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Complete 911 Timeline

7279 events in this timeline

Open-Content investigative project managed by matt, Paul, KJF, blackmax

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  1. Spring 2001: CIA Director Tenet Warns Congress an Attempted Terrorist Attack against US Interests Is Likely within a Year
  2. Spring 2001: US Customs Investigate Three Hijackers Before 9/11
  3. (Spring 2001): FBI Investigates Associate of 9/11 Hiajcker Atta over Second Plot
  4. Spring 2001: President Tells White House Staffer to Fix Problem with Phone System, but Staffer Will Not Have Done So by September 11
  5. Spring-Summer 2001: Bin Laden Tells Mother He Cannot Call Her Again Due to Upcoming ‘Great Events’
  6. (Between Spring and Summer 2001): FBI Rejects Former Army Ranger’s Plan to Assassinate Bin Laden
  7. (Spring 2001): 9/11 Hijacker Jarrah Allegedly Obtains Commercial Pilot’s License
  8. Spring 2001: CIA Official’s Suggestion to ‘Rain Hell’ on Taliban Is Not Well Received by Other US Ofificals
  9. Spring 2002: CIA Realizes Bush Administration Is Planning to Invade Iraq
  10. Spring-Late 2002: CIA Videotapes Interrogations of High Value Detainees
  11. Spring 2002: CIA Afghanistan Intelligence Gathering Plan Flounders for Lack of Funding
  12. Spring 2002: US Green Berets Denied Chance to Get Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan
  13. Spring 2003: US Green Berets Repeatedly Denied Permission to Go After Mullah Omar
  14. Spring 2004: Mysterious US Al-Qaeda Figure Finally Makes US Watch List
  15. Spring 2004: Conditions In Afghanistan Deteriorate
  16. Spring 2004: DIA Destroys Copies of Able Danger Documents
  17. Spring 2004: FBI Director Conducts Charm Offensive against 9/11 Commission to Save Bureau
  18. Spring 2004: Review Finds Airport Security Is Poor
  19. Spring 2004: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Receives Memo Urging Criminal Referral of False Statements by Pentagon, FAA; No Action Taken for Months
  20. Spring 2005: Taliban’s Top Drug Kingpin Turns Himself In to US
  21. Spring 2008: CIA Director Told about Al-Qaeda Assassination and Capture Program
  22. Spring 2000: Saudi Suggestion to Track Bin Laden’s Stepmother in Planned Meeting with Him Is Rejected
  23. 2006 and After: Some FBI Agents Believe CIA and Saudi Intelligence Attempted to Recruit Hijackers Almihdhar and Alhazmi
  24. Spring 2000: 9/11 Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar Likely Use Al-Bayoumi’s Phone to Call Imam Al-Awlaki and Others
  25. Spring 2000: Al-Qaeda Recruits Future 9/11 Hijackers in Saudi Arabia
  26. Spring 2001 or After: Captured Millennium Bomber Implicates Top London Imam Abu Hamza as Major Al-Qaeda Figure
  27. Spring 2002: CIA Taking for Granted US Will Invade Iraq; Tenet Is Warned Invasion Will ‘Break the Back’ of Counterterrorism Efforts
  28. Spring 2003: Bin Laden Allegedly Meets Group of Militants in Pakistan’s Tribal Region
  29. Spring 2003: Aid to Afghanistan Falls Short of Promises
  30. Spring 2005-Early 2007: Radical London Imam Bakri Admits He Has Been Informant for British Intelligence
  31. Spring 1993: ’Blind Sheikh’ Plot to Crash Airplane into US Embassy in Egypt
  32. Spring 1993: World Trade Center Bombing Investigation Uncovers Links to Ali Mohamed
  33. Spring 1993: Second Group of US Militants Linked to Al-Kifah Charity Front Fight in Bosnia
  34. Spring 1993: US Intelligence Connects Ramzi Yousef and Bin Laden
  35. Spring 1993: Islamic Jihad Head Fundraises in US
  36. Spring-Autumn 1994: Taliban Arise in Afghanistan; Quickly Co-opted by ISI
  37. Spring 1995: Flow Chart Given to US Connects Key Al-Qaeda Figures, but Not Followed Up
  38. Spring 1995: US Authorities Learn of Bojinka Second Wave Plot from Yousef’s Computer
  39. Spring 1995: More Evidence that WTC Remains a Target
  40. Spring 1996: Hani Hanjour Stays in Florida
  41. Spring-Summer 1998: Yemeni Officials Help Al-Qaeda with Knowledgeable Defector
  42. Spring 1998: Experts Warn FAA of Potential Massive Kamikaze Attack
  43. Spring 1998: French Intelligence Considers Kidnapping British Informer Abu Hamza in London
  44. Late Spring 1998: Kenyan Intelligence Tries to Warn CIA about Embassy Attack
  45. Spring 1998: Future Shoe Bomber Meets Top Al-Qaeda Recruiter at Radical London Mosque
  46. January 1998: US Begins Preparing Indictment of Bin Laden
  47. Spring 1998: Bin Laden’s Stepmother Visits Afghanistan
  48. Spring 1998: Yemeni Government Asks Tribal Elders to Muzzle Al-Qaeda-Linked Militant Group
  49. Spring 1999: US Uncovers Bin Laden Plans to Attack Washington
  50. Spring 1999: FBI Team Learns about Islamist Threat, Including Possible 9/11 Link, but Stymied by Bureaucracy