It's interesting to note that the U.S. military was conducting several wargame simulations at the exact time of the September 11th attacks. Incredible as it seems one of these was a simulation of hijacked airliners crashing into buildings. Another was a biological attack on New York City. So many of the actual defense mechanisms were turned off, or responses were slowed because of the resulting confusion about the "reality" of the situation.
These simulations were approved by the White House, so Shrub may very well have been confused during those seven minutes. I hope that he was just incompetent, because the alternative is that he knew about the attacks and let them happen. Here's a link that lists some of the U.S. wargames that have "coincidentally" occurred during crisis': http://oilempire.us/wargames.html -BRAH -----Original Message----- From: Hakan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:11 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] flight transponders I have to apologize, for saying that transponder in airliners could not be turned off. I was rightfully corrected by Vern (respectfully off line), who is an experienced pilot. The reason why I said this, is that 25 years ago, we were involved in some programming on the European wide flight control system. It was at the same time a debate over making transponder not possible to switch off, because of the at the time frequent hijackings. The last 15 years I have lived in the belief that it was implemented. Had the impression that the decision was made. Vern rightfully pointed out that it was not implemented and also some other technical details about it. The fact remains however that the planes must have released all alarms and been either suspected crash or hijackings within a minute of direction change or loss of transponder. This means immediate launch of military resources and notification of the president. If the chain of command in the country worked, it would tell them immediately that it was four simultaneous incidents and the immediate command of the president were called for. My comments of tracking in controlled and restricted zones are still valid, with or without transponder. It is amazing that it worked so bad, especially since it was a system for this kind of breaches, after earlier similar incidents. It has been incidents were small planes were crashed into buildings and even landed in front of the White House. The idea to use planes as projectiles is not new for US and if I remember right, the White House itself have an air defence system because of it. I think that it is a lot of cover up around this and that we have not been told the whole story. Hakan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/