November 9th, 2001
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A timestamp from a Bin Laden video claims, that it was produced on this day.
On this 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, indeed no reason to celebrate for them.

November 10th, 2001
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While the English-language newspaper Dawn in Pakistan carries a clear message from Bin Laden that he has access to such [nuclear] weapons, he makes no such claim in an Urdu-language version of the interview.
In the Urdu version of the article, Bin Laden does not threaten to use nuclear or chemical weapons.

"The US is using chemical weapons against us and it has also decided to use nuclear weapons. But our war will continue," he says

Dawn's English version quotes Bin Laden as saying: "If America used chemical and nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons.
We have the weapons as a deterrent."

November 10th, 2001
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"Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth", written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie is released. Brisard is a former French secret service agent, author of a previous report on bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, and former director of strategy for the French corporation Vivendi, while Dasquie is an investigative journalist.
The two French authors write that the Bush administration was willing to accept the Taliban regime, despite the charges of sponsoring terrorism, if it cooperated with plans for the development of the oil resources of Central Asia.

week before november 20, 2001
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Al-Jazeera TV Bombing:
Nik Gowing, a presenter on BBC World, demanded that the Pentagon be called to account for the destruction of Al-Jazeera's Kabul office. Journalists now appeared to be "legitimate targets", he said. It almost injured BBC World Service correspondent William Reeve, too
Spokesman Colonel Brian Hoey denied that Al-Jazeera was a target. "The US military does not and will not target media. We would not, as a policy, target news media organisations - it would not even begin to make sense."
http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/21/int1.htm

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

November 13th, 2001
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William Safire, New York Times, categorise the Military Tribunal, as a "dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens." "Bush's proclamation is a nullification of the 6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution"

Don Wiley's peers at Harvard include professors such as John Collier performing research on Anthrax.
Wiley is best known for his work in X-ray crystallography.
He had done research into a number of potentially deadly viruses,
including Ebola, HIV, Herpes Simplex and influenza.
Wiley was described as "one of the most influential biologists of his generation.
None of his colleagues, friends or family believe in suicide.
Wiley started to learn Icelandic to go on vacation with his Icelandic wife.

November 17th, 2001
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Reporters from the famous underground fanzine rotten.com find out that the nuclear documents found in a private house in kabul by a british journalist, turned out to be a harmlesss and an useless parody.
Jason Scott, as NY Times reported, "searched the Web for phrases visible in a film of the Time's document broadcast by the BBC and discovered its source, a spoof published in 1979 in a takeoff on scientific journlas known as the Journal of Irreproducible results".

November 18, 2001:
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Front-page article in the Washington Post November 18, the CIA has been "mounting paramilitary operations in southern Afghanistan since 1997".
The article carries the byline of Bob Woodward ("Watergate").

November 21nd, 2001
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MSNBC reports that the FBI was working on a computer "virus" to install key-logging programs and other surveillance software onto a suspect's computer

November 23, 2001
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The New York Times reported the death, two days earlier, of Vladimir Pasechnik,
former director of the Institute of Ultra Pure Biochemical Preparations,
a component of the Soviet biowarfare establishment, Biopreparat.
Nothing is known about the circumstances of his death.

November 26th, 2001
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A new pipeline which will pump around 600,000 barrels of oil to the west from Central Asia each day will be officially opened on Tuesday. The $2.6 billion Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) project runs from the Tengiz oilfield in western Kazakhstan to Russia
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/26/pipeline.opens/

November 26th, 2001
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CNN reports about a possible material witness, Agus Budiman from Indonesia.
Budiman was friends in Germany with Ramzi Binalshibh, an "imam" or religious leader. Director Robert Mueller has called Binalshibh "the 20th hijacker" who was supposed to have taken part in the attacks but could not get into the country.
The title "20th" was already choosen for Zacarias Moussaoui.
Budiman, arrested for overstaying a visitor's visa and illegally taking a job as a delivery driver, arrived in the United States in October 2000. He was accompanied by Mohammad Belfas,
who also is wanted by federal authorities in connection with the attacks.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/26/inv.budiman.hearing/index.html

November 26th, 2001
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USA TODAY reports, that free speech is under fire on campuses.

