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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Late December 1999: FBI Exposes Errors in CIA Reporting on Millennium Plots, Finds Key Evidence CIA Ignored
  2. Late July 2001: CIA Director Tenet Believes Warnings Could Not ‘Get Any Worse’
  3. Late March-Early April 2001: CIA Warns Al-Qaeda Leader Zubaida Planning an Attack
  4. Late Summer 2000: Informant Says Al-Qaeda to Attack US Warship
  5. Late Summer 2001: American Airlines Develops New Crisis Plan, But Unable to Use it on 9/11
  6. Late Summer 2001: US Intelligence Learns Al-Qaeda Is Considering Mounting Operations in the US
  7. Late Summer 2001: Jordan Warns US that Aircraft Will Be Used in Major Attack Inside the US
  8. Late Summer 2003: 9/11 Commission Requests Some Presidential Daily Briefs from CIA, Knows Credibility Is on the Line
  9. Late Summer 1999: NSA Intercepts Calls Mentioning 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, Does Not Disseminate Information
  10. Mid-2000: DEA Arranges for Source Knowledgeable about Bin Laden to Meet FBI
  11. Mid 2000: Jemaah Islamiyah Passes Casing Video to Al-Qaeda Leadership to Get Approval for Attack
  12. (Mid-January 2000): CIA Officer Discusses Almihdhar with FBI Counterpart, Fails to Mention His US Visa
  13. Mid-February 2003: Head 7/7 London Bomber Possibly Monitored by NSA, Stopped from Entering US
  14. Mid-March 2003: Al-Qaeda Operative in US Is Arrested, Informs on Others
  15. (Mid April 2001): 9/11 Hijackers Alhazmi and Hanjour Mention Jihad to Roommates
  16. Mid-April 2002: New CIA Team Arriving to Interrogate Zubaida Uses Completely Untried and Dubious Techniques
  17. Mid-April 2002: Zubaida Identifies Jose Padilla, but Dismisses Him as an Incompetent with Far-Fetched Plans
  18. Between Mid-April and Mid-May 2002: CIA Psychologist Opposed to Torture Techniques Planned for Zubaida Leaves in Disgust
  19. Mid-May 2001: CIA Manager Says Photo Identification Is Incorrect, Hinting He Has Greater Knowledge of Al-Qaeda Malaysia Summit Figures
  20. Mid-May 2001: CIA Officer Misrepresents Hijacker Alhazmi’s Travel to US in Email Copied to FBI Agent
  21. Mid-June 2001: US Intelligence Hears Bin Laden Tell Followers of an Attack in Near Future
  22. Mid-June 2005: British Intelligence Concludes No Group Has Intent or Capability to Attack in Britain; Threat Level Lowered
  23. Mid-July 2001: Pentagon Official Suggests to CIA Director Tenet that Al-Qaeda Is Just ‘Phantom Enemy’
  24. Mid-July 2004: 9/11 Commission Staffers Worried about Impact of Newly Discovered Information about Iran on Political Situation
  25. Mid-July 2007: Al-Qaeda Computer Expert Released in Pakistan
  26. Mid-August 2001: Bin Laden Meets with Pakistani Nuclear Scientists and Discusses Building Nuclear Weapon
  27. Mid-August 2004: Analyst Says Pakistan, Not US, Outed Double Agent
  28. (Mid-August 1998): Al-Qaeda Leader Calls Yemen to Discuss Ship-Bombing Operation
  29. Mid-August 1998-October 2000: Al-Qaeda Operatives Use Monitored Yemen Communications Hub to CoordinateColeBombing
  30. Mid-September 2001: Evangelist Tells Bush that Bush Is ‘God’s Man for This Hour’
  31. Mid-September-Early November 2001: German Intelligence Fails to Uncover True Identity of Man Connected to Moussaoui and Al-Qaeda’s Hamburg Cell
  32. Mid-September-October 2001: Neoconservatives Attempt to Link Iraqi Government to 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
  33. Mid-September 2002: US and Australian Intelligence Learn Indonesian Military Likely behind False Flag Attack on US Teachers; No Action or Warnings Result
  34. Mid-August 1998: Al-Qaeda Operative Tells FBI about Planned Yemen Attack
  35. Mid-September 1998: Taliban Supposedly Rejects Secret Deal to Hand Bin Laden to Saudis
  36. Mid-October-December 2001: British Muslim Radicalized by Informer Fights Allied Troops in Afghanistan
  37. Mid-October 2001: Bin Laden’s Oldest Son Confirms He Still Works with Family Company
  38. Mid-October 2001: Al-Qaeda Offers to Arrange Television Interview of Osama bin Laden
  39. Mid-November, 2000: Three 9/11 Hijackers Possibly Linked to Hezbollah Figure while Traveling to Iran
  40. Mid-November 2001: Alleged British Al-Qaeda Informer Arrested and Released
  41. Mid-November 2001: Bin Laden ‘Confession’ Video Made, according to US
  42. Mid-November 2001-Mid-December 2001: US-Allied Afghan Warlords Help Bin Laden Escape Tora Bora
  43. Mid-December 2003-Mid-January 2004: Political Considerations Determine Length of Extension Requested by 9/11 Commission
  44. Mid-December 2007: Pakistani Militant Leaders Unify, Command about 40,000 Fighters
  45. Mid 1980s: MI6 Agent Gets to Know Future Al-Qaeda Leaders
  46. Mid-1980s: Osama Bin Laden’s Brother Is Allegedly Involved in the Iran-Contra Affair
  47. Mid- to Late-1990s: CIA Suffers ‘Brain Drain’
  48. Mid-1990s: Only Fraction of 1 Percent of FBI Agents Work on Counterterrorism
  49. Mid-1990s: Hezbollah Allegedly Trains Some Al-Qaeda Operatives in Explosives
  50. Mid-2002: Al-Qaeda Operatives with WMD Connections Interviewed but Remain Free in Sudan