The 9/11 Timeline
By on Sep 11th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
The 9/11 Timeline
To mark the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ThinkProgress has created a comprehensive timeline documenting the key events since September 11, 2001. Our timeline charts five threads:
– The steady increase in international terrorism and the growth of al Qaeda
– The campaign to block and obstruct the work of the 9/11 Commission, and the failure to carry out the commission’s recommendations
– The failure to stablize and rebuild Afghanistan
– The downgrading of the hunt for Osama bin Laden
– The steady decline of America’s image abroad
Check out the timeline HERE. (We also have a timeline detailing the war in Iraq.) If there is something important we missed, let us know in the comments section or send us an email.
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Nicely done. Thanks.
This is a good resource on the topic too: http://www.911timeline.net/
September 11th, 2006 at 3:29 pmIsn’t it sad that the fringe left instead of honoring those that died on 9/11 immediately choose to go on the attack?
Isn’t it pathetic that they’d rather lash out at George Bush on the five year anniversary of such a tragedy than pay tribute?
This mentality will absolutely destroy what’s left of the democratic party if the public continues to see this sort of insane thought being projected as their mantra.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:32 pmIsn’t it sad that the fringe right instead of honoring those who died on 9/11 immediately choose to attack a country that had nothing what so ever to do with those tragic events?
Isn’t it pathetic that they’d rather lash out against people who could do them no harm and pay tribute, instead, to the man and his administration for whom, without their awesome policitical power, would be standing trial for war crimes?
September 11th, 2006 at 3:38 pmWhat’s REALLY pathetic are the chickenhawk neocons using the tragedy of 9/11 for political gain–and worse, for cover to “justify” their invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Go sit in the corner and rotate on that, swed420.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:47 pmOff the point a bit - that is such a beautiful image. Too bad Clinton and Lewinsky had to personally go and fly planes into the towers. What? You mean that didn’t actually happen?! Damn you, Disney!!!
September 11th, 2006 at 3:50 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
It’s two sides of the same disgusting coin, Preznit. I’m not a neocon and I’m not a fringe lunatic on the left.
Some of us are somewhere in between in a little place I like to call “reality.”
September 11th, 2006 at 3:53 pmThanks PreznitPinhead,
Thats exactly what I was thinking about the Swed420. He must be smoking something.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:56 pmAnd it’s all the fault of the peace loving appeasers. And Clinton.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:56 pmI’m not a fringe leftist either. In fact, I’m a former republican. The neocon takeover & the influx of the religious right drove me out of that party. I’m also not a member of the Democratic party. They seem to have become just like the republicans, only slightly less so.
There doesn’t appear to be any room for true conservatives anymore. I miss Ike.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:00 pmRegarding the Timeline for Iraq, you need to be aware of the following:
MARCH 5, 2003
CAPSTONE EVENT, Sheraton Old Towne, Alexandria, VA
Newt Gingrich is the keynote speaker. In his address to senior level military officers, Newt indicted himself relative to his connection with OSP (Office of Special Plans). The OSP is a group of AEI neo-cons and Pentagon hawks that deliberaltely falsified documents to justify the invasion of Iraq. In Newt’s address he stated; “Men, prepare your troops. The united States will invade Iraq in 2 - 2.5 weeks. . .
. . . Everything will be in place: you’ll have equipment, armor, and the strategy: just knkow that you are going. Get your affairs in order. . .
. . . When the public asks why we are going to Iraq, you are to TELL them we are going to liberate the Iraqi people. USE the WORD liberate.”
How would a civilian KNOW this? Isn’t a declaration of war disseminated by the president or a Pentagon official?
I WAS PRESENT at this event and I have been outspoken ever since.
(p.s. Right on cue, the USA invaded Iraq on 3/19/03 - Note too, that today it has been reported that CIA agents are retaining litigation attorneys to save their ass!)
MARCH 23, 2003 Halliburton’s KBR was awarded the first “no-bid” contract to REBUILD IRAQ. The US was still in its’ bombing campaign of Baghdad -
again, HOW would they possibly KNOW what would have to be rebuilt, the extent of the damage, etc.?
