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Events (216)
- Early 2001: CIA Asset Tests Al-Qaeda Training Camp for Chemical Weapons
- Early 1997: CIA Unit Determines Bin Laden Is Serious Threat, But Cooperation Is Poor
- Late 2000: Military Prepares Options for Striking at Bin Laden, but Not Serious about Using Them
- Late 1998-2000: US Administration Officials Seek Ground-Based Plan to Kill Bin Laden
- Late 1998: US Initiates New Effort to Stop Financing of Al-Qaeda, but to Little Effect
- Late March-Early April 2001: CIA Warns Al-Qaeda Leader Zubaida Planning an Attack
- Mid-July 2007: Al-Qaeda Computer Expert Released in Pakistan
- Spring 2001: Senior Bush Administration Officials Discuss Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, But No Action Ensues
- Summer 2001: FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement There Is No Credible Threat of Terrorism In the US
- February 2001: NSA Approaches Qwest, Other Telecoms, For Provision of Domestic Phone Records and Surveillance Access
- February 11 or 12, 2003: Powell Obtains Advance Copy of New Speech Allegedly by Bin Laden, Misrepresents Contents to Senate
- Spring 2002: Focus Shifts from Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda to Iraq
- Late September 2001: Cheney’s Chief of Staff Pressures Clarke to Support Alleged Mohamed Atta-Iraq Connection
- Between March 2001 and May 2001: Richard Clarke: Bush Officials Discuss CreatingCasus Bellifor War with Iraq
- October 1984: CIA Afghan Covert Operations Budget Increases
- 1991-1997: Group of Foreign Policy Analysts Recommends Interventionist Policy