My 9/11 Timeline

1994, Manila: I was a young tourist in the Philippines from January to April, on my first backpacking tour. When hanging-out in Manila’s Malate tourist area one evening I distinctly remember seeing a group of south Asian men in smart casual attire, looking out of place amongst the Caucasian backpackers. They were walking in front of us for a minute or two before turning into the Hobbit House restaurant, not far from the café pictured below with the tail end of an airplane sticking out of the second floor of a restaurant in the tourist area, installed to look like it had crashed into the building. I remembered looking at the cafe and thinking of World War Two Kamikaze pilots, current terrorist attacks (1993 World Trade Center bombing), and what poor taste and bad judgment it was. I don’t know why I remember the south Asian group so clearly, but I do and now strongly believe they were 9/11’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bomber Ramzi Yousef and members of their terrorist cell. That Manila cell was busted in January 1995 (but not KSM or his nephew Ramzi Yousef), before they could carry out the Bojinka plot - bombing a dozen trans-Pacific flights simultaneously. After interrogating the cell members, Filipino investigator Colonel Rodolfo Mendoza wrote a memo (youtube):

“With regards to their plan to dive-crash a commercial aircraft at the CIA headquarters, subject alleged that the idea of doing same came out during his casual conversation with [Ramzi Yousef] and there is no specific plan yet for its execution. What the subject [has] in his mind is that he will board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger. Then he will hijack said aircraft, control its cockpit, and dive it at the CIA headquarters. He will use no bomb or explosives. It is simply a suicidal mission that he is very much willing to execute.”

This is the first documented warning given to American investigators / security services of a 9/11 style attack by the 1993 WTC bombers.

Further Context: Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, Saudi national Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (wikipedia), moved to the Philippines in 1987 where he provided financial support to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). Khalifa also "established links with Islamists in Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Russia, Malaysia, the UAE, Romania, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Albania, the Netherlands and Morocco, enabling the ASG to develop relationships with terrorist groups" throughout the Middle East and Asia. Abu Sayyaf Group’s name originates in 1980s Afghanistan where their Filipino founder was trained by the Arab funded Wahhabi professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf . When returning to the Philippines after a meeting in the USA, Khalifa was detained in California on 14 December 1994 on charges related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was found with terrorist training / bomb making manuals in his luggage. After the Manila cell was busted in January 1995, Khalifa was accused of financing them and the Bojinka plot too. Despite evidence from Manila, Khalifa was not arrested but instead deported from America to Jordan in May 1995 where he was acquitted on other terrorism charges before returning to Saudi.
Also linked to 1994 Manila was my workmate David Dean, the US sales agent for my parents' engineering export company JM Heaford Limited (JMH Ltd). I’d worked with Dean from 1988-93 while serving a mechanical fitter's apprenticeship with my family’s business; he was a 101st Airborne veteran of the 1969 Battle for Hamburger Hill in Vietnam. Dean told me he was medically discharged from the army after a parachute training accident in Vietnam. He said he spent the rest of the war living in the Philippines, running a go-go bar near the massive US Clark airbase. I was arrested for smoking a joint in 1994 Manila, spent a night in jail, had my passport confiscated by the police and paid a fine to a judge. When I saw Dave Dean next, in April 1997 Chicago, he told me if he'd known he could've resolved the matter with one phone call to his ‘friends in Manila’ - Dean clearly still had high level contacts with the police and judiciary in 1994 Manila. I can link Dean to the CIA too, via the top secret Studies and Observation Group (SOG) in Vietnam. Future CIA contractor Billy Waugh ran SOG's HALO parachute training in 1970/71 Vietnam, where and when SOG worked very closely with the 101st Airborne. Waugh medically discharged in 1972, around the same time Dean did. Waugh admitted working with Al Qaeda operators in 1990s Yemen; Dean set-up the April 1997 machine sale to Yemen that I installed in September 1997, where I met the Engineer and visited Al Qaidah town.
9/11 hijacker-pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi are known to have holidayed at the Filipino Mabalacat resort that’s very close to Clark air base (news report) from 1997 to 2000.

