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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS A TIMELINE TO THE TERROR BEFORE AND AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 by Michael C. Ruppert © 2001 his incomplete timeline, listing crucial events before and after the September 11 suicide attacks which have been blamed on Osama bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests there was criminal complicity on the part of the US Government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11 are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks. * 1998 and 2000 — Former President George H. W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defence contractor in the US. While there, he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2001. See also FTW, vol. iv, no. 7, "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy", www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html.] ¢ February 13, 2001 — UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale, while covering a trial of bin Laden's al-Qaeda followers, reports that the US National Security Agency has bro- ken 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. * May 2001 - US Secretary of State Colin Powell gives US$43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist farmers who are starving following the destruction of their opium crop in January on the orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]. ¢ May 2001 — Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicised tour, while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections and is the recipient of the highest civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. Tenet, in what was described as "an unusu- ally long meeting", also met with his Pakistani counterpart Lt-General Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source: SAPRA news agency, India, May 22, 2001] « 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] ¢ July 2001 - Three American officials—Tom Simmons (former US 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 Taliban representatives in Berlin and tell them that the US is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. Also present are Russian and German intelligence officers who confirm the threat. [Sources: Guardian, September 22, 2001; BBC, September 18, 2001] ¢ Summer 2001 — According to a September 26 story in Britain's Guardian, correspon- dent David Leigh reported that: "US Department of Defense official Dr Jeffrey Starr vis- ited 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." ¢ Summer 2001 (approx.) — Pakistan's ISI chief General Mahmud orders an aide to wire-transfer US$100,000 to Mohammed Atta, who, according to the FBI, was the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Mahmud recently resigned after the transfer was dis- closed in India and confirmed by the FBI. [Source: Times of India, October 11, 2001] ¢ Summer 2001 — An Iranian man phones US law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of September 9. German police confirm the calls but state that the US Secret Service would not reveal any further information. [Source: German news agency "online.ie", September 14, 2001] ¢ 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. ¢ July 4-14, 2001 — Osama bin Laden receives treatment for kidney disease at the American Hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official in his suite at the hospital, at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two US embassies and the USS Cole. Yet on July 14, bin Laden was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet, and the CIA official returned to CIA headquarters on July 15. [Source: Le Figaro, Paris, October 31, 2001] Continued on page 9... pharmaceutical companies for mercury- related brain damage predicted by vaccine critics for years. Government and industry officials have overlooked or ignored mer- cury and other troublesome vaccine ingre- dients that critics contend will be the sub- ject of future cancer and immune disease lawsuits. Thousands of injured infants, children and teens across the United States could have been saved, experts say, if offi- cials had simply examined the facts. Ingri Cassel, a founding member of the national association Vaccination Liberation (www.vaclib.org), said: "Since our warn- ings about mercury in vaccines and other toxic ingredients yet to be removed, such as aluminum phosphate and formaldehyde, have been consistently ignored by our pharmaceutical lobby—influenced leaders in government, suing the manufacturers directly appears to be one of the only solu- tions left." (Source: News Release No. EV-66, October 4, 2001, Tetrahedron Publishing Group, USA, www.tetrahedron.org) MAMMOGRAMS NO LONGER RECOMMENDED AS SAFE ore validation of Sherrill Sellman's article, "Breast Cancer: Detection or Deception?" (see NEXUS 8/03), appeared in the news recently. Mammography screening for breast cancer does not pre- vent deaths and should not be recommend- ed, according to an exhaustive international review by high-ranking researchers. This Danish paper is a revision of a review published two years ago, which also concluded that mammography is unjusti- fied. The methods it used have been criti- cised by some as unreliable. This time, however, the Danish investigators conduct- ed their research using a method designed by the Cochrane Collaboration, an interna- tional group whose evaluations of medical treatments are viewed by most doctors as definitive statements of their value. But Cochrane refused to publish the report unless the authors made changes. The original version was published in The Lancet (October 20), with a blistering commentary from the editor Dr Richard Horton, in which he condemned Cochrane for interference that "erodes academic free- dom". Dr Horton endorsed the Danish researchers’ conclusions on mammography screening. (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, October 20, 2001) 8 = NEXUS www. nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2001 — JANUARY 2002