year marriage had soured because of his drug use and drinking problem.
Kurt Sonnenfeld told police that he was checking his e-mail in his bedroom after they returned home in the early morning hours of New Year's Day when he heard a
gunshot." - Rocky Mountain News (06/13/06)
Love and death; The tragic story of Kurt and Nancy Sonnenfeld - Rocky Mountain News (06/24/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 2, 2002 - Judge enters innocent plea on Moussaoui's behalf, mother fears for him
"Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person indicted in the Sept. 11 attacks, invoked the name of Allah and declared to a court Wednesday "I do not have
anything to plead." A judge entered an innocent plea on his behalf.
"In the name of Allah, I do not have anything to plead. I enter no plea. Thank you very much," Moussaoui told U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema.
Brinkema set a trial date of Oct. 14, with jury selection to begin Sept. 30. She rejected defense arguments that the date would be too close to the one-
year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the vast amount of publicity that could be expected at that time.
The defendant, 33, is a French citizen of Moroccan descent who received a master's degree in England.
Although Moussaoui has been in federal custody on immigration charges since August, when he aroused suspicions at a Minnesota flight school, the
indictment says he conspired with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill and maim victims in the United States. While accusing him of links to Osama bin Laden's
terrorist network, the indictment does not explain his role in the terror attacks.
The indictment accuses Moussaoui of pursuing some of the same activities as the hijackers by taking flight training in the United States, inquiring about crop dusting and
purchasing flight deck training videos.
The indictment also said Moussaoui received money in July and August from Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, an alleged member of a German terrorist cell who was a roommate of
Mohammed Atta, the suspected ringleader in the attacks. The FBI believes Bin al-Shibh may have been planning to be the 20th hijacker.
A clear indication of the case's importance was Senate passage of legislation to broadcast the trial on closed-circuit television in the cities most affected by the hijackings."
- Detroit News/AP (01/02/02)
"The mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person indicted in the September 11 suicide hijackings, says she fears her son will become a scapegoat for America's pain and
suffering.
"Tell the American people that I share in their suffering, particularly with those who lost their loved ones," Aicha el-Wafi told The Associated Press as she arrived at Paris'
Charles de Gaulle airport on Thursday, after returning from the United States.
"I don't want my son to be used as a scapegoat for the pain and suffering of the American people," she said.
El-Wafi said that her son had told her he had proof of his innocence. "He must be allowed to show proof," she said.
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Moussaoui has been in U.S. custody on immigration charges since August, when he aroused suspicions at a Minnesota flight school where he was taking lessons.
He has been indicted on six conspiracy charges, four of which could bring the death penalty, in connection with the September 11 attacks.
"I will not accept the death penalty, I will fight it very strongly," his mother told AP." - CNN (01/03/02)
(See also: December 11, 2001 - Moussaoui indicted for 9/11; March 28, 2002 - U.S. seeks the death penalty against Moussaoui)
January 4, 2002 - Fire Engineering says the official WTC investigation on why it collapsed is a 'half-baked farce' that may already have
been 'commandeered by political forces' whose primary interests lie 'far afield of full disclosure.'
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 5, 2002 - In a speech in California, Bush again claims to have seen one of the hijacked planes
crash into the WTC live on TV at the school he was at, but this time he specifically claims that he witnessed the first
plane crash even though he hadn't even arrived at the school yet.
"Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first
building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And
something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, 'America is under
attack.'" - White House (01/05/02)
"The first airplane hit the north tower at 8:46 a.m., as the president's motorcade crossed the John Ringling Causeway on the way to Booker
Elementary from the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Longboat Key." - Washington Times (10/08/02)
"At 8:52 a.m. ET, ABCNEWS' Good Morning America broke in with a special report showing flames coming out of the World Trade Center. At the time, President Bush's
motorcade was arriving at the Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., for a planned event..." - ABC (09/14/01)
(See also: December 4, 2001 - Bush claims he saw one of the planes crash into the WTC live on a TV in his holding room at Booker Elementary
school; Killtown's: Did Bush see the 2nd WTC plane crash?)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 5, 2002 - Bush refers to the day of the 9/11 attacks as "an interesting day."
"And in the meantime, this teacher was going on about the curriculum, and I was thinking about what it meant for America to be under attack. It was
an amazing thought. But I made up my mind that if America was under attack, we'd get them. (Applause.) I wasn't interested in lawyers, I wasn't
interested in a bunch of debate. I was interested in finding out who did it and bringing them to justice. I also knew that they would try to hide, and
anybody who provided haven, help, food, would be held accountable by the United States of America." (Applause.)
"Anyway, it was an interesting day." - White House (01/05/02)
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statements expressing his sympathy for Osama bin Laden and the events which occurred September 11, 2001." Several of the pilots involved in those attacks trained at
Florida flight schools.
After a five-minute flight over Tampa Bay, the plane entered MacDill Air Force Base's restricted airspace and flew over the runway about 100 feet off the ground, Miller
said. MacDill is the home of the U.S. Central Command, which directs the U.S. forces operating in Afghanistan.
MacDill contacted the U.S. Coast Guard, which had a helicopter on routine patrol in the vicinity, and asked it to investigate.
Minutes before the crash, the helicopter pilot made direct eye contact with the student through the chopper's open side door as crew members gestured for Bishop to land
the plane, police said. It was not clear what his response was.
After being notified Saturday by the FAA, the North American Aerospace Defense Command ordered two F-15 combat jets at Homestead Air Force Base in Miami to
intercept the Cessna around 5:15 p.m., NORAD Capt. Kirstin Reimann said.
The F-15s arrived on the scene too late to intervene, a Homestead spokesman said." - CNN (01/07/02)
"The building's tenant roster reads like a Who's Who of Tampa businesses, including Bank of America, Arthur Andersen and MetLife. U.S. Sen. Bob Graham's local office is
on the 32nd floor.
Bank of America Plaza's top floor is home to The Tampa Club, a popular meeting place for Tampa's business elite." - Tampa Bay Online (01/06/02)
"MacDill Air Force Base is also home to more than 40 Mission Partners, including United States Central Command and United States Special Operations Command
[USSOCOM Mission: Prepare special operation forces for worldwide special operations, civil affairs and psychological operations in peace and war in support of regional
combatant commanders and other government agencies]." - MacDill AFB
(See also: 9/11 - Rep. Porter Goss, Sen. Bob Graham, and Sen. John Kyl are in a meeting at the Capital with ISI director, Lt. Gen. Mahmud
Ahmed, who authorized a $100,000 wire transfer to Mohamed Atta; February 23, 2003 - Sen. Graham runs for president)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 18, 2002 - Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead, unable to get dialysis treatment.
"Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney
disease.
"I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a ... kidney patient," Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Friday in an interview with CNN.
Musharraf said Pakistan knew bin Laden took two dialysis machines into Afghanistan. "One was specifically for his own personal use," he said.
"I don't know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan now. And the photographs that have been shown of him on television show him
extremely weak. ... I would give the first priority that he is dead and the second priority that he is alive somewhere in Afghanistan."
The official said U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly obvious that that could be an issue when you are
running from place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate electricity in a mountain hideout."
Other U.S. officials contradicted the reports of bin Laden's health problems, saying there is "no evidence" the suspected terrorist mastermind has ever suffered kidney
failure or required kidney dialysis. The officials called such suggestions a "recurrent rumor." - CNN (01/18/02)
(See also: September 10, 2001 - Osama Bin Laden reportedly undergoes kidney dialysis at a Pakistani military hospital; December 2001 - Osama
bin Laden reportedly dies; July 18, 2002 - FBI counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead; October 17, 2003
- Paskistan president says Bin Laden alive)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 21, 2002 - Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Bin Laden would need help if on dialysis
"Speculation about the whereabouts and health of Osama bin Laden picked up over the weekend when Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said
he thought bin Laden had likely died of kidney failure.
CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke Monday with CNN's Paula Zahn about bin Laden's appearance in recently released videotapes and
the possibility that the accused terrorist leader was undergoing kidney treatment.
ZAHN: For a point of reference, I'd like for you to analyze pictures of Osama bin Laden that apparently were taken prior to September 11. Describe to us
the color and the tone of his skin, and then I want you to contrast that with pictures we know to have been taken much later.
GUPTA: You can look [at pictures from a December 2001 video] and notice that he has what some doctors refer to as sort of a frosting over of his
features -- his sort of grayness of beard, his paleness of skin, very gaunt sort of features. A lot of times people associate this with chronic illness.
Doctors can certainly look at that and determine some clinical features.
But even more than that, it's sometimes possible to differentiate the specific type of disease or illness that he may be suffering from. The sort of frosting of the appearance
is something that people a lot of times associate with chronic kidney failure, renal failure, certainly someone who is requiring dialysis would have that.
He's also not moving his arms. I looked at this tape all the way through its entire length. He never moved his left arm at all. The reason that might be important is because
people who have had a stroke -- and certainly people are at increased risk of stroke if they also have kidney failure -- he may have had a stroke and therefore is not
moving his left side. And in the rest of the videotape, he does move his right side a little bit more than he does his left. So those are some of the things that are sort of "of
note" here in this more recent videotape.
ZAHN: I think we need to remind the viewers once again that the president of Pakistan talked about [bin Laden] importing two dialysis machines into Afghanistan. Of
course, no one other than the president of Pakistan right now is confirming that [bin Laden] in fact needed dialysis.
GUPTA: That's right. And again, renal dialysis -- talking about hemodialysis -- is something that really is reserved for patients in end-stage renal failure. That means their
kidneys have just completely shut down.
The most common cause of something like that would be something like diabetes and hypertension. Once that's happened, if you're separated from your dialysis machine -
- and incidentally, dialysis machines require electricity, they're going to require clean water, they're going to require a sterile setting -- infection is a huge risk with that. If
you don't have all those things and a functioning dialysis machine, it's unlikely that you'd survive beyond several days or a week at the most.
ZAHN: If he had all these things you're talking about to keep the dialysis machine running, how much help does he need around him to administer the treatment?
GUPTA: You certainly need someone who really knows how to run that dialysis machine. You have to have someone who's actually assessing his blood, Osama bin Laden's
blood, to see what particular dialysate he would need, and to be able to change his dialysate as needed. So you'd need a kidney specialist, a technician -- quite a few
people around him." - CNN (01/21/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; December 26, 2001 - A video of Osama bin Laden, looking thin and weak, is
released and officials suggest the video may have been recorded in November)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 29, 2002 - Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes.
"President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11,
congressional and White House sources told CNN." - CNN (01/29/02)
(See also: May 17, 2002 - Cheney Warns Democrats not to investigate the 9/11 attacks; May 19, 2002 - Cheney cautions
Democrats who suggest Bush had advanced knowledge; May 23, 2002 - Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel)
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<![if !vml]><![endif]>January 29, 2002 - Val McClatchey registers her "End of Serenity" smoke plume photo for
copyright.
"Registration Number: VA-1-128-462
Title: End of serenity.
Description: Photo.
Claimant: acValencia M. McClatchey
Created: 2001
Published: 1Oct01
Registered: 29Jan02" - copyright.gov
February 2002 - US military intelligence warned the Bush administration that a captured Al Qaeda operative had given fabricated
information that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in how to make chemical and biological weapons, information the Bush
administration would later use as the foundation for military action against Iraq.
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions
"A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its
claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.
The document, an intelligence report from February 2002, said it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, "was intentionally misleading the debriefers" in
making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaeda's work with illicit weapons.
The document provides the earliest and strongest indication of doubts voiced by American intelligence agencies about Mr. Libi's credibility. Without mentioning him by
name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and other administration officials repeatedly cited Mr. Libi's information as
"credible" evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons." - NY Times (11/06/05)
(See also: October 16, 2002 - President Bush uses information he was warned may be faulty in a speech to try to link Iraq to Al Qaeda; February
5, 2003 - Colin Powell addresses UN about Iraq's alleged connections with Al Qaeda)
"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants $9 billion in his new budget to beef up the Pentagon's high-tech arsenal, but he is squashing a push by
the military's top brass to add more than 50,000 troops to fight the war on terrorism, Pentagon officials say.
Before Sept. 11, Rumsfeld wanted to cut troop strength and increase spending on hi-tech weapons as part of a plan to "transform" the military into a
lighter, more mobile fighting force for the 21st century. The service chiefs argued for more troops and weapons.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, known as UAVs. More than $100 million to buy missile-firing Predator drones like those used for the first time against the
Taliban. Several hundred million dollars will speed production of Global Hawk, the long-range UAV that also debuted in Afghanistan. Also stepped-up:
work on a stealthy, bomb-dropping UAV.
