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THIS BLOG IS GOING INACTIVE.

Black Max — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:03:40 +0000

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 [...]

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Embassy Bombings Category Summary: Multiple Warnings Missed

Kevin Fenton — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:02:31 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: 1998 embassy bombings, NSA, CIA, FBI, Wadiih El-Hage, Ali Mohamed

Category Summary: Londonistan Mole Reda Hassaine

Kevin Fenton — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:15:57 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: Reda Hassaine, Londonistan, Abu Hamza

WTC Collapse Initiation Floors

Kevin Fenton — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:01:42 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: World Trade Center, Journal of 9/11 Studies

CIA Inspector General’s 9/11 Report: Category Summary

Kevin Fenton — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:26:50 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: CIA, 9/11, CIA Inspector General, John Helgerson

Wadih El-Hage: Embassy Bomber Was Under US Surveillance Before Attacks

Kevin Fenton — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:34:57 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: Wadih El-Hage, 1998 Embassy Bombings, FBI, CIA, NSA, Osama bin Laden, Mamoun Darkazanli

Mohamed Atta: The Warrant for His Arrest, NSA Surveillance, and Credit Card Debt

Kevin Fenton — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:46:05 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: Mohamed Atta

‘The Collapse of Fortress Bush’

Black Max — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:49 +0000

The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government, by Alasdair Roberts. 2008 New York University Press I’m not starting this new category with a sensationalistic, partisan book — there are plenty of those out there, and I like some of them This book has obviously been given a dramatic title by [...]

Tags: books, Bush administration, unitary executive, Iraq, Katrina, public policy, Alasdair Roberts

Mohamed Atta in the US

Kevin Fenton — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:13:53 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: Mohamed Atta

The Surveillance of Mohamed Atta

Kevin Fenton — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:39:51 +0000

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 [...]

Tags: Mohamed Atta