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Subject: Timeline: U.S. foreknowledge of Sept 11 attacks?

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

[© COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The
Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be copied and distributed for
non-profit purposes only.]

FTW, November 2, 2001 - 1200 PST [Revised, Nov 27, 2001] -- 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. 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," - http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html. ]

2. 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].

3. 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.

4. 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].

5. 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.]

6. 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.]

7. 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]

8. 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."

9. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief General Mahmud (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. Mahmud
recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed
by the FBI. [Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]

10. 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.ie", September 14, 2001.]

11. 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.]

12. 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.

13. 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.]

14. 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.]

15. 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.

[This was either a natural economic cycle, or brought on by foreknowledge
of industrialists etc. who were informed of the coming Sept 11 attack]

16. 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.

17. 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.]

18. 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,
http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street
Journal.]

19. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]

20. 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."

21. 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,
http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html. ]

22. 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, -
http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept.
18, 2001 - http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7,
9/30/00 - www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.

23. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above), friend of
Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. [Source:
MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]

24. September 11, 2001, For 35 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.]

25. 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.]

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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."

29. 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.

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 Quetta.

"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.".

"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.".

"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.

In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro is owned by
the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which employs George
Bush Sr., and which had as investors - until they sold their stake on
October 26 - the bin Laden family.

Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you that this war,
which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in out lifetimes, has been in
the works for at least four years.

Michael C. Ruppert P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 (818)788-8791
* fax(818)981-2847 mruppert@copvcia.com

© COPYRIGHT 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 MICHAEL C. RUPPERT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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