Contact me on Capstone if you wish - I have spoken with the press regarding the same. Newt Gingrich has NO business running for president in ‘08.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:03 pmRegardless, it is very telling that thinkprogress didn’t even make a lame attempt at paying tribute to the victims of 9/11 or memorializing anything.
Attack, attack, attack.
Is the seething white hatred for Bush so strong?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:05 pmIsn’t it sad that Republicans instead of honoring those that died on 9/11 immediately attack Democrats?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:07 pmIsn’t it pathetic that they’d rather lash out at Democrats on the five year anniversary of such a tragedy than pay tribute?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:12 pmMaybe you’re illiterate but I’ve said multiple times that I am as repulsed by the fringe right as I am by the fringe left (that includes republicans).
So much anger from you people when a simple fact is uttered! You cannot deny that thinkprogress did not have a single thing to say about the victims of 9/11 today.
Just attacks and vitriol.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:12 pmWhy do conservatives and Republicans hate America?
Why do they hate America so much that they feel compelled to lie, sneak, and steal? All in the name of Faith? All in the Name of My God Can Beat Up Your God? All in the name of no bid contracts to Darth Cheney’s company?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pmThis mentality will absolutely destroy what’s left of the Republican party if the public continues to see this sort of insane thought being projected as their mantra.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pmRegardless, it is very telling that swed420 didn’t even make a lame attempt at paying tribute to the victims of 9/11 or memorializing anything.
Attack, attack, attack.
Is the seething white hatred for Democrats so strong?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:14 pm…Halliburton’s KBR… HOW would they possibly KNOW what would have to be rebuilt, the extent of the damage, etc.?
Comment by Stephanie — September 11, 2006 @ 4:03 pm
especially when rummy wanted NO talk of post invasion planning… we’re not staying, etc…
September 11th, 2006 at 4:15 pmSo, you are saying that tributes to 9/11 are lame?
We too are tired of these politicains using 9/11 to try and scare the general public. Exactly the opposite of what Bush promised, he has used 9/11 at every possible chance for his political benefit.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:18 pmOn this day in memory of the tragic events of 9/11/01, all conservatives and ReichWingNuts (left/center/right - I don’t care which) have all taken to reading quietly to a small crowd of children a copy of their Sainted Leader’s favorite book, My Pet Goat.
There. That just about covers the WingNut position on the topic. That’s all they are capable of.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:22 pmBush: “Where’s the next photo op? I want my picture everywhere, just like Saddam Hussein!”
September 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pmSwed420, you’re one helluva troll, I’ll give you that.
I’m sorry Bush let 9/11 happen in spite of the August 6, 2001 PDB. I’m sorry so many people had to die that day. I’m also sorry that Bush and his fellow republicans have made it necessary to cut police & fire budgets so that Bush’s rich supporters can have some more tax breaks. Most of all, I’m sorry that a large hunk of the American public can’t see through the bullsh!t.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:25 pmPreznit,
I’m not trolling. I stated a fact which was that I find it funny that thinkprogress (and most of the left-leaning blogosphere) have been using today as a political tool to attack Bush and friends.
Do conservatives do the same thing in a different way? ABSOLUTELY. And it’s vile. It’s disgusting. It’s abhorrent.
Conservatives use it as a political tool.
Democrats use it as a political tool. You JUST DID IT YOURSELF. You JUST NOW went on an anti-Bush rant filled with 9/11 references.
You’re JUST AS BAD as they are! Can’t you see that?
we should pay tribute to those that lost their lives on this day, not use it as an excuse to lay blame on “the other side.”
September 11th, 2006 at 4:31 pmHere is a copy and paste of your first comment:
“Isn’t it sad that the fringe left instead of honoring those that died on 9/11 immediately choose to go on the attack?”
Why are you doing exactly what you say is so vile, disgusting and abhorrent? You’re JUST AS BAD as they are! Can’t you see that?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:35 pmWe’re fighting to rid our country of traitors, you braying right-wing ass. America is not safe until the Right are driven out.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:36 pmSorry swed420, this is n’t the Bush propaganda site. We have been telling the righties to stop using 9/11 as a political tool for 5 F’ing years straight. Why would we start using it now?
