The "Stand Down" of the Air Force on 9/11

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the 9/11 Stand Down

9/11 Timelines: the key to understanding why=20 the Trillion Dollar Air Force did not defend its=20 headquarters

"The power to see to it that regular government = operations=20 don't occur is one of the greatest controls over power you can = wield in=20 a government."
-- Colonel Fletcher Prouty, Pentagon liaison = to=20 CIA
interview with Joseph Spieler, (archived on the = CD-ROM=20 available from prouty.org)

General Anatoly=20 Kornukov
Commander in Chief of the Russian = Air=20 Force
"Generally it is impossible to carry out an = act of=20 terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday=85 As = soon as=20 something like that happens here, I am reported about that right = away=20 and in a minute we are all up."

Why there was NOT a "stand down"=20 order:
explaining the "failure" of the Trillion Dollar = Air Force=20 to defend its headquarters

One of the first anomalies that many people noticed immediately = after=20 9/11 was the inexplicable non-reaction of the military air defense = system=20 to the hijackings.

It has been standard operating procedures for decades to = immediately=20 intercept off course planes that do not respond to communications = from air=20 traffic controllers. When the Air Force "scrambles" a fighter = plane to=20 intercept, they usually reach the plane in question in minutes. = The Air=20 Force plane will then fly next to the non-responsive plane, and = rock their=20 wings -- a way to say "follow me" to a nearby airport (if the = plane merely=20 has lost its radio equipment). If the intercepted plane refuses to = respond, there is a graduated series of actions the Air Force can = use --=20 firing tracer bullets in front of the plane, even shooting it down = if it=20 is a threat. This is analogous to police pulling motorists over = for having=20 their lights out - every driver in the US knows that when a police = car=20 behind them turns on their siren, they are supposed to pull over, = just=20 like every pilot knows that when an Air Force fighter plane pulls = beside=20 them, they are supposed to follow their orders, too. If the light = bulb has=20 merely burned out, the motorist will get a warning, but the police = have a=20 graduated series of responses they can employ if the driver is not = merely=20 having a mechanical problem (ie. they have just robbed a bank and = are=20 driving with the lights off to avoid being seen).

The airspace over the northeastern US is among the busiest on = the=20 planet. It is home to the nation's political, military and = financial=20 headquarters, the largest population concentrations, and key = strategic=20 facilities. A jumbo jet in this area suddenly changing direction = and=20 altitude, and refusing to respond to air traffic controllers would = be as=20 dangerous as a truck on a busy rush-hour freeway driving the wrong = way at=20 full speed. When planes go off course in this busy environment, = instant=20 reactions make the difference between life and death -- which is = why NORAD=20 (North American Air Defense) practices these kinds of scenarios, = and=20 instantly scrambles fighters when there is any hint of a problem. =

For critics of the official story of 9/11, the smokiest of the = smoking=20 guns is the "failure" of NORAD to intercept the planes. Even if = one=20 ignores the abundant evidence that allied intelligence services in = other=20 countries provided warnings that the attacks were about to happen, = the=20 information from the "insider trading " just before 9/11 that = indicated=20 which airline companies would be used, and other clues that = clearly show=20 complete official foreknowledge -- there is still enormous = evidence that=20 does not fit the official paradigm of "incompetence responding to = a=20 surprise attack."

The "timeline" of 9/11 was the first, and most important = indicator of a=20 massive discrepancy with the official story. NORAD's fighter = interceptors=20 can travel at supersonic speed, yet even the most basic = calculations=20 suggested that they had to fly far below even normal subsonic = flight=20 speeds to avoid reaching their destination (New York and = Washington) in=20 time. (See the "timeline" information lower on this webpage). = Apologists=20 for the Bush regime state that since they were not expecting the = 9/11=20 scenario, and thought that the hijacking would be a "traditional" = type=20 hijack, but this avoids the question of why the off-course planes = were not=20 intercepted (a procedure that does not require Presidential = authorization,=20 unlike the order to shoot down the plane).

Even if one is willing to grant exceptional deference to the = Bush /=20 Cheney administration, and pretend that they had no idea 9/11 was = about to=20 happen, there is no excuse for this ignorance at 9:03 am, when the = second=20 (South) tower was hit. At that point, the entire military's air = defense=20 system had no doubt that the hijackings were intentional, multiple = attacks, and that additional hijacked planes would be used as = weapons.=20 This is the time when "President" Bush was content to continue to = read to=20 second graders, instead of assuming his duties as = Commander-in-Chief.

When the second tower was struck, Flight 77 was near the Ohio - = West=20 Virginia border. Around this time, that plane made an unscheduled = 180=20 degree turn, and stopped communicating with air traffic control -- = a big=20 clue that this was also one of the hijacked planes. Nevertheless, = no=20 serious efforts were made to intercept this plane between 9:03 am = and 9:38=20 am, when it hit the west side of the Pentagon. Planes were = scrambled from=20 an air base in the Norfolk, Virginia area during this time, but=20 inexplicably were sent east over the ocean, instead of northwest = toward=20 the Washington area. (The weather that morning was perfectly = clear, and=20 there is no innocent explanation for why these interceptor planes = were=20 sent over the water, away from DC, instead of toward the National = Capitol=20 Area.)

