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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. December 2000: Incoming Bush Administration Briefed on Terrorism Threat; Apparently Ignores Recommendations
  2. Late October-Early December 2001: Gen. Franks Ignores CIA Request to Deploy Unused US Troops to Get Bin Laden
  3. December 2001: Ansar Al-Islam Militant Group Formed
  4. December 2001: CIA Realizes Prague Visit Was Not Made by Hijacker Atta
  5. Early December 2001: CIA Again Warns Bush ‘Back Door Is Open’ for Bin Laden to Escape Tora Bora
  6. December 2001: Al-Qaeda Computer Provides Intimate Look at Terror Operations
  7. Before December 2001: Al-Qaeda Tests Chemical Weapon by Gassing Dogs, Recovered Videos Show
  8. December 2001: Scientific Journal Describes ‘Eutectic Mixture’ in WTC Steel
  9. December, 2001: US Congress Fails to Fund Plan to Strengthen Pakistani Government Control over Tribal Region
  10. December 2001: CIA Unable to Question Pakistani Nuclear Scientists Linked to Pro-Al-Qaeda Charity Front
  11. Spring 2002: Much of Al-Qaeda’s Management Council Detained in Iran, Held as Bargaining Chips with US
  12. December 2001-Early January 2002: ISI Said to Help Bin Laden and Taliban Escape and Resettle in Pakistan
  13. December 2001 and After: Drug Kingpin Let Go by US; Then Rebuilds Drug Network for Taliban and Al-Qaeda
  14. (December 2001): FBI Links KSM to Financing of 9/11 Attacks
  15. December 2001: FBI Monitors 7/7 London Bomber while He Visits US
  16. Early December 2001: Bush Officials Again Look for Saudi Cooperation
  17. Early December 2001: Al-Qaeda ‘Puppet Master’ Abu Qatada Disappears in Britain
  18. December 2001-Spring 2002: Pakistani Government Allows Al-Qaeda and Taliban to Regroup in Pakistan’s Tribal Region
  19. December 2001: Al-Qaeda-Linked Figures and Indonesian Military Attack Christian Villages on Island of Sulawesi
  20. December 2001-June 2002: Spanish Begin Monitoring Many Future Madrid Bombers
  21. Mid-December 2001: Videotape Shows Bin Laden Heading into Pakistan
  22. January-2002-December 2002: Prosecutors Not Allowed to Indict Al-Marabh
  23. December 2002: Informant Details Even More of Al-Marabh’s Al-Qaeda Ties
  24. December 2002: President Bush Expresses Confidence Victory in Iraq Will Solve Counterterrorism Problems
  25. December 2002-February 2003: Pakistan Reportedly Permitting Al-Qaeda and Taliban Training Camps
  26. December 2003: FBI Agent Says Officers in CIA’s Bin Laden Unit ‘Have Blood on Their Hands’ over 9/11
  27. December 2003: Some Neoconservatives Want to Split Saudi Arabia to Control Its Oil Fields
  28. December 2003: US Intelligence Discovers Al-Qaeda May Not Be Interested in New Attack Inside US
  29. December 2003-May 2004: Study Indicates Extreme Temperatures Involved in WTC Collapses
  30. December 2004: 9/11 Commission Report Savaged in Joint Harvard/MIT Journal
  31. December 2004: Head ‘Copycat’ London Bomber Allowed to Travel to Pakistan Despite Being Monitored Attending Militant Training Camps
  32. December 2004-January 2005: Bombers from 7/7 and 21/7 London Bombings Apparently Meet at Training Camp in Pakistan
  33. After November 2005: CIA Officer Never Punished for Allegedly Destroying Vital Evidence Without Authorization
  34. December 2006: US Rewards Program to Find Al-Qaeda Leaders Focuses Mainly on Advertising in US, Not Pakistan
  35. (Between December 2008 and January 2009): Bin Laden’s Son Saad Escapes House Arrest in Iran
  36. December 2009: Secretary of State Clinton Diplomatic Cable Claims Some in ISI Support Taliban and Other Militant Groups
  37. Mid-December 2009: Pakistan Refuses to Allow US Ground Attack on Militant Group Linked to ISI and Taliban
  38. December 2009: Tajikistan Warns US that Pakistani Government Is Protecting Bin Laden’s Hideouts
  39. Early December 2010: Some Congressional Leaders Briefed about Bin Laden Hideout Intel
  40. December 2010: CIA Director Panetta Briefs Obama on Bin Laden’s Hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan
  41. December 14 and 25, 2003: Pakistani President Musharraf Survives Two Al-Qaeda-Linked Assassination Attempts
  42. December 2004: Further Criticism of the Terror Alert System
  43. Early December 2001: FBI Wiretaps Reveal that Turkish Groups Attempted to Bribe Congress Persons in Late 1990s
  44. Mid-December 2002-March 2003: 9/11 Commission Gets Off to Slow Start
  45. Before January 2008: Consular Officer Who Issued 12 Visas to 9/11 Hijackers Appointed to State Department Position in Washington
  46. (Between December 1969 and January 1970): Trainee Army Officer Imagines Scenario of Suicide Pilot Crashing Plane into US Capitol
  47. December 1982: Muslim Brotherhood Project to Infiltrate and Defeat the West
  48. December 1991-April 1993: Bin Laden’s Brother-in-Law Khalifa Directly Assists Militant Attacks in Philippines
  49. December 1991-May 1992: Bin Laden-Linked Bomber Ramzi Yousef Trains Philippine Militants
  50. December 1992: Saudi Embassy Pays Radical Militants in US to Fight in Bosnia