20 April 1995, Yemen, Manchester & Buckingham Palace: My family's business (my previous and future employer) JM Heaford Limited won their second Queen's Award for Export Achievement after they'd sold a machine to the Hayel Saeed Anam Group (HSA Group) of Yemen in 1993 and my brother Paul had installed it in 1994. That was the same year as Yemen's civil war, when the USA was allied with north Yemen who were supported by former Arab-Afghan Mujahideen, also known as Al Qaeda. My brother Paul was living in America and working directly for David Dean in the 1990s. HSA Group’s Yemen headquarters was in Taiz city, next to a Republican Guard palace and seventeen miles south of Al Qaidah town (google maps), on the north/south 1994 civil war frontline. JMH Ltd won their first Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in 1987, after selling printing machinery to El Salvador’s government mint, a sale where the customer drove my father slowly past the corpse of a recently executed ‘rebel’ (blood still seeping from a head wound my father told me in 1986) lying on the pavement in the capitol San Salvador. Whatever my father was doing in the Americas and Middle East, it was clearly endorsed by the British Crown.

14 April 1997, Chicago: As part of a multi-visit business trip to America I helped setup and staff JMH Ltd's sales stand in Chicago's McCormick Place for the Converting Machinery Manufacturer's exhibition. My father was there, his last business trip before retiring, along with his old friend Jerry Stephens (a British military veteran of counter piracy operations in the Philippines and JMH Ltd's electronic specialist), US sales agent David Dean, myself and my other brother Nigel Heaford (but not Paul, despite him living and working in America). With travel and hotels it was an expensive affair that my father was concerned about making his money back from, but those concerns were overcome on the first morning of the exhibition with an extraordinary machine sale. Three south Asian executives of a London front company called Longulf Trading (owned by the afore mentioned Hayel Saeed Anam Group) visited our sales stand and within twenty minutes had signed a contract for a top-of-the-range machine at list price, about $100,000. The Longulf executives made quite an impression in Chicago, purchasing an entire printing factory's worth of machinery (about $3-million worth) in one morning at the exhibition, all for an ill-defined end customer in Yemen whose name they made up and address they refused to give. And despite HSA purchasing one of our machines in 1993, in 1997 they used the Longulf front company to present themselves as new customers. And to add even more intrigue, they arranged payment through the British Cayman Islands tax haven. That was most likely via Atlantic Investments, a financial shell company setup by the illegal arms trade / money laundering linked St. Clare-Morgan family of Jersey, and of which three Hayel Saeed Anam Group family members became directors of in March 1997. As the Longulf Trading executive left our stand Jerry Stephens said, “There’s something very suspicious about them”. Nigel replied, “Don’t ask any questions, they just paid list price for our top machine”.

David Dean and my father were away from the stand during the Longulf executives visit but I now believe Dean had set up this sale but did not want to be associated with it, even declining his sales agency commission of several thousand dollars. I think my father was aware of the significance of the sale if not the full context. We drank in Dave Dean's Sky Box that night, a private bar in a warehouse inside the cargo handling area of O'Hare International airport. There were two celebration dinners at the exclusive Morton's Steak House that week and final drinks in Dean's Sky Box at the end of the week. A man called 'Baron' was there for that last celebration; the only thing I remember about him was I wasn't allowed near as he, Dean and my father huddled at the far end of the bar. If there is a link from Dean to Billy Waugh via their Vietnam service, I suspect 'Baron' might have been MACV SOG's Bob Bechtoldt.

11 June 1997, Logan airport, Boston: From arriving in a taxi to taking my seat on a flight from Boston to Toronto on 11 June I'd not undergone a single security check, not one. I told the steward at the aircraft door that my carry-on bags had not been checked; she told me not to worry because that was normal. As the nearly empty mid-week flight accended I looked at the unsecured cockpit door and wondered what weapons people might have in their luggage and speculated on how easy it'd be for hijackers to crash an aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York. That was my 9/11 prediction, made on a flight from Boston's Logan airport.

12 June 1997, Sunworthy wallpaper printers, Toronto was where I first relayed my 9/11 warning. As a frequent flying business traveller I was scared of passing a plane hijack warning on over the phone so waited until I arrived at my customer's factory in Toronto on 12 June. My fear was so urgent I refused to start work until my warning had been passed on, something the factory manager Bob Wilton said he had done - passing it with my details to a security service contact he knew. Bob Wilton has died and Sunworthy has closed down but two machine operators there did hear my warning and conversation with Mr Wilton. I played golf with JMH Ltd's Canadian sales agent Dave Horsman that week, who I now guess Mr Wilton had called about me refusing to start work, but I don't recall discussing my warning with Dave Horsman.

