Duplicate post. Sorry

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20040419/ts_usatoday/noradhaddrillsofjetsasweapons

In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.


In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon (news - web sites) - but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.


NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such hijacking exercises occurred. It said the scenarios outlined were regional drills, not regularly scheduled continent-wide exercises.


"Numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft," the statement said. "These exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination and operational security and communications security procedures."

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1. Well, Yahoo!!

This story gets picked up by USA Today!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1385648

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2. And the obvious question is:

If they ran two drills and talked about a third, how did they respond in such an incompetent manner on September 11, 2001?

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4. Did they REALLY respond in an incompetent manner, or...

...were certain orders given as well as not give on 911 that facilitated the attacks?

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3. They had no idea planes could be

used as weapons and flown into buildings, Huh?








http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html