The Complete 9/11 Terror Timeline

BY PAUL THOMPSON 

    Introduction: Paul reviews the development of his 9/11 timeline and gives examples to illustrate how entries in this detailed historical record assist in exploding the official lies about 9/11 and point the way to the discovery of the truth.

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    As some of you may know, I have put together something on the web which is called the Complete 9/11 Timeline and it can be found at www.complete911timeline.org. I recommend everybody check it out. I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about today. A lot of things have been covered already, so I’ll first just explain a little about what the timeline is and how I came about making it. It is a really big resource. If you were to print it out it would be 400 to 500 pages.

    On 9/11 itself, ironically enough, like everybody else, I heard about the attacks and then was glued in front of the TV. At first I really didn’t think there was anything odd about the official story. I didn’t question it. I was just like a lot of people, I was just shell-shocked and confused. Like a lot of people I didn’t pay particular attention to 9/11 until sometime later. It wasn’t until about the middle of 2002 when some stories came out, some of the whistle-blowers started talking, that I started looking into the history.

    I found Michael Ruppert’s timeline. He had something that was about 70 entries on his website and I found that a really interesting way to look at the information. As I started getting into the information I just wanted to know more and more and follow more leads and so I used that as a basis and it grew and grew. It started with 70 entries and now it is up to a thousand plus. I don’t know exactly how many but it’s gotten to be quite a monster.

Mainstream Media Interested

    I’m gratified that nowadays, especially in recent months, it’s starting to get some mainstream attention. There were a couple of articles about it in the Village Voice recently. Craig Unger’s new book House of Bush, House of Saud credits it extensively and it’s in Eric Alterman’s new book [How George W. (Mis)Leads America], a book on Bush. I have been in contact with some reporters and I am told that some of them are using it. I just spoke today to a reporter at one of the major US news weeklies and he told me that he has just printed out the entire timeline and is going through it bit-by-bit. So I am hoping that this kind of work will impact the coverage that we see about 9/11.

    Because the problem is, and this has been discussed by other speakers, connecting the dots. People talk about connecting the dots. And when I did this timeline, another interesting phenomenon was that if you look at an individual story of fact, actually the mainstream media isn’t that bad. There are a lot of facts that have been reported in the mainstream media that are very interesting. The problem is, that they get buried on page B17 or something like that. Very few people can see these things. And even in the articles themselves, sometimes the most interesting things, in my opinion, are buried in the second paragraph from the end – mentioned as an aside.

Connecting the 9/11 Dots

    The other thing is that individual facts are reported or individual stories, but there’s no connection made between that story and all the other related information. So people have no way of understanding that information, nowhere to put it into context. You might have a story about a particular ‘failure of intelligence’ but there’s no attempt to show a greater pattern involved. So that is what I have tried to do with the timeline. I felt very driven, I felt that there was a hole, if you will, and I wanted to find out how all of these things were connected. I didn’t see anything that was doing that so I felt that I had to do it for myself. Then later I put it on the web and other people have found it useful.

    Those individual facts are really useless until you understand and can see them in a context. So the chronology idea, putting everything in a logical order, is my way of understanding the context.

    Hopefully, it will come out as a book soon. I am looking forward to that and I’m hoping that that will help more people start to look at and understand the situation with 9/11 in a more intelligent way. Because, again, as other people have talked about, we have this tremendous ignorance on the part of especially the US populace. They think Saddam Hussein is behind 9/11 and all these ridiculous facts that the polls are showing to be what the people believe.

    Now one thing I did with the timeline early on was that I made the decision that everything I put in there would only come from ‘mainstream sources’. That is certainly not because I have such great respect for the mainstream media… In fact, it is the opposite. I think that the mainstream media has really let us down. However, I wanted this to be something that could reach an audience of people who would be the kind of people who normally would be turned away by the very mention of the word conspiracy theory, and the kind of people who may not be otherwise trolling the web and looking for this kind of information. So those kinds of people, if they see something and it doesn’t say New York Times or CBS News, then they tend to discount the whole thing.

    So I said, okay, we will limit ourselves in this respect and we will see what we can do just by looking in the mainstream media. And that’s the real surprise. If you look you will find some of the facts reported but just buried. Let me give you a couple of examples.

