1992 Bin Laden in Chechnya

1981: Bin Laden Visits Chicago to Recruit American-Trained Engineers, Meets Yassin Kadi

Yassin Kadi, a Saudi working for a Chicago architectural firm, will say in 2008 that he first met Osama bin Laden in Chicago in 1981. He will further state that the purpose of bin Laden’s visit is to recruit American-trained engineers for his family’s construction business. Kadi says that he puts bin Laden in touch with a group of engineers, several of whom are eventually hired. [NEW YORK TIMES, 12/12/2008]

Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Yassin Kadi

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September 1992: Osama Bin Laden Visits Chechnya

The Chechen delegation on the terrace at the House of Commons in London.

From the left: Eduard Khachilaev, Sir Gerrard Neale, Berkan Yashar, Dzhokhar Dudaev, Den Dover, and Yusef Shamsuddin.

The Chechen delegation on the terrace at the House of Commons in London. From the left: Eduard Khachilaev, Sir Gerrard Neale, Berkan Yashar, Dzhokhar Dudaev, Den Dover, and Yusef Shamsuddin. [Source: Pan Books]

Osama bin Laden visits the city of Grozny, Chechnya, according to a claim made 19 years later by Berkan Yashar, who will be identified in the media as “a Turkish politician and a former US intelligence agent.” Bin Laden resides downtown, on the first floor of a two-story building, with the second floor being occupied by the deposed president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and his family. Yashar, whose operational name is “Abubakar,” will claim that in the early 1990s he is employed by the CIA for subversive operations against Russia in the Northern Caucasus. He is currently the deputy minister of foreign affairs under Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudaev. [CHANNEL ONE (RUSSIA), 4/22/2008; PRAVDA, 5/19/2011]

Entity Tags: Berkan Yashar, Osama bin Laden

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=92OsamaChechnya#92OsamaChechnya

FARS News Agency – May 19, 2012

Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief, died a natural death nearly 5 years before it was announced that he was eliminated by the American commandos in Pakistan, unveiled a former CIA agent.

Speaking in an interview with Russia’s Channel One, Berkan Yashar, a Turkish politician and former US intelligence agent claimed that the Americans did not kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and, in fact, he died naturally.

The journalists of Channel One first met Yashar in 2008. At the time he was featured in the documentary “Plan Caucasus,” talking about the attempts of the western intelligence services in the early 1990’s to separate the Northern Caucasus and, in particular, Chechnya from Russia.

Chechen by nationality, Yashar is now a Turkish politician, but in those years he was one of the ideologists of Johar Dudayev. He asked for a meeting, promising to tell the truth about the death of Osama bin Laden whom he met in the early 90-ies in Chechnya.

“In September of 1992 I was in Chechnya, that’s when I first met the man whose name was Bin Laden. This meeting took place in a two-story house in the city of Grozny; on the top floor was a family of Gamsakhurdia, the Georgian president, who then was kicked out of his country. We met on the bottom floor; Osama lived in the same building, “said Berkan Yashar.

Berkan said he did not know why bin Laden visited while in Grozny, and said only one thing about his meetings: “Just wanted to talk.”

However, according to Channel One, in those years the former employee of Radio Liberty Berkan Yashar already had an operational name Abubakar, given to him by the CIA.

According to Berkan, after that trip Chechen nationals appeared in Osama bin Laden’s circle. Berkan Yashar emphasized that they did not participate “directly in the terror bombings.” “They protected bin Laden, it was his choice because he trusted them entirely, and knew that they would never betray,” said Yashar.

According to Yashar he was not the only one who knew about it, but the Russian security services and the CIA were aware of this as well.

Answering the question whether he believed that the Americans killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Berkan Yashar answered, “Even if the entire world believed I could not possibly believe it.”

“I personally know the Chechens who protected him, they are Sami, Mahmood, and Ayub, and they were with him until the very end. I remember that day very well, there were three sixes in it: 26 June 2006. These people, as well as two others from London and two Americans, all seven of them, saw him dead. He was very ill, he was skin and bones, very thin, and they washed him and buried him,” said Berkan Yashar.

Yashar stressed that although the two American Muslims and two British Muslims the guards of bin Laden and saw him dead, they did not participate in the funerals.

“Only three Chechens buried him, according to his will,” said Yashar. Bin Laden was buried, according to Yashar, in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border.

