Terror Industrial Complex Timeline
Terror Industrial Complex Timeline
1931: Irgun founded during the British Mandate of Palestine .
August 1940: Lehi founded during the British Mandate of Palestine .
September 2, 1945: End of WW2 .
1947: Beginning of Cold War .
1947: Establishment of PACOM .
1948: Palestinian Nakba, expulsion from the British Mandate creates a refugee crisis in the region .
May 4, 1948: Israeli Declaration of Independence .
June 1948: IDF confront Irgun during the Altalena Affair.
April 4, 1949: Formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1950s: Tzrifin Underground active, recruited from Lehi.
September 1, 1951: Formation of Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS).
July 1, 1952: Establishment of EUCOM.
September 8, 1954: Formation of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1955: Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), originally known as the Baghdad Pact or the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) was formed by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
November 26, 1956: Beginning of Operation Gladio.
September 10-14, 1960: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) established in Baghdad, Iraq.
January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower’s farewell address, first mention of the military industrial complex.
1963: Establishment of SOUTHCOM.
January 7, 1964: President Johnson declares “unconditional war on poverty in America” in a speech to Congress.
1965-1972: CIA’s Operation Phoenix during the Vietnam War.
June 8, 1967: Israeli Air Force and Navy attack USS Liberty.
June 17, 1971: President Nixon declares “an effective war against heroin addiction” in a speech to Congress.
1971: Kach founded by Meir Kahane.
December 10, 1974: Henry Kissinger publishes NSSM 200, a policy paper on “population control” throughout the world.
1974: Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) forms after splitting from PLO.
1975: “Terror Against Terror” begins terrorizing Arabs.
1976: Safari Club formed after the revolution in Iran.
1978: Formation of International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) in Saudi Arabia.
1978: Establishment of Stargate Project by U.S. Army.
1979: Gush Emunim Underground founded.
1979: CIA funds Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the Pakistani ISI.
January 29, 1979: Syria added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
January 29, 1979: Iraq added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
January 29, 1979: Libya added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
January 29, 1979: South Yemen added to the U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
1980: First Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) established by FBI and New York Police.
1980s: Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden found Mektab al Khidmat (MAK), a precursor organization to Al Qaeda, connected with the Al Khifa Refugee Center in Brooklyn, New York and the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) based in Bridgeview, Illinois.
May 25, 1981: Establishment of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
March 1, 1982: Cuba added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
1983: Establishment of CENTCOM.
October 23, 1983: Beirut barracks bombing.
December 1983: Stargate Project remote viewer describes an aircraft attack on WTC, 18 years before 9/11.
January 19, 1984: Iran added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
1984: Founding of Maktab al-Khidamat by Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden.
??/??/????: North Korea added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
March 27, 1985: Ronald Reagan’s National Security Decision Directive 166.
November 1, 1985: Formation of Muslim Aid.
1985: Establishment of Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO).
February 4, 1987: Stargate Project remote viewer depicts Osama bin Laden, 14 years before 9/11.
1987: Benevolence International Foundation founded by Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee.
1979-1989: CIA arm and finance Afghan Mujahideen in Operation Cyclone.
1988: Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF) founded in Saudi Arabia.
May 16, 1989: Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 introduced to the Senate.
1989: Founding of Holy Land Foundation.
1989: Major non-NATO ally (MNNA) designation created when section 2350a, otherwise known as the Nunn Amendment, was added to Title 10 (Armed Forces) of the United States Code by Congress. Initial MNNAs were Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and South Korea.
1989: President George H. W. Bush names Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and South Korea as MNNAs.
1990: Alija Izetbegović’s “Islamic Declaration” is republished.
July 27, 1990: End of Operation Gladio.
1991: Human Appeal International founded in Britain.
1991: Navy Intelligence is presented with the “Manthorpe Curve “, which predicted a post-Cold War “Global Threat” that trended upwards alongside ROW challenges. (Note: “ROW’ is defined as rest-of-world). In the curve graph, the year 2000 is between “Near-Term Program Planning” and “Mid-Term Strategic Planning.
1991: End of Cold War.
May 15, 1992: Formation of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
December 1992: United States Senate report “The BCCI Affair”, involving global banks connected with funding terrorist organizations, money laundering, drug trafficking and bribing of politicians in various countries.
1992: Bosnian Mujahideen appear during the Bosnian War.
1992: Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina appear during the Bosnian War.
August 27, 1992: Beginning of Operation Southern Watch, Saudi Arabia hosted U.S. armed forces in establishing no-fly zones in Iraq.
