Exclusive Report: Did Military Exercises Facilitate the 9/11 Pentagon Atta

[reprehensor]

Exclusive Report: Did Military Exercises Facilitate the 9/11 Pentagon Attack?
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060718232126585

By Matthew Everett
July 2006

Since 9/11, numerous authors and researchers have drawn attention to training exercises being conducted or prepared for by the U.S. military and other government agencies at the time of the September 11 attacks. With names like Vigilant Guardian, Global Guardian, Timely Alert II, and Tripod, the question has arisen as to what connection these drills might have had with real-world events that morning.

Attention has also been drawn to exercises held prior to 9/11, often bearing an uncanny resemblance to the actual attacks. For example, soon after 9/11 the New Yorker reported: “During the last several years, the government regularly planned for and simulated terrorist attacks, including scenarios that involved multiple-plane hijackings.” USA Today reported: “In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating … hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center.”

As I will show in this essay, exercises also took place that bore a chilling resemblance to the attack on the Pentagon. I will look at evidence suggesting that the Pentagon actually scheduled another such training exercise for the morning of 9/11. I will end by briefly examining the possible implications of these exercises and considering whether they might have helped facilitate the attack on the Pentagon…

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http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060718232126585

[KJF]

1. Dunno

It sounds like Matt's not entirely convinced himself, for example in the conclusion he says, "the possibility of another such drill having been scheduled for 9/11" raises serious concerns. It's an interesting idea and worth following up. In any case, I'd be amazed if there wasn't more to the wargames than we've yet been told.

This is the series of timeline entries he and Paul did on military exercise. If anybody hasn't read, it's certainly worth a look:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=militaryExercises

[BuddyYoung]

3. You just might be right

"I'd be amazed if there wasn't more to the wargames than we've yet been told."

After you learn just a little bit more about 911, don't be surprised if you conclude that the attacks could not have taken place successfully without the cover of the wargames and exercises.
That is, unless it's in your interest to NOT come to that understanding.

[Shoestring]

2. Pentagon exercise just one month before 9/11

Here's an interesting point in the article:

The third exercise occurred in August 2001, just one month before 9/11. This was another mass casualty exercise held at the Pentagon, involving an evacuation of the building. According to General Lance Lord, Air Force Space Command commander, "the scenario for that exercise included a plane hitting the building."

And the U.S. government claimed that no one anticipated what happened on 9/11. No one, except, of course, the people that design military exercises.