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The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 — and America's Response is described by its publisher as a compilation of over 5,000 reports and articles concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks.^[1]

The book was compiled by a Stanford University alumnus and 9/11 researcher who goes by the pseudonym "Paul Thompson", and the Center for Cooperative Research. The timeline chronicles events leading up to the terrorist attacks and America's response. The project began in mid-2002—and continues to be updated—as a website entitled The Complete 911 Timeline.

1 Influence
2 Contents
3 Author - Paul Thompson
4 Notes and references
5 External links

[edit] Influence

The book and the website it is based on are perhaps most notable for their use by the Jersey Girls in their attempts to influence the work of the 9/11 Commission, and Kristen Breitweiser has personally endorsed the book, stating; "If you want to know everything about 9/11, you must read this book ... Our intelligence agencies should be recruiting people like Paul Thompson, because he's brilliant" ^[2]

Richard Clarke has put it on his reading list for his course on "Terrorism, Security, and Intelligence" at Harvard University. ^[3]

The book, and Thompsons research in this field, has gone on to inspire the movie "9/11: Press for Truth"^[4]

His work has also gone on to be cited as a key piece of research in a Complaint and Petition, which seeks a criminal inquiry and/or grand jury investigation into "the many still unsolved crimes of September 11, 2001", that was filed with and accepted by the New York Attorney General's Office.^[5]

The book is cited in the book by Tom Fenton titled "Bad News" for Chapter Four, references 4 and 8.

[edit] Contents

"Before 9/11" - the background of Osama bin Laden and the beginnings of al-Qaeda; early assessments by intelligences agencies concerning the possibility of a large scale attack.
"The Terrorists" - profiles the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and the other terrorists who were involved with the plot.
"Geopolitics and 9/11" - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Iraq: their relationships with and assessments of al-Qaeda.
"The Attacks" - a minute-by-minute account of the day, September 11, 2001.
"The post 9/11 World" - America's response in the War on Terror and the investigations into the attacks on 9/11.

The Terror Timeline had contained previously published reports that were subsequently retracted, including allegations against a Saudi man, Mohammed Al Amoudi, that he had funded, supported, or is associated with Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and their terrorist activities.^[6] The sources used for the book also incorrectly said that Al Amoudi is a defendant in a litigation in a case put forth by families of 9/11 victims.^[6] These reports were based on published news reports that were later retracted but cited in first edition runs of the book before later being retracted by the news sources who made the allegations.^[6] HarperCollins removed these references in reprints after January 2005.^[6] Upon discovery of this Paul Thompson made a public apology and had the information removed from the Center for Cooperative Research page as well as future editions of the book. ^[7]

[edit] Author - Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson is the author of "The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 — and America's Response", a compilation of over 5,000 reports and articles concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks.^[8]^[9] The book was based on research conducted by himself and The Center for Cooperative Research through the website titled "The Complete 9/11 Timeline". Thompsons research in the field has garnered over 100 radio interviews, along with TV interviews on Fox News and Air America and interviews in print, such as for Buzz Magazine. Articles about himself, his research and it's reception by the 9/11 Truth Movement have appeared in The Village Voice and Esquire Magazine's "Genius Issue".^[10]^[11]^[12] and recognition as "an authority on terrorism", even though, "He never studied, trained", as noted by Esquire. ^[10] In 2005, Thompson was asked to speak at a congressional briefing on the 9/11 Commission’s final report, he addressed what he defined as failures by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).^[8]^[13]

Paul Thompson was born in Pacific Beach, California and currently holds a psychology degree from Stanford University obtained in 1990.^[8]^[14] He now spends time there and in New Zealand. He is a freelance researcher and has worked in the past as an environmental activist, at an environmental-protection firm.^[8]^[14]^[9]