Chronology 2

1960-2001 - The next five U.S. False Flag Episodes
and Other Ignoble Acts

See Chronology 1 for the previous 5 and Chronology 3 for the 11th.

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1960 - The World Trade Center (WTC) was initiated by a Lower Manhattan Association created and chaired by David Rockefeller, who had the original idea of building the Center with strong backing from the then New York governor, his brother, Nelson Rockefeller.

1962 March 13 - Almost False Flag 6: "Operation Northwoods, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving [Chief of Staff] Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war involved the bombing of Florida facilities, simulated or real state-sponsored acts of terrorism (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil to incite Americans to invade Cuba. The main proposal was presented in a document entitled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS)" is a collection of draft memoranda written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative to the Caribbean Survey Group. (The parenthetical "TS" in the title of the document is an acronym for "Top Secret.") The document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 with one paragraph approved, as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. The approved paragraph described destroying an unmanned drone masquerading as a commercial aircraft supposedly full of "college students off on a holiday". These potential false flag were avoided by removing their Pentagon advocates, but Operation Northwoods demonstrates that the federal government is happy to delude We the People to advance their objectives.

1966 August 5 -The World Trade Center (WTC)

Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415 meters)

Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons consulting

Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson

Ground Breaking: August 5, 1966

Opened: 1970-73; April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting

Note the conventional construction of the massive steel core. "Essentially, each tower was a box within a box, joined by horizontal trusses at each floor. The outer box, measuring 208 feet by 208 feet (63x63 m), was made up of 14-inch (36-cm) wide steel columns, 59 per building face, spaced just over 3 feet (1 m) apart. .... The columns were covered with aluminum, giving the towers a distinctive silver color. The inner box at the core of each tower measured about 135 feet by 85 feet (41x26 m). Its 47 heavy steel columns surrounded a large open area housing elevators, stairwells and restrooms."

"Anticipating a ban (on the use of asbestos in construction in NY), the builders stopped using the materials by the time they reached the 40th floor of the north tower, the first one to go up" - New York Times on September 18, 2001. The WTC was in economic trouble before it was completed.

1964 August 4 - False Flag 6: U.S. ships are allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin, "which handed President Johnson the carte blanc charter he wanted for future intervention in Southeast Asia."

1964 August 7 - False Flag 6 result: The 25th Congress passes House Joint Resolution 1145 (the Gulf of Tonkin) authorizing the president to use "all necessary measures [to] ... prevent further aggression." The resolution sets no limits on what Commander-in-Chief Lyndon Johnson may do, or where, or how long force may be used.

1964 August 10 - False Flag 6 result: President Lyndon Johnson signs Resolution 1145, "To any in southeast Asia who ask our help in defending their freedom, we shall give it. ... This resolution stands squarely within the four corners of the Constitution of the United States. It is clearly consistent with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations. And millions of dead later… In fact Ho Chi Minh had asked the U.S. for help in dislodging the French occupation of his country, but since the U.S. was courting the French to join NATO, we took the side of the French colonialists, and gave them arms and equipment to subdue the Vietnamese in French Indochina. The Soviets seized the opportunity to use the Vietnam war for independence as a proxy in the cold war. Another war we had no business being in, since we had lost thousands of people liberating France form the Nazis. Same principle, different situation.

1965 - Invasion: "This country is not pro-American. It is United States property." - Juan Bosch - President of the Dominican Republic. In 1965, the U.S. invaded the Dominican Republic to prevent the displacement of Donald Reid Cabral by Bosch's constitutionally-elected government. New York Times, 6 June 1967.

1967 June 8 - Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty attacked.

1975 February 13 - World Trade Center North Tower (WTC 1) suffers a fire on the 11th floor. The fire is so intense that it causes the 11th floor east side windows to break, indicating temperature greater than 1,292°F or 700°C. It is not immediately known that the fire was spreading vertically from floor to floor through 12x18" telephone cable openings in the floor slab. 125 firemen are involved, and 28 sustain injuries from the intense heat and smoke before the fire was extinguished three hours later. There was no sprinkler system, because the towers are owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is not subject to local safety codes. No serious structural damage was caused by this fire. No trusses needed to be replaced. The holes are plugged and sprinklers are installed in all WTC buildings by 2001.

1977 - WTC 1 and 2 galvanic corrosion problems are discovered. A solution is sought for 10 years.

1980 November - Larry Silverstein wins a bid to lease and develop the last undeveloped parcel from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to build 47-story 7 World Trade Center (WTC 7).

1982 - ... the Israelis gave the Kalashnikovs they had captured from Palestinians to the CIA, which shipped them via Pakistan to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Osama bin Laden's first AK was a Palestinian gun supplied by the Israelis and given to him by the Americans.

