The almanac | About September and 2001.

Saturday ¹ September 2001

• France: Bghioua Safir, a "young" 25 years, the neighborhood of Devze to Beziers in the Herault , following an altercation between a band of North African and another gypsy, rocket launcher attack a police patrol rushed to the site.
  • Entrenched, it kills the next morning, a burst of submachine gun, Jean Farret, Chief of Staff of the Mayor of Beziers, before being himself killed by police officers GIPN Marseille. In the trunk of his BMW car police discovered several weapons.

Sunday 2 September 2001

• Deaths in Paphos in the island of Cyprus Professor of Surgery Christiaan Barnard , at the age of 78. He was the author of the first heart transplant in Cape Town in South Africa in 1967

Monday September 3 2001

Tuesday, 4 September 2001

• In France:
  • Judge Eric Halphen is removed from the case of public housing in Paris.
  • Jean-Pierre Chevenement , president of the MDC announcement Belfort his candidacy for the presidential election.
• In Afghanistan , the trial of two Americans, two Australians and four Germans, members of the Protestant aid agency Shelter Now International (SNI), a Christian accused of proselytizing.
• Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem: 12 bystanders injured (in addition to the bomber's death).

Wednesday, 5 September 2001

• At Bastia, Corsica, murder of Nicolas Montigny, a close associate of Francois Santoni , who was assassinated on August 17.

Thursday, 6 September 2001

• In Macedonia , the Parliament passed the constitutional reform under the Agreement of 13 August, to increase the rights of the Albanian community.

Friday, 7 September 2001

Saturday 8 September 2001

• In Durban , in South Africa , the ^3rd World Conference against Racism ends in utter confusion.
  • Israel and the U.S. have weighed all their weight to the draft final resolution equating Zionism with racism, has passed.
  • A minimum agreement is finally reached, in extremis, after half an additional day of negotiations.
  • For an account of this conference, we read: Jolle Fiss, "Durban: Chronicle of a young Jewish anguish of the century", The Rules of the game, No. 26, September 2004, p. 20-58

Sunday 9 September 2001

• Review of attendance at European airports 2000: London Heathrow 64.6 million passengers (+3.8%), Frankfurt 49.4 million (+7.6%), Paris-CDG (+11.8%) Amsterdam 39.6 million (+7.7%), 32.8 million Madrid, London Gatwick.
• Khwaja Bahauddin in In Afghanistan , two fake journalists perpetuate an Arab suicide attack against the commander Massoud , who was seriously injured (He died of his wounds).
• In China, edition of Rail Investment Plan 2001-2005: 7000 km of new railways will be built for 21.7 billion.
• In Israel, two Palestinian suicide bombings:
  • an attack on Nahariya train station: about sixty injured, 4 dead, including the bomber, an Israeli Arab.
  • a bombing near Netanya: Only the bomber was killed.
  • Retaliatory bombings against Israeli Palestinian government buildings.
• 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds, the timestamp exceeded one billion.

Monday September 10 2001

Tuesday 11 September 2001

• Two Boeing 767 hijacked by suicide terrorists are precipitated at 18 minute intervals, on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, symbols of American power.
  • The two companies had respectively "American Airlines" and "United Airlines", had 92 and 65 passengers and crew on board.
  • The Two Towers ablaze and collapsing completely. By early evening, a third 47-story building, tower 7 of the "WTC", including the headquarters of the CIA in turn collapses.
  • Shortly after a Boeing 757 of "American Airlines" with 74 people on board, is precipitated by other terrorists on the Pentagon in Washington.
  • Another Boeing 757 with 45 people on board was also hijacked by terrorists, but passengers having revolted, it crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It would seem that his target was the White House.
  • Visiting Florida , President George W. Bush after a meeting of his national security advisers on the basis of Offut in Nebraska , headquarters of the Air Command, said: "Today (...), our lifestyle and our freedom came under attack (.. .).
  • Early suspicion focused on Islamist networks of Osama bin Laden.
• In France:
  • A meeting of the Cabinet is meeting in emergency around Jacques Chirac , President of the Republic, Lionel Jospin , Prime Minister, with Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior and Transportation. The Vigipirate is reactivated.
  • In the evening, Jacques Chirac delivered a televised speech: "No country in the world has been the target of terrorist attacks of such magnitude or of such violence. I want to reiterate to the American people the solidarity of all French people in this tragic ordeal. "
  • The Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant instructs the police sirens wailing to move, but without stopping, to mark the presence of police, but avoiding confrontation with the armed groups hostile and probably.