“There was no assault,” said Yashar. “I know the American operations from the inside: they find the grave, dig out bin Laden and tell everyone about this. They need to show how technologically the security services worked, how each step was controlled, and then present it as a great victory to show that taxpayers are not paying taxes for nothing. “

Berkan now blames himself for the fact that the Chechens from the protection of bin Laden, “the terrorist number one” are no longer alive after the US intelligence services began to tap Berkan’s telephone conversations.

He said he was the first one who announced the date of death of bin Laden.

“I was the first one who announced the date of his death in November of 2008 at a conference in Washington, not naming any names, and it looks like it was when the Americans began to track my contacts,” he said.

The last security guard Berkan saw Sami, who, according to him, a few days before bin Laden was declared killed, was kidnapped by the US intelligence agencies.

According to Berkan, most likely, it was him who disclosed to them the exact place of burial in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border.

In any case, the last call from Sami was from Pakistan. Berkan explained why he informed the journalists of Channel One: he feared for his life. According to him, only wide publicity around the world can protect him from the CIA. However, just in case, the Turkish secret services, according to him, provided him with guards and weapons.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9102112625

911 ATTACK TIMELINE

24 February 2000

CIA assassination attempt on Putin

Russia threatens nuclear war in response to American actions in Chechnya

Kursk 

01 May 2001

MAYDAY 

First mention of Operation NORTHWOODS on ABC website. 

10 September 2001

Russia begins nuclear exercises. Putin has his finger on the nuclear trigger. 

11 September 2001

08:21 Flight 11 transponder is turned off

08:46 Flight 11 Hits the North Tower

08:46 CONPLAN is activated

08:47 Flight 175 transponder code is changed

08:55 Bush is forced to take call from Condoleezza Rice

08:56 Flight 77 transponder is turned off. 

<09:00 Two of the E-4B's from Offutt are airborne for GLOBAL GUARDIAN

09:02:59 Flight 175 hits South Tower

09:03 Cheney has nuclear football goes to PEOC. 

09:09 Numerous Reports of hijacked planes circulate 

09:15 - 09:25 Barbara Olson supposedly calls husband from Flight 77. 

09:25 Bush Talks to Cheney and Rice 

09:26 Navy Secretary England's communications are jammed while in route to Washington DC from Texas. 

09:27 Brent Scowcroft takes off in the E-4B. 

09:30 President Bush declares the country is under attack

09:34-09:43 President Bush's communications are intermittently jammed on way to Air Force One "ANGEL" He talks to Condoleezza Rice

09:35 - 09:43 FIRST MENTION OF THREAT AGAINST ANGEL 

09:37:46 Flight 77 hits Pentagon.

09:41 Flight 93 Transponder turned off

09:45 All planes are grounded

09:45 Condoleezza Rice warns Bush to stay away from Washington.  

09:48 CAPITOL BUILDING EVACUATED

09:54 Bush leaves Sarasota 

09:59 South Tower Nuclear Demolition

<09:59 Richard Clarke activates Continuity of Government (COG)

10:03 Russia Cancels Nuclear Forces Exercise? Contradicted by Rumsfeld @ 16:00. 

10:03 Flight 93 Crashes

10:10 FPCON raised to DELTA

10:10 Laura Bush taken to secure location. 

10:28 North Tower Nuclear Demolition

10:29 Fighter Escort 

10:30 Threat is made against "ANGEL," Air Force One. 

10:32 to 11:45 Putin Call

10:41 Cheney tells Bush to stay out of Washington DC. 

10:44 Global Guardian is supposedly terminated.

10:52 Rumsfeld order DEFCON set to 3

11:00 Paul Wolfowitz evacuated to Site R. 

11:15 to 11:45 Barksdale AFB readies for Air Force One "ANGEL," to arrive. 

11:15 to 11:45 Putin Speaks to Bush during his time at Barksdale AFB

12:00 AWACS orbits Barksdale

13:37 AF1 ANGEL departs Barksdale

14:50 Bush lands at Offutt AFB. 

16:00 Rumsfeld calls Russian Defense Minister to call off nuclear exercises. 

16:33 Bush leaves Offutt AFB

16:50 The Bin Laden theory to explain attack is crafted. 

17:20 Building 7 nuked. 

17:20 Bush is briefed on second round of attacks

12 SEPTEMBER 2021

03:00 E-4B under the Command of Captain Mark McLaughlin only plane in the air over CONUS. 

