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- verifiedCLM-001
Omar al-Bayoumi provided housing and banking assistance to Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego in February 2000.
- disputedCLM-002
The 1 February 2000 restaurant meeting was a chance encounter.
- verifiedCLM-007
U.S. agencies had actionable information on Mihdhar's U.S. visa in January 2000 and failed to watchlist him until August 2001.
- verifiedCLM-011
American Airlines Flight 11 struck World Trade Center 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
- disputedCLM-020
Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta's cell before 11 September and was blocked from notifying the FBI.
- disputedCLM-035
A small CIA Alec Station group intentionally withheld Mihdhar/Hazmi information from the FBI, and the purpose became to allow the attacks.
- disputedCLM-036
The Pentagon attack involved inside-the-building explosives before AA77's official impact.
- verifiedCLM-037
A large born-digital public archive of 11 September emails, stories, and images exists and was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2003.
- verifiedCLM-040
NTSB produced flight-path studies and ATC transcripts for the four hijacked flights and initially refused a public docket.
Evidence supporting
53Poteshman 2006: unusual put-option volume on airlines before 9/11
Allen M. Poteshman, 'Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,' Journal of Business 79(4) (2006) · 2006-07-01
A peer-reviewed study found statistically unusual pre-attack put-option activity in airline stocks.
Paul Zarembka — Insider trading before 9/11 re-examined (Toronto Report ch.6)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
A 2012 hearing paper surveys three academic option-market studies and argues the combined pre-attack activity is not plausibly random, while treating UAL/AMR themselves as weak because of hedging.
Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
Predator over Afghanistan, autumn 2000: likely UBL, no shoot capability
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File (NSAEBB 381) · 2004-03-19
CIA notes in the 2012 File say an unarmed Predator twice observed a person most likely to be bin Laden in autumn 2000 and could not act.
Urban Moving Systems five employees detained after being reported celebrating / filming
FBI files on Urban Moving Systems and five Israeli nationals detained 11 September 2001 · 2001-09-11
Five Urban Moving Systems employees were detained after witness reports they filmed and appeared to celebrate the attacks; they were later deported without terrorism charges.
Peter Dale Scott — 9/11 as a deep event: CIA personnel helped allow it (Toronto Report ch.5)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
Scott's 2012 chapter restates a documented CIA-to-FBI withholding pattern around Mihdhar and Hazmi (Malaysia 2000, visa, watchlisting) attributed to a small Alec Station group, and adds a Saudi-GID liaison hypothesis plus an 'allowed to proceed' inference.
Evidence contradicting
7Silverstein Properties later: 'pull it' meant withdraw firefighters
PBS — America Rebuilds: A Day with Larry Silverstein (2002) · 2005-01-01
Silverstein's office published a firefighter-withdrawal reading of 'pull it.'
Commission: AA77 struck the Pentagon at 09:37:46
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
The Commission states AA77 struck the Pentagon at 09:37:46.
ASCE Pentagon building performance: 757-class impact damage
ASCE/SEI Pentagon Building Performance Report (2003) · 2003-01-01
An engineering team mapped interior damage consistent with a large-aircraft mass trajectory through the Pentagon.
Bažant pancake model vs NIST initiation sequence
Bažant et al. — pancake / progressive-collapse papers on the WTC towers · 2002-01-01
Published official-adjacent models disagree on pancake vs bowing-column initiation of the tower collapses.
Commission staff: Able Danger Atta identification not substantiated
9/11 Commission Report · 2005-08-12
Commission staff published that they could not substantiate a pre-9/11 Able Danger identification of Atta.
Legge & Stutt — AA77 FDR analysis supports official Pentagon flight path (Jan 2011)
Journal of 9/11 Studies · 2011-01-01
A 2011 Journal of 9/11 Studies FDR analysis concludes the official AA77 path to Pentagon impact is supported.
Ambiguous
68PNAC 2000: 'catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor'
Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000) · 2000-09-01
A 2000 PNAC report used a 'new Pearl Harbor' clause about the pace of military transformation.
