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  1. 1998-10-15 October 15, 1998: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Says ‘Public Assumptions’ Shape Views of History
  2. 1998-10-21 October 21, 1998: Presidential Directive Updates Continuity of Government Plan to Deal with Terrorist Threat
  3. 1998-11-01 November 1, 1998-February 2001: Atta and Other Islamic Militants Are Monitored by US and Germany in Hamburg Apartment
  4. 1998-12-01 December 1, 1998: Bin Laden Actively Planning Attacks Inside US
  5. 1998-12-02 December 2-4, 1998: NORAD Runs an Exercise in Which Simulated Information Is Injected into Its Radar Systems
  6. 1998-12-04 December 4, 1998: Clinton Warned ‘Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft’ Inside US
  7. 1999-01-09 January 9, 1999: NORAD Holds an Exercise Based on Terrorists Planning to Crash a Plane into the White House
  8. 1999-01-31 January 31, 1999: Germany Monitors 9/11 Hijacker’s Calls, Shares Information with CIA
  9. 1999-02-17 February 17, 1999: Germans Intercept Al-Qaeda Calls, One Mentions Atta’s Name
  10. 1999-03-21 March 21, 1999: 9/11 Hijacker Alhazmi Receives Passport Containing Suspicious Indicator of Islamist Extremism, Reportedly Tracked by Saudi Authorities
  11. 1999-04-01 April 1, 1999: Hijacker Jarrah Photographs Wedding Party
  12. 1999-04-03 April 3-7, 1999: Three 9/11 Hijackers Obtain US Visas
  13. 1999-04-06 April 6, 1999: 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Receives Passport Containing Suspicious Indicator of Islamist Extremism, Reportedly Tracked by Saudi Authorities
  14. 1999-04-15 April 15, 1999: Hanjour Gets Pilot’s License Despite Dubious Skills
  15. 1999-05-23 May 23, 1999: FBI Connects Hambali to Bojinka Front Company
  16. 1999-06-07 June 7, 1999: Biological Terrorist Attack Exercise Is Held at New York’s New Emergency Command Center
  17. 1999-06-08 June 8, 1999: New York Emergency Command Center Opened in WTC Building 7
  18. 1999-07-08 July 8, 1999: FBI Told KSM Is Living in United Arab Emirates
  19. 1999-07-26 July 26, 1999: FEMA Sets Out Criteria for Government Agencies’ Responses to Emergencies, Including Terrorist Attacks
  20. 1999-08-10 Late 1998-August 10, 1999: Pakistani Air Force Pilot Temporarily Replaces Alshehhi as Atta’s Roommate
  21. 1999-09-21 September 21, 1999: German Intelligence Records Calls Between Hijacker and Others Linked to Al-Qaeda
  22. 1999-10-09 October 9, 1999: Wedding Connects Darkazanli with Hamburg Cell
  23. 1999-10-23 October 23, 1999: 9/11 Hijacker Atta Enters US Green Card Lottery, Fails to Obtain Residency
  24. 1999-10-31 October 31, 1999: Suicide Pilot Crashes Commercial Airliner into Ocean
  25. 1999-11-04 November 4, 1999: CIA Rejects Proposal for Center to Share Data on Terrorist Threats
  26. 1999-11-06 November 6, 1999: 9/11 Hijacker Ahmed Alnami Receives Passport Possibly Containing Suspicious Indicator of Islamist Extremism, May Be Tracked by Saudi Authorities
  27. 1999-11-06 November 6, 1999: NORAD Conducts Exercise Scenario Based around Hijackers Planning to Crash Plane into UN Headquarters in New York
  28. 1999-11-07 November 7, 1999: 9/11 Hijacker Jarrah Phones Islamic Jihad Leader Wanted for Murder in Egypt
  29. 1999-11-10 November 10, 1999: North WTC Tower Suffers Last ‘Significant’ Fire Prior to 9/11; Bigger Fire Occurred in 1975
  30. 1999-11-30 November 30, 1999: Jordan Thwarts Al-Qaeda Connected Millennium Plot
  31. 1999-12-04 December 4, 1999: Saudi Ambassador’s Wife Gives Funds that Are Possibly Passed to 9/11 Hijackers
  32. 1999-12-08 December 8, 1999: CIA Concludes that Bin Laden Plans Many Imminent Attacks, Including Some inside US
  33. 1999-12-09 December 9, 1999: President Clinton Warned about Al-Qaeda Operatives Living in US
  34. 1999-12-11 December 11, 1999: Watch List Importance Is Stressed but Procedures Are Not Followed
  35. 1999-12-21 December 21, 1999: FBI Misses Chance to Discover Moussaoui’s Al-Qaeda Connections
  36. 1999-12-29 Shortly Before December 29, 1999: NSA Monitors 9/11 Hijackers Talking to Each Other about Upcoming Al-Qaeda Summit
  37. 1999-12-29 December 29, 1999: Bin Laden’s ‘Procurement Agent’ Detained in Jordan, Said to Describe ‘Bin Laden’s US Operations’
  38. 1999-12-29 December 29, 1999: NSA Tells CIA about Planned Al-Qaeda Summit Involving Future Hijackers
  39. 1999-12-31 December 31, 1999-January 2, 2000: Al-Qaeda Operative Cases Airplane Security
  40. 2000-01-02 (January 2-5, 2000): Al-Qaeda Operative Linked to 9/11 Hijackers Possibly Makes Quick Trip to US
  41. 2000-01-02 January 2-4, 2000: US Intelligence Loses Track of 9/11 Hijacker Alhazmi as He Travels to Malaysia
  42. 2000-01-02 January 2-5, 2000: CIA Learns 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Has US Visa as He Is Tracked to Al-Qaeda Summit
  43. 2000-01-05 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000: CIA Bin Laden Unit Blocks Notification to FBI about Hijacker Almihdhar’s US Visa
  44. 2000-01-05 January 5, 2000: CIA Warns Other Intelligence Agencies that Almihdhar Has Visa to US, but Lies about FBI Knowledge of This
  45. 2000-01-05 January 5-6, 2000: Al-Qaeda Operatives’ Failure to Meet in Singapore Has Important Consequences
  46. 2000-01-05 (January 5-8, 2000): CIA Fails to Act on Triangle of Calls Linking Malaysia Summit,ColeBomber’s House, and 9/11 Hijackers’ Hotel
  47. 2000-01-05 January 5-6, 2000: CIA Liaison with FBI Who Just Learned About Almihdhar’s US Visa Twice Fails to Tell FBI about It
  48. 2000-01-05 January 5-8, 2000: Al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia Discusses 9/11 andColePlots; CIA Has Malaysians Monitor It
  49. 2000-01-05 (January 5-8, 2000): Al-Qaeda Malaysia Summit Attendees Photographed
  50. 2000-01-05 January 5-15, 2000: CIA Bin Laden Unit Fails to Draft Proper Report about Malaysia Summit