Heartson's 9/11 Timeline Part 7

gained sovereignty over the Hawar Islands through an International Court of Justice decision in March 2001, opening a formerly disputed area of the Persian Gulf to exploration. (OD)

November 6th, 2001 Jerome Hauer participated in the "Independent Task Force on America's Response to Terrorism" at the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). Participants there included James J. Zogby (President of the Arab American Institute and Central Asian Enterprise Fund), Newton L. Gingrich (Chief Executive Officer, The Gingrich Group), Harold Brown
(former secretary of defense and counselor at CSIS: the Center for Strategic and International Studies), Henry A. Kissinger (Senior Fellow in National Security and European Affairs), Richard C. Holbrooke (Counselor, CFR and Vice Chairman of Perseus, LLC) and Philip A. Odeen (Executive Vice President, Washington Operations of TRW, Inc. and CEO of Reynolds + Reynolds, Dayton).

Their agenda, eight weeks after the attack of Sept. 11, was strange indeed:
http://www.cfr.org/Public/publications/PubDiplom_TF.html

^{"....Release a White Paper explaining our goals and rationale for the war in Afghanistan, and outlining the evidence that the al-Qa'eda network was responsible for the 9/11 attacks....}

^{...Disseminate stories of particular victims to convey the range of people killed in the 9/11 attacks-stress range of religions, races, income levels, etc...}

^{...counteract myth that Mossad was behind the attacks by showing Jews killed, etc...}

^{...Routinely monitor the regional press in real time to enable prompt responses..."}

November 2001

Thomas Picking retires from the FBI

November 2001: Jerome Hauer was still ignoring the investigations by Barbara Rosenberg, who had a list of possible anthrax suspects, scientists who would have been able to gain access to the original Ames strain from USAMRIID, Fort Detrick. http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm Suspects were Battelle and the Battelle Memorial Institute administrators, who supplied the Dugway anthrax proving facility in Utah, where the only virtually identical Ames strain of silica-impregnated hyper-weaponized anthrax was found: http://www.stlimc.org/print.php3?article_id=1295 Jerome Hauer started an initiative known as "De-Mystifying the Biological Weapons Debate," and as a member of this group he claimed at the time that the main suspects for the anthrax attacks included "Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network and sympathizers to US right wing extremists" http://www.basicint.org/BWreport.htm

November 2001

DynCorp, who is strongly connected with ENRON and the government, gets a new contract for $51 million to upgrade the FBI's information technology network, as well as an $8.2 million contract to manage SEC information technology.

ENRON's Kenneth Lay who worked at the Department of Defense under Robert McNamara, as did the Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur (former DynCorp excutive), another member of the Enron Board of Directors and member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) DynCorps auditor of record is Arthur Andersen.

On the board of DynCorp is also General P.C. Carns, a retired US Air Force general who served as vice chief of staff and as director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the DynCorp Proxy statement, Carns is also a member of the Defense Science Board and the Board of Advisors, National Security Agency DynCorp also worked with the PROMIS sofware DynCorp is involved in many bizarre cases, like Bosnia Sex Scandals, aircraft crashes in Afghanistan and many CIA-connected business deals in South- and Middle America.

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/main.cfm/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/2296 90.html

CFR Tuesday, November 6, 2001
"Globalization: Has Everything Changed?"
Speaker: Stanley Fischer
Senior Adviser to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Presider: John A. Ross
Corporate Chief Operating Officer, Deutsche Bank AG

Thur Nov 7, 2001: (Sniper) Federal officials announce they're dropping charges in the D.C. attacks and the men will be instead tried first in Virginia, the state most likely to achieve successful death penalty sentences. Atlanta, Ga., police say the September 21 murder of liquor store employee Million Waldemariam might be connected to the so-called Beltway Snipers after ballistics tests confirm the weapon used also matches one recovered near the Alabama slaying.

Fri Nov 8, 2001: (Sniper) Muhammad and Malvo make their first appearance in separate Virginia courtrooms The Washington Post publishes an interview with Mildred Muhammad, who says she believes the shootings were part of a plan by her ex-husband to murder her and gain custody of their children. She believes Muhammad came to Washington to kill her and that all of the victims "died because of me."

November 8, 2001: Larry Johnson, former CIA officer with close links to serving intelligence officials said "We're hostage to oil, that's as simple as you can put it. We have let the economic considerations take precedence,". BBC News

November 9, 2001: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.1% in the year 2000, and have risen 14% since 1990. EIA reports that the emissions increase between 1999 and 2000 was a result of strong economic growth and more use of fossil fuels due to cold weather and a drought that reduced hydroelectric power generation. (LAT)

November 9, 2001: Enron, the world's largest electricity and natural gas trading company, agrees to an all-stock takeover by former competitor Dynegy. ChevronTexaco, a 27% stakeholder in Dynegy, will immediately inject $1.5 billion cash into Enron, and an additional $1 billion into the combined entity. The merged company will be called Dynegy Inc., and Dynegy executives will occupy all top positions. The deal is expected to take at least six months to close. (WMO)

November 9th, 2001 Officially on this day a video of Bin Laden is produced in Jahlalabad. On the same day the Northern Alliance have their first success, storming Mazar-el-Sharif. Many journalists wrote, that this attack was provoked by the CIA and lead to the first big loss of the Taliban. Donald Rumsfeld claims, "someone" found this video two weeks later in Kandahar.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/t12132001_t1213sd.html

At that time, none of the Northern Alliance or the US Troops had been arrived in Kandahar or Jahlalabad.

