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911 Reason why 9/11 was an inside job. Part II. The Pentagon Crash
permalinke-mail story to a friendprint versionPublished 12 September, 2009, 12:28
Edited 21 October, 2009, 09:23
Andrews Air Force Base is a mere 10 miles away from the Pentagon, yet 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began not a single fighter jet had been activated to intercept American Airlines Flight 77.
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Introduction
Part I
PART II
Consider the following: On October 25, 1999, a tiny Learjet 35 departed from Orlando, Florida that was carrying Payne Stewart, a professional American golfer. About 14 minutes after departing from the airport, the control tower lost contact with his plane. The air-traffic controllers, following rigid protocol regarding lost aircraft, immediately notified the US Air Force.
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According to FAA official transcripts, At 9:52 a U.S. Air Force F-16 from the 40th Flight Test Squadron at the Englin Air Force was vectored toward the aircraft.
At 9:54 just two minutes after the command to intercept had been ordered the fighter jet had already spotted Payne Stewart's wayward aircraft.
The pilot of the F-16 reported that both engines on the plane were working, but the cockpit windows were covered with condensation or frost, a sign that the cabin had depressurized without the necessary oxygen reserves. Things looked very bad for the occupants of the aircraft.
Both the Learjet and the F-16 were now over the state of Illinois, many miles from the departing point. The F-16 from Englin stopped pursuing the Learjet and landed at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois for refueling and probably a cigarette.
F-16
At this point, two Oklahoma F-16s (Codenamed, TULSA 13) were then vectored to intercept the accident airplane by the Minneapolis ARTCC (Air Route Traffic Control Center). Neither pilots of those two planes, which flew within meters of the disabled aircraft, noticed anything mechanically wrong with the tiny aircraft. But still the pilot of the Learjet did not respond.
Minutes later, the TULSA 13 jets handed off the plane to two F-16s stationed in North Dakota (Codenamed, NODAK 32). One of the pilots from this new sortie reported, Weve got two visuals on it
the cockpit window is iced over and theres no displacement in any of the control surfaces
Twenty minutes later, one of the jets from the NODAK 32 team remained to the west of the Learjet, while the TULSA 13 F-16 followed the Learjet down.
The target is descending and he is doing multiple aileron rolls, looks like he is out of control, the TULSA 13 pilot radioed back to his command station. Its soon to impact the ground he is in a descending spiral.
The plane crashes and all of the passengers, who probably died long before the plane had hit the ground, were killed.
Compare: On Sept. 11 at 9:37 a.m., one hour and twenty minutes after the hijackings were reported, American Airlines Flight 77 slams into the west wall of the Pentagon without ever being followed, intercepted or shot down by US fighter jets.
How does NORAD account for the fact that five (5) state-of-the-art F-16 fighter jets, activated from various air force bases, trailed a tiny wayward Learjet halfway across the United States, yet failed to vector a single aircraft to inspect four commercial jets that were carrying hundreds of passengers across many miles of heavily populated, strategically sensitive territory? It does not compute.
Despite possessing highly sophisticated aircraft that can fly faster than the speed of sound (2,400 km per hour), and shoot down targets from many miles away, the U.S. Air Force opted not to activate a single fighter jet to intercept, tag, or at least investigate, four lumbering commercial jets that had wandered off their courses for periods ranging from 20 to 90 minutes.
Anytime an airliner goes off course, says Robert Bowman, a pilot and decorated Vietnam veteran, or loses radio communication, or loses its transponder signal anytime any one of those three things happen, the aircraft is supposed to be intercepted.
On 9/11, all three of those things happen, continues Bowman in the film Zero, and still there was no intercept. Those planes flew for 20 minutes to an hour-and-a-half without ever being intercepted.
But there was no shortage of fighter jets available, we must assume, since there are sixteen (16) Air Force bases located in the northeast of the United States. So why werent the large, slow-moving Boeing jets intercepted?
The official version of the story says that NORAD was notified too late; in other words, the air traffic controllers were not on the ball on 9/11. This argument seems equally implausible. John Judge, a 9/11 investigator for former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, said that 9/11 was the first time in the year 2001 that an air emergency went ignored.
Sixty-seven times in that year, 2001, says Judge, there had been air emergencies. They can get a plane up in 6 to 10 minutes, and scrambled 67 times that year in air emergencies, but there was not an instance where an air emergency went ignored for long periods of time until 9/11.
One good explanation for the eerily empty skies over New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on 9/11 had a lot to do with a bizarre memorandum (entitled Aircraft Piracy and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects) that former Vice President Dick Cheney rammed through the Defense Department on June 1, 2001, exactly three months before 9/11.
Despite warnings from intelligence-collecting agencies that a terrorist strike was becoming an increasing threat (a presidential brief, for example, entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US landed on George W. Bushs desk from the FBI on August 6 that makes direct mention of the Al-Qaeda leader wanting to hijack a US aircraft to
gain release of US-held extremists), Cheney inexplicably relieves NORAD of its long-standing responsibility to intercept and shoot down hijacked airplanes that pose a major threat on the ground.
In other words, the U.S. generals had their hands tied on 9/11, and could not even scramble jets without a direct order from the Pentagon. That command, of course, never came.
It should be no surprise as to who failed to pick up the telephone at the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11. Yes, Donald Rumsfeld. Where was he? Strangely, nobody could find him. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission report states that the Defense Secretary was untraceable until 10:30a.m.
Eventually, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was caught on film shortly after the crash of Flight 77, assisting with the rescue efforts on the lawn of the Pentagon. Although this humanly gesture must be commended, it seems to be completely at odds with Rumsfelds most critical job duty, which was to give clearance for NORAD to shoot down or intercept hijacked aircraft according to Cheneys updated (and short-lived) memorandum mentioned above.
On the lawn of the Pentagon, tending to the wounded was not the right place for the Defense Secretary who should have been sitting near the phone, coordinating our national defenses. And how did Rumsfeld know for certain that another plane might not drop out of the sky, indeed as had been wildly rumored? Wouldnt his expertise and command have been much more helpful inside of the Pentagon?
Or maybe the absence of any aircraft in Americas skies besides hijacked ones had something to do with a secret exercise that was based upon the fiction of a hijacked plane crashing into a building. When did that military exercise occur? Yes, on the very morning of Sept. 11.
In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, reports the Associated Press exactly one year after 9/11, one US intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings"
Officials at the
National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agencys headquarters
, the AP article revealed.
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