Complete 9/11 Timeline: 9/11 Commission, Al-Qaeda in Italy, Hijackers

Kevin Fenton, Complete 9/11 Timeline: 9/11 Commission, Al-Qaeda in Italy, Hijackers - Additions as of March 30, 2008

New entries this week cover a wide variety of topics. Regarding the 9/11 Commission, members and staff were dismayed by Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq-al-Qaeda potboiler, as was a CIA expert who had the misfortune to sit on the same panel as Mylroie, and the Jersey Girls. Staffers were appalled by executive director Philip Zelikow’s rewriting of a staff statement to imply Iraqi connections to al-Qaeda, and forced him to back down. Zelikow finally accepted the lack of connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda, but Vice President Cheney did not.

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Complete 911 Timeline: BCCI and Terrorism Finance

Complete 911 Timeline: BCCI and Terrorism Finance

Most entries added to the 9/11 Timeline this week deal with terrorism finance in general and the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in particular. Between 1979 and 1991, the US government received over 700 tips about criminal activities by BCCI, which repeatedly saved Pakistan from financial ruin and funneled money to A. Q. Khan’s nuclear program, but essentially ignored all 700 of them. BCCI dominated the supply chain of CIA supplies and weapons for the Afghan mujaheddin and was also used by the CIA to pay 500 British informants and for another slush fund, of which the CIA failed to notify US customs. The NSC gained a clear picture of BCCI’s criminal activities from CIA reports, but a US senator was kept in the dark about them. The Pakistani government allowed drug traffickers to use BCCI, which was linked to Osama bin Laden, and a huge munitions explosion towards the end of the Soviet-Afghan war hid the fact that that money for the mujaheddin was being diverted to A. Q. Khan.

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Mer om BCCI her;

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=complete_911_timeline_bcci

… og her;

BCCI, THE CIA AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

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9/11: The BCCI Connection
The story goes that BCCI was founded by Pakistani financier Aga Hassan Abedi. In truth, it was mostly a British intelligence operation using Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates as fronts, while C.I.A. elements allied with George H. W. Bush used the banking network to conduct a number of under-the-table operations throughout the ’80’s. Before it went under, BCCI served as the cardiovascular system for a global criminal milieu, its laundered arteries servicing the needs of various drug lords, arms dealers, fraudsters, dictators, corrupt politicians, terrorists, and intelligence agencies seeking loose cash for their extra-legal activities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP311A.html