“Oh Lucy! – You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin To Do” –
A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH – IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN’T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING? – UPDATED – JUNE 2002 !
source: http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[(c) COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved,
Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications,
www.fromthewilderness.com. May be copied and distributed
for non-profit purposes only.]
[Expanded and Revised June 19, 2002 – Evidence
of Bush Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now
overwhelming. 16 New Items (noted in RED)
Since Our Last Revision!]
FTW, November 2, 2001 – 1200 PST — On
October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell.
While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic
kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top
CIA official – presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting,
held in bin Laden’s private suite, took place at the
American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted
fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and this
year’s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible
for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued
by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January.
Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private
jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him
down.
In 1985 Oliver North – the only member
of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn’t appear to have
a hand in the current war – sent the Navy and commandos
after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his
1991 autobiography “Under Fire,” while describing
terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, “I used to wonder:
how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?”
One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden
is alleged to have killed before September 11 and ask the
same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete
timeline listing crucial events both before and after the
September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on
bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly
suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part
of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes
clear that the events which have taken place since September
11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with
the attacks.
[June 19, 2002] — As the revelations of
Bush Administration foreknowledge have progressed from silence,
to trickle, to cascade, the question has now changed from
forcing the evidence into the open into one of forcing both
the media and the people to avoid denying this information
in the hopes that their desire for a sense of “normalcy”
can be fulfilled. As many of us have known for years, normalcy
went out the window forever when the first plane hit the
tower. And what has been revealed will not be resolved with
an expensive fact-finding commission, a few firing, or even
an impeachment proceeding. What is needed in America – and
in the global economic system – is an overhaul, not a tune
up. — MCR
1. 1991-1997 – Major U.S. oil companies
including ExxonMobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and
Enron directly invest billions in cash bribing heads of
state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge
oil reserves in these regions. The oil companies further
commit to future direct investments in Kazakhstan of $35
billion. Not being willing to pay exorbitant prices to Russia
to use Russian pipelines the major oil companies have no
way to recoup their investments. [“The Price of Oil,”
by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 – The Asia
Times, “The Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]
2. January, 1995 – Philippine police
investigating a possible attack on the Pope uncover plans
for Operation Bojinka, connected to WTC bomber Ramsi Youssef.
Parts of the plan call for crashing hijacked airliners into
civilian targets. Details of the plan are disclosed in Youssef’s
1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing. [Source: AFP, December
7, 2001]
3. December 4, 1997 – Representatives
of the Taliban are invited guests to the Texas headquarters
of Unocal to negotiate their support for the pipeline. Subsequent
reports will indicate that the negotiations failed, allegedly
because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The
BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]
4. February 12, 1998 – Unocal Vice
President John J. Maresca – later to become a Special Ambassador
to Afghanistan – testifies before the House that until a
single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan
the trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will
not be built. [Source: Testimony before the House International
Relations Committee.]
5. 1998 – The CIA ignores warnings
from Case Officer Robert Baer that Saudi Arabia was harboring
an al-Q’aeda cell led by two known terrorists. A more
detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence
in August 2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times 1/12/01;
See No Evil by a book by Robert Baer (release date Feb.
2002)].
6. April, 1999 – Enron with a $3
billion investment to build an electrical generating plant
at Dabhol India loses access to plentiful LNG supplies from
Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make
the investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline
to be built by Unocal from Turkmenistan that would terminate
near the Indian border at the city of Multan. [Source: The
Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002.]
7. 1998 and 2000 – Former President
George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the
privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense
contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with
the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source:
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol.
IV, No 7 – “The Best Enemies Money Can Buy,” –
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
free/ww3/carlyle.html. ]
8. March, 2000 – An FBI agent, reportedly
angry over a glitch in Carnivore that has somehow mixed
innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging to Al
Q’aeda, destroys all of the FBI’s Denver-based
intercepts of bin Laden’s colleagues in a terrorist
investigation. [The Washington Post, May 29, 2002].