THE AWACS PLANE THAT CRASHED FLIGHT 93

(Between 9:05 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: AWACS Plane near Washington Told to Return to Oklahoma, Limiting NEADS’s Communications and Surveillance Capabilities

AWACS Sent Back to Oklahoma - According to author Lynn Spencer, the AWACS is directed to return to Tinker Air Force Base “in the immediate confusion after the attacks.” The exact time the plane’s crew receives this order, and the identity of the person or organization that gives the order, are unstated. NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) will contact the AWACS later on, and instruct it to turn around and head to Washington, to provide radio and radar coverage over the capital (see (11:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [SPENCER, 2008, PP. 265-266]

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a905awacsordered#a905awacsordered

(After 10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Jet Plane Allegedly Carrying United Airlines Executives Circles Flight 93 Crash Site 

Patrick Madigan, the commander of the Somerset Barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, arrives at the Flight 93 crash scene around 10:20 a.m. [DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY AND THE AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU, 2002 pdf file] He says that at some point later in the day (he does not specify a time), a “strange incident” occurs: “We were there at the site and an airplane started circling. It was a jetliner circling the crash site very low. No one knew what to expect because we knew that all of the planes were supposedly grounded.” (The FAA had, at about 9:45 a.m., ordered that all aircraft be instructed to land at the nearest airport (see (9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001).) After a few minutes of uncertainty, it is announced that the plane is carrying United Airlines executives, who are circling the site to view it before they land in nearby Johnstown. [KASHURBA, 2002, PP. 63] Another low-flying jet plane was witnessed over the site earlier on, around the time Flight 93 went down (see (Before and After 10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001).

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HOLLOWAY'S COMMENTARY:

AWACS have Electronic Warfare Capabilities that allow them to shootdown aircraft. The "airliner" seen circling over the crash site was an AWACS or Brent Scowcroft in the E-4B. ALL three E-4B's were in the air a sure sign that DEFCON ONE was in effect. I am wondering if (as a counter measure) the Soviets/Russians constructed an ICBM with a air to air guided missile payload to take out the E-4Bs and Air Force One. Would the Russian Woodpecker or other system be able to image the planes allowing an ICBM BUS to get in range then hand off to the Sidewinder or smart missile armed with a nuke. Certainly if communications are down for the USA getting out of range could be a problem. This assuming that an ICBM armed with air to air missiles is even feasible. 

Structural strength saved Pentagon lives on 9/11

13 FEB, 2003 BY EDITOR

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/structural-strength-saved-pentagon-lives-on-9-11-13-02-2003/

HELICALLY WOUND column reinforcement helped limit the death toll during the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, according to the first official report into the disaster. Energy absorbing helical reinforcement, continuity of beam reinforcement through supports and the insitu concrete outer wall combined to prevent a more extensive collapse of the building, the report says. The concrete outer wall acted as a transfer girder, creating substantial residual load capacity and alternative load paths, says the report.

During the attack 125 Pentagon personnel and 64 passengers and crew on a hijacked Boeing 757 died when the aircraft flew into the building (see box). The Pentagon Building Performance Report, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), concludes that fire was the cause of the limited collapse that did occur 20 minutes after impact. The blaze acted directly on the main steel reinforcement bars of badly damaged columns, weakening them (see box).

The report commends the performance of recently installed anti-blast measures, which helped keep most of the jet fuel and the post impact fireball outside the building. Some damaged columns suffered dramatic deformations yet still supported the floor above. The report recommends more research into the residual performance of such extremely deformed columns, and into the energy-absorbing capacity of reinforced concrete elements. It acknowledges that ‘much has been written on means to prevent progressive collapse, but little detailed guidance’ has been incorporated into US building codes. A ‘focused effort to accumulate research and practical experience’ into structural robustness is also recommended.

British engineers said the report confirms European opinions on the need for robustness and resistance to progressive collapse in structures. Babtie director Gordon Masterton said the report contained nothing ‘particularly surprising - we already knew about the benefits of spirally reinforced columns, and of continuity at joints and alternative load paths.’ He added: ‘However, I am surprised that the investigators didn’t recommend more work on fire performance.

