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

by Paul Thompson and Peter Lance

Book Overview

Paul Thompson's The Terror Timeline offers a complete and thorough history of the many roads that converged on 9/11, including the development of Islamic fundamentalism, the activities of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the failures of U.S. investigations and counterterrorism efforts. It traces the actions (and inactions) of every important figure in the war on terror, both before and after 9/11, bringing them together in a volume that offers a comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060783389
• ISBN13: 9780060783389
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Indispensable 9/11 Resource

Thompson's 9/11 timeline has long been the indispensable resource for those doing serious research into 9/11. But it has also served as an excellent introduction into problems with the official story. It does this simply by showing discrepancies between this story and hundreds of stories in the mainstream press (to which Thompson restricts himself). My own work on the subject began, for example, by studying the material provided by Thompson, and this material has remained my primary resource. It is great that this magnificent labor of love--love for the truth--is now available in book form, so that it is far more widely accessible. The Terror Timeline, furthermore, is not simply the material that was previously available on the Internet. Rather, Thompson made many last-minute additions, responding in particular to reports by the 9/11 Commission. One can never know, of course, what the effect of a book will be. But my guess is that if people begin reading The 9/11 Commission Report in conjunction with Thompson's book, the Report will start getting fewer 5-star and far more 1-star reviews. David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11

The 9/11 Commission should be ashamed.

After comparing the facts revealed in Paul Thompson's Terror Timeline to those released in the 9/11 Commission's Final Report, I was forced to draw the conclusion that the Commission is guilty of issuing an incomplete and misleading account of the events leading up to, the causes of, and the actions during 9/11. Whether it be the dozens of specific warnings or the obstructions into FBI investigations; the ISI's complicity or the ignored money trail; the 9/11 war games or the unprecedented failure to defend America's skies; they are just a few of the dozen or so subjects that the 9/11 Commission consciously ignored; and they are critical, not just for the public's, but for history's understanding of the attacks. As long as we continue to ignore the problems that caused 9/11, we will be unable to correct them. I urge anybody and everybody -- especially my fellow Americans -- to read this book and spread the information it provides.

An eye-opening reference book on 9/11

Beware! When you read the first pages of the book, you might lose your good faith in the government. You might perhaps not even believe anything they tell you on terrorism from now on. But that is not necessarily a bad thing... Over the last three years I watched Paul's timeline project grow on his web site. Already one year after 9/11 it contained a lot of very disturbing information. But now, printetd, it is an incredible document of all relevant bits of information published by the "mainstream media" worldwide relating to 9/11. It starts with the beginning of the history in 1979 with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - provoked by the CIA. That will be the first surprising bit of information for many, and like every other entry it is backed by articles of major media outlets. Naturally the day of 9/11 is described in every detail by literally hundreds of news reports. The book covers all important 9/11 news up to 2004. After reading a lot of 9/11 stuff in the last three years, I highly recommend this book. The book has some important qualities: 1) It may be used as a complete reference book for all relevant news items relating to 9/11. 2) You will read of many disturbing facts that appeared once in the news, but never made it to the headlines and were "forgotten" thereafter, so you learn a lot of more hidden aspects of the "New Pearl Harbor". 3) It documents the many incredible contradictions in the official version of what happened on 9/11 and why. You will notice that even with the final report of the 9/11 commission a lot of very important questions are still unanswered, many contradictions unresolved, important background information unmentioned. 4) In short: It is perhaps the best book ever written on this important topic. After reading the book, you will know a lot more of 9/11 and will see that the official story of this day has more holes than a good story should have. But: It is not a conspiracy book! Even if some ideas you get while reading the book could be called a conspiracy theory, everything is documented by mainstream newspaper or television reports. You can all look them up for yourself on Paul's internet project. The book almost has a scholarly quality - but it is thrilling! It is common practice to denounce critical questions regarding 9/11 as conspiracy stuff - but this killer argument cannot be used against Paul's book, since it meticulously proves every point by publicly available reports.

Read it and make up your own mind - then get mad.

This book is a number of things. First, it is an exhaustive work of scholarly research with enough footnotes to satisfy and then some. To get a feel for what I am talking about one may view his work in an online version at www.cooperativeresearch.org. The shear academic quality is enough reason to buy the book. Second, the website mentioned is a relatively new phenomena in that it is an "open source" research site. Mr. Thompson's work has been posted for comment and criticism for several months now and has been honed to a fine edge. And third, this book is the scariest piece of work you will ever read. I'm not kidding you. This is scarey stuff. We've been treated like a bunch of sheep being led to the slaughter. There was an old sci-fi film where the aliens came down and presented humanity with a book "The Serving of Humans" or something similar. As the protagonists are boarding the ship to go visit the alien homeworld, a translator bursts in and yells out "It's a cookbook!" That's the feeling you come away with here. You wont put it down but don't expect to enjoy it. But for goodness sake, read it.

*The* Primer on Unanswered Questions re: 9/11

This book is *the* primer on all the questions left unanswered (or, worse, inaccurately "answered") by the 9/11 Commission Final Report. It is well-organized and well-sourced. (I admit - I went on the website to check out some of the original source articles -- and confirmed that the events described in this book really DID happen.(...) This is an incredible resource, and I recommend it highly !!!!