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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Between Late 2005 and February 2008: CIA Shuts Down Most ‘Black Stations’
  2. Between Mid-January and July 2000: CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Reorganized, Bin Laden Unit Placed in Larger Group
  3. Between Mid-December 2002 and June 2004: Inspector General Finds Pre-9/11 Bin Laden Analysis by CIA Inadequate
  4. Between March 16 and 20, 2003: Associate of 9/11 Hijackers Possibly Escapes US
  5. Early 2000: US Builds Up Influence in Central Asia
  6. Early 2000: Hijacker Hanjour Seen with Omar Al-Bayoumi
  7. Early 2000: US Develops Mysterious New Technique for Detecting Bin Laden
  8. Early 2000: Treasury Department Blocked from Freezing Assets of Al-Qaeda Financiers in Saudi Arabia
  9. August 2000: Vulgar Betrayal Investigation Shut Down
  10. Early 2000-December 2001: Al-Zarqawi Operates Independent Militant Training Camp in Afghanistan
  11. Early January 2001: CIA Passes Photos of Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar for Source to Identify
  12. Early 2001: Bush Staffers Less Concerned with Terrorism
  13. Early 2001: CIA Reduces FBI Access to NSA’s Al-Qaeda Intercepts
  14. Early 2001: FBI Slow to React to French Report on Bin Laden’s Finances
  15. Early 2001: Taliban Disinformation Project Is Cancelled
  16. (Early September 2001): 9/11 Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar Practice Using Flight Simulator Software
  17. Early February 2004: Justice Department Inspector General Discovers Key Document about Pre-9/11 Failings, Not Previously Passed on by CIA
  18. Early February 1999: $8 Billion Weapons Deal Allegedly Influences US Decision Not to Strike at Bin Laden
  19. Early 2002: Last Good Intelligence Leads on Bin Laden’s Whereabouts
  20. Early 2002 and After: US Cannot Cross Pakistan Border to Search for Al-Qaeda
  21. April 2002: Most Predator Drones Withdrawn from Afghanistan, Not Replaced by New Ones
  22. Early 2002: Troops and Equipment Redirected from Afghanistan to Iraq
  23. Early 2002: Bin Laden’s Wife and Sons Get Sudanese Passports
  24. Early 2002-January 2003: Syrian Government Helps US with Al-Qaeda Intelligence until US Cuts Off Relationship Because of Iraq War Priority
  25. Early March 2004: Executive Director Zelikow Demands 9/11 Commission Subpoena Forthcoming Book by Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’
  26. Early 2003: KSM Possibly Arrested in Karachi
  27. Early April 2000: Alhazmi Talks to 9/11 Facilitator in Dubai, Possibly Using Phone Monitored by NSA
  28. Early April-Early May, 2001: Associate of Suspicious Imam Helps 9/11 Hijackers Rent Flat
  29. Early 2004: 9/11 Commission Staffer Wants to Quit over Executive Director Zelikow’s Alleged Protection of Rice
  30. Early 2004: 9/11 Commission Allegedly Prevented from Naming Junior CIA Officer Responsible for Pre-9/11 Failure by Threats from Senior CIA Officials
  31. Early 2004: White House Asks 9/11 Commission Not to Call for CIA Director Tenet’s Resignation
  32. Mid-May 2001: CIA Assigns Officer to Examine Malaysia Summit in Her Free Time
  33. Early May 2002: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Suggests Warlords Should Share Power with Afghan Government
  34. Early 2005: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Cancels Mission to Capture Al-Zawahiri in Pakistan
  35. Early 2005: US Documents Implicate Afghan Leader’s Brother and Other Top Officials in Drug Trade
  36. Early-Late June, 2001: Plot Facilitator Assists Four 9/11 Hijackers in United Arab Emirates
  37. Early June 2005: US Intelligence Finds Possible 7/7 Bombings Mastermind in Africa; British Prevent US from Capturing Him
  38. Early-November 2006: US Intelligence Tracks Al-Qaeda Leader for Months in Pakistan, but Does Not Try to Capture or Kill Him
  39. Early July 2002: Moussaoui Expresses Willingness to Talk, Offer Is Rejected by Justice Department
  40. Early July 2004: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Tries to Prevent Formal Interviews of CIA Analysts who Drafted Presidential Daily Brief about Bin Laden
  41. Early August 2005: Alleged CIA-Al-Qaeda Double Agent Confesses to Various Plots, Including Helping 9/11 Attacks
  42. Early September 2000: Moussaoui Checks Out Malaysian Flight School
  43. Early September 2001: Almost Irrefutable Proof of Insider Trading in Germany
  44. Early September 2001: Pakistani Student Says WTC Towers ‘Won’t Be Here Next Week’
  45. Early September 2001: Sharp Increase in Short Selling of American and United Airlines Stocks
  46. Early September 2001: NYSE Sees Unusually Heavy Trading in Airline and Related Stocks
  47. Early September 2001: Unusually High Volume Trade of US Treasury Note Purchases
  48. Early September 2002: Bush Administration Considers Designating ‘Lackawanna Six’ Enemy Combatants
  49. Early October-December 2001: US and Pakistan Do Little about Pakistani Nuclear Scientists Who Helped Al-Qaeda
  50. Early October 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Captured Near Chechnya; Militant Safe Haven Cleared Out