Mid September 1997, Manchester: My parents (both principle directors of JMH Ltd) came out of retirement to arrange my visit to Yemen at short notice (a week) after another technician refused to go based on the government’s travel advice – don’t go! They telephoned and asked me to visit them at home where they asked if I’d be okay togo. I had no objections but my mother made my father get a guarantee for my safety in Yemen. By the time I’d returned from the shops with sandwiches for us all, my father was finishing a phone call about my safety in Yemen and laughed as he told me my safety was absolutely guaranteed. When I was back in JMH Ltd’s factory the senior service technician David Hughes asked to show me something on the shop floor. He showed me a couple of machine features I was already familiar with, chatting away but not really making any sense; in retrospect I think he was sounding me out about my upcoming visit to Yemen via general conversation. Hughes was a close associate of Dean and knew him and far more about Dean’s military service than I did. I now think Hughes was a Deep State operator (using his extensive travels with JMH Ltd as his cover) sounding me out on Dean’s behalf before my visit to KSM’s front company in Yemen. The factory manager Tony Preece gave me the scant customer details before my visit. He said the machine delivery address was Sanaa airport but the customer’s factory was in Taiz.

20-26 September 1997, Yemen: Despite not having the customer address or even their correct company name when I arrived in Sanaa, I found the factory inside a hilltop compound on the outskirts of Taiz city very easily. The first person my taxi driver stopped to ask in Taiz gave us directions to what he called The Foreigner’s compound, which was the Hayel Saeed Anam Group headquarters at PO Box 5302 Taiz (google maps). It was staffed and guarded almost exclusively by Pakistanis; I got to work installing our machine after briefly being introduced to the Chief, managing director Saeed Alrobaidi. During operator training two Pakistanis asked me about visiting New York as tourists and I repeated the travel warning I’d given in Toronto a few months earlier: “I think the 1993 World Trade Center bombers will try again, next time using a hijacked plane as a missile”. We discussed weapons (I showed them my box-cutters that I’d accidentally carried on flights in the USA), Logan airport’s lack of security, proximity to the WTC and the ease of pilot training. And my advice too – don’t visit the WTC and resist any hijacking attempts. The operators later told me the (front) company’s correct name was YemPak, short for Yemen / Pakistan collaboration and they and the guards all attended lessons at the impressive onsite mosque. The HSA Group’s headquarters compound managing director Saeed Alrobaidi confirmed my warning with me before arranging three meetings, and giving me a security contact in Taiz - all identified below. I was vetted over dinner at my hotel by Yousef and then Mr Alrobaidi introduced me to and photographed me with the Engineer’the next morning, inside the HSA headquarters main office. Alrobaidi’s general manager Mohamed then took me to the unscheduled meeting one mile from Al Qaidah town (google maps), at a secluded collection of buildings in the entrance to a beautiful enclosed valley. HSA’s general manager Mohamed A. Salem was the US State Department’s contact for the supply of industrial quantities of component TNT chemicals in August 1996. I suspect Mohamed who took me to the meeting by Al Qaidah on 26 September 1997 was Mohamed A. Salem. When I expressed concern about missing my return flight in 1997, Mohamed told me “the plane will wait for you”. When I arrived at Sanaa airport over an hour late I was whisked through the airport like a VIP and on to the waiting aircraft. I’ve detailed my six day business trip to Yemen in full in my report “How, Where & When the 9/11 Plot Began”.

HSA Group headquarters

Proximity to Al Qaidah

27 September 1997, Manchester: Perturbed by the detour near Al Qaidah town and my conversations in Yemen, I raised my first concerns with the first person I saw – my works manager Tony Preece on 27 September. As I handed in my paperwork I told him there was something very suspicious about the customer but he told me not to worry as they’d already paid in full. I tried to stress how strange my visit had been, saying a pre-arranged service visit to the existing JMH Ltd’s machine at a nearby industrial estate had been cancelled, but Mr Preece was very dismissive, again saying it didn’t matter because they’d already paid, then telling me to enjoy the holidays I’d delayed to go to Yemen, as he shooed me out of his office.
Concurrent event in Germany: Future 9/11 kamikaze pilot Ziad Jarrah abruptly switched studies from dentistry in north Germany to aircraft engineering in Hamburg in September 1997 (2004 9/11 Commission report, page 163), marking the moment the Hamburg Cell began to coalesced. Confirming the exact date of Jarrah's course change request may show a correlation to my conversations between 22 & 26 September in Yemen.

1997, Family Business Politics: When my father was retiring he passed the managing director role to his accountant brother Mike Heaford. My two longer serving brothers didn’t object and Mike took me out for a couple of beers so neither did I. Mike seemed interested, asking me what improvements I’d make; I made suggestions to improve the shop-floor layout, all of which he later implemented and took credit for. Mike’s primary goal on joining JMH Ltd in summer 1997 appeared to be removing the three sons – me, Paul and Nigel. He also stopped speaking to my father causing a major management dispute. Nigel endured it all but Mike made life untenable for Paul in America, who held out for a couple of years before resigning. I only lasted a few months: when I returned from my holidays in October Mike told me my international service technician job was no longer available. He said I’d be retrained as salesman in Britain, then made me redundant in April 1998 when I refused the salesman role. My father employed my eldest sister Sally in 2002 in an attempt to wrestle back control of the company but Sally soon sided with Mike, aggrevating my father even more.