November 10, 2001 "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth", written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie is released. It includes an interview with former (and dead) FBI agent John O'Neill and many oil pipeline maps of Afghanistan.

November 11, 2001 "..The New York Times (November 11, 2001) reported that F.B.I. agents were denied access to "some pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR011112.html

Thur Nov 12, 2001: (Sniper) Judge Leroy Millette denies a request from FOX, CNN, ABC and other networks to televise the trial of Muhammad, saying coverage would compromise his right to fair trial. A trial date for Muhammad is set for October 14, 2003. Eight weeks are cleared for the case to be given enough time.

November 12, 2001: The beginning of numerous mysterious deaths of renowned microbiologists. A good place to start learning about this is a Globe and Mail article, which calls these deaths a "tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up" yet hard to explain [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] (The Memphis Flyer also provides a good overview, but is much more speculative: [Memphis Flyer, 3/7/02]). The first dead microbiologist is Dr. Benito Que, 52, was "an expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. Police originally suspected that he had been beaten on November 12 in a carjacking in the medical school's parking lot. Strangely enough, though, his body showed no signs of a beating. Doctors then began to suspect a stroke." [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02]

Benito Que, 52, was found comatose in the street near the laboratory where he worked at the University of Miami Medical School. He died on Dec. 6. Benito Que an expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. The public relations office at the University of Miami Medical School said only that Benito Que was a cell biologist, involved in oncology research in the hematology department. This research relies heavily on DNA sequencing studies. The circumstances of his death raise more questions than they answer. Que had left his job at a research laboratory at the University of Miami Medical School, apparently heading for his Ford Explorer parked on NW 10th Avenue. The Miami Herald, referring to the death as an "incident," reported he had no wallet on him, and quoted Miami police as saying his death may have been the result of a mugging. Police made this statement while at the same time saying there was a lack of visible trauma to Que's body. There is firm belief among Que's friends and family that the PhD was attacked by four men, at least one of whom had a baseball bat. Que's death has now been officially ruled "natural," caused by cardiac arrest. Both the Dade County medical examiner and the Miami Police would not comment on the case, saying only that it is closed. Benito Que worked for medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI funds a tremendous number of research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been alleged to be conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence organizations, including the CIA.

The research the microbiologists were doing could have developed methods of treating diseases like anthrax and smallpox without conventional antibiotics or vaccines. Pharmaceutical contracts to deal with these diseases will total hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. If epidemics could be treated in non-traditional ways, MEHPA might not be necessary. Considering the government's actions nullifying many civil liberties since last September, MEHPA seems to be a law looking for an excuse to be enacted. Maybe the microbiologists were in the way of some peoples' or business' agendas.

DNA sequencing research can be used to develop pathogens that target specific genetically related groups. One company, DynCorp, handles data processing for many federal agencies, including the CDC, the Department of Agriculture, several branches of the Department of Justice, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the NIH. On Nov. 12 DynCorp announced that its subsidiary, DynPort Vaccine, had been awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed vaccines for use by the Defense Department. It would be incredibly easy for DynCorp to hide information pertaining to the exact make-up, safety, efficacy and purpose of the drugs and vaccines the US government has contracted for.

November 12, 2001 DynCorp, also major government contractor for data processing, military operations and intelligence work, was awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce and store vaccines for the Department of Defense DynCorp and Hadron, both defense contractors connected to classified research programs on communicable diseases, have also been linked to a software program known as PROMIS. DynCorp is connected with the CIA as the nation's twenty-second largest defense contractor with 1998 U.S. Government contract revenues of $475 million James Woolsey, former CIA director and friend of Pentagon advisor Richard Perle (Hollinger Inc.= Daily Telegraph, Jerusalem Post etc..) was director of DynCorp some years ago ENRON executive Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur was on the board of DynCorp from 1988 to 1997, Winokur was also the Chairman and CEO of DynCorp. It was said, that ENRON worked with 20 CIA agents to bribe business deals. DynCorp is one of the lead contractors for the new phony War on Drugs in South America called "Plan Colombia". DynCorp helped clients such as the U.S. Army,s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP), the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Postal Service. On the list of DynCorp clients from the public sector: U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Centers for Disease Control, Department of Defense etc..

http://www.dyncorp.com/world/public.htm DynCorp is also responsible for the crashes of the helicopters in Afghanistan, as confirmed by tech mag insight, reported by investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O'Meara . http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/main.cfm/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/2296 90.html