January 1, 1993: Formation of Jemaah Islamiah in Malaysia, founders returned to Indonesia and established contact with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.
February 26, 1993: 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
August 12, 1993: Sudan added to U.S. State Department’s “State sponsors of terrorism” list.
October 3-4 1993: First battle of Mogadishu, Somalia.
October 31, 1993: FBI involvement in WTC bombing.
December 6, 1993: Robert Fisk of the Independent interviews Osama bin Laden.
January 10-11, 1994: Formal launch of NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) program.
November 1994: Founding of Interpal / Palestinian Relief and Development Fund.
1994: Mediterranean Dialogue launched by NATO.
1995: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) is founded with the goal of establishing an “Islamic State” and removing Gaddafi from power.
April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City Bombing.
??/??/1996: InfraGard formed.
April 24, 1996: President Clinton signs Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA).
April 26, 1996: Formation of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
April 30, 1996: U.S.-Israel Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Accord signed by President Clinton and Prime Minister Peres.
May 12, 1996: In a CBS interview, Madeleine Albright said half a million Iraqi children is a price that’s “worth it.”
June 1996: Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies publishes “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. “
1996: Major non-NATO allies (MNNA) received additional military and financial benefits when section 2321k was added to Title 22 (Foreign Relations) of the U.S. Code (also known as section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961), which added MNNAs to many of the same exemptions from the Arms Export Control Act that were enjoyed by NATO members. It also authorized the President to designate a nation as an MNNA thirty days after notifying Congress. When enacted, the statute designated Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, New Zealand, and South Korea as major non-NATO allies.
1996-1998: President Bill Clinton names Jordan, New Zealand, and Argentina as MNNAs.
March 1997: CNN’s Peter Arnett interviews Osama bin Laden.
May 29, 1997: Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) formed as successor to the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC).
August 1997: FEMA / United States Fire Administration / National Fire Academy publish “emergency response to terrorism” with WTC in the crosshairs.
1997: NDAA 1997 created the 1033 Program, providing military equipment to police throughout The States.
1997: East Turkestan Islamic Movement founded in western China, as a separatist movement in Xinjiang province.
January 15, 1998: In an interview with the French Le Nouvel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski states that he doesn’t regret giving armaments and advice to future terrorists.
February 1998: Osama bin Laden’s fatwa declares war on America for sanctions on Iraq.
August 1998: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan formed.
August 20, 1998: Operation Infinite Reach, bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan.
September 18, 1998: Basic Books publishes Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives. “
October 31, 1998: President Clinton signs Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.
November 6, 1998: Edward Zwick’s The Siege is released.
May 1998: ABC’s John Miller interviews Osama bin Laden.
July 3, 1998: Iran Air Flight 655 shot down by USS Vincennes in the Strait of Hormuz.
December 19, 1998: Impeachment of President Clinton.
December 21, 1998: Lockerbie bombing over Scotland.
1998: Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) founded, eventually taking the name al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
January 11, 1999: TIME magazine’s Rahimullah Yusufzai interviews Osama bin Laden.
March 24- June 10, 1999: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
May 30, 2000: Joint Vision 2020 is published, proclaiming “full-spectrum dominance.”
September 2000: Project for the New American Century publishes their report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century.”
October 5, 2000: Bulldozer revolution / Overthrow of Milosevic in the Serbian republic of Yugoslavia.
October 12, 2000: USS Cole bombing.
January 20, 2001: George W. Bush’s first term.
??/??/2001: BioWatch created in response to anthrax attacks.
June 13, 2001: NATO Headquarters summit.
June 2001: GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development Charter signed, member states being: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. Uzbekistan was a temporary member state, making the acronym GUUAM last from 99-05′, when it withdrew from the organization.
August 2001: David S. Alberts publish “Understanding Information Age Warfare.”
August 2001: Michel Chossudovsky reports that Washington backs KLA/NLA terrorist attacks on Macedonia.
September 9, 2001: Ahmad Massoud, creator of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, is assassinated.
September 11, 2001: WTC, Pentagon attacked.
September 11, 2001: Continuity of Government (CoG) is invoked by the Bush administration.