Rumsfeld's budget request also includes $8.5 billion for missile defense and $68 billion for new weapons, including $5 billion for the Air Force's new F-22 fighter jet." -
USAToday (2/01/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>February 1, 2002 - CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen: Bin Laden has aged 'enormously.'
"On Thursday night, CNN aired parts of an interview with Osama bin Laden that the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera recorded in late
October.
CNN's Paula Zahn discussed the tape Friday with CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, who has been studying bin Laden and his operation for several
years.
CNN: The last interview you did with bin Laden was back in 1997. How different was the Osama bin Laden we saw in this tape, the interview taped late
in October of 2001?
BERGEN: He's actually quite similar. I mean, in terms of his demeanor and his voice -- these kinds of things are quite similar. The big difference is that
he's aged enormously between '97 and October of last year.
This is a man who was clearly not well. I mean, as you see from these pictures here, he's really, by December he's looking pretty terrible. But by December, of course, that
tape that was aired then, he's barely moving the left side of his body. So he's clearly got diabetes. He has low blood pressure. He's got a wound in his foot. He's apparently
got dialysis ... for kidney problems.
I mean, this is a man who has a number of health problems, apart from the fact that anybody running around the Afghan mountains is not going to be in great shape.
CNN: And, of course, the question that people continue to debate is not only is he not well, is he still alive today?" - CNN (02/01/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; December 26, 2001 - A video of Osama bin Laden, looking thin and weak, is
released and officials suggest the video may have been recorded in November)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>February 4, 2002 - The Defense Department's budget request for fiscal year 2003 is a $40.1 billion (or
10.9%) increase over last years budget.
- FY 2002 request - $328.9 billion [ $37.8 billion, or 11.5% increase ] - DoD (06/27/01)
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- FY 2003 request - $369.0 billion [ $40.1 billion, or 10.9% increase ] - DoD (02/04/02)
(See also: June 27, 2001 - '02 defense budget request is a $37.8 billion or 11.5% increase over '01)
"A man described as one of Osama bin Laden's closest aides, Abu 'Ubeid Al-Qurashi, has acknowledged that the terrorist network al-Qaida carried out the Sept. 11 attacks
against the U.S.
The admission was made in an article he wrote for al-Qaida's biweekly Internet magazine, Al-Ansar. The Middle East Media Research Institute translated the article into
English." - WorldNetDaily (02/11/02)
February 20, 2002 - Letters supposedly written by US troops in Iraq detailing their successes in the country were all written by their
commander.
February 21, 2002 - U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is dead, officials confirm
"Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped last month on his way to interview a Muslim fundamentalist leader in Pakistan, has been killed by his abductors,
officials said Thursday. The U.S. government condemned his killing as "an outrage" and his newspaper called it an "act of barbarism."
FBI and Pakistani officials said they received a videotape containing "indisputable" confirmation that the 38-year-old Pearl had been killed.
Pearl's January 23 abduction prompted appeals from top U.S. and Pakistani officials for his release, and resulted in the arrests of several people believed to have been
involved in the kidnapping -- including the man Pakistani officials identified as the ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
His newspaper's headquarters near New York's World Trade Center was destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attack." - CNN (02/22/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>March 7, 2002 - A set of five frames taken from a Pentagon security camera that supposedly
shows Flight 77 crashing into it and erupting in a huge fireball are released to the media, however the Pentagon
says the photos were not released "officially" by the Dept. of Defense.
"BROWN: Now to the Pentagon, some remarkable pictures of American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon on September 11th.
JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Aaron, for six months only a handful of people actually saw what it looked like when that
plane hit this building. When I first saw those pictures today, I was surprised by something. You'll see them. They were seen first on CNN
today. Aaron.
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MCINTYRE (voice over): The sequence of five photographs obtained by CNN was taken by an automatic security camera at a Pentagon checkpoint and shows what, up to
now, was seen by only a few eyewitnesses, that the American Airlines 757 came in extremely low before hitting the ground floor of the Pentagon.
MCINTYRE: At first glance, it's hard to see the jetliner in the first frame, but it's there just a few feet off the ground. The plane hit the Pentagon at a 45-degree angle, and
was reduced to tiny fragments by the impact. The biggest piece of fuselage that could be found outside the Pentagon was only about three feet long. The only other
recognizable feature can be seen in this exclusive CNN photograph, the shattered cockpit window. One hundred eighty-nine people were killed, 125 on the ground, 64 on
the plane, including the five hijackers.
MCINTYRE (on camera): These pictures are the first to be made public, but they are not the only images of the plane hitting the Pentagon." - CNN (03/07/02)
"Officials from the Pentagon said the photos were not released officially by the Department of Defense. A Pentagon spokeswoman could not verify that they came from
surveillance cameras.
"The Pentagon has not released any video or any photos from security cameras from the terrorist attack of Sept. 11," said Pentagon spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin.
A spokeswoman at the Department of Justice, which reviews taped and photographed evidence obtained by federal security cameras, said she could not comment on
whether the photos are legitimate, adding that the photos "were not disseminated by the FBI or the Department of Justice." - Washington Post/AP (03/07/02)
(See also: 9/11 (9:37 am) - Flight 77 is said to have crashed into the only renovated section of the Pentagon being renovated to bolster it against
an attack which at the time housed the fewest people in the entire building; 9/11 - Within minutes of the explosion at the Pentagon, the FBI
confiscates security videos that had captured the crash from a nearby gas station and hotel; Killtown's: Flight 77 Fabricated Video)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>March 13, 2002 - Bush who once wanted Osama Bin Laden "Dead or
Alive", now dismisses him as "marginalized".
"The president's confidence came despite the fact that accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has not yet been captured.
But Bush said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."
"Terror is bigger than one person," the president said. "He is a person who has now been marginalized. His host government has
been destroyed. He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it and met his match." - ABC (03/13/02)
(See also: September 17, 2001 - Bush wants Osama Bin Laden "Dead or Alive")
<![if !vml]><![endif]>March 25, 2002 - Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D) gets blasted for her comments she made on in a CA radio
program in which she says, "What did this administration know and when did it know it," alleging that the Bush
administration may have had advanced warnings about the 9/11 attacks and that military contractors have benefited from
military action following the attacks.
"Fellow lawmakers today criticized Rep. Cynthia McKinney's allegations that Bush administration officials may have ignored advance warning of the Sept.
11 attacks and their political allies have profited from the war on terrorism.
Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, a conservative Democrat who has clashed before with McKinney, D-Ga., said her statement was "loony," also "dangerous and
irresponsible." He said it was an example of McKinney trying to draw attention to herself.
McKinney made the statements in a March 25 interview on radio station KPFA in Berkeley, Calif.
"What did this administration know and when did it know it about the events of Sept. 11," McKinney said. "Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people
of New York who were needlessly murdered? What do they have to hide?"
McKinney alleged the military action that followed the attacks has benefited investment firms specializing in defense contracts. She singled out the Carlyle Group, where
President Bush's father is on the board.
In a statement today, McKinney acknowledged she had no evidence anyone with ties to the Bush administration profited from the attacks. But she didn't back off her
allegations that Bush officials may have had prior notice.
Carlyle Group spokesman Chris Ullman and White House press secretary Ari Fleischer dismissed the allegation as a baseless conspiracy theory.
"All I can tell you is the congresswoman must be running for the Hall of Fame of the Grassy Knoll Society," Fleischer said." - ABC (04/12/02)
(See also: May 16, 2002 - McKinney releases a statement saying she feels vindicated by the Bush Administration's admission that they receiving
advanced warnings; July 23, 2005 - McKinney reopens 9/11, Conspiracy theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>March 28, 2002 - U.S. seeks the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui.
"US prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged over the 11 September attacks.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, who must approve all federal death penalty cases, accepted the recommendation of his prosecutors on Thursday.
The French Government has expressed regret at the decision, saying it will not provide evidence that could lead to a death sentence.
Mr Moussaoui was in prison on the day of the attacks, which may make it difficult to convince a jury of his direct involvement in the killings.
And so far, there has been only circumstantial evidence presented by prosecutors linking him to the other 19 hijackers.
Mr Moussaoui was detained in mid-August last year, after arousing suspicions while seeking flight training in Minnesota." - BBC (03/28/02)
(See also: January 2, 2002 - Judge enters innocent plea on Moussaoui's behalf; July 19, 2002 - Judge rejects Moussaoui's 'I am
guilty' plea)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>April 1, 2002 - Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie -- which casts doubt on the official version
of the events of September 11 and claims that a missile, not Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon -- makes
headline news when it becomes a leading bestseller in France.
"A bizarre book claiming that the plane that ploughed into the Pentagon on September 11 never existed, and that the US establishment itself
was at the heart of the New York and Washington attacks, has shot to the top of the French bestseller lists to indignation on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The Frightening Fraud, by Thierry Meyssan, sold out its original run of 20,000 copies within two hours of going on sale. "We've sold 2,500
copies in 10 days, when a blockbuster novel sells maybe 1,500 in a month," a spokesman at Fnac Les Halles, one of France's biggest bookshops, said. "It's a
phenomenon."
Mr Meyssan's conspiracy theory argues that American Airlines flight 77, which killed 189 people when it smashed into the headquarters of the US defence department, did
not exist, and that the whole disaster was a dastardly plot dreamed up and implemented by the US government.
A Pentagon spokesman, Glen Flood, said the book was "a slap in the face and real offence to the American people, particularly to the memory of victims of the attacks". He
said he had not read it and had no intention of doing so.
Mr Meyssan's argument, which started out as a rumour on the internet and has risen to prominence largely thanks to the author's reputation and chatshow appearances,
suggests that the plane could not have existed because eye-witness statements are contradictory, there are suspiciously few photographs of the catastrophe and none of
them shows any wreckage. Even the rescue workers' accounts, published on the Pentagon website, are not convincing, he says.
He also asks why the facade of the Pentagon did not immediately collapse from the shock of the impact, and questions the fate of the plane's passengers. "What became of
the passengers of American Airlines flight 77? Are they dead?"
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Both Libration and Le Monde set out to disprove his theory, tracking down photographs that do show debris, and speaking to victims' relatives.
But Le Monde admitted that the information made public by Washington did not entirely add up. "There is no official account of the crash. The lack of information is feeding
the rumour," it complained." - Guardian (04/01/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>"The French are lapping up a Sept. 11 conspiracy theory which argues the plane that smashed into the Pentagon never existed
and that the world has been duped by a murky U.S. government plot." - CBS (04/02/02)
"A book which argues that American Airlines flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon on 11 September has become an immediate bestseller in France.
Thierry Meyssan's book L'Effroyable Imposture (The Appalling Fraud) alleges the attack on the building, which houses the US defence department, was
staged by none other than the American Government." - BBC (04/02/02)
"France's No. 1 best seller claims the U.S. orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks." - Time (05/20/02)
"Throughout the spring, and into this summer, a leading bestseller in France has not been some great work of French literature but a $17-dollar
paperback called the "Horrifying Fraud."
The book casts doubt on the official version of the events of September 11, substituting an elaborate conspiracy concocted by America's military-industrial complex in
order to increase U.S. military budgets.
Thierry Meyssan, author of "The Horrifying Fraud," does believe man walked on the moon, but insists, among other things, that it was not a hijacked American Airlines 757
that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 but a missile fired by the military itself.
A Pentagon spokesperson, Victoria Clarke, called the book disgusting.
She said: "There is no question, there is no doubt what happened that day. And I think it's appalling that anyone might try to put out that kind of myth.
"I think it's also appalling for anyone to continue to give those sorts of people any kind of publicity." - CNN (06/26/02)
L'Effroyable Imposture/The Big Lie - The investigation-book on the biggest manipulation in history
(See also: April 24, 2002 - A reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke her thoughts about the phenomenon of
Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie; June 25, 2002 - A reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke again her
thoughts about Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie)
April 17, 2002 - ABC News: Some Ask, Were Aliens or Bush Behind 9-11?
"In the days immediately after Sept. 11, while most of the country was reeling from shock, some people out there were wondering what really happened.
When the government said evidence pointed to Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, other voices wondered why investigators weren't looking in other directions.
Couldn't those supposed Arabs seen on airport security videos checking onto flights just as easily have been Israelis? Couldn't it all have been a Jewish plot to trick the
United States into a war against Israel's enemies?
In the months since, more and more evidence has been produced by investigators in the United States and around the world linking Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network
to the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and western Pennsylvania.
There are voices popping up on Internet Web sites, in chatrooms and making the rounds in e-mail chains even some conspiracy theorists who are packing hundreds of
people into lecture halls saying that evidence points to some direct level of involvement in the attacks by the U.S. government. And this at a time when an unprecedented
numbers of Americans have rallied behind the government.