Investigative reporter Kelly O Meara of Insight Magazine, (February 4), disclosed massive US military investigation of how DynCorp employees in Bosnia engaged in a widespread sex slave ring, trading children as young as eight and videotaping forced sexual encounters. She reviewed government documents and interviewed Army investigators looking into the activities which had spread throughout DynCorp's contract operations to service helicopters and warehouse supplies for the US military. Videos and other evidence of the crimes are in the Army s possession. And in a February 23rd story, veteran journalist Al Giordano of www.narconews.com reported that a class action suit had been filed in Washington, D.C. by more than 10,000 Ecuadorian farmers and a labor union against DynCorp for its rampant spraying of herbicides which have destroyed food crops, weakened the ecosystem and caused more than 1,100 documented cases of illness. DynCorp's current Chairman, Paul Lombardi responded to the suit by sending intimidating letters in an unsuccessful attempt to force the plaintiffs to withdraw. [As Connections To Dyncorp, Hadron, Promis Software & Disease Research Emerge - A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health (Revised/Updated - 20 March 2002) By Michael Davidson FTW Staff Writer and Michael C. Ruppert 3-3-2 ]

DynCorp, who is strongly connected with ENRON and the government, gets a new contract for $51 million to upgrade the FBI's information technology network, as well as an $8.2 million contract to manage SEC information technology.

ENRON's Kenneth Lay who worked at the Department of Defense under Robert McNamara, as did the Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur (former DynCorp excutive), another member of the Enron Board of Directors and member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) DynCorps auditor of record is Arthur Andersen.

On the board of DynCorp is also General P.C. Carns, a retired US Air Force general who served as vice chief of staff and as director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the DynCorp Proxy statement, Carns is also a member of the Defense Science Board and the Board of Advisors, National Security Agency DynCorp also worked with the PROMIS sofware DynCorp is involved in many bizarre cases, like Bosnia Sex Scandals, aircraft crashes in Afghanistan and many CIA-connected business deals in South- and Middle America.

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/main.cfm/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/2296 90.html

November 13, 2001 Len Horowitz, Harvard trained medical researcher, best-selling author, and biowarfare expert writes a letter to the FBI on anthrax. Bayer was a company connected to WWII Nazis (IG Farben).

November 14, 2001 Thomas Inglesby, Hopkins Institute in an article about the Postal Workers, who died on Anthrax: "...According to NIH researcher Dr. Luciana Borio, the two workers' symptoms were initially misidentified as flu.."

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/hiv/01111401.htm

November 14, 2001: At its meeting in Vienna, Austria, OPEC announces that it intends to cut its crude oil output quotas by 1.5 million barrels per day effective January 1, but only if non-OPEC producers cut their output by 500,000 barrels per day as well. The production cuts are an effort to steady or raise world oil prices, which have fallen markedly since September. (DJ) Mexico pledges to cut its crude oil exports by 100,000 barrels per day as of January 1, 2002, in order to strengthen world oil prices in concert with OPEC actions. Mexico is the world's seventh-largest crude oil producer and exported 1.6 million barrels per day in September 2001. (Reuters) The NYMEX crude oil price for December delivery falls 11.6% to $17.45 per barrel, after Russia appeared to reject OPEC's proposal to cut oil production. Over the last week the December delivery price has fallen 21%. Oil prices have not been this low in over two years. (NYT)

November 16, 2001: Microbiologist: Dr. Don Wiley, 57, Loeb Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, disappears during a business trip to Memphis, Tennessee. [Fox News, 11/24/01] He had just bought tickets to take his son to Graceland the following day. Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis. His body was later found in the Mississippi River. Forensic experts said he may have had a dizzy spell and fallen off the bridge. Police will only say, "We began this investigation as a missing person investigation. From there it went to a more criminal bent." [CNN, 11/29/01] "Wiley is seen as one of the world's leading researchers of deadly viruses, including HIV and the Ebola virus." [CNN, 12/22/01] Wiley worked at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, and was an expert on the immune system's response to viral attacks. He was widely regarded as the nation's foremost expert in using special X-ray cameras and mathematical formulas to make high-resolution images of viruses. [Boston Globe, 12/21/01] The FBI is monitoring the investigation because of his research knowledge. [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] Jan. 14, almost two months after his disappearance, Shelby County Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Wiley s death to be "accidental;" the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs Wiley hit. There is also no explanation as to why this evidence did not move the Memphis police to consider possibilities other than a "missing person."