September 13, 2001: Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) publishes ‘This goes beyond Bin Laden’, calling for America to specifically attack Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, the Palestinian Authority, Libya, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt for allegations of ‘harboring, training, and supporting terrorists’. JINSA also asserted that the United States must do the following in response to the 9/11 attacks: Halt all US purchases of Iraqi oil under the UN Oil for Food Program and to provide all necessary support to the Iraq National Congress, including direct American military support, to effect a regime change in Iraq; Bomb identified terrorist training camps and facilities in any country harboring terrorists. Interdict the supply lines to terrorist organizations, including but not limited to those between Damascus and Beirut that permit Iran to use Lebanon as a terrorist base; Revoke the Presidential Order banning assassinations; Overturn the 1995 CIA Directive limiting whom the U.S. can recruit to aid counter-terrorism in an effort to boost our human intelligence; Freeze the bank accounts of organizations in the US that have links to terrorism-supporting groups and their political wings. Ask other countries and financial institutions to do the same; Demand that Egypt and Saudi Arabia sever all remaining ties with Osama Bin Laden, including ties with Saudi-sponsored nongovernmental organizations and groups abroad that raise money for Bin Laden and other terrorist organizations; Suspend US Military Aid to Egypt while re-evaluating Egypt’s support for American policy objectives, and re-evaluate America’s security relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States unless both actually join in our war against terrorism; Ensure that American technology, arms, technical support and personnel are not supplied to countries that do not fully support American objectives regarding terrorism, and through which terrorists might acquire American materiel. Ask our allies and other countries to undertake similar restrictions; Reassess the visa process by which nationals from hostile nations are permitted to enter the United States. And tighten controls at the Canadian and Mexican borders to prevent access by people without appropriate documentation; Strengthen American law enforcement efforts to identify and eliminate terrorist cells operating in the United States; Take immediate steps to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. (Note: Instead of serving as an advisory panel to the U.S. government, JINSA admits being a mouthpiece for Israel in “our” War against Terrorism, a mere three days after 9/11 all the ‘expertise’ of the Jewish State is curiously ready to go in guiding U.S. ‘counterterrorism’ policies this moment onward).
September 14, 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) passes Congress.
September 14, 2001: Operation Noble Eagle launched.
September 14, 2001: President Bush proclaims the day “National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001.”
September 18 – October 9, 2001: Anthrax attacks.
September 20, 2001: President Bush addresses Congress with the “War on Terror.”
September 21, 2001: David Harrison reports from The Telegraph about “the men with stolen identities.”
September 28, 2001: Pakistani paper interviews Osama bin Laden where he denied personal or Al Qaeda’s organizational responsibilities for the 9/11 attacks.
October 7, 2001: United States invasion of Afghanistan.
October 7, 2001: Battle of Kandahar.
October 9, 2001 – May 16, 2002: Operation Eagle Assist, NATO invokes Article 5.
October 16, 2001: Operation Active Endeavour.
October 25, 2001: Brzezinski doesn’t change his stance on providing arms and advice to future terrorists after 9/11.
October 25, 2001: Democrats and Republicans sign a bill designated September 11th of each year as “Patriot Day.”
October 26, 2001: Congress passes USA PATRIOT Act into law.
November 19, 2001: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is formed.
December 4, 2001: Holy Land Foundation categorized as terrorist organization.
December 14, 2001: UK Parliament passes the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
December 18, 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom – Kyrgyzstan begins.
December 18, 2001: Canadian Anti-terrorism Act passed.
December 20, 2001: International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) established in Afghanistan.
December 22, 2001: Hamid Karzai becomes President of Afghanistan.
January 15, 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines begins.
January 29, 2002: Bush’s “axis of evil” State of the Union address.
April 11, 2002: Insurgency in the Maghreb begins.
April 25, 2002: President Bush establishes NORTHCOM.
May 28, 2002: NATO’s Rome summit.
June 3, 2002: Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism signed by Organization of American States (OAS).
June 12, 2002: President Bush signs the Public Health Security and Bio-terrorism Preparedness Response Act, (PHSBPRA).
September 2002: James N. Schubert, Patrick A. Stewart and Margaret Ann Curran publishes “A Defining Presidential Moment: 9/11 and the Rally Effect.”
October 7, 2002: Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa begins.
October 12, 2002: Bali bombings.
November 2002: Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” states the rationale for 9/11: Support for Israel.
November 9, 2002: Despite Gadaffi’s government making an arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden, MI6 paid money to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Libya (LIFG) to assassinate him.
November 21, 2002: NATO’s Prague summit.
November 25, 2002: President Bush signs Homeland Security Act (HSA) of 2002.
2002: Mohammed Yusuf founded Boko Haram in Nigeria.
2002-2004: President George Bush names Bahrain, Philippines, Thailand, Kuwait, Morocco and Pakistan as MNNAs.
