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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25. 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.]
26. 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.]
27. 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.]
28. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options
are purchased on American Airlines as
compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT -
above]
29. 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% above normal. This at a time when
Reuters (September 10) issues a business
report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised
to take off."
30. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly
abnormal levels of put options are purchased
in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA
Re(insurance) which owns 25% of American
Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these
companies are directly impacted by the
September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18, 2001,
fromthewilderness.com
members/oct152001.html. ]
31. It has been documented that the CIA,
the Israeli Mossad and many other intelligence
agencies monitor stock trading in real time
using highly advanced programs reported to be
descended from Promis software. This is to
alert national intelligence services of just such
kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as
recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin
Laden's possession and, as a result of recent
stories by FOX, both the FBI and the Justice
Department have confirmed its use for U.S.
intelligence gathering through at least this
summer. This would confirm that CIA had
additional advance warning of imminent
attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times,
June 15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001;
FTW, October 26, 2001, -
fromthewilderness.com
members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV,
No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
fromthewilderness.com
members/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7,
9/30/00 - www.fromthewilderness.com/
stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.
32. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of
the ISI (see above), friend of Mohammed Atta,
is visiting Washington on behalf of the
Taliban. He is meeting with the Chairmen of
the House and Senate Intelligence
Committees, Porter Goss (R), FL and Bob
Graham (D), Fl [Sources: MS-NBC, Oct. 7, The
New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002.]
33. September 11, 2002 - Employees of
Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the world's largest
instant messaging companies, with offices in
New York, receive threat warnings of an
imminent attack on the WTC less than two
hours before the first plane hits the WTC. Law
enforcement authorities have gone silent
about any investigation of this. The Odigo
Research and Development offices in Israel
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy
suburb of Tel Aviv which is the same location
as the Institute for Counter Terrorism which
breaks early details of insider trading on 9-11.
[Source: CNN's Daniel Sieberg, 9/28/01;
Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, 9/27/01;
Ha'aretz, 9/26/01.].
34. September 11, 2001, For 50 minutes,
from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it widely
known within the FAA and the military that
four planes have been simultaneously hijacked
and taken off course, no one notifies the
President of the United States. It is not until
9:30 that any Air Force planes are scrambled
to intercept, but by then it is too late. This
means that the National Command Authority
waited for 75 minutes before scrambling
aircraft, even though it was known that four
simultaneous hijackings had occurred - an
event that has never happened in history.
[Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los Angeles
Times, The New York Times.]
35. September 13, 2001 - China is admitted
to the World Trade Organization quickly, after
15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source:
The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
36. September 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers
open the sealed envelope from Mike Vreeland
in Toronto and see that is describes attacks
against the WTC and Pentagon. The U.S. Navy
subsequently states that Vreeland was
discharged as a seaman in 1986 for
unsatisfactory performance and has never
worked in intelligence. [Source: The Toronto
Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court
records]
37. September 15, 2001 - The New York
Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has
resigned, effective immediately, as head of
the Alex (A.B) Brown unit of Deutschebank.
38. September 29, 2001 - The San Francisco
Chronicle reports that $2.5 million in put
options on American Airlines and United
Airlines are unclaimed. This is likely the result
of the suspension in trading on the NYSE after
the attacks which gave the Securities and
Exchange Commission time to be waiting
when the owners showed up to redeem their
put options.
39. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani
newspaper The Frontier Post reports that U.S.
Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a
call on the Pakistani oil minister. A previously
abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan,
across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for
the purpose of selling oil and gas to China, is
now back on the table "in view of recent
geopolitical developments."
40. October 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice
Department takes over all terrorist
prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in
New York which has had a highly successful
track record in prosecuting terrorist cases
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The
New York Times, Oct. 11, 2002.]
41. Mid October, 2001 - The Dow Jones
Industrial Average, after having suffered a
precipitous drop has recovered most of its
pre-attack losses. Although still weak, and
vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a
crash has been averted by a massive infusion
of government spending on defense programs,
subsidies for "affected" industries and planned
tax cuts for corporations.
