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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. After Mid-April 1986: CIA Allegedly Sets Up Fake Bomb Plot to Influence European Opinion
  2. Around February 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Appoints Current CIA Officer to Lead Investigation of CIA
  3. Around February 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Assumes Responsibility for Hiring Commission’s Staff
  4. Around February 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Assumes Close Control of Key Commission Team
  5. (2003): CIA Produces Video Containing Fake Osama bin Laden
  6. (September 2000): Informer Tells FBI Al-Qaeda Is Interested in Air Traffic Control Procedures
  7. Autumn 1992: Ali Mohamed Trains Top Al-Qaeda Leadership in Afghanistan; Detained in Italy
  8. Autumn 2000: CIA Front Company Leads to Suspicions CIA Is Attempting to Infiltrate Florida Cell
  9. Autumn 2000: 9/11 Hijacker Alhazmi Works at San Diego Gas Station that Is Linked to Other Possible Islamist Militants
  10. May 10-Mid-December 2000: FBI Asset Fails to Share Valuable Information on Hijackers
  11. Autumn 2002: Taliban and Al-Qaeda Regrouping in Afghanistan
  12. Autumn 2004: US Misses Chance to Learn Secrets from Taliban’s Top Drug Kingpin
  13. Autumn 2005 or Before: Fears Over CIA Evidence Cause FBI to Build Cases against Guantanamo Detainees
  14. Autumn 2006- February 2007: Head of US Forces in Afghanistan Compiles Dossier Showing Pakistan’s Support for Militants, but to Little Effect
  15. Late Autumn 2001: Document Suggests Link between Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Nuclear Scientists
  16. Autumn 1988: CIA Has Secret Slush Fund for Covert Operations at BCCI; Fails to Tell US Customs about It
  17. November 1999-Early 2000: Possible 7/7 Bombings Mastermind Tries to Set up Militant Training Camp in Oregon
  18. Autumn 2000: 9/11 Hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi Predicts He Will Become Famous
  19. Autumn 2000: FBI Informant Learns 9/11 Hiacker Living with Him Is Working Illegally, Doesn’t Tell His FBI Handler
  20. Autumn 2003: KSM Lies, Possibly While under Torture, to Protect Identity of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ahmed
  21. Autumn 2006-Late April 2007: Al-Qaeda Leader Is Kept in Secret CIA Prison, Revealing that CIA Prison System Is Still Operating
  22. Autumn 2006: Key Link between Al-Qaeda Leaders and Al-Qaeda in Iraq Is Arrested
  23. Autumn 2006: Pakistan Releases 2,500 Suspected Islamist Militants
  24. Autumn 1992-1999: Atta Attends University in Hamburg, Germany
  25. Autumn 1992: Al-Qaeda Builds Operations in Bosnia to Attack Europe and US
  26. Autumn 1992: Influential Neoconservative Academic Advocates Breaking Up Middle Eastern Countries, Including Iraq
  27. Autumn 1998: Rumors of Bin Laden Plot Involving Aircraft in New York and Washington Surface Again
  28. Autumn 1998: US Intelligence Aware of ‘Unholy Alliance’ between ISI, Taliban, and Al-Qaeda
  29. Around February 1993: Three WTC Bombers Travel on Saudi Passports with Indicator of Islamist Extremism, Presumably Tracked by Saudi Authorities
  30. Before April 1993: Saeed Sheikh Allegedly Recruited by British Intelligence
  31. Between November 2005 and Summer 2006: Hayden Learns CIA Videotapes Have Been Destroyed; Does Not Inform Congressional Leaders
  32. Before June 2004: 9/11 Commission Consultant Complains Report Is ‘Indulgent’ of Senior Administration Officials
  33. Before June 2004: 9/11 Commission Awards Contract to Distribute Final Report to Executive Director Zelikow’s Publisher; Publisher Can Keep Profits
  34. April 2005 or Shortly Before: Saudi Arabia Allegedly Warns Britain about 7/7 London Bombers
  35. Summer 2000: High-Ranking Al-Qaeda Operative Arrives in Italy to Revitalise Network
  36. Before August 2007: Key 9/11 Investigator Hired by CIA Contractor
  37. July 2001: NORAD Plans a Mock Simultaneous Hijacking Threat From Inside the US
  38. Before October 1997: British Intelligence Informer Abu Hamza Runs Newsletter for Algerian Radicals
  39. Before November 2005: Mid-level CIA Lawyers Find No Bar to Destruction of Interrogation Videos
  40. Before 1998: Term ‘Londonistan’ Comes into Use, Product of French Frustration with British Policy on Extremism
  41. (November 2001): Monitored Al-Qaeda Operative Connects KSM to 9/11 Hijackers
  42. Before Mid-January 2002: Top CIA Official Reportedly Describes 9/11 as ‘Triumph’
  43. Before Spring 2000: Islamist Extremists Arrested in Syria for Weapons Smuggling, but Subsequently Released
  44. Before Summer 1995: CIA Begins Tracking Islamist Militants in Europe
  45. Between April 2002 and November 2005:: CIA Interrogation Videos Held Overseas Despite Security Risk
  46. Between April 2002 and November 2005: Parts of CIA Interrogation Tapes Transmitted to US, Reviewed by Headquarters Officials
  47. Between May and December 1996: NSA Discovers Al-Qaeda Communications Hub
  48. Shortly After July 24 or 28, 2001: British Authorities Learn of London-Based Militant’s Arrest in Dubai, Take No Action against Top Associate
  49. Between August 1992 and 1993: Bin Laden Sends Quarter of Million Dollars to US; CIA Is Monitoring His Banking Operations
  50. Between December 2002 and May 2003: Staffer Moves from One 9/11 Inquiry to Another