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 our
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

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RIGHTS RESERVED.

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