Ultimately, Flight 93 was shot down around 10:06 am near = Shanksville,=20 Pennsylvania, although this was kept concealed from the public. = It's=20 probable that most citizens would have accepted the "need" to keep = this=20 plane from reaching the DC area (assuming that is where it was = headed), a=20 loss of life that would have ensured that a worse disaster was = prevented.=20 However, acknowledging this action might inspire further questions = about=20 9/11 -- such as why the plane that hit the Pentagon also was not = shot=20 down, especially since most of the time it was hijacked it was = flying over=20 sparsely populated forest in West Virginia and western Virginia. = There are=20 a variety of theories why Flight 93 was = probably=20 shot down, but perhaps a key issue is the fact the plane left = Newark (NJ)=20 airport almost an hour late, and therefore it had to be stopped = since=20 enough havoc had already been created, and an additional attack, = another=20 half-hour after the Pentagon crash, would have been even harder to = explain=20 as "incompetence." It is possible, too, that the "heroic = passengers" story=20 was always part of the script, but that is, of course, = speculation.

In the three years since 9/11, many writers have suggested that = the Air=20 Force was on "stand down orders" that morning, directed not to = "scramble"=20 planes and let the events happen. More recent analysis suggests a=20 different explanation that explains why it appeared there was a = stand=20 down.

If 9/11 was indeed an "inside job," either allowed to happen, = run by=20 the Bush cabal, or some scenario in-between, relying on "stand = down"=20 orders would be incredibly risky for the perpetrators. September = Eleven=20 initiated a series of events that have transformed the world, with = many=20 trillions of dollars being shifted in response. Would Dick Cheney = and his=20 cohorts really assume that the Air Force fighter jocks would obey = orders=20 not to intercept planes, even after the World Trade Center towers = had been=20 hit? If any of these pilots had the keys to their planes, they = might=20 decide to ignore orders and fly their planes and seek to protect = the=20 capitol from further havoc.

An analogy that clarifies this logic:

Imagine if a Chief of a City's fire department was seeking to = profit=20 from the burning of a building (perhaps by being part of an = insurance=20 scam). Would a logical way to ensure the success of the arson be = to=20 order the rest of the firefighters not to respond to the = distress calls=20 that would come into the fire station? How would the Fire Chief=20 guarantee that the fire fighters would obey the "stand down" = orders,=20 especially since they are trained to automatically respond, and = would be=20 especially attentive to the screams for help from people trapped = in the=20 building.

If the Fire Chief sent in a series of false alarms at the = exact same=20 moment that the building was set on fire, it would be more = difficult for=20 the fire crews to determine which building was really on fire. = And if=20 the City also conducted a "Fire Drill" to evacuate the City's = main=20 center for controlling surveillance cameras around the city = (that could=20 locate the smoke and determine where the fire is), it would be = even more=20 difficult for the honest City employees to be able to respond=20 appropriately.

On 9/11, the multiple "war games" = scheduled at=20 the same time as the attacks resulted in numerous false alarms = that=20 temporarily confused the air defense system, making it more = difficult to=20 respond effectively. One of these "war games" was essentially a = "fire=20 drill" type exercise at the National Reconnaissance = Office=20 headquarters near Dulles Airport, Virginia, which simulated the = emergency=20 response procedures needed if a plane hit their compound while on = the=20 landing approach at Dulles. (This exercise ensured the evacuation = of most=20 of the people in the NRO at the same time that 9/11 began -- which = probably made it more difficult for them to use the spy satellites = to=20 track the hijackings.)

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/
The = Complete=20 Timeline of 9/11

http://cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=3Dessaya= irdefense
The=20 Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11 by Paul Thompson

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/HowTheyGetAwayWi= thIt.html

How They Get Away With It
by Michael Green
Version 1.2: = June 28,=20 2006
Originally published: June 18, 2006

after the SECOND tower was hit (9:03 = am), the=20 plane that took off from Dulles Airport (near Washington) was at = the Ohio=20 / West Virginia border -- plenty of time to scramble an = interceptor from=20 Andrews AFB to protect the Nation's Capitol. Simple incompetence = cannot=20 explain this "failure"

Thursday, July 01, 2004
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/07/fema-in-big-apple.ht= ml

The number of unexplained and officially unacknowledged = 'training=20 exercises' in and around all aspects of 9-11 are starting to = pile up. If=20 you anticipated that two huge buildings in New York City were to = be=20 knocked down on September 11, it would be prudent to have a = presence in=20 New York City on September 10. The best way to cover up such an=20 unexplained presence is by calling it a training = exercise. It is=20 quite likely that the NORAD standdown was accomplished in the = same way,=20 with both the air traffic controllers and the local NORAD = commanders=20 under the assumption that anomalies in flight routes and = behavior of the=20 9-11 attack planes were part of a training exercise, and thus = were=20 ignored until it was too=20 late.

www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/911jun2002.html

I sat here in DC and listened to warnings that the plane was coming = here,=20 saw the buildings being evacuated, including the Pentagon, and then = watched=20 Flight 77 enter the most restricted air space in the world 40 minutes = after=20 Tower Two was hit, and fly unchallenged by intercept jet or = surface-to-air=20 missile, into the heart of our so-called Defense Department, which = apparently=20 cannot even defend itself. ....