Wednesday, 12 September 2001

• In France, the government decided the implementation of Vigipirate, reactivated and strengthened emergency as the night before.
• The European Community adopted the White Paper on "European transport policy for 2010: time to decide, and for the first time puts the needs of users at the heart of its strategy and offers nearly sixty measures for success this bet.
• United States, President George W. Bush swears to "engage a monumental struggle of good against evil."
• The member countries of NATO resolve to implement the solidarity mechanism provided by its military section 5, and never used since the signing of the Treaty of Washington in 1949.
• The Security Council's Resolution 1368 UN vote that recognizes the United States "the right of individual or collective self-defense."

Thursday 13 September 2001

• The FBI announced the first ten arrests and the discovery of flight manuals in Arabic in the car of a suicide bomber, and the passport of another suicide bomber in the rubble of the World Trade Center. "
• The Pakistani government, promised full cooperation with the U.S. government limits.

Friday 14 September 2001

• In all countries of the European Union , three minutes of silence observed in memory of victims of the attacks.
• The European Community proposed that common rules regarding maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships.
• United States, "National Day of Prayer and Remembrance."
  • 50 000 reservists are recalled to the colors.
  • An initial list of 19 alleged hijackers is published by the FBI.
  • Secretary of State Colin Powell officially designated Osama bin Laden as the likely sponsor of the attacks.

Saturday 15 September 2001

• In Afghanistan , the opposition officially announces the death of Commander Massoud.
• The U.S. Congress unanimously with one vote, authorizes the President George W. Bush to use force and is allocating 40 billion.

Sunday 16 September 2001

• In Palestine , Yasser Arafat gave an order to cease-fire "to all men in uniform in (his) command"

Monday September 17 2001

• United States:
  • President George W. Bush says he wants to capture Osama bin Laden dead or alive and announced an initial premium of 5 million.
  • Reopening of the stock market Wall Street in New York , and despite a decline of 7.13%, the dreaded crash is avoided. Cons by the price of gold jumped from 271 to 290 dollars per ounce (compared to 850 an ounce reached in January 1980).
  • The Continental Airlines affirmed the brink of bankruptcy, and places 12,000 people laid off. The Bush administration this week met representatives of the U.S. airline industry.
• In Geneva, an agreement to the WTO after 15 years of negotiations, China will be admitted to the organization by early 2002.

Tuesday 18 September 2001

• President Jacques Chirac visits the White House by President George W. Bush. The participation of France in a military action is considered.
• Toukal Zaccharia an Islamist, was arrested in Paris, he was sentenced in 1999 to three years in prison To Marseille for deportation, he was released on 21 for flaw because of the new penal code.
• In Afghanistan , a thousand clerics urge the authorities of the country to persuade Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country but the U.S. threat of a holy war if they do not exercise restraint.
• The Israeli government ordered the suspension of all offensive operations, and the IDF withdrew from the autonomous Palestinian areas it occupied.
• The Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected the cease-fire of Yasser Arafat.

Wednesday, 19 September 2001

• President Jacques Chirac visited the WTC site in New York.
• The U.S. government launched Operation Infinite Justice ", which is a vast military and diplomatic.
• In Pakistan , Islamist demonstrations of support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Thursday 20 September 2001

• In France:
  • The Department of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing is available on its website a dossier on the reopening of the Mont-Blanc: http://www.equipement.gouv.fr/mont-blanc/index.htm
  • Joint press briefing with Mr Jacques Chirac and Mr Tony BLAIR, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after breakfast Briefing of 20/09/2001
• President George W. Bush warned the world: "Either you're with us or you are with the terrorists."

