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-Caveat Lector- ok, i think this would make a very good book. what happened at OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE on 911. one chapter on each CEO or prominant individual was there. something like that. anyone want to write it? heh. what is that one website where you type someone's name in and it gives all the connections the person has to all other people and institutions? anyone know what im talking about?vigilius haufniensisOn the morning of Sept. 11, Tatlock herself had just arrived with a small group of business leaders at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha for a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett. She then heard the news of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center's north tower.
Fiduciary's offices, spread among the 92nd through 97th floors of the south tower, typically at that time would be filling with the firm's 650 employees. But workers had started making their way to ground level after the first plane struck the neighboring structure.
Moments later, back in Omaha, a television picture flashed on a large screen, and Tatlock witnessed the second plane plowing into the south tower.
"There on the screen, I saw the second plane crash into my office," Tatlock recalled.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F16%2Fwbush16.xml
No one is sure where the story reported at this time of a "credible terrorist threat" to Air Force One came from. What can be safely said is that it served the White House's immediate purposes, even though it was completely untrue. As it was, while Mr Bush was on the ground at Barksdale, the White House let it be known that a threat - supposedly "quoting a recognised code" - had been received, to the effect that "Air Force One is next".
The picture changed instantly. No more could the President be accused of sheltering in the safety of far-away Louisiana; now he was a hunted man - the main target. Within a week, though, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, had all but admitted the story was completely untrue.
Who cooked it up? Most fingers point at Mr Cheney. "It did two things for Dick," says a well-informed Washington official. "It reinforced his argument that the President should stay out of town, and it gave George W an excellent reason for doing so."
A few minutes before 1pm, therefore, after just over an hour on the ground, Mr Bush agreed to fly to Nebraska. "As much as anything," said Andrew Card later, "he didn't want to use up any more time talking about it. He knew he'd be criticised, whatever. But it was the right thing to do."
The President was taken back to his plane in a camouflaged Humvee surrounded by armed guards, and at 1.15, Air Force One took off - as Mr Cheney had wanted - for Offutt, Nebraska. Twelve minutes later a State of Emergency was declared in Washington.
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At 2.50pm, Air Force One touched down at Offutt, and Bush was taken into an underground bunker - again one designed to withstand a nuclear blast. The sprawling base, one of the most heavily-defended in the USA, is home to the US Air Force's 55th Wing, which flies Boeing 747s specially adapted for military use in reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.
As Mr Cheney had pointed out, it also houses an advanced strategic command and communications centre, from which Bush was able to teleconference directly with Mr Cheney and Ms Rice in the White House, Mr Rumsfeld in the Pentagon, and members of the National Security Council. The meeting lasted a full hour.
According to Ms Rice, the President opened it by saying: "This is an attack on freedom, and we're going to treat it as such. We have to minister to the country, and deal with the horrors, but we're not going to lose focus. We have to mobilise the world and rid it of this scourge."
She and her aides were able to tell Mr Bush that there were already "good indications" that the source of the attacks was Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
A t 4pm, as the meeting broke up, Bush again expressed a wish to return to Washington. More than six hours had passed since the last attack, and now a split was developing between the Secret Service, which wanted to keep the President overnight - and by some accounts, indefinitely - at the base, and White House aides who could see ever more clearly the political consequences of his failure to return to the capital.
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/11/bush/index1.html
At 2:50 p.m. Air Force One landed at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb. About 10 minutes after landing Bush emerged from the plane, which was guarded by soldiers clad in fatigues and gripping machine guns. At 3:06, his motorcade passed through the security gate outside the United States Strategic Command. Instead of walking into the command building, however, Bush entered a short, square building that looked like it sheltered the top of an elevator shaft. He went "down the bunny hole," ABC News' Anne Compton told Peter Jennings. There he had a national security briefing.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2001/msnbc092201.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/632626.asp
1:44 p.m. President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base for Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, home to the U.S. Strategic Command.
4:30 p.m. President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/
1:48 p.m.: Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base aboard Air Force One and flies to an Air Force base in Nebraska.
3:55 p.m.: Karen Hughes, a White House counselor, says the president is at an undisclosed location, later revealed to be Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and is conducting a National Security Council meeting by phone. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice are in a secure facility at the White House. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is at the Pentagon.4:30 p.m.: The president leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska aboard Air Force One to return to Washington
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/america_at_war/article/0,1426,MCA_945_1340414,00.html
3:07 p.m. _ Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2002/dailymail090802.html
At 2.50 pm, the plane lands in Nebraska and he presides over a meeting of his national security team. At the White House, there is deepening disquiet about his absence.
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