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Complete 911 Timeline

7271 events in this timeline

Showing 6501–6550 of 7271

  1. 1997: Scotland Yard Protects Informant Imam Abu Hamza from Tough Questioning by French Investigators
  2. 1997-1998: French Spy on Top Islamist Militant in London, Consider Assassinating Him
  3. 1997 or 1998: Atta in Two Places at Once?
  4. 1997: Bin Laden Family Financial Connection With Osama Continues Until At Least This Year
  5. 1997-1998: French Intelligence Team Monitors Finsbury Park Mosque
  6. 1997-Late Spring 2001: Investigation into Al-Qaeda Linked-Charity Based in Chicago Hindered by FBI Headquarters
  7. (1997-2002): State Department Official Allegedly Helps Turkish and Israelis Plant ‘Moles’ in Nuclear Facilities
  8. 1997: Future Hijackers Supposedly Watchlisted in Saudi Arabia for Failed Gunrunning Plot
  9. 1997-July 2001: Hanjour Associate Wanted for FBI Investigation but Not Put on Watch List
  10. Early 1997-Late 1998: Hijazi Turns Informant for Boston FBI Investigation on Heroin from Afghanistan
  11. 1997: US Action Against Holy Land Foundation Blocked Again
  12. 1997: CIA Deems Saudi Intelligence ‘Hostile Service’ Regarding Al-Qaeda
  13. 1997 or After: Responsibility for KSM Transferred to Renditions Branch at CIA
  14. 1997-September 1999: FAA Finds Repeated Security Violations at Airport Later Used by Ten Hijackers
  15. Summer 2000: Former CIA Informer Moves to Milan to Live with Key Al-Qaeda Operative
  16. 1997: Moussaoui Travels to Azerbaijan, Meets CIA Asset There
  17. 1997: US National Intelligence Estimate Briefly Mentions Bin Laden
  18. 1997: CIA Re-opens Afghanistan Operations
  19. 1997: CIA Establishes Renditions Branch, Helps with Up to 70 Renditions Before 9/11
  20. 1997-December 1999: FBI and Swiss Fail to Act Against Suspicious Bank and Its Shareholders
  21. 1997: FBI Supervisor Said to Hide Information about Hamas Operatives from Other FBI Agents
  22. 1997-1998: World Trade Center Rated ‘Critical’ as a Possible Terrorist Target
  23. 1998: Abu Hamza Helps Recruit Future Would-Be Shoe Bomber
  24. 1998: Inspired by Abu Hamza, Seven Young British Men Go to Afghanistan, Two Die Fighting
  25. 1998-2000: Al-Marabh Bank Transfers Are Flagged as Suspicious
  26. 1998: US Intelligence Starts Investigating Al-Qaeda-Linked Charity in US, After Knowing of Its Militant Ties for Years
  27. 1998: Charity Commission Begins to Investigate Abu Hamza, No Significant Action Taken for Years
  28. 1998 and Before: CIA Funds Egyptian Counterterrorism Hit Squad, but Gets ‘Nervous’ and Eventually Closes Program
  29. 1998: German Police Investigate Hamburg Hijacker Associate Linked to Milan Cell
  30. Early 1998: Richard Clarke Updates Continuity of Government Plan to Prepare for Terrorist Threat
  31. 1998: Information on Hijacker Hanjour Apparently Ignored by FBI
  32. 1998-2001: Secret Service Simulates Planes Crashing into the White House
  33. Late 1998: El Hage Points to Darkazanli and Hamburg Cell
  34. 1998: Diplomatic Passports Help Stifle FBI Investigation into Bin Laden Family
  35. (1998): In Friday Sermon, Radical London Imam Abu Hamza Celebrates Suicide Bombers
  36. 1998: Atta Possibly Trains at Base Conducting Pilotless Aircraft Exercises
  37. 1998: Hani Hanjour Attends Two More Arizona Flight Schools
  38. 1998: French Intelligence Mole Launches Pro-Islamist Newsletter
  39. 1998: British Agents Identify Key Radical Leader
  40. (1998): Two Saudi 9/11 Hijackers Nonreligious and Drink Alcohol
  41. 1998-September 2001: New Lobbying Group Connects Bush to Some Muslim Activists with Alleged Terrorist Sympathies
  42. 1998: Radicals Arrested in Italy, but Prosecution Flounders
  43. December 1999: Atta and Alshehhi Seen Partying and Taking Flying Lessons in Philippines
  44. 1998: FBI Agent Starts First Investigation into Arizona Flight Students
  45. (1998): Police Intercept Sons of Radical London Imam Abu Hamza on Way Back from Training Course, Indicating Courses Are under Surveillance
  46. 1998: Britain Refuses to Extradite Member of Al-Qaeda’s Fatwa Committee over Car Bombings, Gives Him Asylum Instead
  47. 1998 and After: Al-Qaeda Leader Heads Suspect US Charity’s Chechnya Office; Supports Chechen Rebels
  48. 1998: By Some Accounts, Al-Qaeda Begins Planning for 9/11
  49. 1998: Future Would-Be Suicide Bomber Attends Extremist London Mosque
  50. 1998 and After: CIA Instigates Co-operation with Uzbekistan against Taliban and Al-Qaeda