January 2003: Marc J. Hetherington and Michael Nelson publish “Anatomy of a Rally Effect: George W. Bush and the War on Terrorism.”
February 7, 2003: Center for Public Integrity reports on “Patriot II.” (Note: The legislation is titled “Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.” )
February 20, 2003: Establishment of Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
September 9, 2003: President Bush calls the war on Iraq “the central front in the War on Terror.”
April 20, 2003: The Iraq War begins.
May 2003: President Bush launches Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) as a global military joint project to verify absence of WMDs aboard vessels through various sources of water throughout the world.
May 1, 2003: President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech.
May 31: 2003: Beginning of Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
March 2003: Adam J. Hebert of the Air Force Magazine writes “Compressing the Kill Chain. “
March 6, 2003: At 15th Arab League Summit Assad testifies against invading Iraq.
March 12, 2003: Creation of the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.
March 12, 2003: Creation of Global War on Terrorism Service Medal (GWOT-S).
September 16, 2003: Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) established by President Bush’s HSPD-6.
October 20, 2003: Donald Rumsfeld signs the “Information Operations Roadmap.”
October 2003: U.S. military forces prepare for war against Iran, one scenario is literally titled “Operation Iranian Freedom.”
November 9, 2003: Peter Markle’s Saving Jessica Lynch is released.
November 2003: Rose revolution in Georgia.
December 12, 2003: President Bush signs the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSRA).
December 12, 2003: Operation Red Dawn, capture of Saddam Hussein.
2004: Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP) established by Congress.
January 15, 2003: James Sterngold reports about “Cheney’s grim vision: decades of war” at SFGate.
2004: Rand Corporation publishes “The Muslim world after 9/11”.
January 28, 2004: Penguin Books publishes Steve Coll’s “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. “
March 11, 2004: Madrid train bombings.
March 16, 2004: War in North-West Pakistan begins.
April 4, 2004: Operation Vigilant Resolve / First Battle of Fallujah.
April 22, 2004: Putnam Publishing Group publishes Thomas P.M. Barnett’s “The Pentagon’s New Map.”
June 28-29, 2004: NATO’s 2004 Istanbul summit.
July 14, 2004: ‘Save Darfur’ Coalition founded.
July 17, 2004: W. W. Norton & Company publish the “9/11 Commission Report.”
July 21, 2004: President Bush signs Project BioShield Act of 2004.
September 2004: David Isenberg from the British American Security Information Council writes “A fistful of contractors: The case for a pragmatic assessment of private military companies in Iraq. “
November 7, 2004: Operation Phantom Fury / Second Battle of Fallujah.
November 29, 2004: Creation of Afghanistan Campaign Medal (ACM).
November 29, 2004: Creation of Iraq Campaign Medal (ICM).
November 2004-January 2005: Orange revolution in Ukraine.
December 2004: National Response Plan (NRP) comes into effect.
December 17, 2004: President Bush signs Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA).
2004: Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) initiative launched during NATO’s 2004 Istanbul summit.
2004: Earliest coinage of the term “Shia Crescent “, it specifically refers to the Shia majority countries Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Bahrain. It was named after Iran had gained geopolitical influence over Iraq following the invasion by American forces in 2003, with the local Iraqi environment in dire straights, Iran’s political, military and religious sphere of influence took the opportunity to expand themselves accordingly in Saddam Hussein’s secularist/Baathist absence over the region.
January 14, 2005: Army Regulation 210-35, “Civilian Inmate Labor Program” is unclassified.
February 14, 2005: Assassination of Rafic Hariri in Lebanon.
February 22, 2005: NATO Headquarters summit.
February-March 2005: Tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev overthrown.
February-April 2005: Cedar revolution in Lebanon.
January 20, 2005: George W. Bush’s second term.
March 11, 2005: Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 passed by UK Parliament.
May 11, 2005: President Bush signs REAL ID Act of 2005.
May 21, 2005: David H. Price reports about the CIA’s Intelligence Community Scholars Program, ICSP at counter-punch.
June 2005: Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Initiative (TSCTI) began with the exercise Flintlock 2005.
July 7, 2005: London Bombings.
November 23, 2005: Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana is released.
December 16, 2005: The New York Times reports on the Bush administration’s “Terrorist Surveillance Program.”
December 23, 2005: Steven Spielberg’s Munich is released.
January 24, 2006: Halliburton subsidiary KBR announces contract with DHS for detention camps throughout the United States.
