The War Games of September 11th

Updated in light of Robin Hordon's revelations.

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/war-games-of-september-11th.html

On the very morning of 9/11/01, five war games and terror drills were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, including one "live fly" exercise using REAL planes. Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony -- see transcript here or video here (6 minutes and 12 seconds into the video).

Norad had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and "numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft". In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run. See also official military website showing 2000 military drill, using miniatures, involving a plane crashing into the Pentagon.

Indeed, a former Los Angeles police department investigator, whose newsletter is read by 45 members of congress, both the house and senate intelligence committees, and professors at more than 40 universities around the world, claims that he obtained an on-the-record confirmation from NORAD that ON 9/11, NORAD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack exercise which involved government-operated aircraft POSING AS HIJACKED AIRLINERS.

On September 11th, the government also happened to be running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building.

In addition, a December 9, 2001 Toronto Star article (pay-per-view; reprinted here), stated that "Operation Northern Vigilance is called off. Any simulated information, what's known as an 'inject,' is purged from the screens". This indicates that there were false radar blips inserted onto air traffic controllers' screens as part of the war game exercises.

Moreover, there are indications that some of the major war games previously scheduled for October 2001 were MOVED UP to September 11th by persons unknown.

Interestingly, Vice President Cheney was apparently in charge of ALL of the war games and coordinated the government's "response" to the attacks. See this CNN article; and this previously-cited essay.

And while the government has consistently stated that it did not know where the aircraft were before they struck, this short video clip of the Secretary of Transportation's testimony before the 9/11 Commission shows that Cheney monitored flight 77 for many miles as it approached the Pentagon. How could one of the most heavily-defended buildings in the world have been successfully attacked, when the Vice President of the United States, in charge of counter-terrorism on 9/11, watched it approach from many miles away?

Moreover, a former air traffic controller, who knows the flight corridor for the two planes which hit the Twin Towers "like the back of my hand" and who has handled two actual hijackings, says that planes can be tracked on radar even when their transponders are turned off, and further says that the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights continuously from the time they were hijacked to the time they hit their targets (part of statement is contained in this interview).

Additionally, this diagram shows that the hijacked planes flew over numerous military bases on 9/11 before crashing. See also this essay about the war games; this essay regarding the stand down of the military; and see this war game proposal created before 9/11 revolving around Bin Laden and including "live-fly exercises" involving real planes, later confirmed by this official Department of Defense website.

Which scenario is more likely from a strictly logistical perspective:

(1) An outsider sitting in a cave defeating the air defense system of the sole military superpower; or

(2) Someone like Cheney -- who on 9/11 apparently had full control over all defense, war game and counter-terrorism powers -- rigging and gaming the system?

Remember that for the attacks to have succeeded, it was necessary that actions be taken in the middle of the war games and the actual attacks which would thwart the normal military response. For example, Cheney watched flight 77 approach the Pentagon from many miles out, but instructed the military to do nothing (as shown in the testimony of the Secretary of Transportation, linked above). Could Bin Laden have done that?

Fighter jets were also sent far off-course over the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the attacks (testimony of Senator Mark Dayton), so as to neutralize their ability to intercept the hijacked airliners. Could Osama Bin Laden and his sent-from-the-cave band of followers have exercised this degree of control over the military? Obviously not.

And air traffic controllers claim they were still tracking what they thought were hijacked planes long after all 4 of the real planes had crashed. This implies that false radar blips remained on their screens after all 4 planes went down, long after the military claims they purged the phantom war-game-related radar signals. Could Bin Laden have interfered with the full purging of false radar blips inserted as part of the war games? In other words, could Bin Laden have overridden the purging process so that some false blips remained and confused air traffic controllers? The answer is clear.

Therefore, it is statistically much more likely that Cheney and/or other high-level U.S. government and military officials pulled the 9/11 trigger than that Bin Laden did it. At the very least, they took affirmative steps to guarantee that the hijackers' attacks succeeded.

Hmmm...

"they took affirmative steps to guarantee that the hijackers' attacks succeeded."

Do you think it's possible that the alleged 9/11 hijackers were "secretly encouraged and advised by American officials?"


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Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

Well done as usual GW

I have also done some research on the War Games and one day I will publish it. Here is an excerpt 

Fact: Dick Cheney was given the power to organize all combined war games and exercises on May 8, 2001.

“I have an on-the-record statement from someone in NORAD that on the day of 9/11 The Joint Chiefs of Staff (Richard B. Myers) and NORAD were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack Field Training Exercise (FTX) which involved at least one (and almost certainly many more) aircraft under US control that was posing as a hijacked airliner.”
Mike Ruppert – June 5, 2004, editor of FTW www.fromthewilderness.com

Fact: There were as many as 15 military war games and exercises taking place on 9/11.