November 28th, 2001
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Mounir El M., 27, was arrested in Hamburg.
The german police claims, he is connected with "911". No further details are released.

November 28th, 2001
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Amnesty International wants John Ashcroft to provide details about at least 603 arrested people in the crackdown, but U.S. authorities have refused.
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/11/28/strikes_011128

November 28th, 2001
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Greenpeace Germany and Biospecialist Jan van Aken speculate, that the anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of an U.S. biological warfare program.

November 28th, 2001
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration signs a contract to buy more than 150 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

November 28th, 2001
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In a second result, 2600.com lost a trial about freedom of speech. They reported in 2000 about a DVD descrambling program called DeCSS.
The Code was later mirrored worldwide and helped developing the Open DivX:) Player.

November 29th, 2001
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Former ambassador of the talibans in Islamabad, Mollah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Thursday in Lahore, in the east of Pakistan, denied that fundamentalist Oussama Ben Laden or the Talibans have nuclear weapons.
"Neither Osama nor the talibans have nuclear weapons. If we had , we would not have waited to use them against the enemies who caused such a destruction of mass against our people ", declared mollah Zaeef to journalists in Lahore.
www.skynet.be

November 29th, 2001
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Discovery News removed the Greenpeace report about possible connections of the Anthrax threats to a biological warfare program from their website and archive.

November 29th, 2001
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Repuplican Congressman Ron Paul, Texas in his weekly colums:
"Secret government is winning out over open government"

November 29th, 2001
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London Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who has been convicted in Jordan for inciting terrorist acts said in an interview with CNN, that he don't know Djamel Beghal and other people, including Nizar Trabelsi, Kamel Daoudi, Zacharias Moussaoui, who say that they "learned from him religious training and encouragement to go to Afghanistan to get trained and also encouragement to wage Jihad from Afghanistan".
Quatada says, he knows Beghal only from the press.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/11/27/gen.qatada.transcript.cnna/

November 30th, 2001
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GZ2000 reported:

The CIA claims starting searching for "..Sheikh Saiid, 33, a bon vivant who has funded al- Qaeda by £200 million a year, was thought to have flown to Afghanistan on the eve of the attacks in America..."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540011-2001554399,00.html

On this article is claimed that they just found out, that Saiid "..is believed to have helped to finance al-Qaeda in Africa, where it was behind the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania..."

This is actually old news, because he was not only linked with 911
already around September 9th.
GZ released some weeks ago an exclusive list of mentioned members of the Al-Quaeda-group in the New York trial about the Kenia Embassy Bombings from 1998.
Sheikh Sayyid el Masry aka Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad was mentioned there already, too.
Everyone with connections to that trial was able to compile the same list since February 2001!

December1st, 2001
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Israel starts their war on terrorism on Palestine, which killed at least 26 people and injured more than 200 others, "but expressed hope that peace moves will not be sabotaged".

December 1st, 2001
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Vanity Fair announces a February 2001 story about an U.S. intelligence failure in 1997,
when they officially lost interest about Sudanese Files on Bin Laden.
U.S. AMBASSADOR to Sudan, whose posting ended in 1997 : "The fact is, they were opening the doors, and we weren't taking them up on it. The U.S. failed to reciprocate Sudan's willingness to engage us on some serious questions of terrorism"

December 2nd, 2001
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Former UN-weapons inspecteur of Iraq, Richard Spertzel, told ABC, "...he knows only five scientists in the USA who would be in the situation to produce such a fine, highly developed spore material.."