... despite a "shoot down" order given by Bush and Cheney, nothing = was done=20 to intercept the plane headed for DC for forty minutes but to evacuate = the=20 Capitol, White House and Pentagon, much less to shoot it down on = arrival into=20 the most restricted air space in the country.

www.davidcogswell.com/Letters/Clues-Judge.html

June 22, 2004
Clues Poking Through
From John Judge
This = article=20 in today's Washington=20 Post reveals some things I have been talking about for some time = in=20 relation to the air defenses on 9/11/2001. In addition to the = NORAD/FAA=20 defenses, there is a special air defense perimiter around Washington, = DC and=20 the Capitol and White House. The area is called P-56, and while the = center is=20 a small space inside DC, it is clear from the article that the DC Air = Defense=20 Identification Zone extends to 50 miles outside DC to the west, and = presumably=20 at least as far in each direction. Unidentified craft entering this = space set=20 off alarms with what used to be called the National Capital Region=20 Coordination Center (now?) located in Herndon, Virginia, which uses=20 Internet-based air control display to identify potentially hostile = targets.=20 The FAA failed to communicate with them about a plane they had cleared = for=20 landing at Reagan airport which had a faulty transponder, which was = carrying=20 the Governor of Kentucky. The incident set off alarms at the (former) = NCRCC=20 (which now includes Secret Service, Pentagon, Customs and = Immigration), and=20 with National Capitol Police, and initiated a massive evacuation = during the=20 Reagan funeral proceedings. Note that the interception was handled by = a=20 Blackhawk helicopter from Customs and a Cessna plane. Having seen=20 interceptions in the air space here during my life, I have often seen=20 helicopters and jets respond to the incoming craft approaching the = restricted=20 air space over DC. During an incident, years earlier, when a small = plane=20 crashed on the White House lawn, radar surveillance was being handled = from=20 National Airport. I am not sure if they are a separate operation from = or=20 replaced by the Herndon Center. The most significant thing to me is = that this=20 NCRCC with its one-minute response time was not ever mentioned during = the two=20 public hearings of the 9/11 Commission on the FAA/NORAD response to = 9/11. What=20 disabled them that day? And what of the Pentagon itself, which has its = own=20 defensive surveillance radar? Layer after layer of possible responses = and=20 standard operating procedures to air emergencies and threats had to be = simultaneously inoperable for the already anticipated attack plane to = get to=20 its target without any interference. -- John Judge

On a newsgroup a former Pentagon Air Force Traffic controller writes: =
"All those years ago when I was in the Pentagon, this wouldn't have=20 happened. ATC Radar images were (and are) available in the = understructures of=20 the Pentagon, and any commercial flight within 300 miles of DC that made = an=20 abrupt course change toward Washington, turned off their transponder, = and=20 refused to communicate with ATC, would have been intercepted at = supersonic=20 speeds within a max of 9 minutes by a Fighter out of Andrews. Period. = Why these=20 planes weren't, baffles me. If we could get fighters off the ground in 2 = minutes=20 then, we could now."
http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_military_faq.html

www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/FiddlingWhile.html
July=20 1, 2003
Fiddling Around While New York Burns
The Memory Hole www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.mov has made = available a=20 copy of the video taken of Bush on September 11 the moment he was = allegedly=20 informed of the second crash at the World Trade Center. It is an eery, = strange=20 thing to see. It's reminiscent of the Zapruder film, a grainy, unclear, = wobbly=20 image of a unique, horrific moment, the moment the "president of the = United=20 States" is informed that the country is under attack. And he just sits = there,=20 like a bag. Inert. It's soooo weird! It's hard to see his facial = expressions=20 clearly, to try to ascertain what is going on in his head. What was he = thinking=20 while he is sitting there? What can he be thinking? He's the president = of the=20 United States. Why doesn't he act? Why doesn't he do something? How can = he just=20 sit there? He's the one person who has the power to do something and of = all the=20 people in the whole country who knew what was happening, he was probably = the=20 most inert. This is something you have to see just for its colossal = bizarreness.=20

Retired career Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff =

www.narconews.com/goff1.html=
"Four=20 planes get hijacked and deviate from their flight plans, all the while = on FAA=20 radar. The planes are all hijacked between 7:45 and 8:10 AM Eastern = Daylight=20 Time.
Who is notified?
This is an event already that is = unprecedented.=20 But the President is not notified and going to a Florida elementary = school to=20 hear children read.
By around 8:15 AM, it should be very apparent = that=20 something is terribly wrong. The President is glad-handing = teachers.
By=20 8:45, when American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the World Trade = Center,=20 Bush is settling in with children for his photo ops at Booker = Elementary. Four=20 planes have obviously been hijacked simultaneously, an event never = before seen=20 in history, and one has just dived into the worlds best know twin = towers, and=20 still no one notifies the nominal Commander in Chief.
No one has = apparently=20 scrambled any Air Force interceptors either.
At 9:03, United Flight = 175=20 crashes into the remaining World Trade Center building. At 9:05, = Andrew Card,=20 the Presidential Chief of Staff whispers to George W. Bush. Bush = "briefly=20 turns somber" according to reporters.
Does he cancel the school = visit and=20 convene an emergency meeting? No.
He resumes listening to second = graders=20 read about a little girl's pet fucking goat, and continues this = banality even=20 as American Airlines Flight 77 conducts an unscheduled point turn over = Ohio=20 and heads in the direction of Washington DC.
Has he instructed = Chief of=20 Staff Card to scramble the Air Force? No.
An excruciating 25 = minutes later,=20 he finally deigns to give a public statement telling the United States = what=20 they already have figured out; that there's been an attack by hijacked = planes=20 on the World Trade Center.
There's a hijacked plane bee-lining to=20 Washington, but has the Air Force been scrambled to defend anything = yet?=20 No.
At 9:30, when he makes his announcement, American Flight 77 is = still=20 ten minutes from its target, the Pentagon.
The Administration will = later=20 claim they had no way of knowing that the Pentagon might be a target, = and that=20 they thought Flight 77 was headed to the White House, but the fact is = that the=20 plane has already flown South and past the White House no-fly zone, = and is in=20 fact tearing through the sky at over 400 nauts.
At 9:35, this plane = conducts another turn, 360 degrees over the Pentagon, all the while = being=20 tracked by radar, and the Pentagon is not evacuated, and there are = still no=20 fast-movers from the Air Force in the sky over Alexandria and = DC.
Now, the=20 real kicker: A pilot they want us to believe was trained at a Florida=20 puddle-jumper school for Piper Cubs and Cessnas, conducts a = well-controlled=20 downward spiral, descending the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half = minutes,=20 brings the plane in so low and flat that it clips the electrical wires = across=20 the street from the Pentagon, and flies it with pinpoint accuracy into = the=20 side of this building at 460 nauts.
When the theory about learning = to fly=20 this well at the puddle-jumper school began to lose ground, it was = added that=20 they received further training on a flight simulator.
This is like = saying=20 you prepared your teenager for her first drive on I-40 at rush hour by = buying=20 her a video driving game. It's horse shit!

