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- January-August 1998: Saudi Businessman Pays Money to Al-Qaeda Front
- January 1998-April 2001: Arms Dealer Victor Bout Sells Airplanes to Taliban
- January 1998: CIA Aware of Al-Qaeda Meeting Planning Future Attacks
- Between February and September 2000: Malaysian Intelligence Stops Monitoring Al-Qaeda Summit Location, at CIA’s Request
- February 2000: CIA Obtains Videotape from Al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia, But Shows Little Interest in It
- January-March 2001: Intelligence Unit Tracking Al-Qaeda is Closed Down; Change in Leadership Factors in Closure
- Early February 2001: Richard Clarke Urges Vice President Cheney to Take Action Against Al-Qaeda
- February 2001: Bush Administration Abandons Global Crackdown on Terrorist Funding
- February 2001: Bin Laden’s Sisters Seen Handing Money to Al-Qaeda Member
- February-July 2001: Trial Presents FBI with Information About Pilot Training Scheme
- February 2002: Neoconservative: Bush Must Attack Numerous Arab Nations to Fight, Win ‘World War IV’ against Terrorism
- February-April 2004: Bush Administration Withholds Clinton Documents from 9/11 Commission
- February 2005: Still No Sleeper Cells Found in US
- February 2008: Ex-US Soldier from Bosnia War Emerges as Al-Qaeda Leader in Somalia
- Febuary 25, 1997: Monitored Fax Links Ali Mohamed and Others in US and Germany to Al-Qaeda Leader
- February 1991: CIA Already Aware of ‘Al-Qaeda’
- February-Early May 1995: Bojinka Second Wave Fully Revealed to Philippines Investigators; Information Given to US
- Shortly Before February 1996: CIA Already Aware of Term ‘Al-Qaeda’ as It Sets Up Bin Laden Unit
- February-October 1997: Canadian Intelligence Alerted to Bin Laden’s ‘Main Money-Handler’
- February 1999: Radical Imam Abu Hamza Openly Calls on Followers to Down Aircraft over London; British Authorities Take No Action
- 2002-2003: Afghan Official Believes Pakistani ISI Is Protecting Al-Qaeda and Taliban Leaders
- March 2000: FBI Agent Apparently Destroys Al-Qaeda E-Mail Intercepts
- March 2000: FBI Headquarters Fails to Approve Investigation into Al-Qaeda-Linked Charity in US
- March 2000: US Intelligence Learns Bin Laden May Target Statue of Liberty, Skyscrapers, Other Sites
- March 2000: US Intelligence Learns Al-Qaeda May Attack West Coast
- March 2001: Italians Advise US about Al-Qaeda Wiretaps
- March-April 2001: Al-Qaeda Defector Describes Plot to Hijack US Airplane
- March 2001: Source Claims Al-Qaeda to Attack Inside the US in April
- 1988-1989: Al-Qaeda Golden Chain Lists Financiers
- March 2002-September 2004: Saudi Government Charity Slowly Shut Down for Suspected Militant Links
- March 2002: Padilla Begins Planning Attacks on US High-Rise Buildings
- March-May 2003: British Intelligence Fails to Stop Suicide Bombers before They Attack Israel; Fails to Ban the Group They Belong to Afterwards
- March 2004: Alleged ‘High Value’ Al-Qaeda Leader Is Captured in Djibouti, Africa
- March 2004: Al-Qaeda Summit Held in Pakistan’s Tribal Region; Possibly Monitored by US Intelligence
- March 2009: Professor Publishes Article Arguing Bin Laden Is Dead
- Early April 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Zubaida Allegedly Incriminates Saudi Princes
- March 1991: FBI Begins Investigating Bin Laden’s Future Personal Secretary
- March 1993: Muslim Brotherhood Said to Help Fund World Trade Center Bombing
- March 1994: FBI Begins to Focus on Radical Fundamentalism
- March 1995: US Slow to Show Interest in Al-Qaeda Training Manual
- March 1997: German Government Investigates Hamburg Al-Qaeda Cell
- March 1999: Plot to Use Hang Glide Bomb Tested, Thwarted
- March 1999: Germany Provides CIA Hijacker’s Name and Telephone Number
- Late April-Mid-May 2000: Atta Leaves Numerous Clues While Seeking Crop-Dusting Airplane Loan
- (May 2000): British Intelligence Fails to Develop Informant Who Might Penetrate Al-Qaeda in US and Even 9/11 Plot
- April 2000: British Man Tells FBI about Al-Qaeda Plot to Hijack Plane in US, Possibly Fly It into Building
- April 2001: FBI Translators Learn Al-Qaeda Suicide Pilots Plan to Hit Skyscrapers in US and Europe
- April 2001: Surveillance of Al-Qaeda and Hamas in US Curtailed
- April 2001: Al-Qaeda Intelligence Intercepts Lead to Closure of Al Taqwa’s Bahamas Branch
- April 2001: Speculation That Commercial Pilots Could Be Al-Qaeda Operatives