There is no smoking gun in any of the theories, but plenty of innuendo in schemes that run the gamut. Here is just a small sampling:
Bush's decision to go ahead with an announced public appearance on the morning of Sept. 11, after he must have been informed that planes had been crashed into the
World Trade Center, shows he knew of the attack plans before that morning and knew he would not be a target for the hijackers.
Photographs of the Pentagon that morning and of the cleanup afterwards show that no plane crashed into the building because there was no debris from a jet and the
damaged area of the building was too small it had to have been a bomb planted inside to destroy the Office of Naval Intelligence, which would never have accepted the
administration's story about who was behind the attacks in New York.
Or maybe an unmanned fighter jet, radio controlled and flying at a low angle, crashed into the Pentagon. (In these scenarios it's never clear what happened to American
Airlines Flight 77 and the 64 people on board.)
Even a congresswoman seems bitten by the bug, and wants an investigation into what President Bush knew and when he knew it because so many of his friends have
profited so handsomely from the resulting U.S. actions.
Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officer, has filled auditoriums in California, Texas, Oregon and Canada to explain what he sees as
evidence that wealthy American interests were behind Sept. 11 and he advertises those talks and the ideas on his Web site.
Then there's a best-selling book published in France that falls into the no-plane-hit-Pentagon school, and says the story was rigged to cover up a bombing targeting the
new U.S. Naval Command Center that was carried out by people with classified access to the building.
The author, Thierry Meyssan, who had made a name for himself in France with exposs of the right-wing National Front, says in L'Effroyable imposture (The Horrible Fraud)
that there was a secret CIA office in the World Trade Center that was carrying out illegal activities, and that the Bush administration was in negotiation with bin Laden on
Sept. 11 itself, to work out an agreement to make him a scapegoat. The book has gotten little coverage in the United States, but it's worn a deep path in cyberspace.
Similarly, conspiracy theorists noticed quickly last week when U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., said in an interview on a Berkeley, Calif., radio station that she wanted
an investigation into what the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks before they occurred suggesting that his friends are getting rich from the fallout.
McKinney's office did not return a call requesting an interview, but she issued a statement saying: "I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or
members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9/11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case."
The conspiracy theorists have gone much further than any of those critics, but except for some snide editorials regarding the French taste for anti-Americanism and
Meyssan's book, they have been largely ignored by mainstream media.
One journalist who appeared on a televised panel discussion with Meyssan, Jean-Bernard Cadier, the Washington bureau chief of the French news and talk radio network,
Europe 1, crystallized the difficulty of facing some of these theorists head-on when he said, "I had the feeling that the more we tried to go into his arguments, the more we
helped him, because we were not fighting with the same weapons he was."
Meyssan, for instance, discounts eyewitness accounts of the airliner hitting the Pentagon, and even says the government may have put beacons on the World Trade Center
towers to ensure that the hijacked jet would hit them and planted explosives in the buildings so they would be sure to collapse.
Other times the thinking seems to work backwards, such as in arguments that if Bush himself or his associates profited from the attacks in some way through increased
defense spending or from the opening of Afghanistan for the construction of a pipeline then he or someone in the administration must be to blame for the events of Sept.
11.
That kind of thinking has fueled questions about possible conspiracies from his own students. He said such issues as moves by the Justice Department to gain more power
for investigators and prosecutors and to curtail individual rights, and the request by the Pentagon for the largest spending increase in two decades have caused some of his
students to begin to question whether the administration could have had a hand in Sept. 11." - ABC (04/17/02)
(See also: November 1, 2004 - ABC News: On Election Eve, Sept. 11 Doubters Surface)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>April 18, 2002 - A small private plane crashes into the
32-story Pirelli Tower, Milan, Italy's tallest building.
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<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>April 24, 2002 - A reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Public Affairs Victoria Clarke her thoughts about the phenomenon of Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie
claiming that Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon.
"Q: Torie, what do you make of these media reports -- most of them have come out of France, including a book -- about the
suggestion that on September 11th, no plane actually hit the Pentagon? Now many of us in the room here were here on September
11th. We saw the wreckage of the plane. We know a plane hit the Pentagon. But nevertheless, a lot of people around the world
apparently reading these reports have believed them, to some extent. Perhaps you've even fielded inquiries from French news media
about this. What do you make of this phenomenon?
Clarke: A, I don't agree with you that lots of people believe it. I just don't think they do. B, I think even the suggestion of it is ludicrous. And finally, it is just an incredible,
incredible insult to the friends and the relatives and the family members of the almost 200 people that got killed here on September 11th and the thousands who were
killed in New York." - DoD (04/24/02)
(See also: April 1, 2002 - Meyssan's book The Big Lie makes headline news when it becomes a leading bestseller in France; June 25, 2002 - A
reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke again her thoughts about Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie)
April 25, 2002 - White House officials say privately the Sept. 11 attacks was the main reason for the war in Iraq.
"To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge
the White House had another reason for war a global show of American power and democracy.
If weapons of mass destruction were not the primary reason for war, what was? Here's the answer officials and advisers gave ABCNEWS.
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks changed everything, including the Bush administration's thinking about the Middle East and not just Saddam Hussein.
Beyond that, the Bush administration decided it must flex muscle to show it would fight terrorism, not just here at home and not just in Afghanistan against the Taliban,
but in the Middle East, where it was thriving.
"We made it very public that we thought that one consequence the president should draw from 9/11 is that it was unacceptable to sit back and let either terrorist groups or
dictators developing weapons of mass destruction strike first at us," conservative commentator [and PNAC Chairman] Bill Kristol said on ABCNEWS' Nightline in March.
But what if Sept. 11 had never happened? Would the United States have gone to war with Iraq? Administration officials and others say no, at least not now.
The Bush administration could probably have lived with the threat of Saddam and might have gone after him eventually if, for example, the Iraqi leader had become more
aggressive in pursuing a nuclear program or in sponsoring terrorism." - ABC (04/25/02) [Archived: Wayback Machine]
<![if !vml]><![endif]>April 26, 2002 - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says they haven't heard "anything hard" from
Osama bin Laden since last December, the time bin Laden reportedly died.
"Rumsfeld rarely mentions bin Laden in public unless asked, but he was reminded Friday that at least some of those in uniform equate success in
Afghanistan with getting rid of bin Laden.
"We're hunting him down," he said. "We're tracking him down. He's hiding. We haven't heard hide nor hair of him for about, oh, since December, in
terms of anything hard." Rumsfeld said that even with bin Laden still on the loose, "he is probably not very effective now in running the al-Qaeda
organization."
"My guess is ... he'll either be killed in some attack that takes place when we find him or he'll be captured ... in which case we would have an opportunity to visit with
him," Rumsfeld said." - USA Today (04/26/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; December 15, 2001 - U.S. 'reasonably certain' it heard bin Laden radio call)
May 4, 2002 - Agent's "Phoenix memo" warned the FBI back in July 2001 about Arab men taking flight training in Arizona who were
supporters of Osama bin Laden, suggesting the schools could be used for terror operations, but never reached the highest levels of the
FBI, the CIA or the Justice Department until after 9/11.
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Williams is to appear before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. His memorandum states that the investigation began in April 2000, describing a bin Laden
"effort to send students to U.S. to attend civil aviation universities and colleges."
Attorney General John Ashcroft appeared before the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees Tuesday. Ashcroft and Mueller both learned of the
Phoenix memo in the days after September 11, but did not brief legislators about the memo's existence." - CNN (05/21/02)
(See also: July 10, 2001 - FBI agent urges bureau in his "Phoenix memo" to investigate supporters of OBL attending flight training in Arizona; May
20, 2002 - FBI shared suspicions warned in the "Phoenix memo" with CIA.)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 13, 2002 - Afghanistan plans gas pipeline, Unocal denies involvement.
"Afghanistan hopes to strike a deal later this month to build a $2bn pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan
to Pakistan and India.
Afghan interim ruler Hamid Karzai is to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts later this month on Afghanistan's
biggest foreign investment project, said Mohammad Alim Razim, minister for Mines and Industries told Reuters.
The construction of the 850-kilometre pipeline had been previously discussed between Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, US oil company
Unocal and Bridas of Argentina.
The project was abandoned after the US launched missile attacks on Afghanistan in 1999.
Mr Razim said US energy company Unocal was the "lead company" among those that would build the pipeline, which would bring 30bn cubic meters of Turkmen gas to
market annually.
Unocal - which led a consortium of companies from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Japan and South Korea - has maintained the project is both economically and
technically feasible once Afghan stability was secured.
"Unocal is not involved in any projects (including pipelines) in Afghanistan, nor do we have any plans to become involved, nor are we discussing any such projects," a
spokesman told BBC News Online.
The US company formally withdrew from the consortium in 1998.
Afghanistan plans to build a road linking Turkmenistan with Pakistan parallel to the pipeline, to supply nearby villages with gas, and also to pump Afghan gas for export, Mr
Razim said.
The government would also earn transit fees from the export of gas and oil and hoped to take over ownership of the pipeline after 30 years, he said.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been surveying routes for transferring local gas from northern Afghan areas to Kabul, and to iron ore mines at the Haji Gak pass
further west.
The pipeline is expected to be built with funds from donor countries for the reconstruction of Afghanistan as well as ADB loans, he said." - BBC (05/13/02)
(See also: January 1, 2002 - Bush appoints PNAC member and former Unocal advisor Zalmay Khalilzad to be U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan;
May 21, 2002 - Unocal reiterates no interest in Afghanistan projects)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 15, 2002 - Eight months after 9/11, news starts coming out that the Bush Administration received
warnings about terrorist attacks and plane hijackings by Osama Bin Laden from U.S. Intelligence agencies weeks before
9/11.
"President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking
airplanes, according to reliable sources.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed that Bush had been told about the possibility of hijackings but he declined to say what had been revealed during his
intelligence briefings." - Washington Post (05/16/02)
(See also: August 6, 2001 - Bush is warned in a CIA memo of possible terrorist attacks and plane hijackings in the U.S. from Osama bin Laden;
April 10, 2004 - The White House releases the August 6th memo)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 16, 2002 - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirms that President Bush was told by the CIA a month
before 9/11 about the possibility of terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden hijacking planes in the U.S.
Bush was told of hijack threat, White House revises account of events before Sept. 11 attacks
"President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking
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White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed that Bush had been told about the possibility of hijackings, but he declined to say what had been
revealed during his intelligence briefings.
A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of
a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said." - SF
Gate/Washington Post (05/16/02)
(See also: 9/11 - Fleischer claims Bush received no warnings about the attacks)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 16, 2002 - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she didn't think anybody could have
predicted that terrorists would hijack planes and use them as missiles despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
(See also: 1998 - U.S. intelligence had information that a group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosives-laden airplane into the WTC and
attack Washington D.C.; April 2001 - NORAD planned to practice a scenario in which a terrorist group hijacks a plane and crashes it into the
Pentagon)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 16, 2002 - Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D) releases a statement saying she feels vindicated by the Bush
Administration's admission that they receiving advanced warnings in August before the attacks about her recent
comments about what they knew in advance that drew wide criticism.
"Several weeks ago, I called for a congressional investigation into what warnings the Bush Administration received before the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001. I was derided by the White House, right wing talk radio, and spokespersons for the military-industrial complex as a conspiracy
theorist. Even my patriotism was questioned because I dared to suggest that Congress should conduct a full and complete investigation into the most
disastrous intelligence failure in American history. Georgia Senator Zell Miller even went so far as to characterize my call for hearings as "dangerous,
loony and irresponsible."
Today's revelations that the administration, and President Bush, were given months of notice that a terrorist attack was a distinct possibility points out the critical need for
a full and complete congressional investigation.
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of
silence. If committed and patriotic people had not been pushing for disclosure today's revelations would have been hidden by the White House.
Because I love my country, because I am a patriot, and because the American people deserve the truth, I believe it would be dangerous, loony and irresponsible not to
hold full congressional hearings on any warnings the Bush Administration had before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I
won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people." - Statement from Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
(Reprinted at: Truthout)
(See also: March 25, 2002 - McKinney gets blasted for her comments alleging that the Bush administration may have had advanced warnings
about the 9/11 attacks; July 23, 2005 - McKinney reopens 9/11, Conspiracy theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing)
May 16, 2002 - Airlines and airports said they received no detailed warnings from the federal government that would have prepared them
for the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We were not notified by the federal government," echoed Barbara Platt, spokeswoman for Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Bostons Logan Airport, departure
point for the two planes hijacked by alleged Al Qaeda terror network operatives and crashed into the World Trade Center. "We were not given specific notification." - FOX
(05/16/02)
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"Congressional Republicans circled the wagons around President Bush on Thursday after the White House admitted it had reports of a possible al Qaeda
plan hijacking a month before September 11 for political gain.