September 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pmswed420, how is citing the truth an “attack”? Today is not only a time to remember those that died five years ago today, but to gain a perspective into how our country has changed since then. There are lessons to be learned here.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:39 pmSo is an outline for the sequel to ABC’s “Path to 9/11″? I suppose it will be called “Path from 9/11″.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:42 pmPAL, I agree a lot can be learned from 9/11 and this timeline.
I am not a “right winger.” You’re nuts if you think I am.
Here I get called a right winger and on the rightie blogs they call be a bleeding heart liberal.
I get sick of both sides of the coin. And that’s all it is. Two sets of people doing half the things they constantly accuse the other “side” of doing.
I can criticize Bush and republicans until the cows come home (and do regularly) and still criticize the hard left too, can’t I?
Or do people here believe you must “choose a side?”
It is an absolute FACT that left-leaning people regularly use 9/11 as a political tool. And so do many of the idiots on the right (even moreso obviously).
All that aside I find it telling that there’s not even a light attempt at a tribute. It’s as if by paying tribute to the victims they believe they’re lending credence to the “war on terrorism” by admitting 9/11 happened or something. I honestly can’t figure it out. Somebody inform me.
(moveon.org does have a tribute up, by the way. i was impressed).
September 11th, 2006 at 4:47 pmOK swed420, you’re right. But you wanna know something? I just can’t help myself from bashing someone who’s pretty much destroyed this country that I fought for and love. And I think it’s deplorable that he and his adminstration have used 9/11 to further their own agenda (which apparently involves invading oil-rich countries and lining the pockets of the crony companies like Halliburton and Bechtel).
So yeah, you’ve nailed me–I really do enjoy going off on Bush rants. The b@st@rd & his thugs have been instrumental in literally destroying this country while killing thousands of people–and stealing money out of our pockets to do it.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:50 pmThis is a blog/discussion board. It is not intended as a tribute to anything other than the truth. The greatest tribute that TP can give to 9/11 victims is to summarize the failures of this administration so that it doesn’t happen again. I can’t think of a better way to honor the dead. I’ll take that over a thousand poems, flags, and speeches. I don’t understand what your great need is to see another lame-brained tribute to 9/11. They’re going on all over the place. Pick one!
September 11th, 2006 at 4:58 pmIt would be better if you guys didn’t use Wikipedia as a source (the anthrax part)
September 11th, 2006 at 5:08 pmhttp://thinkprogress.org/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2006/ 09/ 2b.jpg
You know that looks alot like Anne Coulters handwriting…just saying.
September 11th, 2006 at 5:31 pmIt would be better if you guys didn’t use Wikipedia as a source (the anthrax part)
Comment by Johnny Stormcrusher
==
Okay..
The lawsuit continues against the suppliers of chemical and biological warfare materials and technology to Saddam, No. 94-C-1392, Coleman, et al v. Alcolac, Inc., et al (23rd Jud. Dist of Texas). Scott Ritter is the former leader of a UNSCOM inspection team that found documents in Iraq which show who supplied Saddam, and with what. He has agreed to be one of your expert witnesses.
The documents concerning suppliers that Mr. Ritter and other UNSCOM inspectors found in Iraq are the subject of a Freedom of Information Act (�FOIA�) request that I sent to the government two years ago. USA Today joined me in making that FOIA request. Recently, the government notified me that they have located the documents responsive to our request. They stated that they are now looking through the documents to decide what they will give to us. Be aware, that if the government does not give us the documents, Gulf War veterans and their friends should be prepared to make this a political issue. These documents are important to your case. Revealing to the public who supplied chemical and biological warfare materials and technology to Saddam is also important to deter these corporations and others from doing this sort of thing in the future. It would be unconscionable for any part of our government to decide to hide these corporations and what they did.
There is a jurisdictional fight at the Texas Supreme Court level still going on over two of the defendants. Both say they did not have enough contacts with Texas to be sued here. The first one, ATCC, sold anthrax and other biological warfare agents to Saddam.
Better?
September 11th, 2006 at 5:37 pmI’m not trolling. I stated a fact which was that I find it funny that thinkprogress (and most of the left-leaning blogosphere) have been using today as a political tool to attack Bush and friends.
Don’t you think that showing such a film, propagated by RNC and conservative activists during a time of grieving pretty despicable?