26 October - 2 November 1997, Jakarta: Given Mike Heaford was telling me I was no longer an international field servie technican, it was very odd when I was then asked to install a machine oversea in another technician's territory - David Hughes's. It was in Jakarta and with a very high level agency contact there too, at the Japanese owned DIC Corporation. I wasn’t told by anyone at JMH Ltd, but the only explanation can be I was asked for by name. I don’t remember anything significant about the machine installation but my hotel was deluxe and when the DIC executives took me to dinner it was in a private room with a private chef. I was being wined and dined by some of the most powerful men in Asia, but couldn’t for the life of me understand why. Decades later I worked it out – the HSA Group had arranged it for me – they’re a multi-billion dollar conglomerate with huge investments in Malaysia and Indonesia, so they would have those contacts and that clout - why? First, it was nothing to do with my 9/11 warning, but when I was in the HSA Group headquarters I had said I’d prefer to work in Asia than America but that it was someone else’s territory. I think the HSA directors were trying to set me up with my dream job; that’s questionable analysis on just one instance, but there was another similar visit in February 1998 to Manila, again asked for by name by the very influential sales representative there, Spicer International. And two visits to Dubai, in December and March. What was the outcome of the Jakarta meeting? Confusion mostly; I’m not commercially minded or salesman-confident so was out of my depth. I guess they thought “Who’s this idiot they’ve recommended?”. I’m great with a spanner, but not so good at negotiating – it was a fabulous opportunity that I stupidly missed out on.

My diary, photos and customer database entries covering Jakarta

1-3 December 1997, New York: In another inexplicable twist, while Mike was determined to keep sending me up and down Britain's motorways to cold sell printer’s sticky-tape, I was also asked to spend a week in America installing two machine. One was in Brooklyn and during training the two operators asked if I’d be visiting the WTC on my day off, and I declared, “No! They’re going to try to bomb them again and likely with a hijacked 767 airliner”. They knew I was referring to the 1993 WTC bombing and I added details of my experience at Logan airport in June. I told them I needed to speak to someone in authority and they suggested the business partner – I said great, grateful someone was listening. The partner was Dan Barkochba who came to see us, listened to my warning, but with this added detail – that I’d given the same warning in Yemen a few months before and I really wanted to speak to someone about that. Dan Barkochba told me he did have some very good security service contacts and he’d pass my warning and business card on to them. I thanked him, expecting to be contacted but I never was. I did visit Manhattan on my day off and photographed the WTC from the Empire State building.

My 1-7 December work diary

What’s interesting about my visit to Brooklyn is Barkochba is Aramaic language meaning Son-of-a-Star; it’s a Messianic name used by the leader of the Barkochba Revolt in Roman occupied Judea. There were bloody massacres by both side, but the result was clear - Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina in 136AD and Jews were banished from Jerusalem. The next curiosity was the company name - I was told Ultra Creative in 1997 but learned since it was Ultra Flex Packaging Corporation; a small level of subterfuge maybe? And perhaps most significant, I didn't see a printing machine in their factory. They can be tens of meters long, as tall as a house and quite loud running. If they didn't have a printing machine they’d have no use for our machine. Is it possible my visit to a packaging (freight) was a setup by David Dean? Was he watching to see if I'd case the WTC for KSM? I guess passing my warning to Barkochba was my saving grace, showing them I wasn't an enemy of the United States and was not in anyway complicit. As well as a Messianic Aramaic last name, Barkochba is also an Israeli-American and I suspect was in league with Dean and very likely a Mossad asset in New York too. CONTEXT: After I made these allegations of Dean's CIA and Al Qaeda in Yemen links and naming Dan Barkochba in December 2019, Dean committed suicide (youtube) in a painful and very public way on 8 january 2020 - by drowning in Lake Hartwell. I hope that was his redemption, by validating my claims with his life.

December 1997, Dubai: Business trip

February 1998, Manila: Business trip

March 1998, Dubai: Business trip

March 1998, London: Business meeting

April 1998, Manchester: Made redundant by JMH Ltd.

November 1998, Manchester: Made UK / International field service techncian for Eltromat UK Ltd.

