Flying in the Face of Facts

[paulthompson]

Happy to report that my timeline work got mentioned again today in the Village Voice:


Flying in the Face of Facts

Lots of people dialed 911 to the U.S. Before 9-11. Who put them on hold?
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0429/mondo1.php


WASHINGTON, D.C—First they said they'd never heard of an attack with planes. Then they said there had been vague mentions of something like that. But the intelligence info was full of nuance and might have meant this or that, and anyhow, the computers weren't properly talking to one another. Now, six years after the first alarms went off in the White House under Clinton, and three years after the attacks, the horrid truth emerges: The top levels of the U.S. government knew from 1998 on that a big attack was coming. They never told us.

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Place this memorandum amid the steady stream of warnings, and you begin to get a pretty clear picture that intelligence agencies and governments in various parts of the world were well aware that bin Laden was planning an attack in the U.S. involving commercial planes. Here are just a few of the warnings we've already culled from Paul Thompson's 9-11 timeline (cooperativeresearch.org):

[frylock]

1. hey paul, what do you know about dr. saad al-faqih?

a search of the timeline produced zero results. His name was mentioned in Robert Baer's 'See No Evil':

”…In 1997 British authorities were furious when they found out my old Iraqi friend Ahmad Chalabi had rented his studio on Barlby Road in London to a Saudi dissident, Dr. Sa'd Al-Faqih, one of Osama bin Laden's soulmates. Faqih’s platform called for overthrowing the Al Sa’ud family in Saudi Arabia and expelling Britain and the U.S. from the Middle East…”

source: page 351

[paulthompson]

3. never heard of him

I think the term soulmates could be very misleading.

[indigobusiness]

2. kudos

keep up the good work