Humint Events Online: Cut NORAD Some Slack for Their Response on 9/11?

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Cut NORAD Some Slack for Their Response on 9/11?

SO-- on 9/11/01 NORAD was running several wargames, including a live-fly hijacking drill, AND before 9/11/01, NORAD conducted several live-fly exercises where NORAD was supposed to intercept a hijacked plane that was supposed to crash into a major US building.

But that doesn't mean that NORAD could have prevented 9/11, right?

And it also doesn't mean that the exercises on 9/11 interefered with the interceptor response to the real hijacked planes, right?

After all, the military runs exercises all the time, right? And if anything, the NORAD exercises on 9/11 meant the interceptors were already on alert ready to go, right?

As you might expect, this is the official NORAD story-line.

And okay, these are valid points.

HOWEVER, there are three reasons to think there is a lot more to this story than their facile excuses:

First, the lack of air defenses over Washington DC on 9/11 is inexcusable. The only possible explanation for the lack of air response short of a stand-down order, which nobody really believes happened, is the normal air defenses were diverted away into a wargame/exercises on 9/11.

Second, the total secrecy in which NORAD and the military have kept about the wargames/exercises on 9/11 strongly suggests they are hiding this information for a reason.

Third, the fact that on 9/11, NORAD was in fact running some sort of live-fly HIJACKING DRILL is simply too much of a coincidence. I don't buy that it was a coincidence. Either Al Qaeda had a mole that knew about the hijacking exercises and planned their hijacking for then (and if so, why haven't we heard more about this?), or 9/11 was an inside job.

It's that simple.

The NORAD wargame/exercise story simply can't be written off as something innocuous and unrelated to the attacks of 9/11.

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