But I guess you get more ‘political impact’ by playing on the death of those 3,000 people and peoples fears?
Political tool my behind, it’s crass, despicable and self serving Rovian slimeball type propaganda.
But it is all the GOP has isn’t it? Its twisted that you have to use Death for Bush. Sick.
September 11th, 2006 at 5:44 pmNow why hasn’t the goverment shut down these business that sold Saddam the Anthrax? Wasn’t the reason for war WMD?
And didn’t this WMD then, by and large, become the reason for sending our troops to harms way???
Huh? Johhny Huh?
Why are these people that sold Saddam Anthrax still free while thousands of people have been buried?
September 11th, 2006 at 5:48 pmIs al Qaeda more or less capable today than before 9/11? Links for yea or nea?
September 11th, 2006 at 7:11 pmswed420 honor the dead with the truth. Isn’t that a simple task?
September 11th, 2006 at 7:27 pmTracy, they are more than capable now. Iraq has turned into a training and recruiting ground for Al Qaeda to kill our people in the military. They are sitting ducks. Many of the extremists believe that Iraq has become the new mecca….prophetic.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:34 pmRoses are red
September 11th, 2006 at 7:49 pmViolets are blue
the trolls want a tribute
Here’s one: FU!
I am not a “right winger.†You’re nuts if you think I am.
Comment by swed420 — September 11, 2006 @ 4:47 pm
Coming from the person who called the 50,000 Iraqi dead “Muslim bugs” in another thread, I am inclined to believe you are not only a right-winger, but a Christian White supremacist. It was a nice touch likening people in this blog to Nazi sympathisers, too.
And you repeated the same pattern in this thread by hinting that pointing out a fact is an attack.
I bet you also think 9/11 is all Clinton’s fault.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:50 pmTracy, they are more than capable now. Iraq has turned into a training and recruiting ground for Al Qaeda to kill our people in the military. They are sitting ducks.
Comment by michelle
Source this. Otherwise, your opinion is nothing but a months old Democrat talking point.
Furthermore, if your assertion is accurate, then why have American military casualties in Iraq have fallen drastically over the past few months? Why are the terrorists targeting, almost exclusively, Iraqi civilians in hopes of inciting civil war?
September 11th, 2006 at 8:02 pmActually there has been an increase in US military casualties in the past months. Unless you don’t think 490 so far this year is enough.
September 11th, 2006 at 8:07 pmHey Marvin, why don’t you source your information? My opinion is important, just like facts are more important. The military deaths and injuries speak for themselves Marvin. Marvin the month of August was one of the deadliest months in 2006 since the USA invaded Iraq. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know they are being picked off. Marvin, I will give you some links. I will give you CNN since you all seem to really like that source. (something you might believe) There have always been Iraqi casualties Marvin, the only difference now is…instead of the USA killing them in droves Al Quaida has got in on the action. It is all about media attention Marvin. It is easier to say they are in a civil war, than for this administration to take responsibility for the poor military leadership.
Charts of casualties, the wounded, and POW/MIA:
http://www.cnn.com/ SPECIALS/ 2005/ iraq.transition/
While you are at it Marvin, look at the faces of the military dead. Remember them, for they died in vain. Remember their children and families that do not have them. Remember that Bush led them into a war of profits and gains.
http://www.cnn.com/ SPECIALS/ 2003/ iraq/ forces/ casualties/
There have been 2,897 coalition deaths, 2,668 Americans, two Australians, 117 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, four Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 31 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of September 11, 2006, according to a CNN count. At least 19,945 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon.
Please, anyone feel free to add to these figures.
p.s. the chart is at the bottom of the page if you cannot locate it on your own.
September 11th, 2006 at 8:46 pmYep, right here in ‘Merca I feel safe until our own government decides it’s time to pull a fast one on it’s own people and purpotrate another 9/11.
Just like the first one.
September 11th, 2006 at 8:50 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:04 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
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September 11th, 2006 at 9:04 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
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September 11th, 2006 at 9:06 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
….