November 17, 2001: Senator Leahy's anthax letter is discovered

November 18, 2001: Phillips Petroleum and Conoco agree to merge into a new company to be called ConocoPhillips, which would be the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the United States, and the sixth-largest in the world, in terms of production. The company also would be the largest gasoline retailer in the United States and the fifth-largest refiner in the world. Combined total reserves of the new company would be 8.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and production would be 1.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. The new company expects to be able to compete more effectively with its larger rivals and to achieve significant cost savings. The new company will be based in Houston, Texas. (NYT)

November 20, 2001: Non-OPEC oil exporter Oman indicates that it will cut production by about 3% or 25,000 barrels per day, in order to reduce oil supply and cooperate with OPEC's contingent cuts. (Reuters)

November 20, 2001: The five Israelis on a Mossad surveillance mission arrested after filming the burning of the WTC while shouting in cries of joy and mockery are released on November 20, 2001 as part of a deal with the Israeli government. The owner of the moving van company they all worked had fled to Israel on September 13 and is still wanted by US authorities. The FBI later claims that none of them had any advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a story headlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban." The story reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the country.

November 21, 2001 (B): Dead microbiologist: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, dies of a stroke. Pasechnik, who defected to Britain in 1989, had played a huge role in the development of Russian biowarfare, heading a lab of 400 "with an unlimited budget" and "the best staff available." He says he succeeded in producing an aerosolized plague microbe that could survive outside the laboratory. He was connected to Britain's spy agency and recently had started his own company. "In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of the [British] Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism." [London Times, 11/30/01, New York Times, 11/23/01, Globe and Mail, 5/4/02]

November 22, 2001: Norway's Oil and Energy Minister announces that he has a mandate to reduce the country's current crude oil production of about 3.2 million barrels per day by as much as 200,000 barrels per day. The cut would be pro rata, meaning that all companies will have to participate in the output cut. The timing and extent of the actual cut will depend on the overall package of supply reduction agreed upon by OPEC and other large non-OPEC producers. Brent crude oil at the International Petroleum

 

Exchange (IPE) rises $1.17 per barrel to $19.02 per barrel, on the news. (WSJ)

Nov. 23, 2001: CLPH released a 40-page document, the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). This was a "model" law that HHS is suggesting be enacted by the 50 states to handle future public health emergencies such as bioterrorism. A revised version was released on Dec. 21 containing more specific definitions of "public health emergency" as it pertains to bioterrorism and biologic agents, and includes language for those states that want to use the act for chemical, nuclear or natural disasters.

Nov. 23, 2001 Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, was found dead in Wiltshire, England, not far from his home. Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defected to Britain in 1989, played a huge role in the development of Russian biowarfare, heading a lab of 400 "with an unlimited budget" and "the best staff available." He says he succeeded in producing an aerosolized plague microbe that could survive outside the laboratory. He was connected to Britain's spy agency and recently had started his own company. "In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of the [British] Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism."

Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred on Nov. 23.

The announcement of Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke. Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Davis says he left the intelligence service in 1996, but when asked why a former member of British intelligence would be the person announcing the death of Pasechnik to the US media, he replied that it had come about during a conversation with a reporter he had had a long relationship with. The reporter Davis named is not the author of the Times' obituary, and Davis declined to say which branch of British intelligence he served in. No reports of Pasechnik's death appeared in Britain for more than a month, until Dec. 29, when his obituary appeared in the London Telegraph, which did not include a date of death.

November 24, 2001: Three more dead microbiologists: A Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich crashes during its landing approach; 22 are killed and nine survive. Among those killed are Dr. Yaakov Matzner, 54, dean of the Hebrew University school of medicine; Amiramp Eldor, 59, head of the haematology department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and a world-recognized expert in blood clotting; and Avishai Berkman, 50, director of the Tel Aviv public health department and businessman. [CNN, 11/25/01, Swissair manifest, 11/24/01] Besides all being microbiologists, six of the seven scientists who died within weeks of each other died from "unnatural" causes. And four of the seven were doing virtually identical research -- research that has global, political and financial significance.

Nov. 24, 2001: a Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich crashed on its landing approach. Of the 33 persons on board, 24 were killed, including the head of the hematology department at Israel's Ichilov Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University School of Medicine. They were the only Israelis on the flight. The names of those killed, as reported in a subsequent Israeli news story but not matched to their job titles, were Avishai Berkman, Amiramp Eldor and Yaacov Matzner. Besides all being microbiologists, six of the seven scientists who died within weeks of each other died from "unnatural" causes. And four of the seven were doing virtually identical research -- research that has global, political and financial significance.

- Yaakov Matzner Dean of the Hebrew University school of medicine;

- Amiramp Eldor, Head of hematology department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and world-recognized expert in blood clotting;

- Avishai Berkman, director of the Tel Aviv public health department

Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined "Victorious Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that farmers are being encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are "being encouraged to plant as much opium as possible."

