ABC News Team Researchers have pieced together the true details on 9?11 attack and have pieced together all the loose ends and a provide interesting insight .
‘ ABC News Investigative Team’s 9/11 timeline details what America was doing and what the hijackers were doing, day-by-day, in August and September 2001. In daily updates, we track the hijackers as they go to flight school. We shadow them as they buy blue blazers — and airline tickets and knives. We also watch as CIA analysts and FBI agents try to sound the alarm about the rising threat, and are ignored. With fresh entries each day from Aug. 11 to Sept. 10, “While America Slept” provides a maddening chronology of the steps and missteps that would change America forever. Click on the link at August 11, 2001 (below and to the right) to start following the trail…
31 DAYS BEFORE 9/11
| August 11, 2001 |
President Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, where five days earlier he had been warned by the CIA of a possible attack in a paper titled: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The document said al Qaeda members were believed to be in the U.S., and that a caller to the U.S. embassy in the United Arab Emirates said “a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.” According to “The One Percent Doctrine” by Ron Suskind, the president told the CIA briefing officer, “All right. You’ve covered your ass now.”
All 19 hijackers are, in fact, already in the U.S. on visas obtained under their actual names.On August 11, Hamza al-Ghamdi, who will be one of the hijackers in the second plane to hit the World Trade Center, buys a blue blazer at a Florida men’s store.
30 DAYS BEFORE 9/11
| August 12, 2001 |
Al Qaeda recruit Zacarias Moussaoui has just arrived in Eagan, Minnesota, where he has moved to attend flight training school.
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