Cheryl's Daily Diatribe: Monday, June 10, 2002 -- SMOKING GUN=20 feedback:
Where Was G.W. Bush on the Morning of Sept. 11?
www.unknownnews.net/cd= d061002.html

To get caught up into the "he said she said" (what Dan = Rather=20 said Myers said Bush said etc.) is to get involved in chasing your = tail -- and=20 everyone else's! History tells us that in a crisis like this, the = scramble to=20 cover butts, even when there HASN'T been a conspiracy involved, = ususally=20 results in contradictory, every-changing stories. This is true from = sorting=20 out who broke the cookie jar in the kitchen to who was caught with = their hand=20 in the till at Enron...everyone will scramble to hit on a story that = plays=20 well. So, to avoid this quagmire, the best approach is to go with the = most=20 concrete evidence and know facts.. Known fact: NORAD called by the FAA = because=20 it is the established protocol in such a case (and, as one of my = readers=20 suggested, NORAD would probably have known of the planes even before = then,=20 based on their radar data). In keeping with protocol, NORAD would have = required a response from Bush. Now just applying common sense (another = unglamorous habit of mine), here's what you get:
1. If this was = indeed a=20 conspiracy involving those in high places, then the details of NORAD's = response, which would become a matter of public record, now or in the = future,=20 would have been accounted for in advance by the conspirators.
2. = When the=20 stakes are as high as the ones involved on 9/11, a conspirator would = take NO=20 CHANCES on doing anything that might seem to implicate themselves. By = NOT=20 CALLING ANY PLANES, Bush et al would be implicating themselves big = time.=20 However, by delaying the call for a scramble and not calling for = evacuations,=20 they would easily be able to plead later their decisions were based on = not=20 having any idea the danger was of the scope it proved to be. This is, = in fact,=20 what the Bush folks have tried to do. If NO PLANES had been called in = at all,=20 there are too many "peripheral" people in the chain of communications, = from=20 the FAA to NORAD to Bush that would have been outraged and spoken out. = A=20 delayed call on the other hand would have been initially seen as = "tragic bad=20 luck" and later as too ambiguous to base an accusation = on.

"Yet as America was suffering its worst assault in history, the = president of=20 the United States remained largely in the dark, knowing far less than = the=20 average couch potato watching Diane Sawyer.
At the time, George W. = Bush was=20 sitting on a stool in Sarasota, Florida, listening to a small class of = second=20 graders read him a story about a girl's pet goat. It was the day's = routine=20 photo-op, prepackaged propaganda for the press designed to demonstrate = his=20 concern for education. Just before entering the class, Condoleeza Rice, = the=20 national security advisor, informed the president of the devastating jet = plane=20 crash into Tower One. Nevertheless, Bush decided to stay on message and = go=20 forward with the publicity event. Florida, after all, had been the most = crucial=20 battleground of the last election, and could = be in the=20 next.
About 9:06, four minutes after the attack on Tower Two, White = House=20 Chief of Staff Andy Card leaned over and whispered the brief message in = the=20 president's right ear. "A second plane has hit the World Trade Center," = he said.=20 "America is under attack." Almost immediately an expression of = befuddlement=20 passed across the president's face.
Then, having just been told that = the=20 country was under attack, the commander in chief appeared uninterested = in=20 further details. He never asked if there had been any additional = threats, where=20 the attacks were coming from, how to best protect the country from = further=20 attacks, or what was the current status of NORAD or the Federal = Emergency=20 Management Agency. Nor did he call for an immediate return to = Washington.=20 Instead, in the middle of a modern-day Pearl Harbor, he simply turned = back to=20 the matter at hand: the day's photo op. Precious minutes were ticking = by, and=20 many more lives were still at risk. "Really good readers, whew!" he told = the=20 class as the electronic flashes once again began to blink and the video = cameras=20 rolled. "These must be sixth graders!"
-- from "Body of = Secrets:=20 Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency," by James Bamford, = (2002=20 edition), p 632-3

www.emperors-c= lothes.com/indict/urgent.htm=20 military "stand down" on 9/11

one of the first sites on the internet to point out the discrepancies = of the=20 9/11 timelines
(marred by some unusual political perspectives)

Ignorad

http://slate.msn.com/?id=3D20= 60825 =20
US military did not defend the Pentagon on 9/11

This article, published on MS NBC's website, was probably the first=20 mainstream news deconstruction of the "9/11 timeline," pointing out = flaws in the=20 official story. The author died in a scuba diving accident a few months = after=20 writing this important analysis - hopefully, that is merely a = coincidence.

Military publication covers up with = bogus=20 "timeline"

Aviation Week & Space Technology:
June 3, 2002 Exercise = Jump-Starts Response to Attacks
www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_stor.= htm=20

The Aviation Week article doesn't match the known facts of the = apparent=20 "stand down" of the Air Force on 911 -- if there was a readiness = exercise=20 underway, why weren't interceptors deployed in a timely manner, at = least=20 to prevent the attack on the Pentagon (hit nearly an hour and a = half after=20 the first plane went off course)? Aviation Week's "timeline" of = 911 is=20 extremely deceptive - it suggests that orders to intercept each = plane were=20 only given a few minutes before each hit their target, omitting = the fact=20 that already scrambled fighters could have intercepted subsequent=20 planes.