9. 2000 (est.) – The FBI refuses
to disclose the date of an internal memo stating that a
middle eastern nation had been trying to purchase a flight
simulator. [The L.A. Times, May 30, 2002].
10. August, 2000 – Suspected Al
Q’aeda operatives wiretapped by Italian police made
apparent references to plans for major attacks involving
airports, airplanes and the United States according to transcripts
obtained by the L.A. Times. The LA Times suggests that the
information might not have been passed to U.S. authorities
(hard to believe) but it did report that Italian authorities
would not comment on the report. The Times also noted that
“Italian and US anti-terrorism experts cooperate closely.”
[ The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002].
11. October 24-6, 2000 – Pentagon
officials carry out a “detailed” emergency drill
based upon the crashing of a hijacked airliner into the
Pentagon. [The Mirror, May 24, 2002]
12. January, 2001 – The Bush Administration
orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to “back off”
investigations involving the bin Laden family, including
two of Osama bin Laden’s relatives (Abdullah and Omar)
who were living in Falls Church, VA – right next to CIA
headquarters. This followed previous orders dating back
to 1996, frustrating efforts to investigate the bin Laden
family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast
– Nov 7, 2001].
13. Feb 13, 2001 – UPI Terrorism
Correspondent Richard Sale – while covering a trial of bin
Laden’s Al Q’aeda followers – reports that the
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden’s encrypted
communications. Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed
systems in February it does not mesh with the fact that
the government insists that the attacks had been planned
for years.
14. May 2001 – Secretary of State
Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime,
purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving since
the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders
of the Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May
22, 2001].
15. May, 2001 – Deputy Secretary
of State Richard Armitage, a career covert operative and
former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour
while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan
to meet with Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf.
Armitage has long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections..
It would be reasonable to assume that while in Islamabad,
Tenet, in what was described as “an unusually long
meeting,” also met with his Pakistani counterpart,
Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source The Indian
SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.]
16. June 2001 – German intelligence,
the BND, warns the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists
are “planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli
culture.” [Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
September 14, 2001.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html ]
17. July, 2001 – Three American
officials: Tom Simmons (former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan),
Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of State for
South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department
expert on South Asia), meet with Pakistani and Russian intelligence
officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is planning
military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French
book released in November, “Bin Laden – La Verite
Interdite,” discloses that Taliban representatives
often sat in on the meetings. British papers confirm that
the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source:
The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC, September 18,
2001.The Inter Press Service, Nov 16, 2001]
18. July, 2001 – FBI agents in Arizona
write a memorandum warning about suspicious activities involving
a group of Middle Eastern men taking flight training lessons
in Arizona. The memorandum specifically mentions Osama bin
Laden and warns of connections to terrorist activities.
[Source: The New York Times, May 14, 2002]
19. Summer, 2001 – The National
Security Council convenes a Dabhol working group as revealed
in a series of government e-mails obtained by The Washington
Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion Monitor,
Feb. 28, 2002]
20. Summer 2001 – According to a
Sept. 26 story in Britain’s The Guardian, correspondent
David Leigh reported that, “U.S. department of defense
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January.
The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence established that US
Rangers were also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan.
There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek special
troops were training in Alaska and Montana.”
21. Summer 2001 (est.) – Pakistani
ISI Chief General Ahmad (see above) orders an aide to wire
transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to
the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad
recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India
and confirmed by the FBI. The individual who makes the wire
transfer at Ahmad’s direction is Ahmad Umar Sheik,
the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India,
October 11, 2001.]
22. Summer 2001 – The online newswire
online.ie reports on Sept. 14, 2001 that an Iranian man
phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack
on the World Trade Center in the week of September 9th.
German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S.
Secret Service would not reveal any further information.
