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The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11―and America's Response – The Definitive Primer on 9/11 and the War on Terror
Paul Thompson's The Terror Timeline offers a complete and thorough history of the many roads that converged on 9/11, including the development of Islamic fundamentalism, the activities of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the failures of U.S. investigations and counterterrorism efforts. It traces the actions (and inactions) of every important figure in the war on terror, both before and after 9/11, bringing them together in a volume that offers a comprehensive and provocative look at this complex subject. Packed with little-known facts and disturbing questions, The Terror Timeline is the first complete reference guide to the events of 9/11 and the war on terror -- the definitive primer on the most momentous issue of our times.
608 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2004
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November 8, 2012
This Terror Timeline is so full of evidence it could be used in a trial of the perps who murdered 3000 people in the Twin Towers. If you have never read this book, you need to put it at the top of your list. Your eyes will be opened------WIDE.
First, to get at the truth, the Timeline reveals that in 1962 the Joint Chirfs had a plan for using drones to fly into air space over Cuba, to then be shot down, annd then place the blame on Castro so that the USA could go into Cuba. JFK vetoed that plan and disciplined General Lyman Lemnitzer who advocated it. A year later, JFK was assassinated.
Second, this drone plan was very similar to what happened on 9/11 some 40 years later. The Air Force never scuttled this "false flag" plan. They just waited to use it later.
Third, the Timeline reveals the huge Israeli spy network in the USA prior to 9/11 and after. Hundreds of Israeli agents were in the USA, many of them dogging the so-called Muslim hijackers. But, these samme Israelis celebrated as the Twin Towers fell. Then, after being arrested, these Israelis were allowed to fly out of the country to safety without being questioned.
Each chapter is packed with secrets. After reading awhile, you will have to stop just so you can absorb the immensity of what you have read.
This book is more than a classic. It is a shocking indictment of our own devious methods used to get into an illegal and immoral war with Iraq.
You will keep it on your desk for easy access for years to come.
First, to get at the truth, the Timeline reveals that in 1962 the Joint Chirfs had a plan for using drones to fly into air space over Cuba, to then be shot down, annd then place the blame on Castro so that the USA could go into Cuba. JFK vetoed that plan and disciplined General Lyman Lemnitzer who advocated it. A year later, JFK was assassinated.
Second, this drone plan was very similar to what happened on 9/11 some 40 years later. The Air Force never scuttled this "false flag" plan. They just waited to use it later.
Third, the Timeline reveals the huge Israeli spy network in the USA prior to 9/11 and after. Hundreds of Israeli agents were in the USA, many of them dogging the so-called Muslim hijackers. But, these samme Israelis celebrated as the Twin Towers fell. Then, after being arrested, these Israelis were allowed to fly out of the country to safety without being questioned.
Each chapter is packed with secrets. After reading awhile, you will have to stop just so you can absorb the immensity of what you have read.
This book is more than a classic. It is a shocking indictment of our own devious methods used to get into an illegal and immoral war with Iraq.
You will keep it on your desk for easy access for years to come.
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August 4, 2011PRICELESS. Should buy a copy for each member of the 9-11 commission plus two or three more to give away. Okay 9-11 studies are getting tiresome especially if you've read some 25-30 by now, but this one is different and even though we all know the main players better than their own relatives this book is still a revelation all these years later. And it was one of the first put out! Buy it.
November 30, 2017
There is really no substitute for the History Commons website, but this book is still very worthwhile. One of the basic things it demonstrates - as Thompson discusses in Barrie Zwicker's DVD "The Great Conspiracy" - is that frequently the mainstream media will report all kinds of important facts that don't agree with the official story, but because there is no follow-up, no attempt to connect the dots, no context or background given to the reader, these stories usually disappear and are soon forgotten about. Instead the official narrative takes over and is constantly reinforced until it becomes our approved history.