Back at the NEADS Operations Center, identification=20 technicians were sorting thousands of green dots on their radar = scopes,=20 looking for American Flight 11. Since terrorists had turned off = the=20 Boeing 767's transponder, FAA controllers could only tell NEADS=20 technicians where the flight had last been seen. The NEADS radar = screens=20 showed "primary" or "skin-paint" returns, the raw radar pulses = reflected=20 from an aircraft's surface.
Ironically, FAA officials only a = few=20 months earlier had tried to dispense with "primary" radars = altogether,=20 opting to rely solely on transponder returns as a way to save = money.=20 Norad had emphatically rejected the proposal. Still, on = Sept.=20 11, Norad's radars were spread around the periphery of the U.S., = looking=20 outward for potential invaders. Inside U.S. borders, very few = radars=20 were feeding NEADS scopes.
In essence, technicians = were=20 half-blind, trying to separate hijacked airliners from thousands = of=20 skin-paint returns. At the time, more than 4,000 aircraft were = airborne=20 over the nation, most in the northeast sector, which monitors = half a=20 million square miles of airspace.
"We were trying to = determine which=20 [radar return] was him. But we couldn't get what we needed just = from our=20 scopes," said MSgt. Maureen Dooley, a noncommissioned officer in = charge=20 (NCOIC) of NEADS' identification technicians. She and other = troops were=20 constantly on the phone with the FAA, airlines and others, = looking for=20 clues. "If we could get good last-known-positions and tail = numbers, that=20 would help the fighters pick out the right aircraft."
"The = biggest=20 task was maintaining track continuity," echoed Tech. Sgt. = Jeffrey=20 Lamarche, NCOIC of the air surveillance section. Later, his team = thought=20 they had spotted a fifth hijacked aircraft. "This fifth guy made = an=20 abrupt turn toward a major city--but it was OK. He was told to = land=20 there. It sure had our hearts going and adrenaline pumping. We = didn't=20 know what he was doing."

This claim, from a publication that is essentially = a=20 Pentagon press outlet, argues that the world's most sophisticated = military=20 surveillance system was unable to properly track the off course = jets, that=20 NORAD isn't tied into domestic radars, and lacks computers capable = of=20 keeping track of planes. None of these claims seem to be=20 true.

Aviation Week "timeline" that suggests = the
Air=20 Force could not intercept "hijacked" planes

Note that the official timeline pretends that = warplanes=20 scrambled to intercept the planes that went to New York somehow = could not=20 be used to intercept the planes that went to Washington. (At = supersonic=20 speeds, New York and Washington are not far apart.)

from Mike Ruppert, author of "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of = the=20 American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil"

I prepared more than 160 index cards creating a minute by minute = and second=20 by second timeline of events and then juxtaposing them with known and = cited=20 FAA/USAF regulations to prepare my spreadsheet. I also dispel many = false=20 beliefs such as the one that NORAD Radar only looks outward. = Actually=20 NORAD radar INCLUDES all FAA civil radar in the country and has added = passive=20 tracking abilities and the ability to determine altitude. The two = systems are=20 and were plugged in together on 9/11. Fighter aircraft were=20 successfully scrambled on 56 occasions in the calendar year prior to = 9/11 --=20 within minutes. ....

I have no doubt that the = "piggybacked"=20 exercises were used as distraction and chaff on 9/11 to provide = plausible=20 deniability for the inexcusable fighter response. But = a=20 thorough look leads all roads back to one place, the FAA Hijack = Coordinator=20 who is the guy who is obligated to pull the trigger for DoD response = when=20 certain conditions are met.

This timeline also subtly suggests that warplanes scrambled to = protect=20 New York (and failed to do so) somehow could not be used to = intercept=20 Flight 77 after the second tower was hit but before the Pentagon=20 crash.

No government official has yet explained the inexcusable nearly = half-hour delay for the FAA to tell NORAD that the planes were off = course=20 (standard protocol is to notify the Air Force immediately - and = NORAD has=20 its own radar systems that track commercial flights).

Does anyone really believe that the FAA waited nearly a = half=20 hour to tell the Air Force that Flight 77 had turned = around in=20 the direction of the national capital, especially after the World = Trade=20 Center buildings had been hit?

Another = Lie about 9/11=20 fighter jets from the Washington Post

No "Stand Down" at Andrews AFB any more ...

www.n= ytimes.com/2003/11/11/national/11PLAN.html?ex=3D1069131600&en=3Df24b9= 0546bc7ffc9&ei=3D5062&partner=3DGOOGLE

Secret Service Hides Cheney as Plane Enters Restricted Area
By = RICHARD W.=20 STEVENSON
Published: November 11, 2003