January 27, 2006: Adam Brookes reports on the “US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed” at BBC. (Note: The internet is categorized as an “enemy weapons system.” )
February 7, 2006: Sanabal Charitable Committee assets frozen by the United Nations Security Council.
March 17, 2006: James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta is released.
March 30, 2006: Terrorism Act 2006 passes UK Parliament.
April 16, 2006: William M. Arkin publishes “The Pentagon Preps for Iran” at the Washington Post, describing the U.S. Army’s analysis for war against Iran after the invasion of Iraq titled “Theater Iran Near Term.”
April 23, 2006: Ann Scott Tyson publishes “New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones ” wherein, quote: “A third plan sets out how the military can both disrupt and respond to another major terrorist strike on the United States. It includes lengthy annexes that offer a menu of options for the military to retaliate quickly against specific terrorist groups, individuals or state sponsors depending on who is believed to be behind an attack. Another attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets, according to current and former defense officials familiar with the plan. This plan details “what terrorists or bad guys we would hit if the gloves came off. The gloves are not off,” said one official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject.” Contingency plans to pre-emptively target specific countries after a “2nd 9/11” have been in motion consistency over the years, alongside internal developments of security theater inside the United States itself.
May 7, 2006: Second Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia.
June 1, 2006: Ralph Peters’ Blood Borders is published a the Armed Forces Journal.
June 6, 2006: Declaration of Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia.
June 7, 2006: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly killed in Baqubah, Iraq.
June 23, 2006: New York Times reveals the government’s Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP).
July 12, 2006: 2006 Lebanon War.
July 21, 2006: Condoleezza Rice refers to “the birth pangs of a New Middle East.”
July 25, 2006: Random House Trade Paperbacks publishes Robert A. Pape’s “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”
August 29, 2006: Brendan O’Neill publishes “Today’s ‘Islamic Fascists’ Were Yesterday’s Friends ” at antiwar.com.
September-December 2006: Vigilant Shield 07′ is launched, the enemies of the ficititious scenario are named as the following: Irmingham [Iran], Nemazee [North Korea], Ruebek [Russia], Churya [China].
October 3, 2006: Metropolitan Books publishes Robert Drefyfuss’s “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam. “
October 15, 2006: Islamic State of Iraq fills the power vacuum left by Saddam Hussein’s removal.
October 17, 2006: President Bush signs into law the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007.
October 17, 2006: President Bush signs into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
November 2006: President Bush signs into the law the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. (Note: Replacing the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 92′. )
November 28, 2006: NATO Riga summit.
December 20, 2006 – January 30, 2009: War in Somalia from 06′ to 09′.
December 30, 2006: Saddam Hussein is executed on Eid ul-Adha.
??/??/2006: Al-Shabaab formed as an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia.
January 2007: GSPC announced that it would now operate under the name of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
January 2007 – May 2007: Iraq war troop surge of 2007.
February 6, 2007: Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara begins.
February 8, 2007: Human Security Act of 2007 signed into law in the Philippines.
March 2007: Salim Abraham reports that Farid Ghadry campaigned for regime change in Syria with the Bush administration.
March 5, 2007: Seymour Hersh publishes “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? ” at The New Yorker.
March 27, 2007: Gadaffi boycotts Arab League summit, stating that he will not “participate in the conspiracy of mobilizing Arabs against the Persians” or “a conspiracy that divides Islam to Sunni Islam and Shiite Islam.”
April 12, 2007: Marc Munden’s The Mark of Cain is released.
April 19, 2007: Jane Harman introduced Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 to Congress.
May 8, 2007: 2007 Fort Dix attack plot.
May 9, 2007: President Bush signs NSPD-51 / HSPD-20 on national Continuity of Government (CoG).
May 27, 2007: Tim Shipman reports to The Telegraph that “Bush sanctions ‘black ops’ against Iran.”
May 31, 2007: Henry Kissinger asserts that “what we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system”, reportedly at a Bilderberg conference in Instanbul, Turkey.
June 2007: Brookings Institution publishes “The Case For Soft Partition in Iraq. “
June 4, 2007: Washington Post reports on the 2007 JFK International Airport attack plot.
August 5, 2007: President Bush signs into law the Protect America Act of 2007 (PAA).
August 2007-September 2008: Saffron revolution in Burma.
September 6, 2007: GQ interviews Colin Powell, where he mentioned the TIC (Terror Industrial Complex): “The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes – scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex.”
October 1, 2007: AFRICOM is established.
October 7, 2007: Creation of Caucasus Emirate.