[Source:
viewer.adp?article=1512332.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
ww3/online_ie_story.html ]
23. Summer, 2001 – Jordanian intelligence
(the GID) makes a communications intercept deemed so important
that King Abdullah’s men relay it to Washington, probably
through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure the
message got through it was passed through an Arab intermediary
to a German intelligence agent. The message: A major attack
was planned inside the US and that aircraft would be used.
The code name of the operation was The Big Wedding.”
– “When it became clear that the information was embarrassing
to Bush Administration officials and congressmen who ate
first denied that there had been any such warnings before
Sept. 11, senior Jordanian officials backed away from their
earlier confirmations.” This case was authenticated
by ABC reporter John K. Cooley. [The International Herald
Tribune (IHT), May 21, 2002]
24. Summer, 2001 (est.) – The National
Security Agency intercepts telephone conversations between
bin Laden aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohammed Atta
and does not share the information with any other agencies.
[Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002].
25. June 26, 2001 – The magazine
indiareacts.com states that “India and Iran will ‘facilitate’
US and Russian plans for ‘limited military action’
against the Taliban.” The story indicates that the
fighting will be done by US and Russian troops with the
help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source: indiareacts.com,
June 26, 2001.]
26. Summer 2001 – Russian intelligence
notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots have been specifically
training for missions involving hijacked airliners. This
is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated
for FTW by a retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently
on the Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key
paragraph.) [Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2002]
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html
27. July 4-14, 2001 – Osama bin
Laden receives treatments for kidney disease at the American
hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official who returns
to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro, October
31st, 2001.]
28. July, 2001 – The G8 summit at
Genoa, Italy is surrounded by anti-aircraft guns and local
airspace is closed off after Italian and Egyptian officials
(including President Hosni Mubarak) warn American intelligence
that airliners stuffed with explosives might be used to
attack President Bush. US officials state that the warnings
were “unsubstantiated.” (But I wonder if they
would have taken away the anti-aircraft artillery?) [The
LA Times, Sept. 27, 2001].
29. July 26, 2001 – CBS News reports
that John Ashcroft has stopped flying commercial airlines
due a threat assessment. Ashcroft told the press that he
didn’t know anything about what had caused it.
30. August 2001 – The FBI arrests
an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in Boston. French
intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member
of bin Laden’s network and the FBI learns that he has
been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the
man is in possession of technical information on Boeing
aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, September
13.]
31. August 11 or 12 – US Navy Lt.
Delmart “Mike” Vreeland, jailed in Toronto on
U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer in U.S.
Naval intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks
and seals them in an envelope which he gives to Canadian
authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto
Superior Court Records]
32. August, 2001 – As reported in
the IHT both a French magazine (name not given) and a Moroccan
newspaper simultaneously report that a Moroccan agent named
Hassan Dabou had penetrated Al Q’aeda to the point
of getting close to bin Laden who was “very disappointed”
that the 1993 bombing had not toppled the WTC. Dabou was
called to the US after reporting this which curtailed his
ability to stay in touch with the organization and gather
additional intelligence that might have prevented the attacks.
Though not proved beyond a doubt these stories have been
met with a wall of silence. [The IHT, May 21, 2002].
33. August 2001
– Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence
to warn the U.S. government “in the strongest possible
terms” of imminent attacks on airports and government
buildings. [Source: MS-NBC interview with Putin, September
15.]
34. August, 2001
– President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings
at his Crawford, TX ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden
might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. [CBS News,
CNN – May 15, 2001]
35. August/September, 2001 – The
Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly 900 points in
the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market
crash is imminent.
36. August/September,
2001 – According to a detailed 13-page memo written
by Minneapolis FBI legal officer SA Colleen Rowley FBI headquarters
ignores urgent direct warnings from French intelligence
services about pending attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory
Special Agent in Washington expends extra effort to thwart
the field office’s investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui,
in one case rewriting Rowley’s affidavit for a search
warrant to search Moussaoui’s laptop. Rowley’s
memo uses terms like “deliberately sabotage,”
“block,” “integrity,” “omitted,”
“downplayed,” “glossed over,” “mis-characterize,”
“improper political reasons, “deliberately thwarting,”
“deliberately further undercut,” “suppressed,”
and “not completely honest.” These are not terms
describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate acts. FBI
field agents desperately attempted to get action to no avail.