December 2nd, 2001
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North Korea has agreed to sell Egypt two dozen Rodong long-range missiles and related technology.
The Rodong's 620-mile range is more than triple that of Egypt's current missile arsenal, composed of Russian-made Scuds. For the first time, it puts Israel within easy reach.
Moreover, the deal comes on the heels of news that Washington has agreed to sell Egypt 53 Harpoon Block II satellite-guided surface-to-surface anti-ship missiles.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/35545.htm

December 3rd, 2001
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A report in TIME links the 911-attack to Spain. Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas,
a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah.
Yarkas number was found in an address book in a notebook belonging to the fugitive Said Bahaji. The address book was left in Mohammad Attas apartment in Hamburg.
Yarkas met several times in Madrid with the leader of an algerian extremist group,
Mohammed Boualem Khnouni.
It is said, that also Atta travelled to Spain in January and July 2001.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/magazine/0,9868,185750,00.html

December 4th, 2001
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Andreas von B'low, who served on the parliamentary commission which oversees the three branches of the German secret service while a member of the Bundestag (German parliament) from 1969 to 1994, and wrote a book titled "Im Namen des Staates" (In the Name of the State) on the criminal activities of secret services, including the CIA, believes that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, is behind the September 11 terror attacks. These attacks, he said, were carried out to turn public opinion against the Arabs, and boost military and security spending. (American Free Press)

December 5th, 2001
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Globalsearch and Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics,
University of Ottawa reported that the US-Military use GBU-28 "bunker buster bombs in Afghanistan, "..launched from a B-52, a B-2 stealth bomber or an F-16 aircraft can also be illegally equipped with a nuclear device. The B61-11 is the " nuclear version" of its "conventional" BLU-113 counterpart. The B61-11 was developed from the old "conventional" B61-7 "gravity bomb." ..The B61-11 is the "nuclear version" of the "conventional" BLU-113.." .
Chussudivsky points out, that the use of Small Nukes is against the ABM Treaty from 1972.

December 7th, 2001
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Spiescafe.com writes, that John Walker, the captured US Taliban soldier is rumored to have been recruited long ago by the CIA.
"There is a cute embarrassment that he is still alive...He wasn't supposed to live"
John Walker gets the top lawyer James A. Brosnahan (Morrison & Foerster LLP),
who was once lead-prosecutor in the late 80s Iran-Contra Affair.

On the Question, if the tape was "found by U.S. military, Rumsfeld answered:
"I've said I don't care to get into the subject anymore".
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/t12132001_t1213sd.html
Later the Pentagon claimed, that someone of the Northern Alliance found the tape in Jahlalabad and gave it to the CIA, but it was watched by very senior Bush administration officials only within the past week.

December 10th, 2001
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The U.S. Energy Department announces the 15th subcritical nuclear test for next Wednesday.

December 10th, 2001
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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. Another conclusion is, that the anthrax was sent before September 11th in prior knowledge of 911.

December 10th, 2001
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Pakistan has launched a new Afghan political party to regain control of Afghanistan. KFJ is led by an Afghan spiritual leader Ahmed Amin Mujaddadi. Its other members include the former Taliban ambassador to the UN and Pakistan, Abdul Hakim Mujahid, ex-deputy information minister, Abdur Rehman Ahmed Hotak, former deputy minister for higher education Maulavi Arsalan Rehmani, the former deputy chief of the Supreme Court, Maulavi Abdul Sattar Siddiqi, and the former charge d'affairs to Saudi Arabia, Qazi Habibullah Fauzi. The media has described the launch of KFJ as a "split" in the Taliban. The KFJ is Taliban by another name.
http://www.indiareacts.com/fulldebate2.asp?recno=268

December 11th, 2001
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President Bush annouces to "withdraw from the 1972 nuclear treaty that bans testing of missile defense systems.."

December 11th, 2001
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Finally, after 4 months in custody, Zacarias Moussaoui is charged over September 11 attacks.