60 Minutes Spills the Beans

    This one is one of my favorites: 60 Minutes, which of course is seen by millions of people, did a story in 2002 about Mohammed Atta. They kind of followed his life back in Egypt and all this kind of detail, then in the middle of this story, really as an aside barely worth mentioning, they have the following: "Just days after Atta’s return to the US from Spain in July 2001, Egyptian Intelligence in Cairo said it received a report from one of its operatives in Afghanistan that 20 al Qaeda members had slipped into the US and four of them had received flight training on Cessna light aircraft. To the Egyptians, pilots of small planes didn’t sound terribly alarming but they passed the message to the CIA anyway, fully expecting Washington’s request for information. The request never came."

    So, in other words, the Egyptian Intelligence basically gave the United States intelligence pretty much exactly what the 9/11 plot was. I looked at the paper the next day, followed the media the next couple of days and I thought surely we would hear more about this information. But it has never been mentioned anywhere since. So, again, we see where strange details and little bits of information oftentimes get reported, but they’re really buried.

Newsweek Story Goes Unnoticed

    Another one would be two days after 9/11 Newsweek reported that, of course, "the state of alert has been high during the past two weeks and a particularly urgent warning may have been received the night before the attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel their trips. Why that same information was not available to the people who died aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot topic." So I’m sure we all remember how hot that topic was. I’m being facetious because even though Newsweek repeated the same story in their next issue, nobody else picked up on it.

The Wall Street Journal Report

    Here’s another one I find very interesting and this just came out recently. This is from The Wall Street Journal talking about the response of the fighter aircraft on the day of 9/11 to the plane that was flying into the Pentagon, Flight 77. "Once they got into the air, the Langley fighters, the fighters from Virginia, observed peacetime noise restrictions requiring that they fly slower than supersonic speed and take off over water pointed away from Washington, according to testimony before the Commission. Whereas the fighters from Otis Air Force Base, which left over half an hour earlier going to New York City, ignored peacetime rules because the lead pilot concluded they faced an extraordinary situation." So, basically, what we’re being told here is that these fighters were traveling very slowly to the Pentagon because they didn’t want to disturb the people down below by making a sonic boom. This is just completely absurd and this fact does get reported if you’re keeping a close eye on the news. But, again, there’s no context put even into this one article to explain what it really means.

    According to my own calculations and official numbers from NORAD, these fighters left Virginia at 9:30 exactly in the morning and their base was 129 miles away. When the Pentagon was hit, according to NORAD’s numbers again, these fighters were 105 miles away. That means that in eight minutes they had flown 24 miles which is an average of 180 miles per hour. So we have fighters that can travel 1,500 miles per hour, that’s how fast these particular fighters can go, and yet we’re being told they travelled 180 miles per hour to get to the Pentagon. That insults my intelligence.

    Furthermore, we know that, according to NORAD, the fighters going to New York City were traveling about 1,100 to 1,200 miles per hour and that that was the typical speed they would go from their base in Massachusetts to New York City. Had the fighters from Virginia flown to the Pentagon at that same speed they would have arrived before Flight 77 arrived in Washington. So this adherence to some sort of noise regulation made a difference between a fighter being in position to shoot down Flight 77 and not being in position. How many people have heard of that? Probably nobody, probably very few people in this room have even heard about these things.

    These are the kinds of facts that I am trying to uncover by keeping an eye on the media and then trying to make sure that the information gets widely spread.

    I get really annoyed that people say the idea of doubting the official story is supporting some kind of conspiracy theory. I get very annoyed because people just don’t know. In my opinion, they just don’t know the facts or they’re covering up facts. So I want to go through some data that I have in the timeline that to me really shows just how much we know they knew before 9/11 and then you can draw your own conclusions.

Paul Thompson is a former environmental activist now in his thirties who grew up in Northern California, attended Stanford University and then moved to New Zealand where he now resides. In 2002 he began to construct what has become known as the the Complete 9/11 Timeline which is hosted on the web by the Center for Cooperative Research (www.complete911timeline.org). Using only mainstream news sources this has become a thorough and indispensable archive of 9/11 historical research for 9/11 investigators the world over and has had a major impact on public awareness about 9/11. All rights reserved. Copyright belongs to the author.

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