Exhibit Resources: Timeline of Events Since 9/11

 

The following timeline was in the United Methodist Women's National Seminar learning center.  Information for this timeline was gathered from newspapers, TV, radio, Internet and Women’s Division sources.

 

August 31-Sept. 7, 2001

U.N. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance

is held in Durban, South Africa.

 

Sept. 11, 2001

Attacks in New York City; Washington, D.C.; and rural Pennsylvania kill 3,047 people.

 

September- November 2001

1,400 cases of hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims are documented.

 

Sept. 12, 2001

FBI and Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS)  use profiling to arrest more than 1,200 Arabs, South Asians and Muslims.

 

Sept. 15, 2001

U.S. Congress grants President Bush broad war powers. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) casts the only dissenting vote.

 

Sept. 18, 2001

A human prayer circle is formed around the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio.

 

Sept. 20, 2001

Chicagoans gather for a rally against hate.

 

Sept. 21, 2001

1^st report of an anthrax-tainted letter.

 

Oct. 7, 2001

United States begins bombing Afghanistan.

 

Oct. 7, 2001

United States begins dropping food over Afghanistan.

 

Oct. 12, 2001

Zacarias Moussaoui is indicted as one of the people who plotted the

9-11-01 attacks.

 

Oct. 15, 2001

United States starts media campaign, dropping leaflets and transmitting radio broadcasts

into Afghanistan.

 

Oct. 19-22, 2001

Women’s Division directors at their annual meeting join a campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

 

Oct. 26, 2001

U.S. Congress passes the USA Patriot Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism).

 

Oct. 31, 2001

U.S. Justice Department authorizes prisons to monitor conversations between detainees and their lawyers.

 

Nov. 9, 2001

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft targets 5,000 immigrants from the Middle East and South Asia for voluntary interviews. 6,000 immigrants are fast tracked for deportation.

 

Nov. 13, 2001

President Bush announces non-citizens suspected of harboring

or being terrorists can be tried secretly by military tribunals.

 

Nov. 19, 2001

The Aviation & Transportation Act is passed.  Security screeners must be U.S. citizens.

 

Dec. 22, 2001

Shoe bomber Richard Reid is overpowered on a flight from Paris to Miami, Fla.

 

January 2002

First of Al-Qaida and Taliban detainees are taken to Guantanamo Bay.

 

Jan. 11, 2002

U.S. Special Forces arrive in the Philippines.

 

Jan. 28, 2002

Interim leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, visits Washington, D.C.

 

Jan. 29, 2002

President Bush names North Korea, Iraq and Iran as an “axis of evil.”

 

February to August 2002

FBI receives 52,000 resumes and CIA receives 100,000 resumes.

 

Feb. 5, 2002

United Methodist Women circulates a petition for peace in the Middle East in coalition with Churches for Middle East Peace.

 

Feb. 22-24, 2002

National student anti-war conference is held at Columbia University in New York City.

 

Feb. 23, 2002

Anti-war demonstration are held in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

 

March 9, 2002

President Bush’s first-strike nuclear policy is revealed.

March 11, 2002

76% of young people surveyed are willing to become U. S. watchdogs for suspicious behavior.     

 

April 5-12, 2002

NGO Forum on Aging (April 5-9) and 2^nd World Assembly on Aging (April 8-12) are held in Madrid, Spain.

 

April 12-15, 2002

Women’s Division directors kick off the Campaign for Children, Phase 3.

 

April 20, 2002

Large anti-war demonstrations are held in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

 

April 25-28, 2002

United Methodist Women’s Assembly is held in Philadelphia, Pa.

 

May 8, 2002

March for Children’s Rights is held in New York City.

 

May 8-10, 2002

U.N. Special Session on Children is held in New York Ciy.

 

May 14, 2002

President Bush signs the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act  increasing border policing and foreign-student tracking.

 

May 21, 2002

U.S. State Department designates seven countries as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.

 

May 30, 2002

U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft revises guidelines giving FBI broader power to disrupt, infiltrate and provoke political and religious organizations.

 

June 1, 2002

President Bush targets 60 countries for preemptive first strike.

 

June 4-8, 2002

World Conference on Breast Cancer is held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

 

June 6, 2002

President Bush proposes creation of a Homeland Security Office.

 

June 9, 2002

President Bush declares Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi as  enemy combatants to be detained indefinitely without trial or charges.

 

June 13, 2002

Hamid Karzai elected leader of new Afghanistan government.

 

June 28, 2002

U.S. Supreme Court allows the INS to continue to hold secret trials.

 

July 1, 2002

U.S. air assaults kill 48 people during an Afghan wedding.

 

July 5, 2002

Press reports the United States plans to invade Iraq.

 

July 7-12, 2002

14^th International AIDS Conference is held in Barcelona, Spain.

 

August 1, 2002

Operation TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System) begins. Citizens can report suspicious activity to the U.S. Justice Department.