November 27, 2001: Iraq rejects a call by U.S. President George Bush to let United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country to determine whether it is building weapons of mass destruction. An Iraqi spokesman states that, before asking Iraq to allow weapons inspectors to return, the United Nations should lift the 11- year-old sanctions on Iraq and the West should abolish the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq. (Reuters)

November 28, 2001: Dynegy withdraws from merger offer with Enron. Without an infusion of capital from a merger or other source, it will be difficult for Enron to continue payments to its creditors in light of the downgrade of Enron's debt rating to single-B-minus earlier in the day by Standard & Poor's. If Enron is unable to repay or refinance its debt, the company, formerly one of the largest energy companies in the world, may have to declare bankruptcy. (DJ)

November 29 , 2001: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for- Food program in Iraq for another six-month period. This resolution allows Iraq to sell unlimited quantities of oil on the condition that the proceeds are used to buy food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods, and to pay war reparations. This resolution also calls on members of the Security Council to agree by May 31, 2002, on a list of "dual use" items that would require United Nations approval before Iraq could import them through the program. (WP, DJ)

November 2001 Under the influence of United States oil companies, the government of President George W Bush initially blocked intelligence agencies' investigations on terrorism while it bargained with the Taliban on the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim. Julio Godoy (Asia Times 11/20/2001).

November 30, 2001: A report suggests that the strain of anthrax used in the attacks likely originated from USAMRIID and was shared with only a small number of other labs. USAMRIID gave it to Battelle Memorial Institute, in Columbus, Ohio; the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Defense Research Establishment Suffield, in Canada; the US Army Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah; and the Chemical Defense Establishment at Porton Down, Britain. These in turn sent it to seven more labs, for a total of a dozen. But only five labs total received the virulent form, and some of these may have received strains that were too old (it is known the anthrax used was two years old or less [New York Times, 6/23/02]). [Washington Post, 11/30/01]

December 2, 2001: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York for 14 affiliated entities, including Enron, Enron North America, Enron Energy Services, Enron Transportation Services, Enron Broadband Services, and Enron Metals & Commodity Corporation. Enron was formerly the world's largest electricity and natural gas trading company, and the seventh-largest publicly-traded energy company in the world. Enron also files a $10 billion lawsuit against Dynegy, alleging breach of contract, in connection with Dynegy's November 28 termination of its proposed merger with Enron. (DJ)

December 2001: The FBI stopped reporting about their anthrax investigation in December 2001. But after a couple of months, the pressure on them and Fort Detrick became stronger again. It looked far too strange that their investigation started to stall just as the (Barbara) Rosenberg list of suspicious institutes was released. Rosenberg claimed that the FBI already knew the name of a prime individual suspect in October 2001.

Dec. 1, 2001: The body of James Daniel Watkins, a telecommunications consultant working at the Denver office of Arthur Andersen, is found inside his 1988 Ford Econoline van. A spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says Watkins was shot once in the head. ("Body of Jeffco man found", http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_896066,00.html )

Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is recruited by the U.S. government to help establish control in Afghanistan by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one of the CIA's leading assets in the war against the Russians is released from prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4, 2001]

December 4, 2001 Rep. Waxman wrote the Vice President asking that he disclose details about contacts between his energy task force and Enron Corp., in light of the company's recent financial collapse and press reports suggesting that Enron had extensive dealings with the task force.

Tuesday, December 4, 2001
"Draining the Swamp: Terrorists and Their Financial Assets"
Speaker: Lee S. Wolosky
Former Director, Transnational Threats, National Security Council; Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Speaker: Thomas J. Biersteker
Director and Henry R. Luce Professor Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Speaker: William F. Wechsler
Former Special Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, United States Treasury; Vice-President, Greenwich Associates
Speaker: Steve Kroll
Special Counsel, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Presider: Michael M. Weinstein
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Related Project(s): America's Response to Terrorism

(CFR) Wednesday, December 5, 2001
"Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense"
Speaker: Richard Butler
Diplomat-in-Residence, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Bradley Graham
Pentagon Correspondent, The Washington Post; Author, Hit to Kill: The Battle Over Shielding America from Missile Attack

December 5th, 2001 Clayton Lee Waagner, suspected anthrax hoaxer is nabbed http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/05/anthrax.abortion/

December 6, 2001: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that, for the first time since 1991, U.S. petroleum demand will decline year on year. For 2001, EIA expects U.S. petroleum demand to average 19.69 million barrels per day, down 10,000 barrels per day from 2000. The decline in demand, especially for jet fuel since the September 11 attacks, has contributed to a buildup of U.S. oil inventories and has helped keep crude oil and petroleum product prices relatively low. (Reuters) (Commercial jet planes use a phenomenal amount of petroleum based fuel and less people flying)

CFR Thursday, December 6, 2001
"Afghanistan After the Taliban: What Next?"
Speaker: Stephen Cohen
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Speaker: William Milam
Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; currently State Department advisor on Aghanistan economic reconstruction
Speaker: Milt Bearden
Chief of CIA Covert Actions in Afghanistan (1986-1989)
Presider: Michael J. Elliott
Time Magazine
Related Project(s): America's Response to Terrorism

December 8, 2001: During a visit to Kazakhstan in Central Asia, Secretary of State Powell states that US oil companies are likely to invest $200 billion in Kazakhstan alone in the next five to 10 years. [New York Times, 12/15/01]