December 12th, 2001
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15th subcritical nuclear test Wednesday at an underground test site in Nevada.
(Maybe another unconfirmed test of Thermobarics, now officially used in Tora Bora,
and "tested a while ago in Nevada")

December 13th, 2001
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ABM Treaty official stop planned for today.

December 13th, 2001
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The FBI wants to interrogate some captured Taliban members for more "evidence"

December 13th, 2001
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An FBI spokesman confirms, that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named ``Magic Lantern'', which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals.

December 14th, 2001
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The new Bin Laden Homevideo is presented to the public.
"The translation is wrong and we hardly heard his voice. America just wants to implicate Muslims,'' said Nadia Saqr, an Egyptian mother of two.
Saudi Arabian media point out, that it was impossible for Bin Laden to meet
Sheikh Sayyid el Masry aka Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad on Tuesday of the attack
(as mentioned on the video), because Masry was still in Saudi Arabia.

December 14th, 2001
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Spiescafe.com thinks, that the DC Anthrax appears to come "from an illegal CIA funded project", and is 100% home grown.
5 people died from Anthrax so far, 3 without any envelope involved (Bob Stevens, Kathy Nguyen, Ottilie Lundgren, 94), 2 postal workers.

December 14th, 2001
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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 14th, 2001
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The FBI is investigating in Delhi. The story: A Chinese software company, Huawei Technologies, based in India's silicon valley, has been cleared of any links to the Taleban in Afghanistan. The company was under a cloud for allegedly supplying telecom software to the deposed regime in Afghanistan.

December 17th, 2001
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Newsmax reported, that "a second-by-second videotape of the final moments of doomed American Airlines Flight 587 shows a puff of smoke in the sky seconds after it crashed outside New York's JFK Airport Monday, lending credence to eyewitnesses who say the jetliner exploded before slamming into a Queens, N.Y., neighborhood"

December 17th, 2001
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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 17th, 2001
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"Nuclear Watch of New Mexico" and "Albuquerque News" observe, that the National Nuclear Security Administration has increased their military budget and is reporting about bigger nuclear radiation nearby weapon plants than years before.
They also point out, that "under the Department of Energy's (DOE's) so-called Stockpile Stewardship Program, now being implemented by the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), funding for core nuclear weapons programs has risen from a Cold War yearly average of an estimated $4 billion (constant 2001 dollars) [1] to $5.3 billion for FY 2002 (which Congress will likely further substantially augment)."
http://www.nukewatch.org/nwd/weaponsfactsheet.html

December 17th, 2001
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Noted Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said the vile video of Osama bin laden does not necessarily prove the master terrorist's guilt.
"There is nothing on the tape that reveals bin Laden possessed information only a person guilty of planning this horrible crime would possess," Dershowitz says.
The Observer writes, that the Bin Laden videotape was result of a sting
and the CIA may have set up the terrorist leader to incriminate himself.

December 20th, 2001
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Five weeks after Harvard biochemistry professor Don C. Wiley inexplicably vanished in Memphis, workers of a military hydroelectric plant in Vidalia found his body "snagged to a tree" next to the Mississippi River 320 miles downstream from the city at around 10 AM in Vidalia, across from Natchez, Mississippi. No official autopsy yet.

December 20th, 2001
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The FBI confirms the investigation at the Battelle Memorial Institute (Ohio) and mentions a scientist, who made a threat to use anthrax in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

December 20th, 3 PM
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After many independent arabs found out, that the word "they" was wrong translated as "we", the German TV Magazine MONITOR proves also that the text was not only wrong translated in three controversial parts, but also manipulated.
One example : "We calculated the number of casualties" was the correct translation instead of "calculated in advance"

December 20th, 11 PM
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Only 8 hours after the broadcast from Monitor TV which started a discussion in Europe,
ABC News reported about new parts of the Home Video and left out passages,
some of them "embarrassing Saudi Arabia".
GZ found out, that all 4 translators so far are NOT independent and worked for the government before.

