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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Late 2005: New CIA Push to Get Bin Laden Has Little Impact; Most Experienced Personnel Busy with Iraq War
  2. Late 2005: Conflicting Prisoner Accounts Point to Importance of Al-Qaeda Courier Ahmed
  3. Late 2007: CIA Allegedly Produces Report Saying Bin Laden Close to Death
  4. Late 2007: Secret US Plan to Facilitate Raids against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan Gets Bogged Down
  5. Late 1980s: ’Everybody in Congress’ Knows Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons
  6. Late 1980s: US Intelligence Already Investigating Abu Zubaida and California Al-Qaeda Operative
  7. Late 1985: Slush Funds Enable Cash to Be Siphoned Off from Huge Arms Deal to Afghan Mujaheddin
  8. Late 1986: Bin Laden Sets Up First Dedicated Arab Camp in Afghanistan
  9. Late 1989-Late 1991: Bin Laden Slowly Shifts Operations to Sudan, Keeps Training Camps in Afghanistan
  10. Late 1990: Fervent Muslim Wins Vote in Mostly Secular Bosnia
  11. Late 1992-Early 1993 and Late 1994: Oklahoma City Bomber Said to Meet with Ramzi Yousef in Philippines
  12. Late 1992-1995: US and Saudis Allegedly Collaborate on Illegal Weapons Deliveries to Bosnian Muslims
  13. Late 1993-1994: US Investigators Discover Links Between WTC Bombing and Mujaheddin Fighting in Bosnian War
  14. Late 1993: Al-Qaeda Allegedly Attempts to Buy Enriched Uranium
  15. Late 1993-Late 1994: Ali Mohamed and Anas Al-Liby Scout Targets in Africa
  16. Late 1994-January 1995: Government Operative Deeply Involved in Bojinka Plot
  17. October 1994: CIA and ISI Allegedly Give Help and Secret Cache of Weapons to Taliban
  18. Late 1994 or 1995: Islamic Jihad Head Fundraises in US Again
  19. Late 1995: Bin Laden Said to Consider Asylum in Britain
  20. Late 1995 and After: Spanish Intelligence Merely Watches Madrid Cell Commit Variety of Crimes to Raise Money for Al-Qaeda
  21. Late 1995: Illness of Saudi King Generates Long-Term Power Struggle
  22. (Late 1995-Spring 1996): French Intelligence Money Used to Purchase Weapons for Militants’ Training
  23. 1995-May 2000: Al-Qaeda Leader Connected to British Intelligence Lives Openly in Britain
  24. Late 1996: Effort to Get Nukes Makes Al-Qaeda Threat Clear
  25. Late 1996-Late September 2001: Britain Not Interested in Sudan’s Files on Al-Qaeda
  26. Late 1996: ISI Returns Afghanistan Training Camps to Bin Laden and Subsidizes Their Costs
  27. Late 1996: Trusted Informant Warns that Bin Laden May Attack Inside US or US Embassies
  28. Late 1996 or After: Jarrah Associates with Monitored Hamas Fundraiser
  29. Late 1996: CIA Definitively Confirms Bin Laden Is Not Just Financier, but US Is Slow to Act
  30. Late 1996: Bin Laden Influences Election in Pakistan
  31. Late 1997-Early 1998: Hijacker Atta Disappears from Germany for Months
  32. Late 1997: Phone Calls Alert US Intelligence to Al-Qaeda Operatives in Hamburg
  33. Late 1997-Early 1998: French Worried about Possible Attack at World Cup, Possibly Emanating from London
  34. Late 1998: Al-Qaeda Leader Located in Sudan, but US Does Not Try to Capture Him
  35. Late 1998: Taliban Stall Pipeline Negotiations to Keep Western Powers at Bay
  36. Late 1998: Failed Missile Attack Said to Increase Bin Laden’s Stature in Muslim World
  37. Late 1998-2000: US Administration Officials Seek Ground-Based Plan to Kill Bin Laden
  38. Late 1998-Early 2002: US Intelligence Maps Al-Qaeda Network Using Phone Records; Many Attacks Thwarted
  39. Late 1998: FBI Asks NSA to Pass on All Calls between Al-Qaeda Yemen Hub and US
  40. Late 1998: US Initiates New Effort to Stop Financing of Al-Qaeda, but to Little Effect
  41. Late August 1998-November 2000: Top Clinton Officials Regularly Meet to Discuss Terrorism
  42. Late 1998: Moles within Al-Qaeda Lead to Arrests of 20 of Bin Laden’s Closest Associates
  43. Late 1998: Key Embassy Bombing Witnesses Are Beheaded Before They Can Talk to FBI
  44. Late 1998: US Investigators Reassess Bin Laden’s Finances, Discover Saudi ‘Fundraising Machine’
  45. Late 1998 and After: US Intelligence Still Monitors Bin Laden’s Calls after He Stops Using His Satellite Phone
  46. November/December 1999: Almihdhar Returns to Yemen, Falls under US Surveillance
  47. Late 1999: 9/11 Hijackers Train withColeBomber and Other Militants
  48. Late 1999-Early 2000: ’Wall’ Procedures Altered for Expected Millennium Attacks
  49. Late 1999-2000: Alleged CIA Informant Said to Train Six 9/11 Hijackers in Turkey
  50. Late 1999: Saudis Claim to Add Two 9/11 Hijackers to Watch List and Inform CIA