December 10, 2001: Dead microbiologist: "Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, was stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged." [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] All were part of what they called a coven, and interested in magic, fantasy and self-mutilation. The police have no motive as to why they would have wanted to kill Schwartz, who was a single parent and said to be very close to his children. Schwartz worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology on DNA sequencing and pathogenic microorganisms. He was "a brilliant scientist who had a gift for explaining complex scientific subjects in simple language." [Washington Post, 12/12/01]

December 10, 2001 The Federation of American Scientists come to the conclusion, that the Anthrax-Strain must have been produced, possessed and treated in one of 16 mentioned US-Laboratories, including the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (Ft. Detrick, MD), Battelle Memorial Institute (Ohio), University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque or in addition the CDC, NIH http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm

The Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks is released by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists with a complete list of the suspects, scientifically proved Barbara Rosenberg thinks, that the FBI knows, who is behind the attacks and comes to the conclusion, that they had been sabotaged by CIA and Fort Detrick. Rosenberg is supported by european BioScience- specialist Jan v. Aken and by colleague and friend, Professor Francis Boyle, a human rights lawyer and a professor of law at the University of Illinois. He is the author of "The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence". He studied many different biowarfare contracts, which "safety levels were atrocious". http://www.counterpunch.com/boyle0425.html

December, 11-14, 2001: Microbiologist Set Van Nguyen, 44, was found dead in the airlock entrance to a walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory where he worked in Victoria State, Australia. Nguyen Van Set - genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing.. Scientists in his lab in Geelong, Australia had created a virulent form of mousepox. "They realized that if similar genetic manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed," according to Nature. Dec. 29, 2001 when his obituary appeared in the London Telegraph, which did not include a date of death. Dead microbiologist: Nguyen Van Set, 44, dies in an airlock filled with nitrogen in his lab in Geelong, Australia. The lab had just been written up in the journal Nature for its work in genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing. Scientists there had created a virulent form of mousepox. "They realized that if similar genetic manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed," according to Nature. [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/12/01, Globe and Mail, 5/4/02]

December 13, 2001: The US Army responds to a journalistic investigation and confirms that it has been making weapons grade anthrax in recent years, in violation of an international treaty. The US offensive biological weapons program was supposedly closed in 1969 when the US signed a biological weapons treaty. In 1998 scientists at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah turned small quantities of wet anthrax into powder. This weaponized anthrax appears to be very similar or identical to the anthrax used in the recent attacks. [Baltimore Sun, 12/13/01, New York Times, 12/13/01]

December 14th, 2001 Spiescafe.com thinks, that the DC Anthrax appears to come "from an illegal CIA funded project", and is 100% home grown

December 14th, 2001 Postal workers and doctors in states handling anthrax cases leveled criticism Thursday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the CDC has been reporting conflicting information.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/14/cdc.anthrax.ap/index.html

December 14, 2001: A new rule from the U.S. Department of Energy takes effect such that the U.S. government no longer must prove that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada would prevent radioactive contamination of the environment through its underground rock formations. Rather, a combination of advanced storage containers and natural geological barriers would be able to satisfy environmental standards for protecting the ground water and atmosphere from the release of radioactive materials. (WP)

December 16, 2001 The Pentagon starts with their campaign again Barbara Rosenberg: "...A genetic match between the anthrax spores in the letters mailed to Capitol Hill and those in the Army's stockpile wouldn't necessarily provide clues to who was responsible for the bioterrorist attack, an Army spokesman said..."

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/12/16/anthrax_match/?x

December 16, 2001 The Pentagon starts with their campaign again Barbara Rosenberg: "...A genetic match between the anthrax spores in the letters mailed to Capitol Hill and those in the Army's stockpile wouldn't necessarily provide clues to who was responsible for the bioterrorist attack, an Army spokesman said..."

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/12/16/anthrax_match/?x

December 17, 2001 The CIA starts with their campaign against Barbara Rosenberg: "..CIA laboratories were not the source of the deadly anthrax bacteria mailed to Capitol Hill, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency spokesman said on Sunday.." http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters20011217_20.html

December 17, 2001 Top anthrax scientists are backing the use of an experimental weapon for the war on spores: the vaccination needle. Critics argue that the vaccine isn't necessary and may cause health problems.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/36853.htm

December 17, 2001: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld partner George Salem won't represent the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development against claims by the Bush administration that it is a fundraising front for terrorist organizations, the Washington Post reports. Salem, who was a major Muslim American fundraiser for Bush and has been an informal advisor to the administration since the September 11 terror attacks, represents the foundation in a suit brought by the parents of a man murdered by the militant group Hamas. The parents claim the Holy Land Foundation funded Hamas and should pay for their son's death.

"Why did Salem decline to represent the Holy Land Foundation [in the latest case]? Was it pressure from the administration? Was the firm worried about losing clients? Did helping fight what Salem believes is a constitutionally significant case lose out over U.S. patriotism? Or did Salem's political connections win out over his personal convictions?" the Post article asks. The firm declined to comment.