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 =97 The Secret Service hustled Vice President = Dick Cheney=20 into a secure site on Monday morning after a small plane flew into = restricted=20 airspace around Washington, government officials said.
The plane = was=20 intercepted by two Air Force F-16 fighters, whose pilots determined = that it=20 was not a threat and escorted it out of the area.
President Bush = was on his=20 way to a fund-raiser in Little Rock, Ark., at the time, and Laura Bush = was in=20 Maine.
Mr. Cheney returned to work in the White House after a short = time,=20 said a Secret Service spokesman, Tom Mazur.
Mr. Mazur said Andrew = H. Card=20 Jr., the White House chief of staff, was also taken to the undisclosed = secure=20 spot while the Air Force sought to determine whether the small plane = presented=20 any danger.
Officials said the plane, a single-engine Mooney M20, = entered=20 the restricted zone, within 17.5 miles of the Washington Monument, = about 11:15=20 a.m. Mr. Mazur said the pilot of the small plane cooperated with the=20 instructions of the fighter pilots and was allowed to go on his = way.
The=20 restricted airspace was established after the terrorist attacks of = Sept. 11,=20 2001, to help protect the White House and other government buildings = in=20 Washington.
Officials said the plane proceeded on to Siler City, = N.C.,=20 where an airport official said it landed about noon.
The Secret = Service=20 later said it had searched the plane and not found any = weapons.
Jean=20 Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service, said the pilot had = thought he=20 was abiding by the flight restrictions around Washington, not = realizing they=20 had been changed after the terrorist attacks. Ms. Mitchell said the = pilot,=20 whom she would identify only as a white male, was flying to Florida = from=20 Pennsylvania. She said the Secret Service was satisfied that he had = not=20 intended harm to Mr. Bush or the White House.
The incident was the = second=20 security scare for the administration in a little more than a week. On = Nov. 1,=20 a woman drove a car through a security cordon outside an arena in = Mississippi=20 where Mr. Bush had just finished speaking. She crashed her car near = where the=20 president had just gotten into his limousine, but the Secret Service = later=20 determined that she had not intended to try to hurt Mr. Bush.
A = spokesman=20 for the Federal Aviation Administration, William A. Shumann, said the = Mooney=20 M20, a four-seat, low-wing plane with retractable landing gear, was, = "by=20 general aviation standards, a fairly hot airplane."
Mr. Shumann = said the=20 punishment for violating the restricted airspace could range from a = letter of=20 reprimand to a temporary suspension of a pilot's license to revocation = of the=20 license.

Jets Intercept Plane Close to White House
by Terence Hunt
AP = Nov 10,=20 8:02 PM ET
www.globalresearch.ca 13 November 2003
The URL of this = article=20 is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HUN311A.html

WASHINGTON - Air Force fighter jets were scrambled Monday to = intercept a=20 privately owned plane that flew too close to the White House, = prompting Vice=20 President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and President Bush (news - = web=20 sites)'s chief of staff to be moved to a secure location.
The plane = was=20 determined not to be a threat. The president was away at the time, on = a trip=20 to Arkansas and South Carolina, and his wife, Laura, had a speaking = engagement=20 in Maine.
Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card were = moved=20 temporarily to a secure location as a precautionary measure, said = presidential=20 spokesman Scott McClellan. They resumed their normal routine soon = thereafter,=20 said McClellan, who was with Bush in Little Rock, Ark.
The = privately owned=20 plane was detected flying in a southwest direction, coming down the = Potomac=20 River, when it entered restricted airspace, said Secret Service = spokeswoman=20 Jean Mitchell.
The fighters were scrambled from nearby Andrews Air = Force in=20 Maryland and they intercepted the plane, escorting it out of the area, = she=20 said.
"He was within eight miles" of the White House, she said. = "It's=20 enough to affect our emergency response plan." Armed officers took up=20 positions on the White House lawn during the incident.
"Anytime we = have an=20 airspace violation, we take it very seriously," Mitchell said.
Maj. = Douglas=20 Martin, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or = NORAD,=20 said it was determined that the plane did not represent a = threat.
"From the=20 NORAD perspective, he's not a threat, and that's the main thing for = us,"=20 Martin said.
The plane apparently strayed within the Air Defense=20 Identification Zone, roughly a 23-mile radius around Washington, = according to=20 Les Dorr, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration = .

Nothing Urgent
by George Szamuely
New York Press, Vol. = 15, No.=20 2
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), = globalresearch.ca=20 , 15 February 2002

