Evidence of Bush Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming.
July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order 13129, which freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits trade between the Afghan
fundamentalist regime and U.S. entities. Source: Federal Register, Vol. 64, No. 129, July 7, 1999
Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was questioned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE, Middle Eastern, European, and U.S.
sources were cited in this CNN report, which said the CIA requested Jarrah be interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was suspected to
have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman said the other sources' claims that the agency knew anything about Jarrah before Sept. 11 were
"flatly untrue." Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in Dubai, UAE came six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was
released because "U.S. officials were satisfied," said the report. Source: CNN, Aug. 1, 2002
www.cnn.com...
June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publishes a story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to Drug Trade."
According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a report by the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent of the
heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that 80 percent traveled
through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers headquartered in
Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers by providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by a Russian intelligence
officer who told the Moscow News weekly, "You can come to an arrangement with custom officials so that the search of military transport planes
remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]." Source:
www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp
Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht High School who had recently emigrated from Pakistan reportedly predicts the destruction of
the World Trade Center a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to the JournalNews newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing "three police sources
and a city official familiar with the investigation" as well as confirmation from the FBI that the bureau had received this information, the paper
reported that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student pointed to the World Trade Center from a third story window and said, "Do you see
those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week." New York City Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the
JournalNews "that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes of the Sept. 11 attack" and students told the paper that "FBI
agents and NYPD detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the student who made the prediction and others in his class," which was
"an English class for Arab-American students." Source: The JournalNews, Oct. 11, 2001,
www.thejournalnews.com...
Sept. 5, 2001 - "Five hundred websites -- many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection -- crash when an anti-terrorism taskforce raids InfoCom
Corp. in Texas," reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. A taskforce of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the FBI,
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IRS, and Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office building in the Dallas suburb of
Richardson, Texas for four days, "copying every hard disc they could find." InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and is located
across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable organization which has been alleged to have connections with terrorist groups.
InfoCom's vice president of marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of the Holy Land Foundation. Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,
www.guardian.co.uk...
Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI was notified of a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told his teacher, "Tomorrow, World War
III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose." The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when Garland, Texas
school district officials told the FBI about the incident, but it was some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and the story's publication date of Sept. 19,
2001. Source: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001
www.chron.com...
Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a call from what he described as "his security people at the airport" eight hours before
the terrorist attacks "advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Brown was
scheduled to fly to New York from San Francisco International Airport. He told the Chronicle the call "didn't come in any alarming fashion, which is
why I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement." Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,
www.sfgate.com...
Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the federal agency that runs many of the nation's spy satellites, schedules an exercise
involving a plane crashing into one of the agency's buildings. "On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001," according to a website advertising a homeland
security conference in Chicago run by the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute, CIA official John Fulton and his team "were running a
pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that
the scenario would come true in a dramatic way." Fulton is the head of the NRO's strategic gaming division. Source: National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute,
www.nlsi.net...,
story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_ge/us_sept_11_plane_exercise_1
Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's congressional correspondent David Welna
reports, "I spoke with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat from Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, who said that just recently
the director of the CIA warned that there could be an attack -- an imminent attack - on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely
unexpected." Source:
www.thememoryhole.org...
Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts "an executive order that would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the former president wanted to make them public," wrote the Washington Post. The
order also required members of the public to prove "at least a demonstrated, specific need'" for a president's papers to be released. Critics
contend this would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained that a Supreme
Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for their records. Source: Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2001,
washingtonpost.com...
June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an account from a former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion of the South Carolina National
Guard: "My unit reported for drill in July 2001 and we were suddenly and unexpectedly informed that all activities planned for the next two months
would be suspended in order to prepare for a mobilization exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently for two weekends and even came
in on an unscheduled day in August to prepare for the exercise. By the end of August all we needed was a phone call, which we were to expect, and we
could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags and equipment packed." Source: Common Dreams,
www.commondreams.org...
July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal watch-group Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney with a lawsuit filed on behalf
of Halliburton shareholders. Before becoming vice president Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, which has filed for bankruptcy. Source: Cybercast News
Service, cnsnews.com
Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and Senate intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as investigators try to determine who
leaked information to CNN about communications in Arabic that made vague references to an impending attack on the United States. The communications
were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. 10 but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated Press story published in the
Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,
www.truthout.org...
Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's major role over the last five years in the trafficking of Afghan heroin into Europe. Source:
Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2002, www.sfnewmexican.com
Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that members of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have created a special planning unit for an
invasion of Iraq. The unit is composed primarily of civilians and was spearheaded by conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such as Deputy
Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined, "White House Methodically Preparing for Iraq Campaign." Source: Knight Ridder
Newspapers, www.truthout.org/docs 02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.htm
Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports Afghanistan will become the world's top producer of opium this year, surpassing Southeast Asia.
Source: the Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2002
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