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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. April 2000-June 2001: Arizona FBI Investigation into Suspect Flight School Students Faces Delays
  2. April 2001: Courier Working for Bin Laden and CIA Flees Afghanistan, Warns Al-Qaeda Planning to Hijack Airplane in US
  3. April 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Alshehhi Possibly Enters Cockpit during Flight
  4. April 2001: Informer Shares Some Information on Moussaoui with CIA
  5. April-May 2001: Florida FBI Investigate Atta Associate
  6. April 2001: FBI Translators Learn Al-Qaeda Suicide Pilots Plan to Hit Skyscrapers in US and Europe
  7. April-May 2001: Hambali Identified as Top Al-Qaeda Planner, But His Connection to Malaysia Summit Apparently Not Made
  8. (April-July 2001): Hani Hanjour Receives More Flight Training; Rents Small Aircraft
  9. April 2001: Hekmatyar Predicts US Will Soon Attack Afghanistan and Overthrow Taliban
  10. April 2001: A. Q. Khan Linked to Pakistani Militant Group
  11. April-August 2001: Would-Be Buffalo Sleeper Cell Attends Training Camps, Meets Bin Laden
  12. April 2004: 7/7 London Bomber Questioned by Police over Murder, but Not Arrested
  13. April-October 2001: US Records 9/11 Plotters Talking about the September 11 Attacks
  14. April 2001: Counterterrorism Chief Warns that ‘Something Big’ Is Coming
  15. April 2001:ColeInvestigator Again Asks for Malaysia Information, CIA Again Reveals Nothing
  16. April-August 2001: Unknown Robed Man Often Seen Giving Instructions to 9/11 Hijackers in Florida Restaurant
  17. April 2001: Surveillance of Al-Qaeda and Hamas in US Curtailed
  18. April 2001: Al-Qaeda Intelligence Intercepts Lead to Closure of Al Taqwa’s Bahamas Branch
  19. April 2001: Speculation That Commercial Pilots Could Be Al-Qaeda Operatives
  20. April 2002 and After: President Bush Deliberately Shielded from Knowledge of Harsh Interrogation Techniques
  21. April 2002: Charity Commission Suspends Abu Hamza, but This Has Little Effect
  22. April, June, or August 2002: Al Jazeera Reporter Claims to Conduct Interview with 9/11 Masterminds
  23. April-July 2002: Group Linked to 9/11 Plotters in Hamburg Allegedly Pledges to Become Martyrs
  24. April 2002: Radical London Imam Abu Hamza’s Assets Frozen; Measure Has Little Practical Effect
  25. April 2002: Administration Attorneys Discuss Plans to Interrogate Zubaida
  26. April 2002: CIA Promotes False Hijacker ‘Superman’ Theory
  27. April 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Zubaida Confeseses to FBI that KSM Is 9/11 Mastermind
  28. April 2002: Zubaida Claims Al-Zarqawi Is Not Linked to Al-Qaeda
  29. April 2003: British Home Secretary Campaigns to Strip Leading Islamist Radical Abu Hamza of Citizenship
  30. (April 2003): Zelikow Fires ‘Saudi Connection’ Investigator from 9/11 Commission in Dispute over 28 Redacted Pages from Congressional Inquiry
  31. April-June 2003: Spanish Authorities Recognize Cell of Future Madrid Bombers but Only Arrest One of Them after Cell Is Linked to Morocco Bombings
  32. April 2003: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Blocks Access to Key Document by ‘Saudi Connection’ Investigators
  33. April 2003: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Refuses to Approve Half of Interview Requests for ‘Saudi Connection’ Investigators
  34. April 2004: Pakistani Raid Misses Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Libbi in Abbottabad
  35. April-May 2004: Kidnapped Imam Temporarily Released in Egypt, Claims He Has Been Tortured
  36. Late April 2004: FAA Manager Suspended for Destroying Tape of Controllers’ 9/11 Recollections, but Faces No Criminal Charges
  37. April 2005: Italian Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Kidnapped Imam
  38. April 2005: Former Clinton National Security Adviser Receives ‘Extraordinarily Lenient’ Sentence for Document Theft
  39. April 2005: British Intelligence Concludes British Involvement in Iraq War Will Increase Threat of Terrorism in Britain ‘For Many Years to Come’
  40. April 2005-January 2006: 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary Released; Becomes ‘Internet Blockbuster’
  41. (April 2005): British-Pakistani Militant Allegedly Becomes Head of Al-Qaeda’s European Operations
  42. April - June 2002: Zubaida Interrogated, Tortured by CIA Interrogators in Thailand Prison
  43. April 2006: US Intelligence Community Concludes the Number of Islamist Militants Is Increasing Worldwide
  44. April 2000: Suspicious Behavior of Flight School Student Leads to Arizona FBI Investigation
  45. Early April 2002: FBI Whistleblower’s Sister in Turkey Sought by Police
  46. (April 25-May 1989): US Holds Secret Meetings with Egyptian Terror Group Headed by ‘Blind Sheikh’
  47. April 30-Early September 1996: Hani Hanjour Studies English in Northern California; Enrolls at Aeronautics Academy
  48. April 1977: Movie Has Terrorists Attempting to Crash Explosive-Laden Blimp into Super Bowl Stadium
  49. April 1980: New Leader of Lebanese Militia Forms Alliances with Hezbollah, US Agencies, and Others
  50. April 1988: Soviet Union Announces It Will Withdraw All Troops from Afghanistan