December 19, 2007: Combating Terrorism Center publishes “Al-Qaida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq. “
December 20, 2007: Pluto Press publishes Andy Worthington’s “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. “
December 21, 2007: Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War is released.
December 28, 2007: Al Qaeda spokesman Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claims responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
2008: Rand Corporation publishes “Unfolding the future of the Long War: Motivations, prospects, and implications for the U.S. Army.”
January 2, 2008: Wiley publishes Stephen Kinzer’s book “All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. “
February 19-20, 2008: FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrest the “AETA 4” animal rights activists as “terrorists.”
March 5, 2008: Admiral James G. Stavridis makes statement to Subcommittee on Defense, referring to Operation Enduring Freedom-Caribbean and Central America/OEF-CCA.
March 29, 2008: Gaddafi warns Arab League Summit that America’s allies could suffer the same fate as Saddam.
April 2008: Ian S. Lustick publishes “Our Own Strength Against Us: The War on Terror as a Self-Inflicted Disaster. “
April 2, 2008: NATO Bucharest Summit.
April 16, 2008: Haaretz reports that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.”
April 20, 2008: David Barstow publishes “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand ” at the New York Times.
May 2, 2008: Jon Favreau’s Iron Man is released.
May 9, 2008: Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya publishes “War and the ‘New Middle East’: US Coalition Building and the Arab League “.
June 1, 2008: Prison ships are revealed to be used in the War on Terrorism by The Guardian.
June 25, 2008: Andrew Gavin Marshall writes about Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG) operations in Iraq by SAS & CIA.
February 22, 2008: National Response Framework (NRF) replaces National Response Plan (NRP).
July 7, 2008: Seymour Hersh publishes “Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps Up its Secret Moves Against Iran ” at The New Yorker.
July 10, 2008: President Bush signs FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
July 13, 2008: Formation of Mediterranean Union.
July 16, 2008: Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange.
July 22, 2008: Combating Terrorism Center publishes “Bombers, Bank Accounts & Bleed Out: Al Qaida’s Road In and Out of Iraq. “
September 2008: FM 3-05.130, “Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare ” is released by Wikileaks.
October 8, 2008: Maryland State Police categorize peaceful protesters as “terrorists.”
October 10, 2008: Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies is released.
October 26, 2008: 2008 Abu Kamal raid in Syria.
December 14, 2008: In an ABC News interview, George Bush acknowledges that Al Qaeda didn’t appear in Iraq until AFTER the invasion.
January 20, 2009: First inauguration of Barack Obama.
January 22, 2009: Congressman Alcee Hastings introduces “National Emergency Centers Establishment Act.”
January 31, 2009: War in Somalia from 09′ to the present.
March 2009: Defense Department renames “Global War on Terrorism” to Overseas Contingency Operation.
April 3, 2009: NATO Strasbourg-Kehl Summit.
April 7, 2009: DHS publishes “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. “
April 10, 2009: Rick Rozoff describes the subjects covered in NATO’s updated Strategic Concept: “The Eternal War Against Terrorism. “
April 16, 2009: Insurgency in the North Caucasus begins.
April 2009: Twitter revolution in Moldova.
May 12, 2009: Elaine M. Grossman at Global Securtiy Newswire reports that Gen. Kevin Chilton believes nuclear warfare is a rightful response to a cyber attack.
May 15, 2009: A Saudi inventor patented a human microchip for ‘fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages.’ Reported by Kristen Allen at The Local, a German news site.
June 2009: Brookings Institute publishes “Which Path to Persia? Options For a New American Strategy Towards Iran. “
June 2, 2009: Counterpoint publishes the book “Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail. “
June 4, 2009: President Obama’s “A New Beginning” speech at Cairo University, Egypt.
June 23, 2009: CYBERCOM becomes active.
June 25, 2009: Brookings Institution publishes “Iraq Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in post-Saddam Iraq.
June 26: 2009: Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is released.
June 2009-February 2010: Green revolution in Iran.
July 20, 2009: Pluto Press publishes Jeremy Keenan’s “The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa.”
July 26, 2009: Boko Haram insurgency begins.
August 8, 2009: Sibel Edmonds reports that the U.S. government has financed Fethullah Gulen’s terrorist campaign to set up set up 300 Madrassahs in Central Asia.
August 20, 2009: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, previously convicted of murder via Pan Am Flight 103, is released by Kenny MacAskill.
January 9, 2010: IIRO appeals to United Nations to remove it from terror list.
January 27, 2010: Patrick F. Kennedy testifies that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s vias wasn’t intentionally revoked, allowing the attempted suicide bombing to occur.