One agent speculated that bin Laden might be planning to
crash airliners into the World Trade Center while Rowley
ironically noted that the SSA who had committed these deliberate
actions had actually been promoted after September 11th.
[The AP, May 21, 2002].
37. Sept. 3-10, 2001 – MS-NBC reports
on September 16 that a caller to a Cayman Islands radio
talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on
the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
38. Early September,
2001 – An FBI internal document, based upon field
notes from Minnesota field agents discloses that the agents
had been investigating and had questioned the “20th
hijacker” Zacarias Moussaoui. The field notes speculate
that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons, might
crash an airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field
agents’ requests to obtain a search warrant for his
personal computer were denied. French intelligence confirms
to the FBI that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and
may have traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no
knowledge of the Phoenix memo (See Item #18). One news story
states that agents were in “a frenzy,” absolutely
convinced that he was “going to do something with a
plane.” [Source NEWSWEEK, May 20, 2002 issue – story
by Michael Isikoff].
39. September 1-10, 2001 – In an
exercise, Operation “Swift Sword” planned for
four years, 23, 000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.
Although the 9/11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment
the massive operation was implemented as planned. At the
same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on station
in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also
at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than
23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation “Bright Star.”
All of these forces are in place before the first plane
hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN,
FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle,
the University of Illinois.]
40. September 7, 2001 – Florida
Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year emergency executive order
(01-261) making new provisions for the Florida National
Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management
personnel in the event of large civil disturbances, disaster
or acts of terrorism. [Source: State of Florida web site
listing of Governor’s Executive Orders.]
41. September 6-7, 2001 – 4,744
put options (a speculation that the stock will go down)
are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only
396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up).
This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put
options. Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB
Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current Executive
Director of the CIA, A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard. [Source:
The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism,
http://www.ict.org.il/,
September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal.]
42. September 10, 2001 – 4,516 put
options are purchased on American Airlines as compared to
748 call options. [Source: ICT – above]
43. September 6-11, 2001 – No other
airlines show any similar trading patterns to those experienced
by UAL and American. The put option purchases on both airlines
were 600% above normal. This at a time when Reuters (September
10) issues a business report stating, “Airline stocks
may be poised to take off.”
44. September 6-10, 2001 – Highly
abnormal levels of put options are purchased in Merrill
Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25%
of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies
are directly impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source:
ICT, above; FTW, Oct. 18, 2001, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
free/ww3/oct152001.html. ]
45. It has been documented that
the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many other intelligence
agencies monitor stock trading in real time using highly
advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis software.
This is to alert national intelligence services of just
such kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as recently
as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden’s possession
and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI
and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S.
intelligence gathering through at least this summer. This
would confirm that CIA had additional advance warning of
imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times, June 15,
2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001,
– http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
ww3/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18,
2001 – http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
ww3/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 – http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
pandora/052401_promis.html.
46. September
10, 2001 – Amr Elgindy, a longtime colleague
of Iran-Contra figure Adnan Khasogghi and a notorious inside
trader on the financial markets orders his broker to liquidate
his children’s $300,000 trust account fearing a sudden
crash in the market. Elgindy is arrested in San Diego May,
2002, along with FBI agents Jeffrey Royer and Lynn Wingate
who have been using their FBI positions to feed him inside
information on various corporations. Elgindy is currently
being held without bail. [The Globe and Mail, May 25, 2002]
47. September
11, 2001 – United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled
to fly from New York City to LA was delayed after four Muslim
passengers began demanding that the plane take off immediately.