Let=92s revisit the curious lack of military action on the = morning of=20 Sept. 11.
That morning, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of = Staff,=20 Gen. Richard B. Myers, was having a routine meeting on Capitol Hill = with Sen.=20 Max Cleland. While the two men chatted away, a hijacked jet plowed = into the=20 World Trade Center=92s north tower, another one plowed into the south = tower and=20 a third one into the Pentagon. And still they went on with their = meeting.=20 "[W]hen we came out," Myers recounted to American Forces Radio and = Television=20 Service, "somebody said the Pentagon had been hit." Myers claims no = one had=20 bothered to inform him about the attacks on the World Trade Center. = Meanwhile,=20 in Florida, just as President Bush was about to leave his hotel he was = told=20 about the attack on the first WTC tower. He was asked by a reporter if = he knew=20 what was going on in New York. He said he did, and then went to an = elementary=20 school in Sarasota to read to children.
No urgency. Why should = there be?=20 Who could possibly have realized then the calamitous nature of the = events of=20 that day? Besides, the hijackers had switched the transponders off. So = how=20 could anyone know what was going on?
Passenger jet hijackings are = not=20 uncommon and the U.S. government has prepared detailed plans to handle = them.=20 On Sept. 11 these plans were ignored in their entirety. According to = The New=20 York Times, air traffic controllers knew at 8:20 a.m. "that American = Airlines=20 Flight 11, bound from Boston to Los Angeles, had probably been = hijacked. When=20 the first news report was made at 8:48 a.m. that a plane might have = hit the=20 World Trade Center, they knew it was Flight 11." There was little = ambiguity on=20 the matter. The pilot had pushed a button on the aircraft yoke that = allowed=20 controllers to hear the hijacker giving orders. Here are the FAA = regulations=20 concerning hijackings: "The FAA hijack coordinator=85on duty at = Washington=20 headquarters will request the military to provide an escort aircraft = for a=20 confirmed hijacked aircraft=85 The escort service will be requested by = the FAA=20 hijack coordinator by direct contact with the National Military = Command Center=20 (NMCC)." Here are the instructions issued by the Chairman of the Joint = Chiefs=20 of Staff on June 1, 2001: "In the event of a hijacking, the NMCC will = be=20 notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA. The NMCC = will=85forward=20 requests for DOD assistance to the Secretary of Defense for = approval."
In=20 addition, as Vice President Cheney explained on Meet the Press on = Sept. 16,=20 only the president has the authority to order the shooting down of a = civilian=20 airliner.
The U.S. is supposed to scramble military aircraft the = moment a=20 hijacking is confirmed. Myers=92 revelation to the Senate Armed = Services=20 Committee on Sept. 13 that no fighter planes had been launched until = after the=20 Pentagon was hit was therefore surprising. Senators and even some tv=20 commentators were a little incredulous. Dan Rather asked: "These = hijacked=20 aircraft were in the air for quite a while=85 Why doesn=92t the = Pentagon have the=20 kind of protection that they can get a fighter-interceptor aircraft = up, and if=20 someone is going to plow an aircraft into the Pentagon, that we have = at least=20 some=85line of defense?"
Good question. Clearly another, more = comforting,=20 story was needed, and on the evening of Sept. 14 CBS launched it by = revealing=20 that the FAA had indeed alerted U.S. air defense units of a possible = hijacking=20 at 8:38 a.m. on Tuesday, that six minutes later two F-15s received a = scramble=20 order at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod and that by 8:56 the = F-15s=20 were racing toward New York. Unfortunately, the fighters were still 70 = miles=20 away when the second jet hit the south tower. Meanwhile, at 9:30 a.m., = three=20 F-16s were launched from Langley Air Force base, 150 miles south of=20 Washington. But just seven minutes later, at 9:37 a.m., Flight 77 = smashed into=20 the Pentagon. The F-16s arrived in Washington just before 10 = a.m.
This=20 story, which has now become the "official" version, raises more = questions than=20 it answers. F-15s can travel at speeds of 1875 mph while F-16s can = travel at=20 1500 mph. If it took the F-16s half an hour to cover 150 miles, they = could not=20 have been traveling at more than 300 mph=96at 20 percent capability. = Boeing 767s=20 and 757s have cruising speeds of 530 mph. Talk about a lack of = urgency!=20 Assuming Otis Air National Guard Base is about 180 miles away from = Manhattan=20 it should have taken the F-15s less than six minutes to get here. = Moreover,=20 since Washington, DC, is little more than 200 miles from New York, the = two=20 F-15 fighters would have had time to get to DC, intercept Flight 77 = and grab=20 breakfast on the way.
Ah, but of course the transponders were = turned off.=20 So no one could keep track of the planes. If it were true that the = moment a=20 transponder is turned off a plane becomes invisible there would be no = defense=20 against enemy aircraft. Normal radar echo return from the metal = surface of an=20 aircraft would still identify it on the radar scope.
Luckily, we = still have=20 first-rate establishment media to make sure that we retain confidence = in our=20 government.

See also:
9/11 Stand Down
http://www= .globalresearch.ca/articles/ELS305A.html%20
by=20 Mark Ellis
Exposing NORAD's "Wag the 911 Window Dressing Tale", using = NORAD=92s=20 own Press Release and Fifth Grade Math

www.cnn.= com/US/9910/26/wayward.jet.01/index.html

Inspectors seek to solve mystery of golfer's last flight U.S. Open = champ=20 Stewart among 6 dead

October 26, 1999
Web posted at: 9:09 a.m. = EDT=20 (1309 GMT)
In this story:
Pilots' accounts point to cabin = pressure
PGA=20 statement
Troubled plane shadowed by military jets
Shoot down not=20 considered by Pentagon

MINA, South Dakota (CNN) -- A private jet drifting on autopilot = across the=20 South and Midwest. Frost on the windows of the plane. Wreckage scattered = across=20 a South Dakota field.
Those are among the clues left for = investigators=20 Tuesday as they try to learn why a Learjet carrying reigning U.S. Open = golf=20 champion Payne Stewart and five others crashed, killing all aboard. The = aircraft=20 drifted off course shortly after it left Orlando, Florida, for Dallas, = aviation=20 officials said.

In addition to Stewart, those aboard included golf-course designer = Bruce=20 Borland and two officers of Leader Enterprises, the firm that chartered = the Lear=20 35 jet. Robert Fraley and Van Ardan acted as agents for Stewart, said = Jerri=20 Gibbs, of the Orlando-based firm.
The two pilots were identified as = Michael=20 Kling, 43, and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, 27.
The plane flew on = autopilot for=20 1,500 miles before nose-diving into a field in South Dakota on Monday = afternoon.=20 Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board began to = examine the=20 jet's wreckage Monday: Early discussion has focused on indications that = the=20 plane's cabin might have lost pressure, killing the pilots and=20 passengers.
NTSB Vice Chairman Bob Francis said the investigation = team=20 included representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration, state = and local=20 authorities in South Dakota and the FBI. He also said he expected the = makers of=20 the Learjet would join the probe.
Francis refused to answer any = questions=20 from reporters Monday night, issuing only a short statement.
"Highway = patrol=20 people were here about 10 minutes after the accident and they did not = find any=20 extensive fire," Francis said.
Pilots' accounts point to cabin = pressure The=20 Air Force used fighter jets to shadow the doomed plane across the deep = South and=20 Midwest: They reported frost on the windows, indicating the cabin lost = pressure=20 sometime during the flight.
Pilots said when they flew alongside and = looked=20 inside the aircraft, the people inside appeared to be slumped over and=20 incapacitated, CNN's Carl Rochelle reported.
Asked whether = depressurization=20 may have contributed to the crash, Francis said he would not speculate: = "We'll=20 tell you factual stuff as soon as we figure it out."
Air Force Capt. = Chris=20 Hamilton said there was nothing he could do when his F-16 caught up with = the=20 Learjet over Memphis, Tennessee.
"It's a very helpless feeling to = pull up=20 alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft=20 potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated," = Hamilton said.=20 "And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though = I'm 50=20 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all."
If the plane depressurized, = passengers and pilots could have died from lack of oxygen, leaving the = aircraft=20 flying without a pilot until it ran out of fuel. The plane was equipped = with a=20 cockpit voice recorder.
It finally fell to earth about 12:20 p.m. CDT = (1:20=20 p.m. EDT) in a marshy pasture about two miles south of Mina, in = north-central=20 South Dakota.

