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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. October 1997-May 1999: Economic Security Exercises Are Held in New York; Participants Contemplate a Terrorist Attack on Wall Street
  2. October 1998: Leading British Imam and Informer Abu Hamza Issues Warning of Attack in Yemen, Supporters Soon Involved in Plot There
  3. October 1998: Vulgar Betrayal Investigation Nearly Shut Down
  4. October 1998: Military Analyst Goes Where Spies Fail to Go, but Her Efforts Are Rejected
  5. October 1998 and After: Multiple Countries Monitor Zubaida’s Phone Calls
  6. October 1998: Associate of Embassy Bombers Meets Prosecutors, Will Agree to Testify in Court
  7. October-November 1998: Al-Qaeda US-based Recruiting Efforts Uncovered
  8. October 1999: British Informer Plans Terrorist Training Camp in US
  9. (October 1999): CIA Officer Sends Cable Falsely Linking Iran to Major Al-Qaeda Plot, Is Forced to Withdraw It and Others
  10. October 1999: Alshehhi Takes First Flying Lessons in Germany
  11. October 1999: Atta Reportedly Gets Engaged and Asks His Parents If He Can Stay in Egypt
  12. October 1999: Some Chechen Warlords Allegedly Develop Closer Relations with Bin Laden
  13. October 1999: CIA Does Not Share Information with Able Danger Program
  14. October 1999: Hamburg Cell Downloads Flight Training Software
  15. October 1999: CIA Considers Increased Aid to Northern Alliance
  16. October 1999: Joint US-ISI Operation to Kill Osama Falters
  17. 1999: Germans Miss Links between Hamburg 9/11 Hijackers and Key Al-Qaeda Operative
  18. November 2000: 9/11 Hijacker Allegedly Flies to Beirut on Same Flight as Senior Hezbollah Operative
  19. November 2000 or After: FBI Connects Al-Qaeda Communications Hub toColeBombing, No Apparent Action Taken
  20. November 2000-Spring 2002: Florida FBI Investigates Plot to Blow Up Mount Rushmore
  21. November 2000: 9/11 Hijacker Flies to Beirut, Possible Iranian Connection Mooted
  22. November-December 2000: Able Danger Stops Data Collection and Moves into Operational Phase
  23. November 2000: Taliban Allegedly Offers to Hand bin Laden to US Officials
  24. November 2001-May 2002: FAA New York Center Submits ‘Formal Accident Package’ for 9/11 Attacks, but Leaves out Tape of Controllers’ Accounts
  25. November 2001: FBI Obtains Key Informant against Yemeni Terror Financiers
  26. November 2001: Al-Qaeda Documents Recovered in Afghanistan Detail Plots, Apparent Involvement in 9/11
  27. (November 2001): FAA New York Center Controller Denied Request to Hear Own Tape-Recorded Statement from 9/11
  28. Late October-Early November 2001: Al-Qaeda Fighters and Bin Laden Said to Move into Jalalabad without Hindrance
  29. Early November 2001: Al-Qaeda Convoy Flees Kabul
  30. November 2001: FBI Inteviews Al-Qaeda Operatives in Sudan; Hussein-Bin Laden Link Is Dismissed
  31. November 2001: FBI Report Says 9/11 Hijackers Maintained ‘Web of Contacts’ in the US
  32. Mid-November 2001: Afghan Politician Says US Policy Prevented Bin Laden Capture
  33. November 2001-May 2002: US Captures Al-Qaeda Recruiter Who Has Lived in the US since 1999
  34. Late November, 2001: US Soldiers Permit Massacre of Taliban
  35. November 2001: Pakistan Promises to Seal Off Tora Bora Region in Exchange for US Aid
  36. Early November 2001: Senior US General Describes Plan to Take Out ‘Seven Countries in Five Years’
  37. November 2002: Saudi Interior Minister Blames Jews for 9/11 Attacks
  38. November 2002: CIA Report Concludes Saudi Government Has Made Little Effort to Fight Terrorist Financing
  39. November 2002: Worried of Forthcoming Attack, British Authorities Arrest Previously Released Militant
  40. November 2002 and After: Karl Rove Concerned about 9/11 Investigation
  41. November 2002-June 2003: Secret Evidence Used against Hijackers’ Associate Attracts Criticism, Most Charges Are Dropped
  42. November 2003: 9/11 Commission Fails to Ask CIA about Detainee Interrogation Methods
  43. 11:03 a.m.-11:12 a.m. September11, 2001: NORAD Personnel Ordered to Defcon 3
  44. November 2003: 9/11 Commission Subpoenas New York Emergency Tapes and Transcripts
  45. November 2003: US Military Frustrated They Cannot Fight Drugs in Afghanistan
  46. November 2003: Pakistan Bans Militant Groups Again after Pressure from US
  47. (July-August 2000): Money Paid into Atta Account from Abroad?
  48. November 2004: Aggressive Afghan Counter-Narcotics Program Proposed and Ultimately Rejected
  49. November 2004: Head of FBI’s 9/11 Investigation Says 9/11 Attacks Were Virtually Unstoppable
  50. November-December 2004: Political Purge of CIA Follows Presidential Election