AA77 hijacked; Hazmi and Mihdhar aboard; Pentagon impact
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
The two men assisted in San Diego in 2000 were AA77 hijackers on 11 September 2001.
Columbia 9/11 Oral History Project — holdings statement
Columbia Center for Oral History Research — September 11 Oral History Project · 2026-09-03
Columbia's 9/11 oral-history project reports five programmes, over 900 hours with over 600 people, 351 of them open, plus a 2011 book. Transcripts were not ingested.
Veterans History Project — Iraq War box; loc.gov 403
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-09-03
The guide's Iraq-war Veterans History Project link did not yield files at ingest.
Commission: AA11 struck WTC1 at 08:46:40
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
A large aircraft identified as AA11 struck WTC 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
Natalie Schilling — Linguistic analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (Apr 2026)
Natalie Schilling, Linguistic Analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (April 2026) and addendum (August 2026) · 2026-04-01
A 2026 linguistic report on AA11 audio attributed to Atta was published under IC911 Reports, authored by Natalie Schilling, Ph.D.
Contemporary reports
59PNAC 2000: 'catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor'
Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000) · 2000-09-01
A 2000 PNAC report used a 'new Pearl Harbor' clause about the pace of military transformation.
AA77 hijacked; Hazmi and Mihdhar aboard; Pentagon impact
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
The two men assisted in San Diego in 2000 were AA77 hijackers on 11 September 2001.
Commission: AA11 struck WTC1 at 08:46:40
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
A large aircraft identified as AA11 struck WTC 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
Michael Ragsdale flyer collection — street paper, 11 Sep 2001–15 Sep 2002
September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP) · 2001-09-12
A near-daily street collection of ~1,000 NYC flyers exists for the year after 11 September, including 11 September hospital/command-centre notices and early CIA/FBI-trust and anti-war posters.
Predator over Afghanistan, autumn 2000: likely UBL, no shoot capability
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File (NSAEBB 381) · 2004-03-19
CIA notes in the 2012 File say an unarmed Predator twice observed a person most likely to be bin Laden in autumn 2000 and could not act.
Later recollections / analysis
69Poteshman 2006: unusual put-option volume on airlines before 9/11
Allen M. Poteshman, 'Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,' Journal of Business 79(4) (2006) · 2006-07-01
A peer-reviewed study found statistically unusual pre-attack put-option activity in airline stocks.
Columbia 9/11 Oral History Project — holdings statement
Columbia Center for Oral History Research — September 11 Oral History Project · 2026-09-03
Columbia's 9/11 oral-history project reports five programmes, over 900 hours with over 600 people, 351 of them open, plus a 2011 book. Transcripts were not ingested.
Paul Zarembka — Insider trading before 9/11 re-examined (Toronto Report ch.6)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
A 2012 hearing paper surveys three academic option-market studies and argues the combined pre-attack activity is not plausibly random, while treating UAL/AMR themselves as weak because of hedging.
Veterans History Project — Iraq War box; loc.gov 403
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-09-03
The guide's Iraq-war Veterans History Project link did not yield files at ingest.
Natalie Schilling — Linguistic analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (Apr 2026)
Natalie Schilling, Linguistic Analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (April 2026) and addendum (August 2026) · 2026-04-01
A 2026 linguistic report on AA11 audio attributed to Atta was published under IC911 Reports, authored by Natalie Schilling, Ph.D.
Natalie Schilling — Addendum covering AA11 and UA93 audio (Aug 2026)
Natalie Schilling, Linguistic Analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (April 2026) and addendum (August 2026) · 2026-08-01
An August 2026 addendum expands the Schilling linguistic work from AA11 to UA93 audio.
Official documents
59AA77 hijacked; Hazmi and Mihdhar aboard; Pentagon impact
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
The two men assisted in San Diego in 2000 were AA77 hijackers on 11 September 2001.