Leading Democrats, some Republicans and several relatives of those killed in the attacks on New York and Washington questioned why the White House
did not disclose the warnings, which Bush administration officials described Thursday as "vague" and "nonspecific."
The White House said it would cooperate with any congressional inquiry. But in a private meeting Thursday, Bush told Republican senators there was a
"sniff of politics in the air" and that Democrats were seeking a "political opportunity" in November's midterm elections over the disclosure.
The warning was passed on in one of Bush's daily intelligence briefings when the president was at his Texas ranch in early August. Several lawmakers
demanded answers from the White House after the disclosure.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said there are important questions that have yet to be answered, and he too called for a
"comprehensive" investigation.
"Why did it take eight months for us to receive this information?" Daschle asked, adding later, "I'm concerned about whether or not the public was adequately protected."
Daschle called on the White House to turn over "the entire briefing" Bush received in August to congressional intelligence panels.
He also said an FBI memo questioning whether al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was behind Arab students taking aviation lessons in the United States should be
released.
And Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, called it "an issue of national security to the country, not a political question." - CNN (05/17/02)
(See also: January 29, 2002 - Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes; May 23, 2002 - Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 17, 2002 - Cheney Warns Democrats not to investigate the 9/11 attacks during a "time of war".
"The Bush administration is going on the offensive to counter charges it could have done more to head off the Sept. 11 attacks, calling Democrats
irresponsible for criticizing the president at wartime while pushing for limits on any congressional investigations.
Vice President Dick Cheney led the charge, saying Thursday that suggestions by some Democrats that the attacks could have been prevented were
"thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war." - CBS (05/17/02)
(See also: May 19, 2002 - Cheney cautions Democrats who suggest Bush had advanced knowledge; May 23, 2002 - Cheney
blasts September 11 critics)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 17, 2002 - President Bush says that he takes his job as the Commander-in-Chief "very
seriously" and if he had known that terrorists were going to use airplanes to kill on 9/11, he would have done
everything in his power to protect the American people.
(See also: August 6, 2001 - In a CIA memo warns Bush of possible terrorist attacks and plane hijackings in the US)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 17, 2002 - Press Secretary Ari Fleischer says that suggesting that President Bush had specific
information that could have prevented 9/11 "crosses the lines."
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 19, 2002 - On Fox News Sunday, Vice President Cheney "cautions" Democrats who suggest
Bush might have had advance information that would have prevented attacks.
SNOW: Richard Gephardt said Thursday, "We need to know what the White House knew, when they knew it, what did they know about, and why this
didn't come to light until now."
Thursday night you said the following:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHENEY: What I want to say to my Democratic friends in the Congress is that they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making
incendiary suggestions, as were made by some today, that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9/11.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SNOW: Who made such comments?
CHENEY: Cynthia McKinney comes immediately to mind, congresswoman from Georgia.
SNOW: But I'm trying to understand the comment.
CHENEY: No. My comment was a cautionary note, and I was very careful up front to say we want an investigation. It's got to be conducted in a responsible fashion. We
have to safeguard secrets, et cetera. I said all those things.
I also cautioned the Congress against incendiary statements designed to achieve some political advantage. Because, in fact, there is the very real possibility of additional
attacks. We need to have our intelligence agencies focused on preventing those attacks. We need to avoid the kinds of unauthorized disclosures that have damaged our
capacity in the past to deal with these problems." - FOX News (05/19/02)
(See also: May 17, 2002 - Cheney Warns Democrats not to investigate the 9/11 attacks; May 23, 2002 - Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel; May 23,
2002 - Cheney blasts September 11 critics)
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May 20, 2002 - FBI shared suspicions warned in the "Phoenix memo" with CIA.
(See also: May 4, 2002 - Agent's "Phoenix memo" warned the FBI back in July 2001 about OBL supporters taking flight lessons in Arizona)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>May 21, 2002 - Unocal reiterates no interest in Afghanistan projects at Annual Meeting of
Stockholders.
"Unocal Chairman Charles R. Williamson told Unocal stockholders today that Unocal has no plans or interest in becoming involved in any
projects in Afghanistan, including natural gas or crude oil pipelines. He made the statement in response to recent erroneous news reports
about Unocal and the pipeline project in Afghanistan." - Unocal (05/21/02)
(See also: May 13, 2002 - Afghanistan plans gas pipeline; May 30, 2002 - Afghan pipeline given go-ahead)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>May 21, 2002 - FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley writes Director
Robert Mueller a 13-page letter accuses her bosses of ignoring 9/11 warnings and sabotaging
investigation attempts such as deliberately thwarting agents efforts to push the Moussaoui
investigation even after an agent who interviewed Moussaoui in August 2001 said that he might be
interested in flying a jet into the WTC, being criticized by their FBI supervisors when reaching out to the
CIA, and accused Mueller and other FBI officials trying to protect the bureau from embarrassment by
down playing the significance of the agents' concerns about Moussaoui and the Phoenix memo.
Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter - TIME (05/21/02)
"Two weeks ago, Congress' nascent probe into whether the U.S. government could have done more to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was focused on the FBI, the
CIA and the White House.
No more. Thanks to a scathing, 13-page letter from a whistleblowing FBI agent in Minneapolis, the probe suddenly has become all about the bureau and whether
bureaucratic bungling might have scotched a real opportunity to expose part of the Sept. 11 hijacking plot beforehand.
In the passionate and sometimes angry letter last week to FBI Director Robert Mueller and members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, FBI lawyer and
Special Agent Coleen Rowley essentially provided a road map as to how critical intelligence was neglected. She also cast the blame squarely on her bosses at the FBI.
The most explosive of Rowley's allegations:
- She said supervisors in Washington, and one unidentified supervisory agent in particular, not only failed to respond to potentially important information, but also worked
against Minnesota agents who sought search warrants against Zaccarias Moussaoui, a flight student who had been arrested on immigration charges in August. The French-
Moroccan is now charged with being part of the al-Qaeda conspiracy that carried out the attacks.
A Minnesota agent who interviewed Moussaoui last August wrote in his notes that Moussaoui, 33, might be interested in flying a jet into the World Trade Center. Despite
Minnesota agents' suspicions about Moussaoui which later were confirmed by French intelligence reports linking him to al-Qaeda Rowley said FBI headquarters refused to
support a search of Moussaoui's laptop computer.
Even after the Sept. 11 attacks had begun, Rowley wrote, "the (supervisory special agent) in question was still attempting to block the search of Moussaoui's computer,
characterizing the World Trade Center attacks as a mere coincidence with Minneapolis' prior suspicions."
Rowley also said that when frustrated Minnesota agents reached out to the CIA for help, they were criticized by supervisors in Washington.
Eventually, the Moussaoui warrant was approved. A search of his laptop did not find any evidence linking him to the Sept. 11 plot, investigators said, but did contain
information on crop-dusting and other flight-related matters.
"Why would agent(s) deliberately sabotage a case?" Rowley wrote in notes attached to the Mueller letter. "I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually
made that the key FBI (headquarters) personnel had to be spies or moles, like Robert Hanssen (an FBI agent convicted of spying for Moscow), who were actually working
for Osama bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis' effort."
- Rowley also says that Mueller and other FBI officials have tried to protect the bureau from embarrassment by playing down the significance of the Minnesota agents'
concerns about Moussaoui, and a Phoenix agent's memo last summer calling for an investigation of Middle Eastern students at flight schools across the nation.
The review of flight students was never conducted, and Mueller has said that it probably would not have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks.
"I don't know how you or anyone at FBI headquarters, no matter how much genius or prescience you may possess, could so blithely make this affirmation without anything
to back the opinion up than your stature as FBI director," wrote Rowley, who in her letter acknowledged fearing for her job and asked for federal protection as a
whistleblower.
Mueller, who became FBI director just before the Sept. 11 attacks, has not commented on the substance of Rowley's letter, which is classified.
On Capitol Hill, Rowley's letter is being seen as something of a smoking gun that reflects the need for major change at the FBI.
"Although I agree that it's very doubtful that the full scope of the tragedy could have been prevented," Rowley wrote, "it's at least possible we could have gotten lucky and
uncovered one or two more of the terrorists in flight training prior to Sept. 11." - USA Today (05/28/02)
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Rowley testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, her appearance greeted with an explosion of camera flashes. Her blistering letter to FBI Director
Robert Mueller about the bureau's headquarters has become a focal point of congressional probes into apparent intelligence failures preceding the September 11 terrorist
attacks." - CNN (06/06/02)
(See also: August 2001 - FBI supervisor said in conversation with headquarters he wanted to prevent Moussaoui from flying into the WTC; May 4,
2002 - Agent's "Phoenix memo" warned the FBI back in July 2001 about OBL supporters taking flight lessons in Arizona)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>May 22, 2002 - Just six days after reports that President Bush was
warned a month before 9/11 that Osama Bin Laden might attack the U.S. and one day after FBI agent
Collen Rowley blew the whistle that FBI heads ignored 9/11 warnings, Chandra Levy's remains are found
in D.C. park after 13 months of being missing.
"The skeletal remains of missing former Washington intern Chandra Levy were found in a park in northwest Washington on
Wednesday, almost 13 months after she vanished without a trace." - CNN (05/22/02)
May 22, 2002 - Head of Sept. 11 Probe Allegedly Obstructed Danforth's Waco Inquiry.
"The official in charge of ferreting out information about the FBI for a joint congressional intelligence panel allegedly obstructed a Justice Department probe of the bureau
two years ago.
As the FBI's deputy general counsel, Thomas A. Kelley was the bureau's point of contact for special counsel John C. Danforth's inquiry into the 1993 Waco debacle in which
75 Branch Davidians died in a fire after a 51-day standoff.
Kelley, who has since retired from the FBI, heads the intelligence panel's probe of the bureau's role in tracking terrorists before the Sept. 11 attacks.
According to a December 2000 internal FBI memo, Kelley "continued to thwart and obstruct" the Waco investigation to the point that Danforth was forced to send a team
to search FBI headquarters for documents Kelley refused to turn over. "This non-cooperative spirit was at the specific direction of [deputy general counsel] Kelley," the
memo states.
The Sept. 11 committee put off public hearings, originally set to begin next week, until an unspecified date. Senators on the panel have been particularly concerned that
the inquiry is not focused sharply enough. The first two weeks of meetings were spent reviewing the history of Osama bin Laden's terrorist actions and the U.S. responses
to it." - Washington Post (05/22/02)
"President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the
government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.
Mr. Bush said the matter should be dealt with by congressional intelligence committees.
"I have great confidence in our FBI and CIA," the President said in Berlin, adding that he feels the agencies are already improving their information
sharing practices." - CBS (05/23/02)
(See also: January 29, 2002 - Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes; September, 2002 - Bush finally backs an independent 9/11
commission; April 29, 2004 - Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, meet behind closed doors with 9/11 Commission instead of testifying before public panel and were not
under oath)
"Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out Wednesday at lawmakers who have questioned whether the government missed clues prior to the September
11 terrorist attacks, calling their comments "despicable" and "outrageous."
"When members of Congress suggest that the president of the United States had foreknowledge of the attack on September 11th, I think that's
outrageous, that is beyond the pale," Cheney said in an interview with CNN's Larry King Wednesday. "Somebody needs to say, that ain't criticism,
that's a gross outrageous political attack, and it's totally uncalled for." - CNN (05/23/02)
(See also: May 17, 2002 - Cheney Warns Democrats not to investigate the 9/11 attacks; May 19, 2002 - Cheney cautions Democrats who suggest
Bush had advanced knowledge)
May 27, 2002 - Phoenix memo, Moussaoui information went to same FBI task force
Phoenix memo, Moussaoui information went to same FBI task force
"The July memo from a Phoenix, Arizona, FBI agent talking about Middle Eastern men taking flying lessons and the information about Zacarias Moussaoui arrested in
August went to the same FBI task force at headquarters, according to an official.
FBI and Justice Department officials still do not know, however, if both the memo and the Moussaoui information was seen by the same person or persons within the
Radical Fundamentalist Unit task force, according to the official.
The Phoenix memo, written by agent Kenneth Williams, actually went to two task forces at FBI headquarters: the Radical Fundamentalist Unit and one dedicated to Osama
bin Laden, but no action was taken on its recommendation for a nationwide survey of Arab-American students attending flight schools.