1983 October 25 - Americans prepared for impromptu invasions of foreign nations: Granada invaded by U.S. In his memoir "Man of the House," former Speaker Tip O'Neil described his response to being informed about the 1983 Granada invasion: "The invasion was already under way, so even if we opposed it, there was nothing any of us could do. I had some serious reservations, and I'm sure my Democratic colleagues did as well, but I'd be damned if I was going to voice any criticism while our boys were out there." O'Neil thought the invasion nothing more that a cover for the Reagan Administration's blunder in Lebanon, where a few days before a suicide bomber had killed 248 US Marines who were on a "peacekeeping mission" in Beirut. "Over a hundred American troops were killed or wounded in [the Granada invasion] ... And as far as I can see, it was all because the White House wanted the country to forget about the tragedy in Beirut.

1987 May 9 or June 9 - WTC 1 and 2 exterior cast aluminum WTC panels had been directly connected to the steel superstructure of the building, thus causing galvanic corrosion problems that are exposed to T. S. Gordon, and both Mayor Giuiliani's Office and the New York Port Authority allegedly received an order for the buildings to be completely dismantled by 2007 before the aluminum exterior starts falling from the buildings and the floors they support collapse.

1989 - Plans were made to erect scaffolding and disassemble the WTC towers and rebuild them. Furthermore, there were air conditioning and other problems. The project architect said that the $5.6 billion "take it down, rebuild it" project ("the Bridgeways Project") was canceled, and in about "10-12 years" they would "blow it up and start over".

"The building was bid at $750.M, and cost $1.2B to build. It was worth about $4. to $5.B at its peak, but would have cost nearly $15.B to un-build it in 2010 dollars, or as it neared its 1/2 'safe' life. Obviously, it was Imploded, because there was never going to be a 'break-even' point for either, the current, or future owners!"
"The owners were fully aware of the problem and had been given the ultimatum that they could not 'implode' the buildings. They received the report stating that: Decommissioning was required by the EPA by no later than 2007, at a projected cost of $20.B."

1989 December - False Flag 7: Panama invaded to depose general and de facto Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega in December 1989, during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush. This action was preceded by more than a year of diplomatic tension between the United States and Panama, the highlights of which were specific allegations by the United States that Noriega was complicit with money launderers and drug traffickers and a nullified national election in 1989, but the CIA paid $650,000 to Manuel Noriega on January 19, 1991. Others believe that Noriega displeased his partners in crime, the Bush Family and the CIA by pocketing more than his share of drug profits. President George H. W. Bush specially assisted by his Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff Colin Powell, ordered U.S. troops in Panama to cause an incident that would justify the invasion. The Panamanian Defense Force ignored the provocations until four Marines dressed in civilian clothes ran a road block. The Panamanians shot at the vehicle. One of the Marines died, providing the excuse used to invade Panama ... a relatively small price to pay for motivating Americans to endorse an invasion planned long before. After sufficient play in the American press, the invasion was launched without the approval of Congress (History Channel 5:00 PM 9/25/07).

1990 July 25 - False Flag 8: U.S. tacitly encourages Hussein to punish Kuwait for diagonal-drilling into its oil fields (line of burning wells along border), and invents incubator baby murders to motivate Americans to invade Kuwait, while the U.S. anticipates invasion with war games. General Norman Schwarzkopf, from an interview in the film Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, describing the "wargame" that was underway when Iraq invaded Kuwait: "We went ahead and did an exercise, what's called a command post exercise, which is what Internal Look was to test our ability to deal with this particular scenario ... Just so happened we were in the middle of conducting the Internal Look command post exercise at the same time the crisis developed in the gulf."

1991 January 15 - Operation Desert Storm begins, and ends only 44 days later on March 1, 1991.

1991 - The White House Is Protected From Airplane Attack During Gulf War, but not during 9/11.

1991 to 2001 - False Flag 11 preparation: NORAD Exercise Simulates Crash into Famous US Building.

1992 March 8 - False Flag 11 preparation: Context of raw US World Dominance Plan authored by Paul Wolfowitz and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is leaked to the media.

1993 February to 1994 May - False Flag 11 preparation - US Military Head and GAO Recommend Reducing Units Dedicated to Continental Air Defense.

1993 February 26 - False Flag 9: A Truck bomb is detonated in the parking garage of WTC using explosives provided by the FBI that were not exchanged for inert material "as planned". Fails to have desired effect, because the building survives and does not topple into other buildings.