Commission: AA11 struck WTC1 at 08:46:40
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
A large aircraft identified as AA11 struck WTC 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
Predator over Afghanistan, autumn 2000: likely UBL, no shoot capability
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File (NSAEBB 381) · 2004-03-19
CIA notes in the 2012 File say an unarmed Predator twice observed a person most likely to be bin Laden in autumn 2000 and could not act.
Urban Moving Systems five employees detained after being reported celebrating / filming
FBI files on Urban Moving Systems and five Israeli nationals detained 11 September 2001 · 2001-09-11
Five Urban Moving Systems employees were detained after witness reports they filmed and appeared to celebrate the attacks; they were later deported without terrorism charges.
FDNY oral histories: multiple firefighters report explosions
New York Fire Department oral histories (released 2005 after lawsuit) · 2005-08-12
Multiple trained first responders independently described explosion-like events at the WTC site on 11 September 2001.
Independent / media
45PNAC 2000: 'catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor'
Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000) · 2000-09-01
A 2000 PNAC report used a 'new Pearl Harbor' clause about the pace of military transformation.
Paul Zarembka — Insider trading before 9/11 re-examined (Toronto Report ch.6)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
A 2012 hearing paper surveys three academic option-market studies and argues the combined pre-attack activity is not plausibly random, while treating UAL/AMR themselves as weak because of hedging.
Silverstein Properties later: 'pull it' meant withdraw firefighters
PBS — America Rebuilds: A Day with Larry Silverstein (2002) · 2005-01-01
Silverstein's office published a firefighter-withdrawal reading of 'pull it.'
Peter Dale Scott — 9/11 as a deep event: CIA personnel helped allow it (Toronto Report ch.5)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
Scott's 2012 chapter restates a documented CIA-to-FBI withholding pattern around Mihdhar and Hazmi (Malaysia 2000, visa, watchlisting) attributed to a small Alec Station group, and adds a Saudi-GID liaison hypothesis plus an 'allowed to proceed' inference.
Gage, Roberts, Dreger — Advanced pyrotechnic/explosive material in WTC dust (Toronto Report ch.12)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
Toronto ch.12 restates the 2009 Harrit red/gray-chip paper as forensic evidence against the official destruction account.
IC911 Data Archive — links inactive at ingest
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
As of 2 September 2026 the IC911 data-archive page states that archive links are inactive and that a large archive of videos, photographs, and documents is being built.
Unresolved contradictions
- CTR-001Bayoumi's intelligence role: Commission 2004 vs FBI 2017
- CTR-002Thumairy assistance: Commission vs FBI 2021
- CTR-0031 February mosque visit: Bayoumi vs Bin Don
- CTR-004Bayoumi first interview vs later account
- CTR-005Chance meeting vs planned meeting
- CTR-006FBI access representation vs later material
- CTR-007WTC7 mechanism: NIST fire vs Hulsey not-fire
- CTR-008WTC dust chips: thermite vs primer paint
- CTR-009Silverstein 'pull it': demolition vs firefighter withdrawal
- CTR-010Able Danger Atta identification
- CTR-011Put options: unusual volume vs no plot-participant profits
- CTR-012Hijacker identities: BBC still-alive vs Commission mistaken-identity
- CTR-013Pentagon: AA77 vs no-Boeing
- CTR-014UA93: passenger revolt vs shoot-down
- CTR-015WTC7 free fall: NIST consistency vs demolition signature
- CTR-016NORAD first story vs NORAD tapes
- CTR-017WTC 7 Stage 1: NIST gradual vs Chandler instantaneous whole-roofline free fall
- CTR-018Commission completeness vs Griffin omissions list
- CTR-019IC911 journal vs IC911 journal on the Pentagon object
- CTR-020CIA withholding: incompetence vs allowed-to-proceed
- CTR-021CIA IG August 2001 praise vs 2004 CIA OIG / Commission on CTC
- CTR-022NTSB public-docket refusal vs NSArchive FOIA release of the same path/ATC files