February 8, 2010: Chris Hedges titles an article “The Terror-Industrial Complex” in reference to Aafia Siddiqui.
May 2010: “Overseas Contingency Operations”/OCO is renamed “Countering Violent Extremism”/CVE.
May 1, 2010: 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt.
May 25, 2010: Three Rivers Press publishes Mahmood Mamdani’s book “Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror.”
June 14, 2010: Gregor Jordan’s Unthinkable is released.
July 2010: Germany outlaws Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation e.V.
August 2010: Earliest use the of the term “Axis of Resistance”, specifically referring to the alliance between Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas against Western and Israeli influence in the Middle East.
November 3, 2010: U.S. Department of State categorizes Jundullah as a terrorist organization.
November 19, 2010: NATO Lisbon summit.
December 2010: Beginning of Arab Spring, Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in Tunisia.
2011: U.S. government claims legal authority to use prison ships in the War on Terrorism.
??/??/2011: White House publishes “International Strategy for Cyberspace. “
January 18, 2011: PBS Frontline’s “Are We Safer?” mentions Dana Priest’s investigative reporting into the terrorism-industrial complex.
January 29, 2011 – June 10, 2012: Burhan Ghalioun became chairman of the Syrian National Council.
February 23, 2011: Islamist militants begin an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula.
March 19, 2011: UK’s Operation Ellamy in Libya.
March 19, 2011: France’s Operation Harmattan in Libya.
March 19, 2011: Canada’s Operation Mobile in Libya.
March 19, 2011: North America’s Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya.
March 23, 2011: NATO’s Operation Unified Protector in Libya.
May 2011: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice publishes “Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the ‘Homegrown Threat’ in the United States.”
May 2, 2011: Osama bin Laden reportedly killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
May 6, 2011: Siege of Homs in Syria.
May 7, 2011: Syed Munawar Hasan says that “terrorism would not come to an end through a war against Islam and the Muslims” in response to Osama bin Laden’s death.
July 29, 2011: Riad al-Asaad established the Free Syrian Army on 29 July 2011 under the Turkish Forces.
August 23, 2011: Formation of Syrian National Council (SNC).
October 10, 2011: Libya recognizes SNC as Syrian government.
October 16, 2011: Operation Linda Nchi begins in Somalia.
October 18, 2011: Gilad Shalit was returned to Israel by Hamas in a prisoner swap deal.
October 20, 2011: Death of Muammar Gaddafi.
October 26, 2011: Formation of Kurdish National Council (KNC).
November 1, 2011: Verso publishes Stephen Graham’s “Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.”
January 2012: Netherlands security service AIVD publishes “Jihadism on the web: A breeding ground for jihad in the modern age”, a document proving terrorists prefer to use the ‘Undernet’ or ‘Deep Web’ instead of the entire internet, as a means of communication, recruitment, and propaganda.
January 16, 2012: Northern Mali conflict begins.
February 3, 2012: Homs offensive in Syria, lasts into April.
February 9, 2012: Mukhtar Abu al-Zubair announces joining forces with Al Qaeda under Ayman al-Zawahiri.
February 24, 2012: “Friends of Syria” Tunisia summit, first conference.
March 20, 2013: Peter Tinti reports that the French government endorses terrorist affiliaties of Al Qaeda in Mali.
March 2012: Brookings Institution publishes “Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change.”
April 1, 2012: Istanbul Conference of the “Friends of Syria.”
April 5, 2012: Seymour Hersh publishes “Our Men in Iran?” at The New Yorker, addressing Washington’s connections with the terrorist group Mujahideen-e Khalq.
April 1, 2012: “Friends of Syria” Istanbul summit, second conference.
May 1, 2012: Vintage publishes Joby Warrick’s “The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA.”
May 12, 2012: Houla massacre in Syria.
May 20, 2012: NATO Chicago summit.
June 6, 2012: “Friends of Syria” Paris summit, third conference.
July 12, 2012: al-Nusra Front reinforces Syrian National Coalition during the Battle of Aleppo.
July 12, 2012: Battle of Tremseh in Syria.
July 30, 2013: Anthony Capaccio at Bloomberg reports that local supporters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan have recieved U.S. military contracts.
September 11, 2012: 2012 Benghazi attack.
September 8-13, 2012: Battle of Maarrat Al-Nu’man in Syria.
October 12, 2012: Ben Affleck’s Argo is released.
