Let me rephrase. It IS inactive. Did we give up on interacting with our community? Not hardly. Instead, we’ve moved to more interesting digs:
History Commons Site Blog
History Commons Groups
The material already in this blog will be ported over to the Groups blog in the next few days (right, Kevin, Matt?), and lots of new material […]

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Black Max
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The 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were the first major attacks by al-Qaeda against the US, killing over 200 people. They foreshadowed 9/11 in several ways, not least because they could have and should have been prevented.
The 9/11 Timeline’s category on the embassy bombings can basically be divided into two […]

Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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This is a summary of the 9/11 Timeline category about Reda Hassaine, an Algerian mole who worked for Algerian, French and British intelligence services in London. He got close to leading radical Islamists well-connected in al-Qaeda and the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA), an Algerian militant group.
Focused on Abu Hamza
Hassaine’s first job was to travel from […]

Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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I recently had a short letter published in the Journal of 9/11 Studies about the World Trade Center. It is entitled WTC Collapse Initiation Floors: What They Were And How Much Damage They Suffered and can be found here.
It begins:
Although much has been written about the collapses of the World Trade Center towers on […]

Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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This is a summary of the 9/11 Timeline’s category about the CIA inspector general’s report into the agency’s failings before the September 11 attacks. You can find the full chapter here.
Only Some Aspects of Agency’s Performance Investigated
The investigation was a result of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into intelligence failures in the run-up to 9/11, and […]

Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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Wadih El-Hage was an al-Qaeda operative involved in the 1998 East African embassy bombings, as well as serving as Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary. He was under investigation and known to both the FBI and CIA for years before the attacks, and this surveillance represented a missed opportunity to save over 200 lives. He was […]

Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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This is a summary of the final third of the 9/11 Timeline’s Mohamed Atta chapter. A summary of the first part, detailing his time in Germany and arrival in the US, can be found here. A summary of the second part, about his first few months in the US, can be found here.
Warrant Issued for […]

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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This is a summary of the second third of the 9/11 Timeline’s Mohamed Atta chapter. A summary of the first part, detailing his time in Germany and arrival in the US, can be found here. A summary of the third part will be added later.
Move to Florida
After entering the US and hooking up with Marwan […]

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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This is a summary of the first part of the 9/11 Timeline’s Mohamed Atta chapter. Summaries of the second and third parts of the chapter will be added later.
Muslim Brotherhood and Petty Crime
Atta, the alleged pilot of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 and mastermind of the attacks, grew up […]

Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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Jon Gold has FBI agent Michael Maltbie in the Who Is? Archives and has been kind enough to let me write an introduction. Here it is:
Michael Maltbie is one of the agents at the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit (RFU) that blocked warrants for searches of Zacarias Moussaoui’s belongings. Although he is less well-known than unit […]

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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