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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Summer 2000: San Diego Hijackers Meet Atta and Al-Bayoumi
  2. Summer 2000: FBI Extracts Confession from Embassy Bombing Cell Member without Torture
  3. Summer-October 2000: Al-Qaeda Counterterrorism Squad Found to be Illegally Sharing Information with Prosecutors
  4. Summer 2000: Some 9/11 Hijackers Allegedly Work as Airport Security Staff in Afghanistan
  5. Summer 2001: Radical London Imam Abu Hamza Encourages Supporters to Pledge Loyalty to Bin Laden, British Authorities Take No Action
  6. Summer 2001: FBI Neglects Chance to Infiltrate Al-Qaeda Training Camp
  7. Summer 2001: 9/11 Hijackers’ Associates Call Monitored Al-Qaeda Communications Hub in Yemen
  8. Summer 2001: Israel Warns US of ‘Big Attack’
  9. Summer 2001: Bin Laden Speech Mentions 20 Martyrs in Upcoming Attack; Other Hints of Attack Spread Widely
  10. Summer 2001: CIA Allegedly Tells Bush Al-Qaeda Has Been Penetrated
  11. Summer 2001: Two CIA Bin Laden Experts Consider Resigning in Protest
  12. Summer 2001 and before: Hijacker Atta Receives $100,000 from Pakistan
  13. Summer 2001: State Department Official Allegedly Receives Bribe from Nuclear Proliferation Network
  14. Summer-Autumn 2001: State Department Official Allegedly Tips Off Nuclear Smuggling Ring about CIA Front Company
  15. Summer 2001: Manager Where Hijacker Hanjour Trains Has Concerns But FBI Does Not Contact Him
  16. (Between Summer and Winter 2001): CIA Appoints New Head of Sunni Extremist Group Section of Counterterrorist Center
  17. Summer 2001: Hijackers Use a Variety of Means to Get into Cockpit During Test Flights
  18. Summer 2001: Al-Qaeda Plot Described as Upcoming ‘Hiroshima’ on US Soil
  19. Summer 2001: NSA Intercepts Calls between 9/11 Hijacker Atta and 9/11 Mastermind KSM; Fails to Share This with Other Agencies
  20. Summer 2001: Transportation Department Not Told of Impending Al-Qaeda Threat
  21. Summer 2001: FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement There Is No Credible Threat of Terrorism In the US
  22. Late Summer 2001: US Contingency Plans to Attack Afghanistan
  23. Summer 2001: Pentagon’s Police Force Holds Various, Unknown Emergency Drills
  24. Summer 2001: Threat Alerts Increase to Record High
  25. Summer 2001: Military Plans Reducing Domestic Air Defenses Still Further
  26. Summer 2001: FBI Field Offices Not Told to Increase Surveillance of Terrorism Suspects
  27. Summer 2001: Saudi and Taliban Leaders Reportedly Discuss Bin Laden
  28. Summer 2001: Tenet Believes Something Is Happening
  29. Summer 2002: Informant Helping British Intelligence Communicate with Abu Qatada Has Doubts and Is Fired
  30. Summer-Winter 2002: CIA Employee Allegedly Lies to Congressional Inquiry over Notification about Hijacker Almihdhar
  31. Summer 2002: Police Seek Future Alleged Terror Mastermind over Relative’s Murder
  32. Summer 2003: 9/11 Commission Unhappy with Information Coming from Detainees
  33. (Summer 2003): FBI Reluctance over Saudi Connection Leads to Complaint from 9/11 Commissioner
  34. (Summer 2003): 9/11 Commissioner Tells White House of Saudi Links to 9/11 Plotters, White House Uninterested
  35. Summer 2003-January 2004: 9/11 Commission Does Not Receive Videotapes of Detainee Interrogations
  36. Summer 2003: Nearly Half of Remaining US Spies and Commandos in Afghanistan Sent to Iraq
  37. Summer 2004: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Investigated over Mishandling of Classified Information
  38. Summer 2005: Director of National Intelligence Tells CIA Not to Destroy Interrogation Tapes
  39. Summer-Autumn 2006: Renewed US Effort to Find Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri Frustrated by Pakistan Peace Deal with Militants
  40. Summer 1999: CIA Asks Immigration Officials across Middle East to Question Anyone Who May Be Returning from Afghan Training Camps
  41. Summer 2000: NSA Continues to Intercept Calls between Hijackers and Yemen Communications Hub
  42. Summer 2001: Germany and Other European Countries Are Aware Al-Qaeda Is Planning Major Attack
  43. Summer 2001: Candidate 9/11 Hijacker Possibly Arrested in US, Then Released
  44. Summer 2001: Lead 7/7 London Bomber Already Radicalized, Linked to Two Future Suicide Bombers
  45. Summer 2001: CIA Director Tenet Believes Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Is Blocking Effort to Develop Strategy to Get Bin Laden
  46. Summer-Early November 2002: Second Informant Helps British Intelligence Communicate with Informer Abu Qatada
  47. Summer 2002: Arms Dealer Victor Bout Helps Taliban and Al-Qaeda Ship Gold to Sudan
  48. Summer 2009: US Intelligence Finally Determines General Location of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier in Northwest Pakistan
  49. Summer 1989: Ali Mohamed Uses His US Military Expertise to Train Muslim Radicals
  50. Summer 1991: Ali Mohamed Helps Bin Laden Move to Sudan