March 25, 2007
some mindblowing information about 9/11 and the Bush administration... the whole book is a compilation of news sources that really makes you skeptical about everything the government is doing/has been doing since 9/11. i picked it up almost on a whim just to flip through it and ended up reading all 700+ pages.
March 3, 2015
this was the definitive accounting back in 2001-02 when it was all electronic; usefulness of the timeline when put in print is dubious, however. seems that some of the more radical implications have been toned down for the print version, too.
April 22, 2023
Very detailed and eye-opening!
James Bamford's book, Body of Secrets, reveals a secret U.S. government plan named Operation Northwoods. All details of the plan came from declassified military documents. The heads of the U.S. military, all five Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed in a 1962 memo to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion. Says one document, "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington; We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation." In March 1962, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to President John Kennedy and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The plan was rejected. Lemnitzer then sought to destroy all evidence of the plan. Lemnitzer was replaced a few months later, but the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963. One suggestion in the plan was to create a remote-controlled drone duplicate of a real civilian aircraft. The real aircraft would be loaded with "selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases," and then take off with the drone duplicate simultaneously taking off nearby. The aircraft with passengers would secretly land at a U.S. military base while the drone continues along the other plane's flight path. The drone would then be destroyed over Cuba in a way that places the blame on Cuban fighter aircraft.
The failures of 9/11 began long before the hijackers boarded the airplanes. All the hijackers managed to proceed successfully through airport security, although several of them were identified for increased security screening had dubious passports or forged U.S. identity cards; at least three of the hijackers were either listed on the U.S. terrorism watch list or had outstanding arrest warrants.
Once the hijackings were confirmed by flight controllers, it is difficult to understand why all planes in the air were not alerted to the crisis more quickly. For example, Flight 93 was hijacked around 9:30 A.M., long after it was clear that there was a crisis involving multiple planes. But the flight dispatcher who tried to warn Flight 93, just moments before it was hijacked, was instructed not to give the details of other hijackings to the pilots he wanted to warn. American Airlines headquarters was notified that its Flight 11 had been hijacked at 8:21 A.M., nearly 30 minutes before its Flight 77 was hijacked, yet failed to provide information to its pilots, or anyone else for that matter.
James Bamford's book, Body of Secrets, reveals a secret U.S. government plan named Operation Northwoods. All details of the plan came from declassified military documents. The heads of the U.S. military, all five Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed in a 1962 memo to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion. Says one document, "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington; We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation." In March 1962, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to President John Kennedy and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The plan was rejected. Lemnitzer then sought to destroy all evidence of the plan. Lemnitzer was replaced a few months later, but the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963. One suggestion in the plan was to create a remote-controlled drone duplicate of a real civilian aircraft. The real aircraft would be loaded with "selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases," and then take off with the drone duplicate simultaneously taking off nearby. The aircraft with passengers would secretly land at a U.S. military base while the drone continues along the other plane's flight path. The drone would then be destroyed over Cuba in a way that places the blame on Cuban fighter aircraft.
The failures of 9/11 began long before the hijackers boarded the airplanes. All the hijackers managed to proceed successfully through airport security, although several of them were identified for increased security screening had dubious passports or forged U.S. identity cards; at least three of the hijackers were either listed on the U.S. terrorism watch list or had outstanding arrest warrants.
Once the hijackings were confirmed by flight controllers, it is difficult to understand why all planes in the air were not alerted to the crisis more quickly. For example, Flight 93 was hijacked around 9:30 A.M., long after it was clear that there was a crisis involving multiple planes. But the flight dispatcher who tried to warn Flight 93, just moments before it was hijacked, was instructed not to give the details of other hijackings to the pilots he wanted to warn. American Airlines headquarters was notified that its Flight 11 had been hijacked at 8:21 A.M., nearly 30 minutes before its Flight 77 was hijacked, yet failed to provide information to its pilots, or anyone else for that matter.
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March 18, 2016
Revealing.
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January 3, 2019Useful, readable good reference work.
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