September 11th, 2006 at 9:06 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
,.,
September 11th, 2006 at 9:07 pmI’m going to say this no matter who does not want to see this. The 9-11 attacks appeared as blowback for secret foreign policy between George W Bush and his Republican party and the Taliban terrorists and their Al Qaeda friends. 9-11 did not appear unprovoked. 9-11 happened for a reason.
What did George W Bush do between Jan 21, 2001 and July 2001? He negotiated with the Taliban terrorist government for the right for the US oil companies to buiild gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan. In July 2001, the Taliban would not go along with any deal after months of negotiations. The frustrated Bush administration warned the Pakistanis in Germany in July 2001 at a diplomatic meeting, that the Taliban refused to attend, that The US would invade Afghanistan unless the Taliban went along with these pipeline projects, and to tell the Taliban this. When the Pakistanis informed the Taliban of the impending invasion, the Taliban did not wait, they got their friends Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin laden and Struck us first.
I doubt that the 9-11 attacks would have occurred if George W Bush had not pressured the Taliban to accept oil pipeline building contracts, under threat of invasion.
John Charles Brisard and Guilliaume Dasquie wrote a book “Forbidden Truth: SECRET US - TALIBAN Oil diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden” You can obtain it from amazon.com
Both Bin Laden and George W Bush bear responsibility for these 9-11 deaths and the attacks that caused them.
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September 11th, 2006 at 9:08 pmHey Marvin, why don’t you source your information?
Hilarious…I saw this from the link you provided.
For the record, I was asking you to source your assertion that Iraq has turned into a training and recruiting ground for Al Qaeda to kill our people in the military, not give a bunch of charts on casualties (which are are still historically low when you compare them with all other wars of this length). I find it ironic that your link provided the source for my claim.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:23 pmHey Marvin, why don’t you source your information?
Hilarious…I found this from the link you provided.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:26 pmExcellent timeline, TP. I’ll pass it along…
September 11th, 2006 at 9:32 pmI messed up on #52. I guess there is a delay from when you post and when it actually appears. Which would explain why the exact same claptrap appears in posts 45 through 50.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:35 pmtest
September 11th, 2006 at 9:45 pmMarvin,
It isn’t a “claptrap”. 9-11 was the “Pearl Harbor” that the PNAC called for. Are you really that naive?
t-mac
September 11th, 2006 at 9:58 pmRe: Comments 45-50 … it’s tempting to believe, but are you seriously suggesting that al Qaeda planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks in about 2 months? (July - Sept. 2001). Not very likely, if you ask me.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:14 pmAs this storied and tragic anniversary draws to a close, I think it’s time that we look back on 9/11/01 in indelible pictures and to realize what truly happened that day. I think this montage pretty well sums it up.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:44 pm#56 t-mac: Thank you. I’ve been saying that for at least 4 years now. George Bush is just a dummy front. The amiable, likable (wannabe) Texan that everyone would like to have a beer with. He has been groomed for this position for the past 15 years by Karl (turd blossom) Rove just for this purpose. Why does everyone think it came down to Florida in 2000? Would Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris possibly have anything to do with it?
The Project For The New American Century (PNAC) has wanted to take over Iraq since the late 80’s. They knew that it would never fly with the American people to just go in and invade. What a coincidence with their puppet in office and their evil, sadistic mastermind Dick(head) Cheney actually running things that they got their golden opportunity to finally invade Iraq with 9-11 and almost immediately award Halliburton several (no-bid) contracts (gee, how do you think they got so lucky?) to provide a multitude of services (which they promptly started overcharging for).
How about all the lies about WMD and the corruption? What about the mess in Iraq now? What about giving up on Osama (I think he is a well paid black op) and just letting him go and now Pakistan making insinuations that if he makes nice they’ll leave him alone? WTF!!! What else? The leaking of an under cover CIA agent by the name of Valerie Plame. Warrantless eavesdropping and a preprogrammed corporate controlled media more concerned with JonBenet Ramsey and Natalee Holloway than our constitution and bill of rights being trashed right before our eyes and they do or say nothing. They’re also the ones as much to blame because they shove all this manufactured fear down our throats every day. I’m more afraid of this administration and the nut-job, whacko neocons within and surrounding it than I ever will be of a few incredibly stupid muslims (anyone who lets another person convince them to wear a bomb and blow themselves up is deranged beyond repair). The entire PNAC crew should be jailed, tried and sent to prison.