Amalgam Virgo Air defense against rogue state/terror cruise missiles, hijackings

Vigilant Guardian Air defense against hijacking:Part of this exercise is pure simulation, but part is real world…

[1]

It involved “fake blips” or “injects” added to radar screens.

Northern Guardian Air defense

Vigilant Warrior NORAD exercise

Northern Vigilance NORAD deploys fighters to Alaska, northern Canada

Amalgam Warrior Large live-fly air defense and air intercept, tracking surveillance

Global Guardian Nuclear warfighting, “Armageddon”

Crown Vigilance Air combat command exercise

Apollo Guardian Large scale live-fly air defense and air intercept, tracking surveillance

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Crashing planes into buildings

AWACS AWACS over Florida, Washington DC

MASCAL Fort Meyer, Virginia Firemen: “aircraft crash refresher course” for firefighters at the Pentagon.

TRIPOD II, Manhattan Response to biochemical attack

Timely Alert II Emergency response to bomb attack

Part of an exercise?

“The first thing that went through my mind [after receiving the hijacking alert for Flight 11 on 9/11] was, is this part of the exercise? Is this some kind of a screw-up?”

[2]

General Arnold of NORAD

“Tech. Sgt. Jeremy W. Powell of … Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in Rome, N.Y., took the first call from Boston Center. He notified NEADS Commander Col. Robert K. Marr Jr. of a possible hijacked airliner, American Airlines Flight 11. “‘Part of the exercise?’ the Colonel wondered. No, this is a real world event, he was told”.

[3]

“At 8:40, Deskins noticed senior technician Jeremy Powell waving his hand. Boston Center was on the line, he said. It had a hijacked airliner.It must be part of the exercise,’ Deskins thought. At first, everyone did.”

[4]

Why these exercises were significant:

  • Aircraft are diverted away from the Washington and New York on 9/11 in several exercises as far away as Alaska and Canada (Operation Northern Vigilance).
  • This left only a handful of aircraft to defend the skies affected during 9/11: “NORAD confirmed it had only eight fighters on the East Coast for emergency scrambles on September 11. Throughout Canada and the United States, including Alaska, NORAD had 20 fighters on alert — armed, fueled up, and ready to fly in minutes.”

    [5]

  • Live (“Live-Fly”), remote controlled aircraft are used in multiple hijacking exercises
  • Aircraft “false blips” are added to radar screens including FAA radar; this results in FAA confusion and possibly ‘phantom flight 11’: “We may have to do a lot more than that, Dick. I already put a hold on all take-offs and landings in New York and Washington, but we have reports of eleven aircraft off course or out of communications, maybe hijacked.”

    [6]

  • CIA runs a NRO exercise which involves:“…a bizarre coincidence… one US intelligence agency was planning an exercise last September 11 [2001] in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings.”

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  • Aircraft “false blips” were not removed until after the pentagon was struck
  • Firefighters near the pentagon participate in an “aircraft crash refresher course” [MASCAL] which is interrupted by a real plane crash:

“Soon after the Pentagon is hit, medical workers initiate their mass casualty plan (MASCAL) for dealing with disasters. Sergeant Matthew Rosenberg, a medic at the Pentagon’s DiLorenzo Tricare Health Clinic, arrives at the center courtyard. Seeing smoke rising from the side of the building and patients staggering out, he radios the clinic: ‘You need to initiate MASCAL right now! We have mass casualties! I need medical assets to the courtyard! … ‘The saving grace to our efforts was the two MASCAL exercises we previously had conducted. ... Our scenario for both MASCALS was a plane flying into the Pentagon courtyard.’”

[8]

  • Tripod II Placed FEMA near the Trade Center Towers the day before 9/11. FEMA was then used to participate in the WTC cleanup

If you have some time, check out my preliminary analysis of the Pentagon Testimony. This has been a very long project for me. It is over 600 excerpts of testimony that describe specific events of the Pentagon attack. Any feedback is welcome.


[1]

Scott Simmie, “ The Scene at NORAD on Sept. 11”, December 9, 2001, Toronto Star Pg. B05

[2]

ABC News, September 11, 2002, Peter Jennings hosts 9/11 interviews. This confirmation referring obliquely to “the exercise” is a quotation taken from statements made by General Arnold to Charles Gibson.

[3]

William B. Scott, “Exercise Jump-Starts Response to Attacks,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, June 3, 2002; ABC News, September 11, 2002.

[4]

Hart Seely, “Amid Crisis Simulation, ‘We Were Suddenly — No Kidding — Under Attack,’” Newhouse News Service, January 25, 2002.

[5]

Mike Kelly, “NORAD confirmed two mock drills on September 11,” NJ.com, December 5, 2003.

[6]

Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies, Free Press 2004, pp 4-5.

[7]

John J. Lumpkin, “Agency Planned Exercise on September 11 built around a plane crashing into a building,” Associated Press, August 21, 2002 7:45PM ET. 16 www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm

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