1993 - False Flag 11 preparation - Burns and Roe Securacom obtained contracts among many other contractors for related security upgrades as a consequence of the first attack on the WTC. As part of a new management team, including Wirt Walker, President George W. Bush's cousin, who was hired when Securacom separated from Burns and Roe, Marvin P. Bush, younger brother of the US President George W. Bush and Walker's cousin joined Securacom's board of directors. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a 'completion contract' to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center 'up to the day the buildings fell down.' R. Michael Lagow, was vice president of Securacom, and the related company, Stratesec, in 1993. Stratesec is backed by a Kuwaiti-American investment firm. He lists clients on his resume such as World Trade Center, Amtrak, and TVA Nuclear Power facilities. He joined Securacom in August of 1993, and founded the Dallas, Texas offices of Securacom in Bush territory.

1995 March - Inaugural memorandum of understanding between the governments of Turkmenistan and Pakistan for a Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline for natural gas.

1995 April 19 - False Flag 10: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is partially distroyed. The attack claimes 168 lives and leaves over 800 injured. The building is imploded and its material burried on a military reservation before any independent investigation can be conducted. Blue 50-gallon drums placed next to structural columns are ignored. The official story does not match the evidence. Terry Nichols has alleged a high-ranking FBI official was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building.

1995 July 5 to 1997 May - Hamas Leader Held in the US, Then Let Go

1995 September to October - UNOCAL Obtains Turkmenistan Pipeline Deal: Oil company UNOCAL signs an $8 billion deal with Turkmenistan to construct two pipelines (one for oil, one for gas), as part of a larger plan for two pipelines intended to transport oil and gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and into Pakistan. Before proceeding further, however, UNOCAL needs to execute agreements with Pakistan and Afghanistan; Pakistan and Ahmed Shah Massoud's government in Afghanistan, however, have already signed a pipeline deal with an Argentinean company. Henry Kissinger, hired as speaker for a special dinner in New York to announce the Turkmenistan pipeline deal, says the UNOCAL plan represents a "triumph of hope over experience." UNOCAL will later open an office in Kabul, weeks after the Taliban capture of the capital in late 1996 and will interact with the Taliban, seeking support for its pipeline until at least December 1997. [Coll, 2004, pp. 301-13, 329, 338, 364-66]

1996 to early 1997 - Probe of Suspicious Company with Saudi Ties Is Stalled

1996 to August 2000 - Ahmed Alghamdi and Other Hijackers Reportedly were working at or otherwise connected to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and under the purview of Naval Intelligence.

1996 to 2001 - False Flag 11 preparation - WTC wired for demolition: Securacom got a $8.3 million contract to install a new WTC security system from 1996 to 2000 (extended through 2001). As early as 1993 it may have been decided that the corrosion and asbestos problems of the WTC towers could not be cost-effectively repaired, and that the buildings must be demolished, so Securacom may have been contracted to wire the buildings for demolition in lieu of or in addition to security in order to safely destroy buildings that were not economically viable without significantly damaging adjacent buildings.

1996 March 8 to April - US Asks Sudan for Its Files on Al-Qaeda, Then Declines to Accept Them

1996 May - False Flag 11 preparation: Saudis and Al-Qaeda Allegedly Strike a Secret Deal: French intelligence secretly monitors a meeting of Saudi billionaires at the Hotel Royale Monceau in Paris this month with the financial representative of al-Qaeda. "The Saudis, including a key Saudi prince joined by Muslim and non-Muslim gun traffickers, [meet] to determine who would pay how much to Osama. This [is] not so much an act of support but of protection&emdash;a payoff to keep the mad bomber away from Saudi Arabia." [Palast, 2002, pp. 100] Participants also agree that bin Laden should be rewarded for promoting Wahhabism (an austere form of Islam that requires literal interpretation of the Koran) in Chechnya, Kashmir, Bosnia, and other places. [Fifth Estate, 10/29/2003 ] This extends an alleged secret deal first made between the Saudi government and bin Laden in 1991.

1996 May 18 - Sudan Expels Bin Laden; US Fails to Stop His Flight to Afghanistan.

1996 August - The Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) consortium for construction of pipeline, led by UNOCAL is formed.

1996 - CIA Report Details Link between Saudi Charities and Militant Groups

1996 - Saudi Regime Goes to 'Dark Side': the Saudi Arabian government, which allegedly initiated payments to al-Qaeda in 1991 (see Summer 1991), increases its payments in 1996, becoming al-Qaeda's largest financial backer. It also gives money to other extremist groups throughout Asia, vastly increasing al-Qaeda's capabilities. [New Yorker, 10/16/2001] Presumably, two meetings in early summer bring about the change. Says one US official, "[19]96 is the key year.… Bin Laden hooked up to all the bad guys--it's like the Grand Alliance--and had a capability for conducting large-scale operations."