America, land of the free and home of the brave. Right! Not for very long if we all don’t soon wake up from our stupor and demand a stop to all the madness that is taking place in our world. We let it happen because we let ourselves be scared shitless while their cabal steals what’s left of Iraq’s oil and concentrates as much money into their little circle leaving the rest of us to become subserviant to them and fight for what’s left over. That’s not the world I want for my son, nor is the world we are capable of.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:47 pmBeautiful image — and a reminder of what we have lost.
When will politicians and the media catch up with the public? When will they again speak to our best hopes and ideals, instead of making cynical pitches to our reptile brains? Until they do, we as a country are the losers and the terrorists are the winners. They’ve succeeded in making us morph into a reflection of their image.
And that image looks a lot like the hedgehog on hallucinogens who gave his recruiting speech for the Forever War tonight and came out strongly against radical dictators with nuclear weapons unless their name is Musharraf and they recently cut a deal with the Taliban which he approved. (Thanks to Billmon and apologies to Isaiah Berlin.)
September 12th, 2006 at 2:10 amMarvin, as I stated before, my words were formed from observation. Observation of the casualties and the wounded in Iraq. I am not disputing there is a higher number of Iraqi civillian deaths, but also in those numbers are Iraqi security forces. Are they not part of the military operations? Basically, the new security forces have become sitting ducks too. But, perhaps we can examine why I say the miitary are sitting ducks in Iraq. Sir, you see, this was the plan of Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld. To use our soldiers as bait. They failed to realise how much bait they would need. Over and over again military personnel have stated they would rather be fighting terrorism in Iraq, than fighting it in America. Heck, Bush chimed out “bring ‘em on!” Many have disagreed with the “fly paper” theory, but as more and more our military failures come to light, it seems to be the only explanation to why we allowed this to happen in Iraq. I have many questions. Why didn’t we secure the borders of Iraq? Why did we allow torture and cruelty in Iraq? Why did we invade Iraq? Why did we not give our soldiers body armor, and until jan. 06, there may still be many without it? I’m no expert, by any means, but I know when you have soldiers dying, there is a reason. My biggest question, and it makes me sick to my stomach, to even think about it…Are we using Iraq for a holding tank of Al Qaida? Have these people come the sacrificial lambs for the USA and the world?
How can I source my feelings Marvin? I feel our soldiers are sitting ducks and being swept into a even more dangerous situation. I know that my government has been irresponsible. We lack the leadership in the military. I can only give you facts. You can go down the list of casualities and wounded and see exactly how they died or were wounded? What more do you want? Do you want me to give you other people’s opinions? Will it make my statement or opinion more credible? lmao This website is an excellent source of opinion and facts. There are those that agree with my opinion, and those that do not. Tracy asked a question to our thoughts about Iraq, I gave my opinion. Whether you choose to agree or disagree that is up to you.
“In Iraq moreover we’re dealing not just with regime remnants but also . . . terrorists and foreign fighters who have entered the country over the borders to try to oppose the Coalition. They pose a challenge to be sure but they also pose an opportunity because Coalition forces can deal with the terrorists now in Iraq instead of having to deal with those terrorists elsewhere, including the United States..”
Donald Rumsfeld
September 12th, 2006 at 12:30 pmSpeech to the VFW
http://www.defenselink.mil/ speeches/ 2003/ sp20030825-secdef0403.html
August 25, 2003
How about all the lies about WMD
So I guess all these Democrats were lying about Iraq and WMD’s then as well?
Why do you blame Bush/Cheney alone for “lying”?
September 12th, 2006 at 12:48 pmalmost 30 terrorist incidents in the 90’s linked to AQ. and madam not-bright and bill the baffoon could not connect the dots
libs cannot be trusted with our national security
September 12th, 2006 at 12:56 pm#39
“Iraq has turned into a training and recruiting ground for Al Qaeda to kill our people in the military”
“Many of the extremists believe that Iraq has become the new mecca….prophetic.”
However the Democratic party’s position is that the war on terror and the war in Iraq are not linked and that the central front on terror according to Howard Dean is still in Afghanistan. Do you agree?