Agent Coleen Rowley, in her letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller last week, says an unidentified FBI supervisory special agent "seemed to have been consistently, almost
deliberately thwarting the Minneapolis FBI agents' efforts" to push the Moussaoui investigation. She does not say where this agent worked within headquarters.
"HQ (headquarters) personnel never disclosed to the Minneapolis agents that the Phoenix Division had, only approximately three weeks earlier, warned of al Qaeda
operatives in flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes," Rowley wrote in her letter." - CNN (05/27/02)
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President Musharraf said the 1,500km pipeline would run from Turkmenistan's Daulatabad gas fields to the Pakistani port city of Gwadar.
The three countries have agreed to invite international tenders and guarantee funding before launching the project.
Unocal has repeatedly denied it is interested in returning to Afghanistan despite having conducted the original feasibility study to build the pipeline.
There is also a question mark over stability in Afghanistan, but interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said peace was prevailing all over the country.
Afghan officials believe the pipeline could yield significant revenues for the impoverished country in the form of transit fees.
The pipeline could eventually supply gas to India.
President Musharraf also said he was committed to a proposed gas pipeline from Iran through Pakistan to India as it was in his country's economic interest." - BBC
(05/30/02)
(See also: May 21, 2002 - Unocal reiterates no interest in Afghanistan projects; December 27, 2002 - Afghan pipeline deal finally signed)
May 31, 2002 - Some of the scientists who worked on identifying the remains of the 9/11 Pentagon victims also worked on victims from
the Waco massacre, Oklahoma City bombing, Desert Storm, missing intern Chandra Levy and one of these scientist's has a daughter
who was working in the C Ring of the Pentagon at the time of the crash.
"When remains of the Waco dead or 9/11 Pentagon victims or Desert Storm casualties -- or most recently Chandra Levy -- need to be studied, the bone guys at the
Smithsonian are called in.
In Doug Owsley's laboratory -- the shelves of which hold, at quick count, 24 skulls -- four sets of human remains are laid out on the work tables
The three physical anthropologists at Natural History most active in forensics spend much of their time investigating modern-day mysteries. In addition to identifying
bodies, they help excavate the scene where remains are found, as Smithsonian anthropologist David Hunt did in the Levy case. And, while D.C. Medical Examiner Jonathan
Arden identified Levy's remains, Hunt corroborated the identification and -- along with colleague Doug Ubelaker -- separated postmortem trauma from injuries incurred
before or at the time of Levy's death. (Arden gave these details; Hunt and Ubelaker declined comment, citing the open investigation.)
On Tuesday, Arden pronounced Levy's death a homicide, but he could not rule on how she died. That, he says, we may never know.
The museum's physical anthropology department numbers 15, with scientists, researchers and support staff. Ubelaker, 55, has been there since 1971. In '77, he started
doing work for the FBI, and now the majority of forensic cases he takes come through headquarters up the street.
The relationship between the FBI and the Smithsonian's anthropologists goes back to the '30s, when the nation had few scientists qualified to study bones for clues.
The Smithsonian scientists have worked on mass graves in Croatia after Yugoslavia's civil war, on missing persons in Mexico, and on murdered American journalists in
Guatemala.
Despite the men's professional detachment, working so close to death is not easy. Before Owsley spent a week after Sept. 11 helping identify the Pentagon victims, he was
a frantic father. His 23-year-old daughter was working in the C Ring of the building that fateful morning, and it was hours before he knew she was all right." - Washington
Post (05/31/02) [Reprinted at: public-action.com]
"Hunt and his Smithsonian colleagues are on call in the wake of plane crashes and other disasters. They have helped identify bodies in the Oklahoma City bombing, the
Waco fire and the mass graves of Bosnia and Croatia." - Smithsonian (04/00)
"Two Smithsonian anthropologists do forensic work, ranging from identifying bones at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, to helping convict a police officer of
murder with only bits of bone the size of pencil points to go on. Police work helps them do a better job with their scientific research, the anthropologists say, and it is those
research skills that police departments and medical examiners come to enlist. Douglas Owsley and Douglas Ubelaker are carrying on a tradition that began in the 1930s
when the FBI moved into new quarters across Constitution Avenue from the National Museum of Natural History." - Smithsonian (05/96)
June 2002 - An Air Force officer has been relieved from duties at the Presidio of Monterey after publication of his letter to the editor
accusing President George W. Bush of having advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Lt. Col. Steve Butler was serving as vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute when he wrote the letter, which was published in The Herald May
21.
The letter accuses Bush of allowing the attacks to occur for political reasons.
The letter reads in part: "Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on
terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama." - Monterey County Herald (WayBack Machine) (06/03/02) [Reprinted at: mindfully.org]
- A copy of Lt. Col. Butler's letter - Monterey County Herald (WayBack Machine) (06/05/02) [Reprinted at: mindfully.org]
Note: $861 million insurance settlement - $383 million debt on WTC 7 = $478 million dollar profit!
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(See also: 9/11 - Silverstein decided smartest thing for WTC 7 was to 'pull it'; May 3, 2004 - Silverstein loses WTC case, only awarded single
payout of $3.5 billion; Killtown's: Was the WTC 7 pulled?)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>June 3, 2002 - The CIA had tracked two of the alleged Flight 77 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid
al-Mihdhar.
CIA 'tracked' hijackers
"An article published in Newsweek magazine on Monday claims that the Central Intelligence Agency knew that two men suspected of links to al-Qaeda
were in the United States months before they took part in the suicide attacks of 11 September.
Under the headline, "The terrorists the CIA should have caught", the report argues that the CIA tracked one of the men, Nawaf al-Hazmi, shortly after
he attended an al-Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000, but failed to alert other US law enforcement agencies.
CIA agents also discovered that another man, Khalid al-Mihdhar, had already obtained a multiple-entry visa that allowed him to enter and leave the US freely, Newsweek
reports.
On the 11 September, the two men boarded one of the four hijacked airliners - American Airlines Flight 77 - and crashed it into the Pentagon.
The Newsweek report alleges that had the FBI had the information, its agents could have uncovered the terrorist plot.
It comes only days after the White House had admitted that President Bush was told a month before 11 September of a plot to hijack American planes by Osama Bin
Laden.
Newsweek also says that the CIA did not pass on the intelligence to the Immigration and Naturalisation Service, which could have stopped them entering the US.
Instead, the two men lived openly in the US and used their real names to open bank accounts and take flying lessons.
The report says that the State Department even renewed Mihdhar's visa in July 2001 despite the CIA's having linked him to one of the men believed to be behind the
attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
The magazine says the CIA had files on the two men at its Counterterrorism Centre for a year and nine months." - BBC (06/03/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>June 3, 2002 - San Francisco attorney and former aide to Sen. Bob
Dole, Stanley Hilton, files a $7 billion lawsuit against President Bush and other government officials for
"allowing" the 9/11 attacks to occur.
"[Stanley] Hilton is the San Francisco attorney who filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President Bush
and other government officials for "allowing" the terrorist attacks to occur.
Among Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his own political gain and has been using Osama bin
Laden as a scapegoat.
Hilton said he has information that bin Laden died several years ago of kidney failure.
His class-action suit named 10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Hilton said he represents the families of 14 victims and that 400 plaintiffs are involved nationwide.
Hilton, Sen. Bob Dole's former aide, has been publicly critical of conservatives in books he has written about Dole and the Clinton sex scandal. Hilton, who said he has
sources within the FBI, CIA, the National Security Agency and Naval intelligence, demands Bush's impeachment and believes the truth will come out in trial.
Hilton claims the Bush administration ignored intelligence information, refused to round up suspected terrorists beforehand, and during the hijackings refused to disable
pilot controls and switch to a ground-based remote system.
He claims the government benefited from installing a puppet Afghan government friendly to U.S. oil interests.
Hilton also says Bush used bin Laden's antagonist image to create a public frenzy, which allowed the Bush administration to tighten its political grip." - San Francisco
Examiner (06/11/02) [Reprint at: truthout.org]
"Stanley Hilton, a San Francisco attorney and former aide to Senator Bob Dole, filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3rd. The class-action suit names ten
defendants, among whom are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Norman Mineta." - William Rivers Pitt/truthout.org (06/20/02)
-Alex Jones interviews Stanley Hilton: 03/11/03 (Text); 09/13/04 (Audio / Text); 09/27/04 (Audio)
June 4, 2002 - NORAD conducts Amalgam Virgo 02, an exercise involving a commercial airliner-hijacking scenario planned before 9/11.
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ground, the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police will do hostage negotiations. The purpose, NORAD says, to test and improve the coordination and communication
between the U.S. and Canada, the FAA, the FBI, the airlines, should another hijacking take place." - CNN (06/04/02)
(See also: June 1, 2001 - NORAD conducts Amalgam Virgo 01, an exercise involving a cruise missile attack scenario in which their presentation
manual has a photo of Osama bin Laden on the cover and a picture of an explosion in a skyscraper inside)
June 4, 2002 - U.S. had agents inside al-Qaeda and intelligence overheard discussions of a major pending terrorist attack in the weeks
prior to Sept. 11.
<![if !vml]><![endif]>June 4, 2002 - Bush: No evidence that U.S. could avoid 9/11
<![if !vml]><![endif]>June 7, 2002 - Judicial Watch sues the FBI and Bush Administration over anthrax documents and
wants to know why the White House went on Cipro beginning September 11th.
"(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it
has filed lawsuits against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Center for Disease
Control (CDC), the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for those
agencies failures to produce documents concerning the terrorist anthrax attacks of October 2001, under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA).
In October 2001, press reports revealed that White House staff had been on a regimen of the powerful antibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Judicial
Watch is aggressively pursuing the disclosure of the facts and the decision for White House staff, and President Bush as well, to begin taking Cipro nearly a month before
anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill." - Judicial Watch (06/7/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>June 21, 2002 - TV writes an article about the forgotten episode of The Lone Gunmen about the U.S.
government hijacking a Boeing 727 and trying to crash it into the WTC and then blame it on foreign terrorists to provoke
a war.
The Sept. 11 Parallel "Nobody Noticed"
We know the ratings for Fox's short-lived X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen were bad, but this is ridiculous. Six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks March 4, 2001, to be exact Gunmen premiered with an episode featuring a terrorist plot to fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center. The climactic
sequence actually shows the plane heading into one of the Twin Towers, but at the last minute, it's pulled upward and just misses the building.
Shockingly, this horrifying bit of foreshadowing was never widely reported until Thursday, when industry newsletter The Myers Report broke the story. How is it that
virtually no one remembered this post 9/11? "I know! That's what I've been wondering," marvels Frank Spotnitz, who along with Vince Gilligan and John Shiban wrote the
episode. "I thought, 'Nobody noticed!' I guess so few people saw the show. But it's strange too because that was the pilot and the ratings were actually quite good for [that
episode], and yet, we didn't hear anything."
Myers Report columnist Ed Martin who was tipped off about the horrific parallel by a friend wrote that "this seems to be collective amnesia of the highest order. The final
act of the Gunmen pilot, which seemingly made no impact last year, now contains some of the most deeply disturbing images ever created for an entertainment program."
"I woke up on September 11 and saw it on TV and the first thing I thought of was The Lone Gunmen," recalls Spotnitz. "But then in the weeks and months that followed,
almost no one noticed the connection.
"What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to
imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too."
Unlike the actual attacks, there was no suicide hijacker in the Gunmen climax; the terrorists attempted to remotely steer the plane into the skyscraper. "Now, ironically,
one of the things [the government is] talking about to prevent [another 9/11] is the ability of terrorists to remotely pilot planes," Spotnitz says, "which was another
element of our story. It's weird." - TV Guide (06/21/02)
June 23, 2002 - Records of 9/11 response not for public, New York City says.
"The Bloomberg administration has concluded that many of the audio and written records of the Fire Department's actions on Sept. 11 should never be released to the
general public.
The administration, in response to a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by The New York Times seeking numerous records concerning the terrorist attack on
the World Trade Center, has cited a variety of reasons for keeping the records secret. In court papers and interviews, administration officials and city lawyers have argued
that a federal court order in Virginia has barred them from releasing much of the material, citing its value in the government's case against Zacarias Moussaoui, who is
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accused of being the "20th hijacker."
But lawyers for the administration argued that even if the order, issued by the judge overseeing the prosecution of Mr. Moussaoui, were amended or lifted, they would still
have no intention of releasing audiotapes of the Fire Department dispatchers, hundreds of individual accounts of firefighters or transcripts of radio communications from
that day." - NY Times (06/23/02); (Reprint at: Freedom of Information Center)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>June 25, 2002 - Bush Was Slow to Approve Use of Predator
Drones in Hunt for Bin Laden Before 9/11, Officials Say
"When President Bush took office in January 2001, the White House was told that Predator drones had recently spotted Osama
bin Laden as many as three times and officials were urged to arm the unmanned planes with missiles to kill the al-Qaida leader.
