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by Michael C.
Ruppert
“Oh Lucy! – You Gotta Lotta
‘Splainin To Do”. A Timeline Surrounding September 11th. If the 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.
copvcia.com, November 2, 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. 1991-1997 – Major U.S. oil
companies including Exxon, Mobil, 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,” copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html .]
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, http://www.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% above
normal. This at a time when Reuters (September 10) issues a business
report stating, “Airline stocks may be poised to take off.”
28. 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,
copvcia.com/members/
oct152001.html. ]
29. 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, - copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html;
FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 - copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 -copvcia.com/stories/
may_2001/052401_promis.html.
30. 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.]
31. September 11, 2001 – 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.].
32. 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.]
33. 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.]
34. 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]
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.”
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.”
41. 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].
42. December 25, 2001 – Newly
appointed afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is revealed as being a
former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le Monde.]
43. 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]
44. 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.
45. 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.]
46. 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]
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?
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