December 18, 2001 Center for Disease Control (CDC) under criticism again. "Postal workers and doctors in states handling anthrax cases leveled criticism Thursday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the CDC has been reporting conflicting information -- and sometimes none at all." http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/14/cdc.anthrax.ap/index.html

CFR Wednesday, December 19, 2001
"A Breakfast with Ahmed Rashid"
Speaker: Ahmed Rashid
Author, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Presider: Michael J. Elliott
Editor-at-Large, Time Magazine
Related Project(s): The Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture Series

December 20 , 2001: Iraq announces that it will renew its oil export agreement with Jordan. Iraq will supply Jordan with around 110,000 barrels per day of crude oil and petroleum products next year. Jordan's oil purchases from Iraq are exempted from United Nations sanctions. The deal is worth about $700 million. (Reuters, OD)

December 21, 2001 (B): The FBI is now investigating "whether potential profit from the sale of anthrax medications or cleanup efforts may have motivated" the anthrax attacks. Battelle, a company doing anthrax work for the CIA, is the one company most discussed in the article and is strongly featured in another. [Washington Post, 12/21/01, ABC, 12/20/01] The same day, the FBI says it is not investigating a former Battelle scientist in relation to an anthrax scare, contrary to national broadcast news reports. A US Senator further claims FBI Director Mueller told him "no one with or formerly with Battelle is a suspect." [Columbus Dispatch, 12/21/01] Is Bayer also under investigation (see October 21, 2001)?

December 21, 2001 According to the Washington Post, the FBI had still not investigated Porton Down for possible culpability in the anthrax mailings despite the fact they maintained the identical Ames strain of anthrax, and through ownership in Bioport was connected with Battelle Memorial Institute and the DoD's lucrative "Joint Vaccine Acquisitions Program". The article also mentioned that U.S. anthrax experts, including those at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), routinely consulted with Porton Down officials in efforts to prepare powdered weaponized Ames strain anthrax..."

December 21, 2001 CLPH released revised document called the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). This law HHS is suggesting be enacted by the 50 states to handle future public health emergencies such as bioterrorism. The revised version was released contained more specific definitions of "public health emergency" as it pertains to bioterrorism and biologic agents, and includes language for those states that want to use the act for chemical, nuclear or natural disasters.

According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), after declaring a "public health emergency", and without consulting with public health authorities, law enforcement, the legislature or courts, a state governor using MEHPA, or anyone he/she decides to empower, can among many things:

Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.

Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.

Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.

Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous. There will be no compensation or recourse.

Draft you or your business into state service.

Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation controls.

Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought to interfere with handling the declared emergency

December 22, 2001: Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai and his transitional government takes power in Afghanistan. It was revealed a few weeks before that he had been a paid consultant for Unocal, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister for the Taliban. [Le Monde, 12/13/01, CNN, 12/22/01] FTW (Hamid) Karzai, the leader of the southern Afghan Pashtun Durrani tribe, was a member of the mujaheddin that fought the Soviets during the 1980s. He was a top contact for the CIA and maintained close relations with CIA Director William Casey, Vice President George Bush, and their Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Service interlocutors. Later, Karzai and a number of his brothers moved to the United States under the auspices of the CIA. Karzai continued to serve the agency's interests, as well as those of the Bush Family and their oil friends in negotiating the CentGas deal, according to Middle East and South Asian sources. [The Blacklisted Journalist 4/1/02]

Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le Monde]

December 28 , 2001: OPEC agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day (about 6.5%) for a six-month period beginning January 1, 2002. OPEC also announce that they will meet again in March. OPEC received commitments for 462,500 barrels per day of the 500,000 barrels per day in cuts that it had requested from non-OPEC exporters, close enough to the target for OPEC to go ahead and implement its concomitant cuts. This month, Russia announced an export cut of 150,000 barrels per day on December 5. Oman announced a cut of 25,000 barrels per day on December 11, and raised it to 40,000 barrels per day on December 20. Angola announced a cut of 22,500 barrels per day on December 14. Norway announced a cut of 150,000 barrels per day on December 17. Mexico had already announced an export cut of 100,000 barrels per day in November. (DJ, Reuters)

December 31, 2001: Leaders of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) sign an agreement at the end of a two-day annual summit in Oman to move forward the setting up of a customs union to 2003 from 2005 and to establish a single currency by 2010 - part of a planned joint trade zone. (Reuters)

The top US consumers of Iraqi crude in 2001 were Valero Energy, which bought 55.4 mm barrels (151,800 bpd); ChevronTexaco, at 47.7 mm barrels (130,600 bpd); ExxonMobil at 32.3 mm barrels (88,500 bpd); and Koch Petroleum at 30.50 mm barrels (83,600 bpd). Initial checks with US firms showed that most have no plans to buy oil directly from Iraq if it were offered and some have even stopped refining Iraqi crude bought through middlemen. "With regard to Iraq we do keep open the option so long as the UN has an approved program and the US concurs with that program," said Fred Gorell, spokesman for US oil major ChevronTexaco.

