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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Spring 2002: CIA Realizes Bush Administration Is Planning to Invade Iraq
  2. Spring-Late 2002: CIA Videotapes Interrogations of High Value Detainees
  3. Spring 2002: CIA Afghanistan Intelligence Gathering Plan Flounders for Lack of Funding
  4. Spring 2002: US Green Berets Denied Chance to Get Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan
  5. Spring 2003: US Green Berets Repeatedly Denied Permission to Go After Mullah Omar
  6. Spring 2004: Mysterious US Al-Qaeda Figure Finally Makes US Watch List
  7. Spring 2004: Conditions In Afghanistan Deteriorate
  8. Spring 2004: DIA Destroys Copies of Able Danger Documents
  9. Spring 2004: FBI Director Conducts Charm Offensive against 9/11 Commission to Save Bureau
  10. Spring 2004: Review Finds Airport Security Is Poor
  11. Spring 2004: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Receives Memo Urging Criminal Referral of False Statements by Pentagon, FAA; No Action Taken for Months
  12. Spring 2005: Taliban’s Top Drug Kingpin Turns Himself In to US
  13. Spring 2008: CIA Director Told about Al-Qaeda Assassination and Capture Program
  14. Spring 2000: Saudi Suggestion to Track Bin Laden’s Stepmother in Planned Meeting with Him Is Rejected
  15. 2006 and After: Some FBI Agents Believe CIA and Saudi Intelligence Attempted to Recruit Hijackers Almihdhar and Alhazmi
  16. Spring 2000: 9/11 Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar Likely Use Al-Bayoumi’s Phone to Call Imam Al-Awlaki and Others
  17. Spring 2000: Al-Qaeda Recruits Future 9/11 Hijackers in Saudi Arabia
  18. Spring 2001 or After: Captured Millennium Bomber Implicates Top London Imam Abu Hamza as Major Al-Qaeda Figure
  19. Spring 2002: CIA Taking for Granted US Will Invade Iraq; Tenet Is Warned Invasion Will ‘Break the Back’ of Counterterrorism Efforts
  20. Spring 2003: Bin Laden Allegedly Meets Group of Militants in Pakistan’s Tribal Region
  21. Spring 2003: Aid to Afghanistan Falls Short of Promises
  22. Spring 2005-Early 2007: Radical London Imam Bakri Admits He Has Been Informant for British Intelligence
  23. Spring 1993: ’Blind Sheikh’ Plot to Crash Airplane into US Embassy in Egypt
  24. Spring 1993: World Trade Center Bombing Investigation Uncovers Links to Ali Mohamed
  25. Spring 1993: Second Group of US Militants Linked to Al-Kifah Charity Front Fight in Bosnia
  26. Spring 1993: US Intelligence Connects Ramzi Yousef and Bin Laden
  27. Spring 1993: Islamic Jihad Head Fundraises in US
  28. Spring-Autumn 1994: Taliban Arise in Afghanistan; Quickly Co-opted by ISI
  29. Spring 1995: Flow Chart Given to US Connects Key Al-Qaeda Figures, but Not Followed Up
  30. Spring 1995: US Authorities Learn of Bojinka Second Wave Plot from Yousef’s Computer
  31. Spring 1995: More Evidence that WTC Remains a Target
  32. Spring 1996: Hani Hanjour Stays in Florida
  33. Spring-Summer 1998: Yemeni Officials Help Al-Qaeda with Knowledgeable Defector
  34. Spring 1998: Experts Warn FAA of Potential Massive Kamikaze Attack
  35. Spring 1998: French Intelligence Considers Kidnapping British Informer Abu Hamza in London
  36. Late Spring 1998: Kenyan Intelligence Tries to Warn CIA about Embassy Attack
  37. Spring 1998: Future Shoe Bomber Meets Top Al-Qaeda Recruiter at Radical London Mosque
  38. January 1998: US Begins Preparing Indictment of Bin Laden
  39. Spring 1998: Bin Laden’s Stepmother Visits Afghanistan
  40. Spring 1998: Yemeni Government Asks Tribal Elders to Muzzle Al-Qaeda-Linked Militant Group
  41. Spring 1999: US Uncovers Bin Laden Plans to Attack Washington
  42. Spring 1999: FBI Team Learns about Islamist Threat, Including Possible 9/11 Link, but Stymied by Bureaucracy
  43. Spring 1999: New Jersey HMO Is Possibly Funding Al-Qaeda
  44. Spring-Summer 2001: Hijackers Allegedly Receive Extra Training on Large Aircraft
  45. Spring-Summer 2007: Senators Campaign for Release of Summary of CIA 9/11 Report
  46. Early 2001: FBI Informant Prevented from Investigating 9/11 Hijacker Atta, Given Easier Cases Instead
  47. Summer 2003: CIA Officials Obtain Permission from Rice to Use Harsh Interrogation Tactics on New Detainee
  48. Summer 2004: Former Counterterrorism Chief Debunks Ties between Iraq, 9/11, and ‘93 WTC Attacks
  49. Summer 1998: KSM Travels to the US until at Least This Time
  50. Summer 2000: Turkish Agent Allegedly Requests $250,000 for Nuclear Information Stolen from Air Force Base