-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/19/01 10:54:06 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "The targets were undefended." "How do you know this?" "Because no one > intercepted the planes." "But there could be other explanations." "Such as?" > "Well...perhaps it all happened so fast and was so unexpected that by the > time we reacted it was too little too late." "Nope, that can't be it." > "Why?" "Because the targets were undefended." And on and on the circular > logic goes. In case you mised this from a previous post - "David McGowan - Continuing Commentary." Pay particular attention to this quote, and YOU come up with an explanation that even a pre-schooler wouldn't reject as absurd, ok? "At 9:35, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled, at least an hour and twenty minutes after the first flight had been hijacked and nearly an hour after it had crashed." (further quoting:) It has been reliably reported that it was known fairly early on that the flights had been hijacked. It was also known (even though the transponders were disabled, by someone with a high degree of technical knowledge) that the planes had changed their flight path. It is inconceivable then that the wayward flights were not being tracked and monitored. According to the official timelines that have appeared in the New York and Los Angeles Times, by 8:15-8:20 AM, air traffic controllers had received clear indications that flight 11 out of Boston, in flight for just twenty minutes, had been hijacked – the aircraft's transponder had been shut off and the pilot was not responding to radio calls. By 8:28 AM, the aircraft had radically changed course and there was no question that the flight had been hijacked, a fact acknowledged by the FAA. By this time, flight 175 out of Boston and flight 77 out of Dulles were also in the air. Just two minutes later, flight 175 deviated from its flight path as well, indicating that it had also been hijacked. It was still nearly a half-an-hour before the first plane would plow into the WTC, and there were already very clear indications that this wasn't a normal day for air traffic in America. Two civilian passenger planes had been hijacked simultaneously, an unprecedented occurrence, and yet no action was immediately taken to avert the tragedy that was to come. At 8:38 AM, the Air Defense Command was allegedly first notified of the hijacking of flight 11, twenty minutes after air traffic controllers first became aware of that fact. Reports give no indication that notification was given at that time that the second flight had changed course as well. Five more minutes passed before the military was informed by the FAA of the second hijacking. At 8:45 AM, flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the WTC. Ten minutes later, flight 77 abruptly turned around and turned off its transponder. Three flights were then known to have been hijacked, with two still in the air and one having already spectacularly crashed into a heavily occupied building. The most technologically advanced and militarily prepared nation on earth proceeded to sit on its hands. After ten more minutes had passed, flight 175 crashed even more spectacularly into the south WTC tower. There was absolutely no question at that point that this was a serious national emergency. Flight 93 out of Newark had by then radically changed course as well, clearly indicating that yet a fourth aircraft had been hijacked and was a potential guided missile. With New York's most visible landmark in flames and two hijacked flights in the air, America's formidable national security apparatus sat idle. By 9:10 AM, the Pentagon's radar had reportedly picked up flight 77, which was still a half-an-hour away from plowing into what is described as the military's nerve center. At 9:25 AM, the FAA purportedly notified Air Defense that flight 77 was heading for Washington, though radar had determined that fact fifteen minutes earlier and it had been known for a full half-hour that the plane had turned around and headed back east. At 9:35, two F- 16 fighter jets were scrambled, at least an hour and twenty minutes after the first flight had been hijacked and nearly an hour after it had crashed. The jets were dispatched, appropriately enough, from Langley Air Force Base, which isn't so much an 'Air Force' base as it is the base of the CIA's own private fleet of military aircraft. The Pentagon was struck just minutes later, some fifteen minutes before the F-16s arrived on the scene, but nearly an hour-and-a-half after the rash of hijackings began. A steady stream of talking heads have taken to the airwaves to claim that no contingency plans were in place for such an attack. Despite decades of military planning for every possible type of attack on these shores, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on air and civil defenses, no one - we are to believe - ever envisioned such an assault. We are not talking here, it should be noted, about some type of technologically advanced 'terrorist' tactic that should have caught the supposed guardians of our national security off-guard. The use of aircraft as guided missiles has been a technique of warfare that has existed since airplanes became a part of the world's military arsenal. To no one's surprise, the first name mentioned as a suspect, before the first shards of glass hit the pavement from the impact of the first plane, was everyone's favorite bogeyman, Osama bin Laden. He is, as our media have been telling us for years, responsible for every act of barbarism committed in the last decade, so why wouldn't he be behind this as well? ----------- Samantha <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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