The Terror Timeline

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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] It is “…a book that pieces together news stories and government documents to raise questions about the government’s possible prior knowledge of or involvement in the attacks.”^[2]

The book was compiled by Stanford University alumnus 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.

The book has been praised by the "Jersey Girls" and their comments are found on the book jacket. ^[3]

1 Influence
2 Contents
3 Paul Thompson - the author
4 See also
5 Notes and references
6 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.^[3]

Richard Clarke has put it on his reading list for his course on terrorism at Harvard.^[4]

On the strength of the book, Thompsom was invited by representatives Cynthia McKinney and Raúl Grijalva to participate in a congressional briefing on the work of the 9/11 Commission.^[5]

Most recently, it has played a central role in the documentary film 9/11: Press for Truth.

The book has been assigned by noted counterterrorism professor, Dr. John Newman, at The University of Maryland for Honors2790.

A World Cat search shows that this book has been broadly accepted in federal and state library collections including State Department,CIA,Geospatial Intelligence,FEMA,Naval Postgrad; and the state libraries of New Jersey,Illinois,Virginia and others.

[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.

[edit] Paul Thompson - the author

Paul Thompson was born in California. He now spends time there and in New Zealand. He is a freelance researcher and has worked as an environmental activist to protect the Borneo rainforest.^[3]

He compiled The Terror Timeline in conjunction with 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 as a website entitled The Complete 9/11 Timeline.

Thompson has been featured in Esquire's December 2004 "Genius Issue", where he was described as "an authority on terrorism".^[6]

Thompson has theorized that their may have been two Ziad Jarrahs.^[7] and that the Jarrah named by the FBI, who grew up in Lebanon, may have been murdered, while another man with a similar appearance piloted the hijacked Flight 93. He has also criticized the Air Force response on September 11^[8] and questioned George W. Bush's actions that day.^[9]