‘After all, one third of those in the Pentagon who died did so as a result of the fire, and fire was a contributing factor in the deaths of another third.’ US codes are still trying to absorb the lessons of the 1995 Oklahoma bomb disaster, said ASCE World Trade Center investigation leader Gene Corley. ‘This latest report will reinforce the need for change, especially for buildings seen as potential terrorist targets, ’ he added.

Built to last

The Pentagon was a typical US concrete framed building of its time. It was built in record time during the early 1940s in response to wartime needs and designed to become a document store once hostilities were over. By modern standards spans were short, column centres close together and partitions were heavy and dense. Typically on the ground floor the columns would measure 530mm by 530mm at maximum centres of little more than 6m. So when the Boeing smashed through the insitu concrete outer wall it entered a very different environment to that of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York which were struck by hijacked aircraft on the same day.

Instead of a large clear floorplate and a drywall core the Pentagon offered defences in depth: rows of sturdy columns with spirally wound shear reinforcement, good continuity at joints and over designed floors. Had the hijackers aimed at almost any other wall of the Pentagon the results might have been very different, says the ASCE report. After more than 50 years of high intensity use the building was ageing. Plans for refurbishment were hastily modified in the light of the 1995 Oklahoma bomb.

This meant protection against external explosions was rapidly incorporated: Kevlar mesh reinforced the masonry infill wall panels and modern blast resistant windows were installed. But only one ‘wedge’ of the building had been refurbished before the terrorists struck, and it was the reinforced outer walls and window frames of this refurbished section that took the initial impact.

Columns in a wedge shaped area extending some 75m from the point of impact took severe damage, with many blasted out of the way completely. As the fuselage began to disintegrate, the area of damage narrowed. Many columns on the fringe of this wedge shaped area suffered severe displacements, but kept standing.

At least a dozen columns at the point of impact or immediately behind it were wiped out. The first floor slab sagged an estimated 600mm at an external expansion joint, but only collapsed 20 minutes after impact. And the new windows seem to have performed well, keeping much of the external fireball out of the building.

Generally, damage from the ensuing internal fire was typical of serious office fires. But close to the impact point, columns still struggling to support the first floor stood little chance. With cover to the reinforcement stripped off over large areas and the main steel reinforcement exposed directly to the fire, the columns could only hold up for a vital 20 minutes.

9/11: What happened

At 9.38am local time on Tuesday 11 September 2001 a Boeing 757-200 with 64 people on board struck the west wall of the Pentagon’s outer ring just below first floor level, at an angle of about 42infinity. Investigators concluded that on impact the Boeing weighed around 82,000kg and was travelling close to 250m/sec. Its inner wing and fuselage tanks probably contained 16,500kg of fuel. At the moment of impact it appears the aircraft was flying almost level with the ground but with a slight bank to the left. The left engine hit the ground at almost the same moment the nose struck the outer wall.

As the fuselage penetrated the dense forest of columns inside the concrete framed building its nose section disintegrated almost instantaneously, spilling the cockpit crew and hijackers. Massive kinetic energy kept the rest of the fuselage moving forward, decelerating at 30G or more.

Most of the wings were ripped off as they hit the facade, rupturing the fuel tanks and causing an external fireball. An avalanche of building debris and shredding aluminium roared through the ground floor offices, as far as the opposite wall. When it subsided, all on board were dead and scattered around. Among their bodies were 125 dead and dying Pentagon workers. Then the fire began to spread.

Holloway's Commentary:

Was 911 a worst case scenario? 911 was a case where American spooks knew the attack was coming and were completely unable to do anything about it. America's pants were up and we still got hit. DIA spooks bungle two assassination attempts on Putin. The Russians then declare they will use nuclear weapons in response to America's spook war in Chechnya. Americans had already experienced two tactical nuke attacks in CONUS. WTC-93 and OKC Bombing were both tactical nuclear attacks. In response the DIA/NOC offices, the Pentagon's most important offices are reinforced. 

Russia declares they will respond with nuclear weapons to America's actions in Chechnya.

The NSA publicizes the NORTHWOODS forgeries to cover their ass in anticipation of the attack. After a cover story is released to the press claiming he lost a briefcase with classified material, FBI Special Agent John P. O'Neil is put in charge of WTC security knowing that an attack was about to occur. Spooks in the know start making stock bets. America's spook agencies were looking in all the right places but were unable to remotely image a nuclear weapon the size of a baseball. 911 was a combined cyber warfare and commando attack.