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The 9/11 Stand Down in 2 Minutes
George Washington's Blog
Friday, March 28, 2008
NORAD, responsible for intercepting errant aircraft over the U.S.,
has a standard operating procedure for scrambling planes for
interception which takes less than 15 minutes
They did this successfully (on time) 129 times in 2000 and and 67 times between September 2000 and June 2001.
Yet, on September 11th, they failed to do their job 4 times in a single day:
- NORAD, once notified of the off-course aircraft, failed to scramble jets from the nearest bases
- Once airborne, interceptors failed to reach their targets because they flew at small fractions of their top speeds
- Fighters that were airborne and within interception range of the deviating aircraft were not redeployed to pursue them
You might think that the military couldn't find the hijacked planes
because the hijackers turned off the transponders. However, a former
air traffic controller, who knows the flight corridor which the two
planes which hit the Twin Towers flew "like the back of my hand" and
who handled two actual hijackings says that planes can be tracked on radar even when their transponders are turned off (also, listen to this interview).
As a former senior air force colonel said:
"If
our government had merely [done] nothing, and I say that as an old
interceptor pilot�I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how
long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were,
and I know what they've changed them to�if our government had merely
done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning
of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead
Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason!"
Norad's stand down on 9/11 was so blatant that Norad has been forced to give 3 entirely different versions of what happened that day,
as each previous version has been exposed as false. When someone
repeatedly changes his testimony after being caught in lies, how
believable is he? The falsity of Norad's explanations were so severe
that even the 9/11 Commission considered recommending criminal charges for the making of false statements.
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