FAA spokesman Paul Turk said the plane had flown as high as 45,000 = feet=20 (13,500 meters). Before the crash, he had described the plane as being = "in=20 distress."
Planes that fly above 12,000 feet are normally = pressurized,=20 because passengers would have difficulty breathing the thin air above = that=20 altitude.
If there is a pressurization problem, those aboard the = aircraft=20 could slowly lose consciousness or, if an aircraft broke a door or = window seal,=20 perish in seconds from hypoxia, or oxygen deficiency.
"This is a = tremendous=20 loss for the entire golfing community and all of sports," PGA Tour = Commissioner=20 Tim Finchem said after learning of Stewart's death.
"Payne was a = great=20 champion, a gentleman and a devoted husband and father. He will always = be=20 remembered as a very special competitor, and one who contributed = enormously to=20 the positive image of professional golf."
Stewart and his wife, = Tracey, had=20 two children, Chelsea, 13, and Aaron, 10.
Vistors, including fellow = golfer=20 Mark O'Meara, began arriving at Stewart's home in an exclusive Orlando=20 community.
The Rev. Jim Henry, retired pastor for First Baptist = Church of=20 Orlando who used to minister to the Stewart family, was one of those = outside the=20 home.
Stewart, 42, easily identified on the links by his patented = knickers=20 and tam-o'-shanter hat, had 11 PGA victories spanning 17 years, = including the=20 1991 and 1999 U.S. Open Championships.
Stewart, who lived in Orlando, = had=20 been expected in Houston on Tuesday for practice rounds in advance of = the Tour=20 Championship, the PGA Tour's final tournament of the year for the top 30 = players=20 on its money list.
Troubled plane shadowed by military jets

An Air Force spokesman says two U.S. Air Force F-15s from = Eglin Air=20 Force Base, Florida, intercepted the plane shortly after it lost contact = with=20 aircraft controllers, and followed it to Missouri.
Pilots reported = the=20 plane's crew was "non-responsive" and that the cockpit windows were = obscured by=20 condensation or frost, an indication the aircraft may have lost cabin=20 pressure.
Over Missouri, four F-16s from an Air National Guard unit = based in=20 Fargo, North Dakota, took over the escort mission, and stayed with the = plane=20 until it crashed.
The Air Force says additional F-16s were also = scrambled=20 from the Oklahoma Air National Guard unit in Tulsa, but were not used = because=20 the Fargo planes arrived first.
The plane originally had = been=20 scheduled to fly to Love Field in Dallas where Stewart was to have had a = business meeting.
The FAA said the plane was a 1976 Learjet and was = owned by=20 Jetshares One, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware. It was operated by Sunjet=20 Aviation, of Sanford, Florida.

Shoot down not considered by Pentagon
The Pentagon said Monday it = never=20 came close to shooting down Stewart's wayward plane in order to prevent = a=20 possible crash into a heavily populated area.
In fact, a Pentagon = spokesman=20 said, the F-16 fighter planes that monitored the jet's flight were not = armed=20 with air-to-air missiles.
Two other F-16s on "strip alert" at Fargo, = South=20 Dakota, were armed, but never took off.
Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon = said,=20 "Once it was determined it was apparently going to crash in a lightly = populated=20 area, we didn't have to deal with other options, so we didn't.
The = FAA routed=20 air traffic around the Learjet and kept planes from flying underneath it = in case=20 it crashed.
Air Force pilots reported no movement in the cockpit, and = that=20 the plane seemed to be on auto pilot.
The tracker planes reported the = Learjet=20 altitude was varying wildly from between 22,000 and 51,000 feet. One = possible=20 explanation for the so called "porpoiseing" effect is that the plane's = autopilot=20 was having trouble maintaining speed and was diving and climbing in an = attempt=20 to adjust.
Pentagon officials say the fighter jets could do little = but watch=20 as the plane completed it fatal fight.
In theory, the fighters could = have=20 tried to tip or nudge the wings of the plane to change it's course, but = it's not=20 clear if the Learjet's auto-pilot would have simply automatically = corrected its=20 course.
At 11:10 p.m. CDT (12:10 p.m. EDT) the Northeast Air Defense = sector=20 estimated the Learjet would run out of fuel in one hour, and calculated = the=20 plane would likely to go down in a sparsely populated area near Pierre, = South=20 Dakota.
At 12:16 CDT (1:16 p.m. EDT) the F-16s following Stewart's = plane=20 reported the jet had run out of fuel and was spiraling through the = clouds. The=20 fighter planes circled the area until they were told the scene of the = crash had=20 been located and their assistance was no longer needed.
Military = Affairs=20 Correspondent Jamie McIntyre, The Associated Press and Reuters = contributed to=20 this report.

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