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 February 11, 2002]
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 and Shell directly invest almost $3
billion 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. [Sources Testimony before the
House International Relations Committee
2/12/98]
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. 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,”
6. 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].
7. 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.
8. 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].
9. 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.]
10. 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.]
11. 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]
12. 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.”
13. 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.]
14. 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.]
15. 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.]
16. 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.]
17. 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]
18. 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.
19. 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.]
20. 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.]
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. September 1-10, 2001 – In an exercise,
Operation “Swift Sword” planned for four
years, 23, 000 British troops are steaming
toward Oman. Although the 9/11 attacks
caused a hiccup in the deployment the
massive operation was implemented as
planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of
Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also at the
same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more
than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for
Operation “Bright Star.” All of these forces are
in place before the first plane hits the World
Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN,
FOX, The Observer, International Law
Professor Francis Boyle, the University of
Illinois.]
24. September 7, 2001 – Florida Governor Jeb
Bush signs a two-year emergency executive
order (01-261) making new provisions for the
Florida National Guard to assist law
enforcement and emergency-management
personnel in the event of large civil
disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism.
[Source: State of Florida web site listing of
Governor’s Executive Orders.]
25. September 6-7, 2001 – 4,744 put options (a
speculation that the stock will go down) are
purchased on United Air Lines stock as
opposed to only 396 call options (speculation
that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic
and abnormal increase in sales of put options.
Many of the UAL puts are purchased through
Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until
1998 by the current Executive Director of the
CIA, A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard. [Source: The
Herzliyya International Policy Institute for
Counterterrorism, ict.org.il,
September 21; The New York Times; The Wall
Street Journal.]
26. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are
purchased on American Airlines as compared
to 748 call options. [Source: ICT – above]
27. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines
show any similar trading patterns to those
experienced by UAL and American. The put
option purchases on both airlines were 600% |