But the administration failed to get drones back into the Afghan skies until after the Sept. 11 attacks later that year, current and
former U.S. officials say.
Top administration officials discussed the mission to kill bin Laden as late as one week before the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, but they
had not yet resolved a debate over whether the CIA or Pentagon should operate the armed Predators and whether the missiles would be sufficiently
lethal, officials told The Associated Press." - ABC (06/25/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>June 25, 2002 - A reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Public Affairs Victoria Clarke again her thoughts about Thierry Meyssan's book The Big Lie which is about
to be published in English.
"Q: And just one other follow-up on a completely different matter. I asked you about this a month or so ago, and I just want to ask you
again because the issue has come up again. This notorious French book, which is on the bestseller list in France, that purports --
Clarke: I knew we should have ended.
Q: -- that advances the theory that a plane did not, in fact, hit the Pentagon on September 11th is now going to be published in
English, continues to gather a small amount of people who believe the book. I just wonder if you could --
Clarke: Who besides you?
Q: There's a small number of people who --
Clarke: No, I mean, we shouldn't laugh about it because it's pretty -- No, I'm going to cut you off. Because it's disgusting. You know, over, we're coming up -- it's amazing
that almost a year has gone by, and we're coming up on the anniversary of the day in which over 3,000 people were slaughtered. And there are over 3,000 families and
countless friends who are still, you know, in shock and their lives in disarray because of what happened. There is no question, there is no doubt what happened that day.
And I think it's appalling that anyone might try to put out that kind of myth. I think it's also appalling for anyone to continue to give those sorts of people any kind of
publicity.
Q: You find it insulting.
Clarke: It's much more than insulting." - DoD (06/25/02)
(See also: April 1, 2002 - Meyssan's book The Big Lie makes headline news when it becomes a leading bestseller in France; April 24, 2002 - A
reporter asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke her thoughts about the phenomenon of Thierry Meyssan's book The
Big Lie)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>July 18, 2002 - FBI counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably dead."
"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead.
It is thought to be the first time a senior US law-enforcement official has publicly offered an opinion on whether Bin Laden, the prime suspect believed to
be behind the 11 September attacks, is dead or alive.
"Is (Bin Laden) alive or is he dead?" Mr Watson said. "I am not really sure of the answer... I personally think he is probably not with us anymore but I
have no evidence to support that."
The remarks, made at a law-enforcement conference in Washington on Wednesday, follow recent statements from both an Arabic newspaper editor and
the chief of German foreign intelligence that Bin Laden is still alive.
But Mr Watson's comments suggest that the FBI, at least, has no firsthand information that confirms Bin Laden is still alive.
Other US officials told the Associated Press they were surprised by Mr Watson's remarks, as Washington's official position remains that it does not know where Bin Laden
is, or whether he is still alive.
Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-Quds Al Arabi newspaper, said this week that the leader of the al-Qaeda leader is in good health, but had been wounded
in an attack on his base in Afghanistan last December.
Mr Atwan said Bin Laden's followers had told him that he would not make more video statements until his group launches another attack on the United States.
Mr Atwan is one of few journalists to have interviewed Bin Laden before the US attacks." - BBC (07/18/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; January 18, 2002 - Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead; September 13,
2002 - Osama bin Laden's supporters issued a statement on the internet saying he died last December 10th)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>July 19, 2002 - Judge rejects Moussaoui's 'I am guilty' plea
"A federal judge rejected attempts Thursday by Zacarias Moussaoui, indicted in connection with September 11 attacks, to plead guilty to federal
conspiracy charges during a court hearing.
"I am guilty," Moussaoui said at a federal court hearing. He added that he is a member of al Qaeda and had sworn a loyalty oath to Osama bin Laden, its
leader.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema told Moussaoui she would not allow him to plead guilty Thursday, and urged him instead to think about the
ramifications of his decision and consider entering plea negotiations with the government.
Moussaoui was in court to be re-arraigned on the government's second superseding indictment, which was filed Tuesday with adjustments to make him
eligible for the death penalty.
In the courtroom, Moussaoui admitted to being part of an ongoing conspiracy since 1995, but he did not specify what kind of conspiracy or what his role in the conspiracy
may have been.
Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, told the judge, "I want to enter a plea today of guilty, because this will ensure to save my life." He said that he had
"certain knowledge about September 11." He also said, "I know exactly who done it, I know which group, who participated, and I know when it was decided."
He added, "I am a member of al Qaeda. I pledge bayat to Osama bin Laden." Bayat is the loyalty oath taken by members of al Qaeda.
He told the judge, "I have many, many information to give to the America[n] people about an existing conspiracy."
But Brinkema would not allow him to continue. "This is not the forum to do that," she said. She suggested it might be in his best interest to enter into plea bargain
negotiations with the government.
"You have preventing me from entering the plea I wanted," he said, waving finger back and forth as if to say, "No, no."
"For the guilt phase, I'm guilty," Moussaoui said, his voice rising. "But for the death penalty [phase], we will see." He said a jury "will be able to evaluate how much
responsibility I have in this."
Brinkema told him that he cannot plead guilty to bits and pieces of the indictment; that if he pleads guilty, he must do so to all of the charges." - CNN (07/19/02)
(See also: March 28, 2002 - U.S. seeks the death penalty against Moussaoui; January 11, 2005 - Supreme Court is asked to rule on Moussaoui
case)
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July 21, 2002 - A British Cabinet Office briefing paper warns officials that Britain was committed to a U.S.-led Iraq invasion and that
regime change was illegal, so they need to find a way to make it legal to justify military action.
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war excuse
"MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it
legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas
ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blairs inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was necessary to create the conditions
which would make it legal.
This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would
automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action." - London Times (06/12/05)
July 23, 2002 - A secret British Downing Street memo warns British officials that Saddam Hussein was not a threat and that President
Bush was determined to invade Iraq and U.S. officials were fixing their intelligence and facts around their policy to go to war.
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"The case was thin," summarized the notes taken by a British national security aide at the meeting. "Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability
was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."" - Washington Post (05/13/05)
(See also: July 21, 2002 - A British Cabinet Office briefing paper warns that Britain needs to find a way to make it Iraqi invasion legal)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>August 13, 2002 - On the Phil Donahue show, Kristen Breitweiser (wife of a WTC victim) blasts the
Secret Service for allowing Bush to keep reading with the children so long after being informed that the U.S. is under
attack, questions how a plane could hit the Pentagon, and calls for an independent 9/11 investigation.
"I think what really initially started was I saw the picture of the president in, I think it was Newsweek or Time magazine, and I read the caption. And the
caption said, you know, Andy Card telling the president about the second plane. And then I read that he proceeded to read for 25 minutes to the 2nd-
graders. He was in a Sarasota school that morning for a reading program.
And I read it again, and I thought it was, you know, misreported. And it wasnt, and I got upset. I said, you know, this nation was under attack. It was
clear that we were under attack. Why didnt the Secret Service whisk him out of that school? He was on live local television in Florida. The terrorists, you
know, had been in Florida. I mean, we find out that out now. He was less than 10 miles from an airport.
And I-I am concerned. I want to know why the Secret Service did not whisk him away. I want to know why he is the commander-in-chief of the United States of America,
our country was clearly under attack, it was after the second building was hit. I want to know why he sat there for 25 minutes.
Right. And I think that I have a lot of problems with the Pentagon. I dont understand how a plane could hit our Defense Department, which is the Pentagon, an hour after
the first plane hit the first tower. I dont understand how that is possible.
Im a reasonable person. But when you look at the fact that we spend a half trillion dollars on national defense and youre telling me that a plane is able to hit our Pentagon,
our Defense Department, an hour after the first tower is hit? There are procedures and protocols in place in this nation that are to be followed when transponders are
disconnected, and they were not followed on September 11th.
At this point, we are fighting for an independent investigation, an investigation into 9/11 removed from the political process. We dont feel comfortable with Congress
investigating itself, basically. You have congressional committees that had oversight duties with the FBI and the CIA. We want politics removed. We want pure
accountability, and we feel that an independent investigation is needed to have that.
Weve had independent investigations with regard to Pearl Harbor, with regard to the shuttle accident. If theres a car accident, you have an investigation. We have waited
11 months, and I think it is deplorable that these women and myself have to leave our children, our homes, and go down to Washington and beg for answers. To have the
right to have answers, we have to beg. And its disgusting." - MSNBC (09/13/02) [Reprinted at: Gulu Future]
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>August 16, 2002 - The families of 9/11 victims launch a
trillion dollar lawsuit against Saudi Arabia who is being defended by former Secretary of State
James A. Baker's law firm Baker Botts LLP.
<![if !vml]><![endif]>"After months of working below the radar, a huge U.S. legal team hired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
has sprung into action and begun a major counteroffensive against a landmark lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of
the victims of the September 11 terror attacks.
THE OPENING DEFENSE SALVO in what promises to be a bruising legal battle was fired last week when a trio of lawyers from Baker Botts, a prestigious
Houston-based law firm, filed a motion on behalf of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi defense minister.
Baker Botts, Sultans law firm, for example, still boasts former secretary of State James Baker as one of its senior partners." - MSNBC/Newsweek
(09/16/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>August 16, 2002 - Germany issues the first indictment against Mounir el-Motassadeq for conspiracy
with the 9/11 attacks.
"German prosecutors bring charges against Mounir el-Motassadeq, Moroccan man accused of supporting members of Hamburg cell suspected of helping
to plan and carry out Sept 11 attacks on United States; this is first formal criminal charge brought by German authorities in connection with attacks;
Motassadeq was arrested in Nov on evidence that he had managed bank account of one of suicide hijackers and arranged wire transfers to hijackers
while they were learning to fly in US; was one of witnesses who in 1996 signed will of Mohamed Atta, suspected ringleader of plot; has always admitted
knowing hijackers, but he has provided reporters with various versions of nature and intensity of his contacts with them." - New York Times (08/16/02)
(See also: February 20, 2003 - A German court has sentenced Motassadeq for 15 years)
August 16, 2002 - None of the remains of the alleged hijackers on Flight 11 and Flight 175 have been identified, but the remains of the
alleged hijackers on Flight 77 and Flight 93 have been identified according to U.S. government officials by a "process of elimination."
"Among the human remains painstakingly sorted from the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites of Sept. 11 are those of nine of the hijackers.
In New York, where the monumental task of identifying the remains of 2,823 victims believed to be dead continues, no remains have been linked to the 10 hijackers who
crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center. About half the victims' families still are waiting for their loved ones to be identified, though it's likely many never will be
because so much of the site was incinerated.
In contrast, the remains of all 40 victims in the Pennsylvania crash and all but five of the 184 victims at the Pentagon site were identified months ago.
Four sets of remains in Pennsylvania and five at the Pentagon were grouped together as the hijackers - but not identified by name - through a process of elimination.
Families of the airplanes' passengers and crews and those who died within the Pentagon provided DNA samples, typically on toothbrushes or hairbrushes, to aid with
identification. The remains that didn't match any of the samples were ruled to be the terrorists, said Chris Kelly, spokesman for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,
which did the DNA work. The nine sets of remains matched the number of hijackers believed to be on the two planes.
Without reference samples from the hijackers' personal effects or from their immediate families to compare with the recovered DNA, the remains could not be matched to
individuals." -CBS/AP (08/17/02)
(See also: September 14, 2001 - Alleged hijackers names released the FBI)
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"Reversing course, President Bush said today he now supports establishing an independent commission to investigate the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
Momentum for such a commission has grown in recent months. The House has already voted to approve a commission as part of
its intelligence authorization bill.
But the White House had opposed an independent commission, citing concerns about possible leaks and tying up officials
involved in the fight against terrorism.
The White House said that before now it had been concerned that an additional inquiry or commission into the attacks would be
duplicative and "divert the attention and resources of both the Congress and relevant executive agencies away from their important work of combating
terrorism."
The change of heart comes as hearings continue on Capitol Hill.
Today, a congressional investigator said in a report that FBI headquarters blocked an agent's request to aggressively pursue one of the future hijackers less than two
weeks before Sept. 11. The agent warned "someday, someone will die." - ABC (09/02)
(See also: May 23, 2002 - Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel; November 26, 2002 - Bush not likely to testify before 9/11 commission; November 29, 2002 -
Bush names Henry Kissinger to head 9/11 commission; January 3, 2003 - 9/11 commission gets only a $3 million dollar budget with a 16 month time frame)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 2002 - JetBlue Airways provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for
proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security
Administration.
"JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a
Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration. The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with
Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such
as CAPPS II are feasible." - Wired (09/18/03)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 4, 2002 - Army Brigadier General Montague Winfield, Deputy Director for Operations at the
National Military Command Center in the Pentagon, says the multiple hijackings that the FAA was tracking on the morning
of 9/11 were "seemingly unrelated".
(See also: September 10, 2001 - Gen. Winfield asks rookie Navy Capt. to take temporary command of the National Military Command Center at
Pentagon for Sept. 11.)
September 5, 2002 - The Bush administration has taken away multiple rights of the people since 9/11.
Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
"Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:
* FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.
* FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged
bureaucrats to resist public records requests.
* FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to
a terror investigation.
* RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans
accused of crimes.
* FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
* RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
* RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them." - Newsday (09/05/02) [Wayback]
(See also: October 30, 2002 - U.S. rates only 17th in global survey of press freedoms)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 8, 2002 - On a Larry King Live special, Michael Flocco (a father of a Pentagon victim and a
construction worker helping to rebuild the Pentagon) was telling Larry that one of the contributing factors as to why the
Pentagon was in a sense lucky about where it was hit besides that it was hit in it's newly renovated section was that the
aircraft that hit it had "fewer engines" compared to the other planes that attacked that day.
"KING: Michael, the Pentagon was kind of lucky in a sense, wasn't it?
FLOCCO: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
KING: The side they hit wasn't that populated and it didn't make a direct, full -- like top of the Pentagon hit, right?
FLOCCO: Correct. Also, the other contributing factors -- fewer engines -- was the fact that it hit initially on the newly renovated section that had (UNINTELLIGIBLE) wire
inside of -- able to withstand more of an impact.
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Plus, some of the columns and the windows had previously been reinforced for the first phase of the renovation. It was a five-phase renovation program. The first phase
had just been completed only a week before. And where the plane hit was under restructured, reinforced part of it. So initially, it hit a very solid part and then, glanced off
of that and went into the old section that had just been evacuated for phase two renovation. Had it hit anywhere else, it could have been catastrophic." - CNN (09/08/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 11, 2002 - The first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, nation is at code orange -- the
second-highest threat alert level on the Office of Homeland Security's color-coded system.
"President Bush and the first lady spent almost two hours Wednesday evening at Ground Zero talking, consoling and sometimes hugging members of the
families of those lost at the World Trade Center as New York and the world paused to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
"Every life taken here, every act of valor performed here, the nation holds in honored memory, George W. Bush."
The president had started his day at the Pentagon outside Washington, joined by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for a ceremony to honor the 224
people killed there on the ground and in American Airlines Flight 77.
In his comments at the Pentagon, Bush insisted that those lost a year ago on September 11 "did not die in vain. Their loss," he said, "has moved a nation to action. ...
What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle in a new century."
Combined with the deaths in Shanksville and at the Pentagon, the national total for September 11's attacks stands at 3,025.
Throughout the nation and in many parts of the world moments of silence were observed at 8:46 a.m. ET and at 9:03 a.m. -- the times at which planes hit the towers of
the World Trade Center. A third came at 9:37 a.m., when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington and a fourth at 10:06 a.m., when Flight 93 plowed into
the field in Somerset County.
On the first anniversary of September 11, the United States is at code orange -- the second-highest threat alert level on the Office of Homeland Security's color-coded
system." - CNN (09/12/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>September 11, 2002 - White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card seems
to suggest Bush left the 2nd grade classroom immediately after he whispered "America is under attack" into
the President's ear after the 2nd plane crashed into the WTC.
(See also: 9/11 (9:08 am) - Bush picks up a book after he is just told that his country is under attack and begins to read with 2nd graders for 7 to 11
minutes)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 11, 2002 - Recovery team at Ground Zero inform the parents of Flight 11 victim, Waleed
Iskandar, that his ATM card was found and the card was in good condition when received by family.
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 11, 2002 - Lawmakers investigating intelligence failings leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks
have scheduled their first public hearings for next Wednesday and have invited the spouses of two victims to be the first
witnesses.
"Stephen Push and Kristin Breitweiser said they received faxed invitations from the House and Senate intelligence committees on Wednesday, the one-
year anniversary of the attacks.
"I think that it's very nice, but certainly very fitting that they listen to the family's voices at this time," said Breitweiser, of Middletown, N.J. Her husband,
Ronald, died at the World Trade Center.
The intelligence committees have been meeting behind closed doors since June 4. Public hearings were expected to begin in late June, but have been
repeatedly postponed. Closed-door sessions resume Thursday after a seven-week break." - FOX News (09/11/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 11, 2002 - American Airlines continues to gag all employees from talking about the Sept. 11
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to gag all employees from talking about the Sept. 11 hijackings. Two of the hijacked flights were American." - WorldNetDaily (09/11/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 13, 2002 - Osama bin Laden's supporters issued a statement on the internet saying he died
last December 10th.
"OSAMA bin Laden's supporters yesterday issued a statement on the internet saying he was dead.
The claims, repeated in the Al Bayan newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, said that the al-Qaeda terror chief died when the Americans bombed the
Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan.
The details tally with dates of bombing missions in which US intelligence experts suspected that he may have been killed.
The newspaper's story, headlined, "Yes, Osama bin Laden is dead but the Jihad will continue until Judgement Day'', quotes witness Shahid Ayan saying he
perished on December 10, 2001.
He said: "On the 24th night of Ramadan (Dec 10) and at a late hour, there were some scary explosions in the place where Osama bin Laden's cave was.
"The cave was completely erased from the ground and became nothing. This was the only cave of the 15 that was destroyed by an enormous 52ft missile and there is no
doubt that bin Laden died.''
According to Pakistani intelligence officials, bin Laden was last seen alive on November 17 in a 25-vehicle convoy travelling from Jalalabad in Afghanistan to the Tora Bora
caves.
He appeared on a video released in December in which he looked sallow and his left arm was lifeless. But since then the trail has gone cold. Afghan President Hamid Karzai
yesterday said he believed bin Laden was dead.
But White House advisers to President Bush think he is alive and say there would have been a huge increase in emails and internet chatter among al-Qaeda members if he
had been killed." - Mirror UK (09/14/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; July 18, 2002 - FBI counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, thinks Osama bin Laden
is "probably" dead; October 27, 2002 - Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead; October 29, 2004 - Four days before the 2004 Presidential elections, a
videotape is released of Osama bin Laden admitting publicly for the first time that he ordered the attacks of 9/11)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>September 18, 2002 - The Bush administration has denied lawmakers investigating the Sept. 11
attacks permission to reveal whether the president or other White House staff received warning of potential terrorist
attacks against the United States, including plans by al Qaida linked terrorists to use hijacked planes as weapons.
<![if !vml]><![endif]>October 16, 2002 - President Bush uses information he was warned may be faulty in a speech to try to
link Iraq to Al Qaeda by saying Iraq has trained them in making WMD's.
"THE PRESIDENT: Tonight I want to take a few minutes to discuss a grave threat to peace, and America's determination to lead the world in confronting
that threat.
The threat comes from Iraq.
We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have
had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda
leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've
learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime
gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America." - White House (10/07/02)
"A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its
claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.
The document, an intelligence report from February 2002, said it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, "was intentionally misleading the debriefers" in
making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaeda's work with illicit weapons.
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The document provides the earliest and strongest indication of doubts voiced by American intelligence agencies about Mr. Libi's credibility. Without mentioning him by
name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and other administration officials repeatedly cited Mr. Libi's information as
"credible" evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons." - NY Times (11/06/05)
(See also: February 2002 - US intel warned Bush administration that its key source on Al Qaeda's relationship with Iraq provided "intentionally
misleading" data; September 17, 2003 - Bush: No Link Between Iraq, Sept. 11 Attacks)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>October 16, 2002 - Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, new messages by him are probably
fabrications
"Osama Bin Laden appears to be dead but his colleagues have decided that Al Qaida and its insurgency campaign against the United States will
continue, Israeli intelligence sources said.
The Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December.
They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported.
But Bin Laden's heir has been chosen and his colleagues have decided to resume Al Qaida's offensive against the United States and Western allies, the sources said.
They said the organization regards the United States as the main target followed by Israel.
"In this case, it doesn't matter whether Bin Laden is alive or not," a senior Israeli intelligence source said. "The organization goes on with help from key people."
The sources said Al Qaida has already determined Bin Laden's heir. They said the heir has not been identified, but is probably not Bin Laden's son, Saad. Saad is said to be
in his 20s and ranked within the top 20 members of Al Qaida.
Earlier this week, Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, was said to have released a videotape in which he claims that the Al Qaida leader is alive and functioning. Bin
Laden's voice was not heard on the tape." - World Tribune (10/16/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>October 26, 2002 - Magazine runs what it calls Osama bin Laden's will
which was said to be dated by him on December 14, 2001 and says in it that 9/11 was an al Qaeda attack.
"The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published Saturday was written late last year by
Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon."
U.S. intelligence officials say they have the purported will, but are not able to say if it is genuine. CNN has not been able to verify that the
document is bin Laden's will.
"He did write the will as someone saying good-bye," Hani Nakshabandi of the Arab news magazine Al Majalla told CNN.
He said one of the magazine's reporters obtained the four-page document, said to be signed by the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist
network and dated December 14, 2001, in Afghanistan.
In the document, which was translated for CNN, the writer expresses disappointment with the Taliban, who harbored him in Afghanistan, speaks of betrayal, and urges his
children to shun al Qaeda.
The purported will, signed "Your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden," could not be independently authenticated.
According to the magazine, their experts say there have been no confirmed sightings of bin Laden since last December.
The document was dated after the September 11 terror attacks against the United States and about one week before Taliban rule officially ended in Afghanistan with the
swearing-in of an interim government.
In the document, the writer says the attacks on New York and Washington were the third in a series of al Qaeda attacks that also included the 1983 attack on a U.S.
Marines barracks in Lebanon and the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Nakshabandi said he heard about the purported will in March, and obtained a copy a week ago from one of his reporters posted near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan,
but declined to be more specific. The magazine waited to publish it until they could confirm its authenticity, he added.
"I have confirmation it is the right one," he said, citing his own sources.
While admitting he doesn't know for sure if bin Laden is dead, Nakshabandi said, "Once someone writes his will, it means either he's dying or he's going to die soon." -
CNN (10/26/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; September 13, 2002 - Osama bin Laden's supporters issued a statement on the
internet saying he died last December 10th)
"Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said.
Karzai's comments came on the eve of the anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan as part of the war on terrorism.
"I would come to believe that [bin Laden] probably is dead," Karzai said on CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday.
"But still, you never know. He might be alive. Five months ago, six months ago, I was thinking that he was alive.
"The more we don't hear of him, and the more time passes, there is the likelihood that he probably is either dead or seriously wounded somewhere." -
CNN (10/07/02)
(See also: December 2001 - Osama bin Laden reportedly dies; September 13, 2002 - Osama bin Laden's supporters issued a statement on the
internet saying he died last December 10th)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>October 27, 2002 - Author Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11
"America's most controversial novelist calls for an investigation into whether the Bush administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks to
happen.
Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer today - argues that what he
calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at
home." - Observer (10/27/02)
October 30, 2002 - U.S. rates only 17th in global survey of press freedoms largely as a result of restrictions placed on journalists after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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(See also: September 5, 2002 - Bush administration has taken away multiple rights of the people since 9/11)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>November 9, 2002 - Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of
Americans
"The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for
terrorists around the globe -- including the United States.
As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts and law
enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a
search warrant.
Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization. But Admiral Poindexter, the former
national security adviser in the Reagan administration, has argued that the government needs broad new powers to process, store and mine billions of minute details of
electronic life in the United States.
Admiral Poindexter quietly returned to the government in January to take charge of the Office of Information Awareness at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, known as Darpa. The office is responsible for developing new surveillance technologies in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
In order to deploy such a system, known as Total Information Awareness, new legislation would be needed, some of which has been proposed by the Bush administration
in the Homeland Security Act that is now before Congress. That legislation would amend the Privacy Act of 1974, which was intended to limit what government agencies
could do with private information.
The possibility that the system might be deployed domestically to let intelligence officials look into commercial transactions worries civil liberties proponents.
''This could be the perfect storm for civil liberties in America,'' said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington ''The vehicle is the
Homeland Security Act, the technology is Darpa and the agency is the F.B.I. The outcome is a system of national surveillance of the American public.''