December 21st, 2001
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Pete Aldridge, under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics presents the Quadrennial Defense Review at the DoD Briefings and does promotion for a new annual excess cost of $3 to $4 billion (Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, composed of National Guard personnel and the Marine Corps' Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force), plus 1.5 to 1.8 billion for R+D.
At the end of the briefing he mentions the new weapon system of "thermobarics",
which is used now in Tora Bora.
Officially this system is able to destoy buried bio- and chemical weapon stocks.

December 22nd, 2001
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After sleeping in an American Airlines sponsored Hotel and interrogated by the police and warnings of a former security specialist of Tel Aviv, Richard Reid is able to enter an airplane with a detonator called PETN. No other effective explosives like SEMTEX to implode the substance are confirmed. Reid is arrested.

December 23rd, 2001
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A spokesman from Fort Detrick, Chuck Dasey, said the research institute's supply had come from the Agriculture Department.
Scientists at Fort Detrick use the liquid strain of anthrax in research.
Another spokesman from the CIA, Mark Mansfield, said the anthrax sent in letters to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy "absolutely did not come from CIA labs"

December 23rd, 2001
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The Washington Post reports, that the CIA recruited and paid a team of 15 Afghan agents to track Osama bin Laden 's movements in Afghanistan. They operated from early 1998 to Sept. 11, "The spies reported daily, pinpointing bin Laden in a specific location once a month or so".
The agents were paid less than $1,000 a month, and sources indicated that some were part of the same family.
`The weakness was that they were not American 'eyes on' the target,'' a senior Bush administration official told the Post, ``so there was never the necessary high level of confidence.''
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011223/pl/afghan_cia_1.html

December 24th, 2001
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Israel continue bombing.

December 27nd, 2001
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The US Military continued bombing Tora Bora, ignoring that Bin Laden might be in Pakistan yet, dead or somewhere else after a new release of a video with him on Al-Jazeera-TV

December 30th, 2001
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In an interview with Iranian television, Afghans interim minister Yunis Qanuni said: "We think that when Mr Osama travels to Pakistan, it does not mean that his activities are not monitored by the ISI (Interservices Intelligence)."

December 31st, 2001
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-Army's 101st Airborne Division will replace Marines at Kandahar airport United Nations and Afghan government approve multinational force
-Afghan FM: U.S. bombing should continue until it has routed the Taliban and al Qaeda
-Senate Intelligence Chairman: Bin Laden still alive, 'trail has gone cold'
-Pakistan's president repeated calls for talks with India, but said his country is prepared for "the worst."
-Mayor Rudolph Guiliani celebrates his final day as mayor of New York.
Mike Bloomberg new mayor tomorrow.

May 21, 22nd 2002, Marriott Champ-Elysées, Paris, France
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A congress, which covers the world wide oil situation, promoted since October 2001, includes also the former Taliban business partners Halliburton Company and Consolidated Contractors:
"Focus on Sanctioned Oil States worldwide and issues for investment, exploration, oil and gas venture, production, competition, negotiations and contracts, players and competitors, US policies, political risks,Government policies, strategies, contagion, investments and energy finance. Key impacted countries covered include inter alia:
Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, Somaliland-Somalia, Syria, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, Myanmar, North Korea, and others. Specialists making Presentations include strategists, security analysts, Companies, Independents, NOCs, Governments, investors and financiers, and key upstream oil and gas management advisors.
Speakers include inter alia: CSIS (Washington), Premier Oil, Halliburton Company, Iraqi File, US-Cuba Trade & Economic Council, Lundin Oil, Global Pacific & Partners, Petrel Resources, Consolidated Contractors, Global Witness, First & 42nd, Canada, Herbert Smith, Blue Sky Security, TGS-NOPEC, Global Witness, Talisman Energy, Consolidated Contractors, and others. http://www.petro21.com/international/events.cfm

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