January 1, 2002: President Bush appoints Zalamy Khalilzad as a special envoy to Afghanistan. [BBC, 1/1/02] Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime, back when Unocal was hoping to work with the Taliban. FTW Now the US envoy is a former Unocal employee consulting with a prime minister who is a former Unocal employee (see December 22, 2001) in a country where Unocal might build gas and oil pipelines (see May 13, 2002).

Khalilzad, a fellow Pashtun and the son of a former government official under King Mohammed Zahir Shah, was, in addition to being a consultant to the RAND Corporation, a special liaison between UNOCAL and the Taliban government. Khalilzad also worked on various risk analyses for the project. Khalilzad's efforts complemented those of the Enron Corporation, a major political contributor to the Bush campaign. Enron, which recently filed for bankruptcy in the single biggest corporate collapse in the nation's history, conducted the feasibility study for the CentGas deal. Vice President Cheney held several secret meetings with top Enron officials, including its Chairman Kenneth Lay, earlier in 2001. These meetings were presumably part of Cheney's non-public Energy Task Force sessions. A number of Enron stockholders, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, became officials in the Bush administration.

Thomas White, a former Vice Chairman of Enron and a multimillionaire Thomas White, a former Vice Chairman of Enron and a multimillionaire in Enron stock, currently serves as the Secretary of the Army. A chief benefactor in the CentGas deal would have been Halliburton, the huge oil pipeline construction firm that also had its eye on the Central Asian oil reserves. At the time, Halliburton was headed by Dick Cheney. After Cheney's selection as Bush's Vice Presidential candidate, Halliburton also pumped a huge amount of cash into the Bush-Cheney campaign coffers. And like oil cash cow Enron, there were Wall Street rumors in late December that Halliburton, which suffered a forty per cent drop in share value, might follow Enron into bankruptcy court. [The Blacklisted Journalist 4/1/02]

January 1, 2002: The OPEC crude oil production quota cuts of 1.5 million barrels per day, announced on December 28, officially go into effect for six months. Crude oil production or export cuts of 462,500 barrels per day by five non-OPEC oil exporters also go into effect. (Reuters)

January 2, 2002: At a rally celebrating new hydrocarbons laws that were announced on November 13, 2001, and went into effect yesterday, Venezuelan President Chavez announces the need for "a new oil strategy." The new hydrocarbons laws give the state more control over the petroleum industry and impose higher royalty rates on companies operating Venezuela’s oil fields. (AP)

January 5, 2002: Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announces that OPEC’s price band mechanism is suspended due to imbalances in the world oil market. He states that OPEC’s top priority is to stabilize the market. (Reuters)

January 8, 2002 Responding to Rep. Waxman's December 4 letter, the White House reveals repeated contacts between Enron executives and the White House energy task force. Rep. Waxman writes Vice President Cheney to seek information about the topics discussed during the six meetings with Enron executives disclosed by the White House.

January 8, 2002: Royal Dutch/Shell has reportedly reached an agreement with the Chinese government to help construct a 2,500-mile natural gas pipeline from the Tarim oil and natural gas region in remote western China to Shanghai on the coast. The agreement represents evidence of foreign confidence in the project and lays out the framework for the joint-venture company composed of PetroChina, Gazprom of Russia, and Shell. The pipeline is expected to cost about $18 billion. (WSJ)

January 8, 2002: Royal Dutch/Shell and its joint-venture partners Nigeria National Petroleum Company, TotalFinaElf, and Eni’s Agip announce a five-year investment of $7.5 billion in the oil and natural gas industry in Nigeria. A large part of the investment will go to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas project, the biggest industrial project in sub-Saharan Africa. (Reuters)

January 9, 2002 GAO announced it expected to decide within a month whether to file a lawsuit against the White House. This would represent the first time that GAO has had to take the executive branch to court to obtain access to information.

January 9, 2002 Thomas Picking, ex NYC-FBI director starts a job as Head Of Corporate Security at the pharmacy concern Bristol Myers Squibb. http://www.bms.com/news/press/data/pf_press_release_2226.html

January 9, 2002: U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announces that the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles program, started in 1993 in an effort to develop mass-produced vehicles that would get 80 miles per gallon of gasoline by 2004, will be replaced by a new program called Freedom Car. The Freedom Car program will emphasize developing fuel-cell vehicles, powered by oxygen and hydrogen, by an unspecified later date. (WP, NYT)

January 2002 (B): The FBI finally begins subpoenaing laboratories that worked with the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks. But when the labs start to send their samples, they are told to wait another month because a new storage room for the sample needs to be built. "The FBI's delay in requesting the samples - and the government's lack of readiness to receive them - is part of a pattern." Other examples include taking six months to begin testing mailboxes surrounding Trenton, New Jersey, where the anthrax letters were postmarked, and nearly a year to go back into the American Media building in Boca Raton, Florida, to hunt for the source of anthrax that killed the first victim there. [Hartford Courant, 9/7/02]

January 9, 2002: The U.S. Department of Justice confirms that a criminal probe of Enron has been launched. A task force has been formed to investigate whether the former giant energy company