November 11, 2012: Moaz al-Khatib elected President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
November 15, 2012: Turkey recognizes SNC as as representative of Syrian people.
December 11, 2012: “Friends of Syria” Morocco summit, fourth conference.
December 19, 2012: Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty is released.
2012: President Obama names Afghanistan as MNNA.
January 11, 2013: Operation Serval begins.
January 15, 2013: Ig Publishing releases Trevor Aaronson’s book “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.”
January 20, 2013: Second inauguration of Barack Obama.
February 5, 2013: WIRED reports that 50+ countries outsourced torture with the CIA.
February 6, 2013: Damascus offensive in Syria.
March 3, 2013: Battle of Raqqa in Syria.
March 18 – September 14, 2013: Ghassan Hitto the first Prime Minister of an interim government established by the Syrian opposition National Coalition.
March 26, 2013: Arab League grants SNC Syria’s seat.
April 15, 2013: Boston marathon bombing.
April 23, 2013: Nation Books publishes Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield. “
May 19, 2013: Battle of al-Qusayr in Syria.
May 22, 2013: “Friends of Syria” Jordan conference, fifth meeting.
May 23, 2013: Obama declares in a speech at the National Defense University that “this war, like all wars, must end.”
June 8, 2013: Maria Cramer from the Boston Globe reports that police were training for Operation Urban Shield when the bombings happened.
June 21, 2013: Henry Kissinger calls for the partitioning of Iraq and Syria.
June 22, 2013: “Friends of Syria” Qatar conference, sixth meeting.
August 21, 2013: Ghouta chemical attack in Syria.
September 14, 2013: Ahmad Tu’mah elected second Prime Minister of the Syrian interim government created by the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
September 21, 2013: Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya.
January 2, 2014: FSA-ISIL clashes begin in Syria.
April 1, 2014: Roel Reiné’s SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines is released.
May 2014: Project Salam publishes “Inventing Terrorists: The Lawfare of Preemptive Prosecution. “
May 16, 2014: Second Libyan Civil War, terrorist groups exploit the power vacuum left by Gaddafi’s absence.
June 13, 2014: International response to ISIL, including airstrikes by various states.
June 2014: Human Rights Watch publishes “Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in U.S. Terrorism Prosecutions. “
June 15, 2014: Operation Inherent Resolve begins.
August 12, 2014: FAA implements a no-fly zone over Ferguson.
August 26, 2014: Public Affairs publishes Radley Balko’s “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. “
September 4, 2014: NATO Wales Summit.
September 29, 2014: Hamid Karzai’s Presidency ends.
October 2014: Kenneth M. Pollack from the Brookings Institution publishes “Building a Better Syrian Opposition Army: The How and the Why. “
November 9, 2014: FBI counter-terror officer Thomas McHale admits to “developing informants inside Jundullah.”
November 26, 2014: The Screeching Kettle reports “One simple graph shows how the War on Terror has been a total failure.” (Note: The 2014 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) shows a gradual increase of terrorism since 2001, NOT a decrease.
December 14, 2014: Congress proposes designating Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia as major non-NATO allies.
December 28, 2014: International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is disbanded in Afghanistan.
January 1, 2015: A secondary phase of the war in Afghanistan continues.
January 7, 2015: Chalie Hebdo shootings.
January 15, 2015: Jeremy Scahill references the Terrorism Expert Industrial Complex on CNN.
February 6, 2015: Daena Publications LLC publishes J. Michael Springmann’s “Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View. “
February 16, 2015: Egypt begins airstrikes in Libya, responding to the regional expansion of ISIL.
February 24, 2015: Spencer Ackerman at The Guardian reveals Chicago police use Homan Square as a CIA black site.
May 6, 2015: Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015 passes third reading in Canada.
May 14, 2015: President Obama proposed naming Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar as major non-NATO allies at Camp David summit.
June 2015: Michael O’Hanlon from the Brookings Institute authors “Deconstructing Syria: Towards a Regionalized Strategy of a Confederal Country.”
June 25-29, 2015: Ramadan attacks in France, Kuwait, Tunisia, and Syria.
June 2015: Department of Defense publishes “Law of War Manual” categorizing reports as “unprivileged combatants.”
August 1, 2015: Express reports that SAS dress as ISIS militants, an apparent continuation of P2OG .
2015: William C. Bradford publishes “Treason of the professors: The critical law of armed conflict academy as an Islamist fifth column” wherein he categorized academic critics of the Global War on Terrorism as “enemy combatants”.
2015: President Obama names Tunisia as MNNA.
