User:Huysman/Iraq and Al Qaeda Timeline
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[edit] 1987
- Autumn SABAWI IBRAHIM AL TIKRITI and DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI attend a fuel additive company in Oklahoma City as part of weapons procurements efforts. They seek such powerful chemicals as ammonium nitrate.
[edit] 1989
- ABDUL BASIT KARIM, who later adopts the identity "RAMZI AHMED YOUSEF," works with DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI(died in 1990), whose job was to obtain weapons and chemical components for different types of war gasses for Iraq and Libya, in the office of the Iraqi National Oil Company. BARBOUTI shipped abundant sodium cyanide to Iraq in the next few years, and his coworker KARIM/YOUSEF proceeds to use sodium cyanide in his attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
[edit] 1990
- September 11 ABDUL BASIT KARIM, after collaborating with Iraqi occupying forces in the invasion of Kuwait in August, is issued a legitimate Iraqi passport in the name RAMZI AHMED YOUSEF. [1]
- September 13 SADDAM HUSSEIN calls for jihad against supporters of UN condemenations of Iraq. TARIQ AZIZ said Iraq doesn't have to refrain from terrorism against the U.S.A., British, or French governments.
[edit] 1991
[edit] 1992
- MOHAMED SALAMEH calls his Baghdad-sponsored maternal uncle QADRI ABU BAKR up to 46 times. A senior Sunni representative of the MKO asks RAMZI YOUSEF on behalf of Bahgdad to carry out a spectacular terrorist attack inside the U.S.A. RAMZI YOUSEF then comes to the U.S.A. on a legitimate Iraqi passport issued to him on September 11, 1990.
[edit] 1993
- February 26 On the second anniversary of Kuwaiti liberation,[2] at 12:17 P.M. a 1,310 lb. bomb explodes in the World Trade Center basement, killing seven and injuring over 1,040 while failing to topple the Trade Towers in a cloud of cyanide gas as the conspirators intended.
- Iraqi WTC terrorist ABDUL YASIN flees the USA and "boogies to Baghdad," where he works for the dictatorial regime of SADDAM HUSSEIN and is paid a salary for a decade. He is still at large as of 2006 and has been personally interviewed by several Western news outlets. The JFK INS inspector said it "appeared to be valid and unaltered," and the 9/11 Commission Report said that "An examination of Yousef's passport by the Forensic Document Lab at INS later reveals that the date of birth has been overwritten and the passport binding has been cut and un-stitched, but no other alterations were detected." The legitimacy of his passport is also corroborated by the testimony of David Kelly.
[edit] 1994
- June 20 RAMZI YOUSEF, together with his father and brother and with help from Iraqi intelligence, bomb a Shi'ite Muslim Mosque in Mashad, Iran.
- RAMZI YOUSEF meets with Terry Nichols in the Philippines to provide him with bomb-making expertise. [3]
[edit] 1995
- April 19 A 5,000 lb. ammonium nitrate and nitromethane bomb explodes outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 at 9:02 A.M. at Central Daylight time, killing 168 and injuring over 800.
- TIMOTHY MCVEIGH collects several Iraqi phone numbers shortly before being arrested. HUSSAIN HASHEM AL HUSSAINI, who served in the Iraqi Republican Guard, was the "John Doe #2" who was witnessed in the company of MCVEIGH. [4] [5]
[edit] 1996
- July 17 TWA 800 blows up midflight due to pre-planted plastic explosives on the 27th anniversary of the coup d'etat that brought SADDAM HUSSEIN into power. Mimicking RAMZI YOUSEF's Oplan Bojinka plot (which used delayed timer tactics like like YOUSEF'S associate DR. IHSAN BARBOUTI's 1998 Pan Am 103 bombing), it was an effort to help yousef get a mistrial so he could be freed and plot more attacks for Al Qaeda and Iraq. [6]
[edit] 1997
- OKC terrorist HUSSAIN HASHEM AL HUSSAINI expresses concerns to his psychiatrist that he would be implicated if something bad were to happen at Boston Logan Airport, where he works. Four years later, AA Flight 11 and UA Flight 175 take off from Boston Logan Airport, are hijacked, and then crashed into the North Tower and South Tower of the World Trade Center, respectively.
[edit] 1998
- February 23 Iraq's state press warns of "consequences."
- March Awaiting execution in federal prison, TIMOTHY MCVEIGH publishes his copyrighted "Essay on Hypocrisy" which attempts to justify Iraq's stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons.
- May 1 Iraq's state press warns of "dire consequences."
- May 9 OSAMA BIN LADEN issues an anti-American fatwa, complaining about U.S.A. "aggression" in Iraq. BIN LADEN's and HUSSEIN's threats are synchronized this year.
- July 30 Iraq threatens violent action unless the UN embargo is lifted.
- August 5 SADDAM HUSSEIN repeats his warnings after ousting UN weapons inspectors.
- August 7 At 10:45 A.M. local time, the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed simultaneously, killing over 235 and injuring over 4,585.
- Late October The newspaper Al Quds Al Arabic mentions direct cooperation between OSAMA BIN LADEN and SADDAM HUSSEIN.
[edit] 1999
[edit] 2000
- January Iraqi intelligence officer AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR facilitates the travel of Al Qaeda veterans and future AA Flight 77 hijackers KHALID ALMIDHAR and NAWAF ALHAZMI to, and attended, the January 2000 Al Qaeda summit in Malaysia where 9/11 is plotted. SHAKIR worked with the plotters and executors of both WTC attacks, OKC bombing, embassy bombings, and USS Cole attacks as documented by his list of contacts and communication records. [7]
- Spring Future UA Flight 175 pilot MARWAN ALSHEHHI and future UA Flight 93 pilot ZIAD SAMIR JARRAH meet with Mukhabarat officers in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. [8]
- May 30 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague.
- June 2 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague.
- October 14 Two Saudi Arabian Al Qaeda operatives hijack a Saudi Airlines Boeing 777 and fly it to Baghdad, demonstrating to Iraq their ability to hijack potential guided missiles. They are given asylum by SADDAM HUSSEIN's government.
[edit] 2001
- April 8 MOHAMED ATTA meets Iraqi spy AHMED AL-ANI in Prague, where AL-ANI orders the IIS to wire ATTA money. [9]
- July 21 NAEEM ABD MULHALHAL, an Iraqi reporter affiliated with Iraqi intelligence, describes OSAMA BIN LADEN's plans to attack the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and White House using planes as weapons. This fits with Al Qaeda number one OSAMA BIN LADEN's practice of publicly threatening the United States of America before carrying out terrorist attacks against it. [10]
- September 1 SADDAM HUSSEIN personally praises NAEEM ABD MULHALHAL (see July 21, 2001) for his "documentation of important events and heroic deeds that proud Iraqis have accomplished."
- Week before September 11 Israeli intelligence gives an urgent warning to the CIA of an imminent, large-scale attack inside the U.S.A. by OSAMA BIN LADEN, with strong indications of Iraqi involvement. [11]
[edit] 2002
[edit] 2003
An extensive list of Saddam Hussein agents caught working for al Qaeda in Iraq, post-invasion is available here