September 12th, 2006 at 1:39 pm#42
“Source this. Otherwise, your opinion is nothing but a months old Democrat talking point.”
Marvin it’s an old talking point ;however, you just pointed out the way Democrats talk out of both sides of their mouths. Just the other day Howard Dean rebuked Bush by saying that Iraq and the war on terror are seperate conflicts and aren’t related at all.
September 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmThe best timeline can be found here:
September 12th, 2006 at 2:30 pmhttp://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timelines.jsp
“Marvin the Martian”
they didn’t receive the same intelligence, although it must be added that accoring to Scott Ritter both parties knew there were no WMDs.
“libs cannot be trusted with our national security”
Osama who? Do you have any idea how much of a good day 9/11 was for the neocons. The new Pearl Harbor was essential for their agenda.
Damn, another of my posts gone.
September 12th, 2006 at 3:49 pmYou asked us to comment if “there was something important that [you] missed.”
Hey, here is something. How about all the terrorists attacks prior to 9/11/2001?
We have been at war since at least 1993. Thank God, we are no longer just trying to charge these extremists for their crimes or issuing them harsh statements from the UN. We have finally begun to defend ourselves.
Keep your head in the sand. Every now and then, thank God that your fellow citizens have enough fortitude to meet this challenge head on.
September 13th, 2006 at 10:27 pm9/11 will for ever change the world.
February 5th, 2007 at 2:32 pmLet me humbly offer some eyewitness accounts of building collapses. i recently retired from Columbia, Missouri Fire Department (FD) as a career fire fighter. Retired with the rank of Lieutenant.
In 20+ years of service, i was on the scene of more than a few structure fires. In various types of buildings, including residential, commercial and industrial. Even high rises. Most times, we were able to fight the fire successfully, extinguish the flames and return a sizable portion of the building and contents back to the owner.
However, some of the times, we lost the fight–and as the post fire investigation by the Fire Marshal’s office would find, those fires involved arson–and were forced to go from an offensive mode, in which we would conduct interior fire fighting, to a defensive mode, in which we would “surround and drown” the building with immense amounts of water from the exterior.
When that happened, some of the times the building would partially collapse, due to interior fire damage and the immense amount of water used during fire supprression. The structure would collapse in a random, haphazard, piecemeal manner. Not once did i personally witness one of those structures collapsing in the rather controlled and somewhat neat pancake fashion as the WTC towers and Building 7.
i might be able to believe that one of the towers could fall that way, but all three? Think that would be physically impossible.
There has been much made about the interior fire’s heat contributing to the collapse of the WTC’s. i also disagree with that.
Those buildings, thanks to the fire codes enacted over the years, were built to withstand fire and not add to the flames.
The type of fires left burning after the jet fuel flamed off are what we call “contents fires”. They involve the burning of the contents of the rooms/building, such as furniture, carpets and the like.
Initially, these fires are hot, but either burn out quickly or suffocate themselves due to the fire needing a large amount of oxygen and not being able to receive the proper amount of oxygen due to the large amount of smoke generated or no fresh sources of oxygen.
Last year, the NYFD released some of the on scene radio transcripts from some of the interior fire fighting units. i’ve read thru some of the radio traffic and from their accounts, in one of the towers, they not only had the fire extinguished, they were going to start providing medical care to the victims.
i believe the published radio accounts, not only due to the authentic sounding radio traffic, but the fact that they acted like fire fighters; that is, you make a decision at the beginning of the operation as to whether or not you are going to fight fire or rescue victims.
Since most FD’s are usually understaffed and cannot provide both services, you usually elect to fight the fire, while ventilating the building to push out the toxic gases and smoke so the victims can at least get fresh air.
If the on scene fire crews had not only extinguished the fire(s) and determined that the building was safe enough to conduct medical care and rescue, then there is something terribly amiss and wrong with the so called “official” 9/11 version.
i thank you for your time and your bravery in putting out vital info regarding 9/11 on the web. Maybe, just maybe, one of these days, thanks to the diligence of the people that created this site, we will get to the bottom of the events regarding 9/11 and bring the true instigators and mass murderers to justice.
Greg Bacon
February 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pmRR 1 Box 3518
Ava, MO 65608