42. November 21, 2001 - The British paper
The Independent runs a story headlined,
"Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the
Taliban." The story reports that massive
opium planting is underway all over the
country.
43. November 25, 2001 - The Observer runs
a story headlined "Victorious Warlords Set To
Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that
farmers are being encouraged by warlords
allied with the victorious Americans are "being
encouraged to plant "as much opium as
possible."
44. December 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord
and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is recruited by
the US government to help establish control in
Afghanistan by unifying various Pashtun
warlords. The former opium smuggler who was
one of the CIA's leading assets in the war
against the Russians is released from prison
in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times
Online, 12/4/01].
45. December 25, 2001 - Newly appointed
afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is
revealed as being a former paid consultant for
Unocal. [Source: Le Monde.]
46. January 3, 2002 - President Bush
appoints Zalamy Khalilzad as a special envoy
to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee
of Unocal, also wrote op-eds in the
Washington Post in 1997 supporting the
Taliban regime. [Source: Pravda, 1/9/02]
47. January 4, 2002 - Florida drug
trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a surge of
trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the
diversion of resources away from drug
enforcement has opened the floodgates for a
new surge of cocaine and heroin from South
America. [The Christian Science Monitor,
January 4, 2002.
48. January 10, 2002 - In a call from a
speaker phone in open court, attorneys for
"Mike" Vreeland call the Pentagon's
switchboard operator who confirms that
Vreeland is indeed a Naval Lieutenant on
active duty. She provides an office number and
a direct dial phone extension to his office in
the Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati;
court records Toronto Superior Court.]
49. January 10, 2002 - Attorney General
John Ashcroft recuses himself from the Enron
investigation because Enron had been a major
campaign donor in his 2000 Senate race. He
fails to recuse himself from involvement in
two sitting Federal grand juries investigating
bribery and corruption charges against
ExxonMobil and BP-Amoco who have massive
oil interests in Central Asia. Both were major
Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan.
10, 2002 - FTW original investigation, The
Elephant in the Living Room, Part I, Apr 4,
2002.]
50. February 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader
General Musharraf and Afghan leader Hamid
Karzai announce their agreement to
"cooperate in all spheres of activity" including
the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan
will give $10 million to Afghanistan to help
pay Afghani government workers. [Source: The
Irish Times, 2/9/02]
51. Feb 18, 2002 - The Financial Times
reports that the estimated opium harvest in
Afghanistan in the late Spring of 2002 will
reach a world record 4500 metric tons.
Now, let's go back to the October 31 story by
Le Figaro - the one that has Osama bin Laden
meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June.
The story says that, "Throughout his stay in
the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits
from many family members [There goes the
story that he's a black sheep!] and Saudi
Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During
this time the local representative of the CIA
was seen by many people taking the elevator
and going to bin Laden's room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to
his friends about having visited the Saudi
millionaire. From authoritative sources, this
CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July
15th, the day after bin Laden's departure for
QuettaÖ
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources
and French intelligence itself, precise
information was communicated to the CIA
concerning terrorist attacks aimed at American
interests in the world, including its own
territory."Ö
"Extremely bothered, they [American
intelligence officers in a meeting with French
intelligence officers] requested from their
French peers exact details about the Algerian
activists [connected to bin Laden through
Dubai banking institutions], without explaining
the exact nature of their inquiry. When asked
the question, "What do you fear in the coming
days?' the Americans responded with
incomprehensible silence."Ö
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered
certain plans that had been put together
between the CIA and its "Islamic friends" over
the years. The meeting in Dubai is, so it
would seem, consistent with 'a certain
American policy.'"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had
confirmed with hospital staff that bin Laden
had been there as reported, stories printed on
November 1 contained quotes from hospital
staff that these reports were untrue. On
November 1, as reported by the Ananova press
agency, the CIA flatly denied that any meeting
between any CIA personnel and Osama bin
Laden at any time.
Who do you believe?
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