This happened apparently after the first plane had hit the
WTC. The passengers were thrown off the flight. [The Globe
and Mail, June 13, 2002]
48. September 11, 2001 – Gen Mahmud
of the ISI (see above), friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting
Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting with
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees,
Porter Goss (R), FL and Bob Graham (D), Fl [Sources: MS-NBC,
Oct. 7, The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002.]
49. September 11, 2001 – Employees
of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the world’s largest
instant messaging companies, with offices in New York, receive
threat warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than
two hours before the first plane hits the WTC. Law enforcement
authorities have gone silent about any investigation of
this. The Odigo Research and Development offices in Israel
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of
Tel Aviv which is the same location as the Institute for
Counter Terrorism which breaks early details of insider
trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN’s Daniel Sieberg, 9/28/01;
Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, 9/27/01; Ha’aretz, 9/26/01.].
50. September 11, 2001, For 50 minutes,
from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it widely known within
the FAA and the military that four planes have been simultaneously
hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air
Force planes are scrambled to intercept, but by then it
is too late. This means that the National Command Authority
waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft, even though
it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred
– an event that has never happened in history. [Sources:
CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
51. September 13, 2001 – China is
admitted to the World Trade Organization quickly, after
years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York Times,
Sept. 30, 2001.]
52. September 14, 2001 – Canadian
jailers open the sealed envelope from Mike Vreeland in Toronto
and see that is describes attacks against the WTC and Pentagon.
The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged
as a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has
never worked in intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star,
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court records]
53. September 15, 2001 – The New
York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has resigned,
effective immediately, as head of the Alex (A.B) Brown unit
of Deutschebank.
54. September 29, 2001 – The San
Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5 million in put options
on American Airlines and United Airlines are unclaimed.
This is likely the result of the suspension in trading on
the NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and
Exchange Commission time to be waiting when the owners showed
up to redeem their put options.
55. October 10, 2001 – The Pakistani
newspaper The Frontier Post reports that U.S. Ambassador
Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil minister.
A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan,
across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose
of selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table
“in view of recent geopolitical developments.”
56. October 11,
2001 – The Ashcroft Justice Department takes
over all terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys
office in New York which has had a highly successful track
record in prosecuting terrorist cases connected to Osama
bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2001.]
57. Mid October, 2001 – The Dow
Jones Industrial Average, after having suffered a precipitous
drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses. Although
still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings reports,
a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of government
spending on defense programs, subsidies for “affected”
industries and planned tax cuts for corporations.
58. November 21, 2001 – The British
paper The Independent runs a story headlined, “Opium
Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban.” The
story reports that massive opium planting is underway all
over the country.
59. November 25, 2001 – The Observer
runs a story headlined “Victorious Warlords Set To
Open the Opium Floodgates.” It states that farmers
are being encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious
Americans are “being encouraged to plant “as much
opium as possible.”
60. December 4, 2001 – Convicted
drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is recruited by
the US government to help establish control in Afghanistan
by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler
who was one of the CIA’s leading assets in the war
against the Russians is released from prison in order to
do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, 12/4/01].
61. December 25, 2001 – Newly appointed
afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is revealed as being
a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le Monde.]
62. January 3, 2002 – President
Bush appoints Zalamy Khalilzad as a special envoy to Afghanistan.
Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also wrote op-eds
in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.
[Source: Pravda, 1/9/02]
63. January 4, 2002 – Florida drug
trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a surge of trafficking
reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources away
from drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new
surge of cocaine and heroin from South America. [The Christian
Science Monitor, January 4, 2002.
64. January 10, 2002 – In a call
from a speaker phone in open court, attorneys for “Mike”
Vreeland call the Pentagon’s switchboard operator who
confirms that Vreeland is indeed a Naval Lieutenant on active
duty. She provides an office number and a direct dial phone
extension to his office in the Pentagon. [Source: Attorney
Rocco Galati; court records Toronto Superior Court.]