11 September 2001, England: Horrified.

January 2009, First Report to SO15: A few days before swearing an oath to join the British army, I called counter terrorism police and reported my vague concerns about my meetings and conversations in 1997 Yemen. When I mention KSM's front company name - YemPak - the line clicked and a different voice said "Carry on". I described my experiences and conversation; they asked no questions and never contacted me back.

February 2015, First Report to Media: Private Eye Magazine, an email with my general suspisions about my meetings and conversations in 1997 Yemen.

March / April 2015, Multiple Reports to SO15:

3 May 2015, Discovery: I find the photo contact sheet of my 1997 Yemen visit and immediately recognize the man introduced to me as the Engineer as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

4 May 2015, Dossier Sent to SO15 & MSM:

25 March 2017, Meeting With Sir Graham Brady: I submit a dossier to my MP Sir Graham Brady about my 9/11 conversations and meetings in 1997 Yemen. Brady forwards it to the US embassy London, parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee and the Secret Intelligence Service .

1 November 2017, Discovery: I find my 1997 Yemen unscheduled meeting location on google maps; it's one mile from Al Qaidah Town.

9 March 2018, US 9/11 Military Commission Emails Me: On instruction of the Guantanamo court, Pentagon based attorneys contact me expressing great interest in my reports and propose sending a team of investigators to Manchester to interview me. I am assigned a liason - a civilian contractor whose employer is owned by General Dynamics whose £400-million procurement corruption I'd reported on in 2016/17. I decline the invertation to interview because 1. SO15 refused to talk to me about 9/11 investigators interviewing me in Manchester, saying "it wasn't their problem" before hanging up. 2. My Pentagon liason refused to discuss my witness status 3. They were defense attornys working for KSM's nephew Ammar al-Baluchi; my evidence is for the prosecution.

May 2018, Discovery: After seeing his photo in Guantanamo detainee release news reports I recognise the Arab mechanic I met in 1997 Yemen - Dino - as Al Qaeda's Saudi mechanic in Yemen, Ahmed al-Darbi

14 December 2019, Discovery: After reading a detailed report on US special forces parachute training in 1970/71 Vietnam, I'm able to link Dave Dean to CIA contractor Billy Waugh via the 101st Airborne and the top secret SOG. Identifying but not naming Dean, reporting it first with a tweet on 4 December 2019. I think my 6 January 2020 tweet about Dean and Waugh triggered Dean's suicide two days later.

24 December 2019, Covid?: I begin to suffer a very congestive flu.. I self medicated with a menthol chrystal steam baths to clear airways and natural remedies of lemons, honey, ginger, garlic, good nutrition, etc

8 January 2020, Dean Commits Suicide: Dave took his own life by drowning in Lake Hartwell Georgia, a painful death guarentteed to make the news. I beleive Dean was confirming my claims in a last selfless act, his redemption.

thequietmancunian.com Visitor Spikes Coinciding with World Events in Berlin

17-20 January 2020, Berlin Emergency World Leaders Summit: Billed as the long delayed summit on Libya's instability the summit photo below shows it was a fractious affair. Most people know that the substance of any such meeting would’ve been decided in the days before by the world leader’s negotiating teams. Therefore the spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin in the days before the Sunday 20th summit is indicative of the subject matter they were discussing – likely my December 2019 revelation about JM Heaford Limited’s CIA links through their US sales agent David Dean, who committed suicide on 8 January after I accused him of setting up Al Qaeda front companies in 1990s Yemen.
May 2020, Berlin / G7: President Trump cancelled the G7 world leaders meeting after a leak from Berlin about attendance; in the two days before that leak there was a spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin.
August 2020, Berlin Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers: As with the January world leaders and the May G7 leak in Berlin, the EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Berlin was preceded by a spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin.

May 2020, Discovery: After seeing KSM's nephew Amar al-Baluchi's wikipedia entry I saw the PO Box 16958 Jebel Ali Free Zone address in Dubai he used when transfering funds to the 9/11 hijackers was very close to my customers address PO Box 16797 JAFZ Dubai that I visited twice, in December 1997 and March 1998.

10 July 2020, Discovery: Via wikileaks Guantanamo detainee file releases I realized my Taiz security contact (tweet) Shawqi Alariki was Abdu Ali Sharqawi, Al Qaeda's facilitator in Taiz and a twenty year Guantanamo Detainee.

23 February 2024, Discovery: Via wikileaks Guantanamo detainee file releases I realise the finance manager I met in March 1998 Dubai - Iyer - was 9/11's finance manager in Dubai, Zahir - my tweet about it.

6 March 2024, Discovery: I learn of David Dean's January 2020 suicide by drowning in Lake Hartwell while researching Dean's Vietnam service.

Work-in-Progress