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has been briefed on the project by Admiral Poindexter and the two had a lunch to discuss it, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
If deployed, civil libertarians argue, the computer system would rapidly bring a surveillance state. They assert that potential terrorists would soon learn how to avoid
detection in any case.
The project calls for the development of a prototype based on test data that would be deployed at the Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, Va. Officials
would not say when the system would be put into operation.
Before taking the position at the Pentagon, Admiral Poindexter, who was convicted in 1990 for his role in the Iran-contra affair, had worked as a contractor on one of the
projects he now controls. Admiral Poindexter's conviction was reversed in 1991 by a federal appeals court because he had been granted immunity for his testimony before
Congress about the case." - New York Times (11/09/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>November 25, 2002 - Bush signs legislation to create the new Department of Homeland Security.
"President Bush signed legislation Monday creating a new Department of Homeland Security to lead the fight against domestic terrorism, but said even
the biggest government shakeup in more than a half century can "neither predict nor prevent every conceivable attack."
Mr. Bush named close friend and current homeland security chief Tom Ridge to head the new department. He also said he will nominate Navy Secretary
Gordon England to be Ridge's deputy, and Asa Hutchinson, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to be undersecretary of border and
transportation security.
The president's signature launched the most sweeping federal reorganization since the Defense Department's birth in 1947." - CBS (11/25/02)
(See also: October 8, 2001 - President Bush signs an executive order establishing the Office of Homeland Security)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>November 26, 2002 - Bush not likely to testify before independent commission investigating 9/11
attacks.
"President Bush does not envision testifying before an independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, even if there is some precedent for
the chief executive offering high-profile testimony, the White House said Wednesday.
"I can just tell you everything I have heard from the Hill and from also in the White House, there's nothing that I've heard that (suggests) anybody is
moving in that direction," presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
Bush plans to sign a bill Wednesday to create a panel to study the Sept. 11 attacks and why the government failed to prevent them." - ABC [Truthout]
(11/26/02)
(See also: September, 2002 - Bush finally backs an independent 9/11 commission)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>November 29, 2002 - President Bush names former Secretary of
State, former National Security advisor, and former Unocal consultant Henry Kissinger to head the
"independent" 9/11 investigations.
"President Bush on Wednesday named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to lead an independent panel to investigate U.S.
intelligence failures before the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"This investigation should carefully examine all the evidence and follow all the facts, wherever they lead," said Bush, whose
administration initially opposed the commission.
"We must uncover every detail and learn every lesson of September the 11th," Bush said." - CNN (11/29/02)
"President Bush Wednesday named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head a new independent investigation of intelligence failures before the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks.
The announcement came as the president signed the bill authorizing the commission, which the White House resisted until just two months ago.
Kissinger, 79, served as national security adviser under Presidents Nixon and Ford and secretary of state under Mr. Ford. He won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
However, Mr. Bush did not set as a primary goal for the commission to uncover mistakes or lapses of the government that could have prevented the attacks. Instead, he
said it should try to help the administration learn the tactics and motives of the enemy.
However, criticism of Kissinger's policies in Southeast Asia and Latin America has not ebbed. In a series of articles in 2001, writer Christopher Hitchens accused Kissinger of
war crimes for the bombing of Cambodia, for his failure to head off Indonesia's conquest of East Timor in 1975 and for his alleged support for a coup against Chilean
president Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973.
In April, when Kissinger was visiting London, a Spanish judge asked British authorities to deliver a warrant to question Kissinger over the disappearances of Spanish
citizens under Latin American dictatorships. The warrant was not served.
Kissinger currently heads Kissinger Associates, Inc., a lobbying and consultant group." - CBS (11/27/02)
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"On Oct. 21, the nod went to the Americans as Niyazov announced the selection of Unocal. Looking on at the announcement ceremony was former secretary of state Henry
A. Kissinger, now a Unocal consultant. Given the uncertain political situation in Afghanistan, Kissinger said, the deal looked like "the triumph of hope over experience." -
Washington Post (10/05/98)
(See also: September 1972 - Kissinger is on a high-level government panel which developed plans against an airline missile terrorist attack;
September, 2002 - Bush finally backs an independent 9/11 commission; December 13, 2002 - Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>November 29, 2002 - Democrats name former Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell as 9/11 commission's vice chairman.
"Democrats later named former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as the commission's vice chairman.
Mitchell led a group that brokered a peace accord in Northern Ireland and headed an international committee looking into the
Middle East conflict. In a written statement, he pledged to "do all that I can to ensure that the commission's inquiry is thorough,
fair and non-partisan." - CNN (11/29/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]>December 2002 - Controlled Demolition, Inc's current project is demolishing the
facility at Fort Detrick that made weapons-grade anthrax.
Survival Guide: Mark Loizeaux, demolition expert
"Mark Loizeaux is a demolition expert, and his company, Controlled Demolition Inc. in Phoenix, Md., has taken down more than 7,000 structures around the world by
imploding them with explosive charges. But that is only about 15 percent of the company's business. Founded by Loizeaux's father, the company also carries out traditional
dismantlings of buildings as well as destroying chemical weapons production facilities, including a current project at Fort Detrick, Md., to demolish the facility that made
weapons-grade anthrax. The company also destroys chemical weapons and missiles." - Washington Technology (12/16/02)
(See also: September 22, 2001 - CDI hired to help clean up WTC & their president said knew towers were 'coming down' after planes hit; October
5, 2001 - First anthrax victim was photo editor at National Enquirer company which published a photo of Bush's daughter Jenna shown drunk with a
cigarette in her hand falling on top of another girl)
December 10, 2002 - WTC surveillance tapes and maintenance logs are among the missing evidence as investigators try to figure out
why the WTC collapsed.
"George Mitchell, the former Democratic senator from Maine, has stepped down as vice chairman of the new independent commission investigating the
September 11 terrorists attacks.
In a letter to congressional leaders, Mitchell said he stepped down because he does not want to sever ties with his law firm, which he said he had been
urged to do to avoid a potential conflict of interest, and because the commission's work will take too much time." - CNN (12/11/02)
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<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>December 11, 2002 - Palestinian man claims a Mossad agent sought to induce him to
Al-Qaeda cell in Gaza and to declare responsibility for bombings in the name of Al-Qaeda.
"A Palestinian citizen from Gaza has revealed how the Israeli intelligence Service, the Mossad, had been trying to enlist him to set
up a terrorist cell in Palestine under the name of al-Qaeda, the group headed by Osama bin Laden.
Ibrahim (not his real name) said during a news conference in Gaza Monday night that he had been contacted by a man who
identified himself as Haj Yousuf from the city of Akka, who told him that he was working for Osama Bin Laden and that he was able
to carry out bombings in Tel Aviv and Haifa and other Israeli towns.
He told me that all he wanted from me was to declare responsibility for the bombings in the name of al-Qaida, said the masked Ibrahim.
He spoke very nicely and told me he would help me financially; then he asked me to try to enlist a number of sincere Islamic-minded youths to set up al-Qaeda cell in
Gaza.
Ibrahim said his contacts with Haj Yousuf (the Mossad agents) became more frequent, adding that at one point the Mossad agent offered him a monthly salary of up to
3000 US dollars.
At a later date, the Mossad agent asked Ibrahim to rent an apartment in Gaza in order to facilitate communications between them. He also promised to provide Ibrahim
with a computer and fax machine, saying that communication between the two would be conducted via the internet.
However, Ibrahim, said he began to be suspicious of the man when he told him that he knew him and his family.
Ibrahim said his contacts with Haj Yousuf lasted for five months after which he decided to inform the Preventive Security Force in Gaza of the entire affair.
The Israeli government and media have been dumbfounded by the revelation.
A spokesman at the Israeli Prime Ministers office issued a terse statement on Tuesday describing these allegations as nonsense.
Earlier, a gleeful-looking Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters that Israel had discovered an al Qaeda cell in Gaza and that Israel was a key partner in the
worldwide war against terror.
The Israeli claims were instantly and vehemently denied by the Palestinian Authority whose leader Yasser Arafat labeled Sharons remarks as a big, big, big lie.
Moreover, the PA briefed the US, EU, Russia and the UN on the affair and urged them to be mindful of Israeli designs to carry out massacres and acts of wanton killings in
the Gaza Strip under the false rubric of fighting al-Qaeda." - Arabia Online (12/11/02) [WayBack Machine]
December 12, 2002 - Democrats want Henry Kissinger to name his business clients.
"The White House has told lawmakers that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, President Bush's choice to head a commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, is
not required by law to disclose his business clients.
Senate Democrats want the list to determine whether Kissinger's clients pose conflicts of interests." - CBS (12/12/02)
<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>December 13, 2002 - Henry Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11
commission.
"Facing questions about potential conflicts of interest, Henry Kissinger resigned Friday as chairman of the September 11
commission." - CNN (12/13/02)
"Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has resigned as chairman of a commission investigating events leading up to the 11
September 2001 attacks on the United States.
Mr Kissinger, who had been in the job for just 16 days, had been criticized for refusing to release the names of clients at his consulting firm.
His resignation throws the inquiry into turmoil. It comes hard on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that the commission's vice chairman, George Mitchell,
was quitting.
The BBC's Tom Carver in Washington says the episode is enormously embarrassing for Mr Bush, adding questions will be asked about why possible conflicts of interest
were not raised before Mr Kissinger's appointment.
Although Mr Kissinger is one of the United States' best known statesmen, he was seen by some as tainted not only by his business dealings, but also by his involvement in
murky periods of the country's history.
The commission was initially opposed by the White House but was set up following pressure from families of those who lost their lives in the attacks." -BBC (12/14/02)
(See also: November 29, 2002 - Bush names Henry Kissinger to head 9/11 commission)
"The Homeland Security Project is guided by a coordinating committee co-chaired by Tom Kean, the former New Jersey governor and current Drew University president,
and Richard Celeste, the former Ohio governor and ambassador to India and current Colorado College president. The coordinating committee will develop
recommendations arising from analysis produced by expert working groups focusing on four topics: The federal response, including an exploration of the design and
function of the Office of Homeland security; federal-state coordination; the challenge of media coverage and public information disclosure by government officials regarding
homeland security stories; and immigration and national security." - Homeland Security Project
"In December, President Bush named Thomas Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, chairman of an independent commission examining the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. But FORTUNE has learned that Kean appears to have a bizarre link to the very terror network he's investigating--al Qaeda.
Here's how the dots connect: Kean is a director of petroleum giant Amerada Hess, which in 1998 formed a joint venture--known as Delta Hess--with Delta Oil, a Saudi
Arabian company, to develop oil fields in Azerbaijan. One of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi patriarch married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters.
Mahfouz, who is suspected of funding charities linked to al Qaeda, is even named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by families of Sept. 11 victims. True, Hess is hardly the
only company to cross paths with Mahfouz: He has shown up in dealings with, among others, ultra-secretive investment firm Carlyle Group and BCCI, the lender toppled
by fraud in 1992.
Kean, who was unavailable for comment, may not have been aware of the Mahfouz connection. But Hess spokesman Carl Tursi did reveal another interesting coincidence:
Three weeks before Kean's appointment, Hess severed its ties with Delta." - Fortune (01/22/03) [Archived: WayBack Machine]
(See also: 1976 - James Bath, a friend of George W. Bush from the Texas Air National Guard, opens an aircraft brokerage firm in which some of
his investors are former Texas Gov. John Connally, Saudi financier Ghaith Pharaon, and Saudi banker Khaled bin Mahfouz; May 23, 2002 - Bush
Opposes 9/11 Query Panel)
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<![if !vml]><![endif]>December 27, 2002 - Afghan pipeline deal finally signed.
"An agreement has been signed in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, paving the way for construction of a gas pipeline from the Central Asian
republic through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
The building of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline has been under discussion for some years but plans have been held up by Afghanistan's
unstable political situation.
With improved regional security after the fall of the Taleban about a year ago, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan have decided to push
ahead with plans for the ambitious 1,500-kilometre-long gas pipeline.
Turkmenistan has some of the world's greatest reserves of natural gas, but still relies on tightly controlled Russian pipelines to export it.
The Asian Development Bank is carrying out a study for the project.
But investors will be very cautious about putting serious money into Afghanistan when the central government in Kabul still has only limited influence in the regions the
pipeline would cross." - BBC (12/27/02)
Pakistani, Turkmen, Afghan leaders to sign $3.2 billion pipeline deal - SF Gate (12/26/02)
(See also: May 30, 2002 - Afghan pipeline given go-ahead; November 17, 2004 - Afghanistan Sees Bright Prospects for Trans-Afghan Pipeline)
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