65. January 10,
2002 – Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses
himself from the Enron investigation because Enron had been
a major campaign donor in his 2000 Senate race. He fails
to recuse himself from involvement in two sitting Federal
grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges
against ExxonMobil and BP-Amoco who have massive oil interests
in Central Asia. Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000.
[Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002 – FTW original investigation,
The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I, Apr 4, 2002.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
ww3/032602_elephant.html ]
66. January 23,
2002 – Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
is kidnapped in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb.
21. Lead suspect Ahmad Umar Sheik, former colleague of Gen.
Ahmad, arrested on Feb 12, is named as the lead suspect
in the kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to the
Pakistani government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating
the ISI. [Source: CNN.com]
67. February 9,
2002 – Pakistani leader General Musharraf and
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai announce their agreement to “cooperate
in all spheres of activity” including the proposed
Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10 million to
Afghanistan to help pay Afghani government workers. [Source:
The Irish Times, 2/9/02]
68. February 18,
2002 – The Financial Times reports that the estimated
opium harvest in Afghanistan in the late Spring of 2002
will reach a world record 4500 metric tons.
69. May 13, 2002
– The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a deal
for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from
Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. The story states, “work
on the project will start after an agreement is expected
to be struck” at a summit scheduled for the end of
the month. Unocal will build the pipeline. [Source: BBC,
May 13, 2002]
70. May 16, 2002
– Press Secretary Ari Fleischer states unequivocally that
while President Bush had been warned of possible hijackings,
“The president did not — not — receive information
about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers.”
[Source: CBS News, May 15, 2002]
71. May 19, 2002
– Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professor at Anne
Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7,
states that he has credible evidence suggesting that the
Bush administration did in fact allow the Sept. 11th attacks
to further a hidden agenda. [http://www.indymedia.org
– May 20, 2002]
72. May 31, 2002
– FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful press conference
at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit against
the FBI for deliberately curtailing investigations that
might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. He uses words like
“prevented,” “thwarted,” “obstructed,”
“threatened,” “intimidated,” and “retaliation”
to describe the actions of his superiors in blocking his
attempts to shut off money flows to Al Qaeda and other terrorist
groups. These are not words of negligence. They are words
describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN
website]
73. June 4, 2002
– Air Force Lt. Colonel Steve Butler who had called President
Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the September 11th
attacks to happen is suspended from his post at the Defense
Language School in Monterey and could face a court martial.
[AP, June 4, 2002]
74. June 17, 2002
– Reuters reports that Butler’s case has been resolved
without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There’s
enough material here to prove him right. – MR) [Reuters,
June 17, 2002].
Now, let’s go back to the October
31 story by Le Figaro – the one that has Osama bin Laden
meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June.
The story says that, “Throughout his
stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits from
many family members [There goes the story that he’s
a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities
of status. During this time the local representative of
the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and
going to bin Laden’s room.
“Several days later the CIA officer
bragged to his friends about having visited the Saudi millionaire.
From authoritative sources, this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters
on July 15th, the day after bin Laden’s departure for
Quetta…
“According to various Arab diplomatic
sources and French intelligence itself, precise information
was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist attacks
aimed at American interests in the world, including its
own territory.”…
“Extremely bothered, they [American
intelligence officers in a meeting with French intelligence
officers] requested from their French peers exact details
about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through
Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact
nature of their inquiry. When asked the question, “What
do you fear in the coming days?’ the Americans responded
with incomprehensible silence.”…
“On further investigation, the FBI
discovered certain plans that had been put together between
the CIA and its “Islamic friends” over the years.
The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with
‘a certain American policy.’”
Even though Le Figaro reported that it
had confirmed with hospital staff that bin Laden had been
there as reported, stories printed on November 1 contained
quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue.
On November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency,
the CIA flatly denied that any meeting between any CIA personnel
and Osama bin Laden at any time.
Who do you believe?