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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. Early 2002, probably May or later: Czech President to Washington: No Evidence of Prague Meeting
  2. Late July 2002: 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Concludes Atta Did Not Have Prague Meeting
  3. 1998: National Security Council Finds No Link Between Al-Qaeda and Iraqi Government
  4. Early February 2003: FBI Reportedly Baffled by White House Push to Link Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  5. Late December 1998: Iraqi Ambassador Reportedly Meets with Osama Bin Laden; But Meeting Took Place Three Years Earlier
  6. February 2003: 76 Percent of Americans Believe Hussein Assists Al-Qaeda
  7. December 2001-Mid-2002: Al-Zarqawi Moves Operations to Northern Iraq but Has No Ties to Hussein’s Government
  8. 1989-Late 1999: Al-Zarqawi Becomes Prominent Islamist Militant
  9. April 2002: Al-Zarqawi Said to Head Militant Group Competing with Al-Qaeda
  10. 2001: Al-Zarqawi Allegedly Arrested and Released in Jordan
  11. October 2002: Former CIA Official Says CIA Analysts Are Upset About Use of Cooked Intelligence
  12. Summer 2002: Bush Advisor: We Say What Reality Is
  13. 1999: George W. Bush Hints at Invading Iraq in Future Presidency
  14. Late July or Early August 2001: US Authorities Look into Theory that Iraq Had Role in 1993 WTC Bombing
  15. March 2002: US Military Pulls Elite Special Operations Group from Afghanistan and Redeploys Them to Iraq
  16. May 2002: Equipment Intecepting Al-Qaeda Communications In Afghanistan Arena Is Sent to Iraq
  17. March 2002: Cheney Says Decision Has Been Made to Invade Iraq
  18. Late July -September 2002: As Much as $700 Million Diverted from Afghanistan to Prepare for Invasion of Iraq
  19. Spring 2002: Focus Shifts from Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda to Iraq
  20. Spring 2002: CIA Reduces Operations and Personnel in Afghanistan
  21. Early 2002: Most of Task Force 5 Elite Force Is Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
  22. February 2002: DIA Suggests Prisoner Probably Lying about Al-Qaeda Ties to Iraq; but His Allegations Will Be Used in Bush Speech Later
  23. April 2003: US Intelligence Analysts Complain about Pressure to Tie Iraq to Al-Qaeda
  24. 2002-March 2003: CIA Analysts Know that Iraq Has no WMD nor Ties to Al-Qaeda; CIA ‘Serving the Agenda’ of Bush Administration
  25. March 2001: Cheney’s Energy Task Force Eyes Iraq’s Oil Reserves
  26. Mid-January 2004: Paul O’Neill Says He Never Saw Any Evidence that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction
  27. Mid-September 2001: Neoconservatives Look to Tie Iraq to 1993 WTC Bombing, but Evidence Contradicts Their Theory
  28. Early November 2001: USA Today: Decision to Invade Iraq Made at This Time
  29. Early March 2002: Bush Diverts Resources from War on Terror
  30. August 2002: Neocons Give Unconvincing Presentation on Iraq Ties to Al-Qaeda; Information Used by Bush, Tenet, Right-Wing Supporters
  31. Late September 2001: Cheney’s Chief of Staff Pressures Clarke to Support Alleged Mohamed Atta-Iraq Connection
  32. May 2006: FEMA Warns of Nuclear ‘Suitcase Bombs’
  33. May 2008: US Intelligence Allegedly Hears Head of Pakistani Military Call Taliban Leader ‘Strategic Asset’
  34. Summer 2001: IAEA Scientist: US ‘Wants to Attack’ Iraq
  35. September 2007: Guantanamo File Shows US Secretly Considers ISI to Be Terrorist Organization
  36. Mid-September 2001: Israel and US Plan Contingency to Steal Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan
  37. May 16-August, 2009: Afghan MP Malalai Joya Repeatedly Condemns Coming Afghan Presidential Elections as Illegitimate; Results Fixed by Warlords and Washington
  38. Early March 2009: Afghan Government Enters Preliminary Negotiations with Haqqani Network
  39. (2006): CIA Expert on Iraq Claims US Intelligence Never Had Any Evidence of Hussein-Al-Qaeda Link
  40. Mid-May 2001: CIA Withholds Photo of Al-Qaeda Leader from FBI
  41. Mid-1998: CIA/FBI Decline Informant’s Request to Meet with Bin Laden
  42. January 2003: Pakistan Military Allegedly Trains Militants to Kill Westerners in Afghanistan
  43. Between March 2001 and May 2001: Richard Clarke: Bush Officials Discuss CreatingCasus Bellifor War with Iraq
  44. Spring 1989: ISI and Bin Laden Allegedly Plot to Kill Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
  45. February 2005: Taliban Leaders and Pakistani Officials Allegedly Meet to Plan More Attacks against US Forces in Afghanistan
  46. 2005 and After: US Officials Encourage and Advise Pakistani Sunni Militant Group
  47. October 2001-April 2002: Pentagon Establishes Secret Unit for Conducting Covert Missions Previously Run by CIA
  48. Autumn 2004: President Bush Authorizes Military, and Not Just CIA, to ‘Find and Finish’ Terrorist Targets
  49. December 2004: White House Reportedly Gives Pentagon Permission to Operate Unilaterally in Some Countries; Could Possibly Conduct ‘Terrorist Activities’
  50. Between Late 2004-January 2005: Memo Says Strategic Support Branch Agents May Include ‘Notorious Figures’