A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA
AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE
SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
by
Michael C. Ruppert
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[Expanded and Revised April 18, 2002]
[Editor's Note: I don't think we've ever been
happier to make a correction when we have
made an error. Until recently - relying on an
Oct. 31, 2001 article in Britain's The Guardian
-- which stated, "Carlyle's other holdings span
an improbable range, taking in the French
newspaper Le Figaro and the company which
bottles Dr Pepper," we had believed that
Carlyle actually owned Le Figaro. The Guardian
story had been written in the context of
Carlyle's overall role as a buyer and seller of
companies. We were recently forwarded
information from the Guerilla News Network
(www.guerrillanews.com) citing the French
publication Liberation as having reported that
Carlyle's ownership of Le Figaro is actually
only 4.9%. The term "holdings" can be
interpreted in two ways and this new
information makes the Figaro story - which
has not been retracted - even stronger.]
FTW, November 2, 2001 - 1200 PST -- On
October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped
a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital
receiving treatment for a chronic kidney
infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with
a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of
Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's
private suite, took place at the American
hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a
wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S.
embassies and this year's attack on the U.S.S.
Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution
according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued
by President Bill Clinton before leaving office
in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to
leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no
Navy fighters waiting to force him down.
In 1985 Oliver North - the only member of the
Reagan-Bush years who doesn't appear to
have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy
and commandos after terrorists on the cruise
ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography
"Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu
Abbas, North wrote, "I used to wonder: how
many dead Americans will it take before we do
something?" One could look at the number of
Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have
killed before September 11 and ask the same
question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete
timeline listing crucial events both before and
after the September 11th suicide attacks,
which have been blamed on bin Laden,
establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and
strongly suggests that there was criminal
complicity on the part of the U.S. government
in their execution. It also makes clear that the
events which have taken place since
September 11th are based upon an agenda
that has little to do with the attacks.
One wonders how these events could have
been ignored by the major media or treated as
isolated incidents. Failing that, how could
skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or
at least even just a little suspicious?
1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies
including ExxonMobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP
Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest almost
billions in cash bribing heads of state in
Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge
oil reserves in these regions. The oil
companies further commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not
being willing to pay exorbitant prices to
Russia to use Russian pipelines the major oil
companies have no way to recoup their
investments. ["The Price of Oil," by Seymour
Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The
Asia Times, "The Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26,
2002.]
2. December 4, 1997 - Representatives of
the Taliban are invited guests to the Texas
headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their
support for the pipeline. Subsequent reports
will indicate that the negotiations failed,
allegedly because the Taliban wanted too
much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]
3. February 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice
President John J. Maresca - later to become a
Special Ambassador to Afghanistan - testifies
before the House that until a single, unified,
friendly government is in place in Afghanistan
the trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize
the oil will not be built. [Source: Testimony
before the House International Relations
Committee.]
4. 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from
Case Officer Robert Baer that Saudi Arabia
was harboring an al-Q'aeda cell led by two
known terrorists. A more detailed list of known
terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in
August 2001 and refused. [Source: Financial
Times 1/12/01; See No Evil by a book by
Robert Baer (release date Feb. 2002).
5. April, 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion
investment to build an electrical generating
plant at Dabhol India loses access to plentiful
LNG supplies from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its
only remaining option to make the investment
profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be
built by Unocal from Turkmenistan that would
terminate near the Indian border at the city of
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28,
2002.]
6. 1998 and 2000 - Former President
George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on
behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group,
the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S.
While there he meets privately with the Saudi
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source:
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also
FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 - "The Best Enemies Money
Can Buy," -
fromthewilderness.com
members/carlyle.html. ]
7. January, 2001 - The Bush Administration
orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to
"back off" investigations involving the bin
Laden family, including two of Osama bin
Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who
were living in Falls Church, VA - right next to
CIA headquarters. This followed previous
orders dating back to 1996, frustrating efforts
to investigate the bin Laden family. [Source:
BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast -
Nov 7, 2001].
8. Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism
Correspondent Richard Sale - while covering a
trial of bin Laden's Al Q'aeda followers -
reports that the National Security Agency has
broken bin Laden's encrypted communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed
systems in February it does not mesh with the
fact that the government insists that the
attacks had been planned for years.
9. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin
Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban
regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers
who are starving since the destruction of their
opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban
regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May
22, 2001].
10. May, 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage, a career covert operative
and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a
publicized tour while CIA Director George
Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet
with Pakistani leader General Pervez
Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep
Pakistani intelligence connections and he is
the recipient of the highest civil decoration
awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable
to assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in
what was described as "an unusually long
meeting," also met with his Pakistani
counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, head
of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news
agency, May 22, 2001.]
11. June 2001 - German intelligence, the
BND, warns the CIA and Israel that Middle
Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack
commercial aircraft to use as weapons to
attack important symbols of American and
Israeli culture." [Source: Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2001.]
12. July, 2001 - Three American officials:
Tom Simmons (former U.S. Ambassador to
Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant
Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and
Lee Coldren (former State Department expert
on South Asia), meet with Pakistani and
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell
them that the U.S. is planning military strikes
against Afghanistan in October. A French book
released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite?
Interdite," discloses that Taliban
representatives often sat in on the meetings.
British papers confirm that the Pakistani ISI
relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source:
The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC,
September 18, 2001.The Inter Press Service,
Nov 16, 2001]
13. Summer, 2001 - The National Security
Council convenes a Dabhol working group as
revealed in a series of government e-mails
obtained by The Washington Post and the
New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion
Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]
14. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26
story in Britain's The Guardian, correspondent
David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department of
defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited
Tajikistan in January. The Guardian's Felicity
Lawrence established that US Rangers were
also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan.
There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and
Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska
and Montana."
15. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI
Chief General Ahmad (see above) orders an
aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed
Atta, who was according to the FBI, the lead
terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad
recently resigned after the transfer was
disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI.
[Source: The Times of India, October 11,
2001.]
16. Summer 2001 - An Iranian man phones
U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent
attack on the World Trade Center in the week
of September 9th. German police confirm the
calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service
would not reveal any further information.
[Source: German news agency "online.de",
September 14, 2001, translation retrieved
from online.ie in Ireland.]
17. June 26, 2001 - The magazine
indiareacts.com states that "India and Iran
will 'facilitate' US and Russian plans for
'limited military action' against the Taliban."
The story indicates that the fighting will be
done by US and Russian troops with the help
of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001.]
18. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an
Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in Boston.
French intelligence sources confirm that the
man is a key member of bin Laden's network
and the FBI learns that he has been taking
flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the
man is in possession of technical information
on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source:
Reuters, September 13.]
19. August 11 or 12 - US Navy Lt. Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland, jailed in Toronto on U.S.
fraud charges and claiming to be an officer in
U.S. Naval intelligence, writes details of the
pending WTC attacks and seals them in an
envelope which he gives to Canadian
authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct.
23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]
20. Summer 2001 - Russian intelligence
notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots have
been specifically training for suicide missions.
This is reported in the Russian press and news
stories are translated for FTW by a retired CIA
officer.
21. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden
receives treatments for kidney disease at the
American hospital in Dubai and meets with a
CIA official who returns to CIA headquarters
on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro, October 31st,
2001.]
22. August 2001 - Russian President
Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence to
warn the U.S. government "in the strongest
possible terms" of imminent attacks on
airports and government buildings. [Source:
MS-NBC interview with Putin, September 15.]
23. August/September, 2001 - The Dow
Jones Industrial Average drops nearly 900
points in the three weeks prior to the attack.
A major stock market crash is imminent.
24. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MS-NBC reports on
September 16 that a caller to a Cayman
Islands radio talk show gave several warnings
of an imminent attack on the U.S. by bin
Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
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