Friday 21 September 2001

• In France:
  • Arrest in the Paris region, 7 individuals suspected of belonging to a network of bin Laden and to prepare an attack against U.S. interests.
  • In the outskirts of Toulouse , a violent explosion destroyed the AZF chemical factory , and an entire residential district: 30 dead and more than 2400 injured, 2000 houses destroyed and 10,000 others damaged and 69 schools, 18 colleges and the University of Mirail.

• • According to the barometer Louis Harris-Current, Jacques Chirac is at 68% approval rating (+6 points) and Lionel Jospin 55% (-1 point).
• After 5 trading days in Wall Street , the Dow Jones recorded a total fall of 14%.
• In Pakistan , new manifestations of Islamist support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Saturday 22 September 2001

• In Corsica, 22 and 23 September, investments in custody of 9 nationalists suspected of involvement in the assassination of Jean-Michel Rossi, August 7, 2000.
• From September 22 to 25, travel to John Paul II to Kazakhstan.
  • 23, Mass at Astana , in the presence of 25,000 Muslims.

Sunday 23 September 2001

• In France, senatorial elections in which the "plural left" wins 12 seats.

Monday September 24 2001

• In France, the theory of the accident, the explosion at the AZF chemical plant, was officially selected at "99%". This announcement, though fast, will be the beginning of a major controversy.
• President George W. Bush announced a freeze in the world, the assets of 27 organizations and individuals suspected of being linked to Osama bin Laden.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin , has put at the disposal of U.S. and Russian air bases in Central Asia, and to open Russian airspace for flights carrying humanitarian aid.

Tuesday 25 September 2001

• In France:
  • Indictment and imprisonment of seven individuals arrested on September 21, near Paris on suspicion of belonging to a network linked to Bin Laden. 4 other arrests were made.
  • First "day of national homage to harkis.
• United States:
  • The U.S. government renamed "Operation Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom".
    • The premium of 5 million, offered Sept. 17 by President George W. Bush for the capture of Osama bin Laden dead or alive is increased to 25 million.
  • Deaths in New York, American violinist Isaac Stern at the age of 81 years.
• From September 25 to 27, travel to John Paul II in Armenia , during the seventeenth centenary of his baptism.

Wednesday, 26 September 2001

• In Corsica, the movement Corsica Nazione withdraws from the Matignon process.
• Ecumenical ceremony commemorating the victims in the Cathedral of St. Etienne de Toulouse , in the presence of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
• United States:
  • In Virginia , the FBI announced the arrest of Mohammed Abdi, a in the attacks of September 11.
  • Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said the defense ministers of NATO : "For now, we do not anticipate collective action."
• In Afghanistan , a major anti-US demonstration in Kabul. Rioters burned the former U.S. embassy.
• In Gaza , meeting between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres after three successive postponements.
  • The same evening, five Israeli tanks enter again in the Palestinian autonomous territory near Rafah.
• In Macedonia , the end of Operation Essential Harvest, "organized by NATO and 3875 during which weapons were officially recovered.
  • Launching a new "Operation Amber Fox, designed to protect international civilian observers through the deployment of 700 soldiers.

Thursday 27 September 2001

• In France, through the press, the beginning of a controversy experts that several elements contradict the official account of an accident, curiously announced soon.
• Speaking to the press, to Berlin , the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said "the superiority of Western civilization," which leads to strong international reaction.
• Parliament of Zug in Switzerland , a gunman kills 14 people coldly.

Friday 28 September 2001

• In France:
  • Before the Paris Criminal Court, the trial of 24 alleged members of the Islamist-Takfir wal-Hijra, linked to bin Laden.
  • The journalist Franck Herriot reveals that at least 107 of the 138 network members Chalabi, arrested in 1994 and sentenced in 1999 , are now at liberty on French soil.
  • Creation of the company "Lyon-Turin Rail was responsible for the first phase of the new rail link between Lyon and Turin.
• United States, a first interim report on the attacks of Sept. 11 estimated the death toll to some 307 and the number of missing in 5960.

Saturday 29 September 2001

• The European Community proposed that common rules concerning:
  • the allocation of slots at Community airports.
  • installation and use in the Community of speed limiters on certain categories of motor vehicles.
• Creating a European company Galileo was responsible for developing the new European satellite navigation.

Sunday 30 September 2001

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