1996 - FBI Fumbles Flight School Investigation; Murad and Eleven Other al-Qaeda Pilots Trained in US: Finding a business card for a US flight school in the possession of Operation Bojinka plotter Abdul Hakim Murad, the FBI investigates the US flight schools Murad attended. [Washington Post, 9/23/2001] He had trained at about six flight schools off and on, starting in 1990. Apparently, the FBI closes the investigation when they fail to find any other potential suspects. [Insight, 5/27/2002] However, Murad had already confessed to Philippine authorities the names of about ten other associates learning to fly in the US, and the Philippine authorities had asserted that they provided this information to the US. Murad detailed how he and a Pakistani friend crisscrossed the US, attending flight schools in New York, Texas, California and North Carolina. The Associated Press reports, "He also identified to Filipino police approximately 10 other Middle Eastern men who met him at the flight schools or were getting similar training. One was a Middle Eastern flight instructor who came to the United States for more training; another a former soldier in the United Arab Emirates. Others came from Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. None of the pilots match the names of the 19 hijackers from Sept. 11." An assistant manager at a Schenectady, New York, flight school where Murad trained later recalls, "There were several [Middle Eastern pilot students] here. At one point three or four were here. Supposedly they didn't know each other before, they just happened to show up here at the same time. But they all obviously knew each other." However, US investigators somehow fail to detect any of these suspects before 9/11, despite being given their names. [Associated Press, 3/5/2002]

1996 to early 1997 - Probe of Suspicious Company with Saudi Ties Is Stalled

1996 to 1997 - Ptech Begins to Get US Government Contracts. Ptech is a Boston computer company connected to a number of individuals suspected of ties to officially designated terrorist organizations (see 1994). These alleged ties will be of particular concern because of Ptech's potential access to classified government secrets.

1996 - FBI Directly Monitors Militants in Afganistan with Hi-Tech Phone Booth: I-49, a squad of FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors that began focusing on bin Laden in 1996 (see January 1996) is upset that the NSA is not sharing with them data it has obtained through the monitoring of al-Qaeda.

1996 to late September 2001 - Britain Not Interested in Sudan's Files on Al-Qaeda

1997 April 5 - US Again Not Interested in Sudan's al-Qaeda Files: Why America Slept; The 9/11 Commission Report.

1997 May 19 - False Flag 11 preparation: Military Review Suggests Cutting Fighter Protection Over US; Several Bases Are Discontinued.

1997 June 3 - Motive for False Flag 11: The philosophy of nationalist Federalists Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt culminates in the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) statement of principles, members. Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century in which Dov Zakheim calls for a new Pearl Harbor. It is consistent with Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard in which he said that establishing military bases in Central Asia would be crucial for maintaining "American primacy," partly because of the huge oil reserves around the Caspian Sea. ... Brzezinski suggested that Americans today would support the needed military operations in Central Asia only "in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." See also American Enterprise Institute

1997 September 11 - Securacom goes public. Securacom is ordered through a court of law to change its name to Stratesec, due to a name infringement suit. It listed among its clients the World Trade Center, Dulles Airport (Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority), United Airlines and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1997 October 27 - Central Asia Gas Pipeline was incorporated in formal signing ceremonies in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan by several international oil companies along with the Government of Turkmenistan.

1997 December 4 - BBC News, World West Asia: "Taliban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline" - A senior delegation from the Taliban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan. A spokesman for the company, UNOCAL, said the Taliban were expected to spend several days at the company's headquarters in Sugarland, Texas. UNOCAL says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it. (Confirmed by U.S. State Department's press officer for South Asian Affairs, Len Scensny.) This meeting was followed by meeting in Munich, Germany during which UNOCAL allegedly said to the Taliban "Well give you a pipeline to protect else we'll bury you." UNOCAL was one of the key players in the CentGas consortium, an attempt to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline to run from the Caspian area, through Afghanistan and probably Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. One of the consultants to UNOCAL at that time was Zalmay Khalilzad, now US ambassador to Iraq. The CentGas pipeline was not built, due to inability of CentGas and the Taliban to come to a mutually acceptable economic understanding. Shortly thereafter, the US invaded Afghanistan, removing Taliban control from Afghanistan and making moot the question of their remuneration. UNOCAL is also the third largest member of the recently completed and opened Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

Chronology 2

1960-2001 - The next five U.S. False Flag Episodes and Other Ignoble Acts

See Chronology 1 for the previous 5 and Chronology 3 for the 11th.

1960-2001 - The next five U.S. False Flag Episodes
and Other Ignoble Acts