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John Doe II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 02:38 PM
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Pentagon evacuated due to bomb thread AFTER it was attacked?
Nobody else than Paul Wolfowitz said the following remembering 911:

Wolfowitz: We were having a meeting in my office. Someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then we turned on the television and we started seeing the shots of the second plane hitting, and this is the way I remember it. It's a little fuzzy.
Q: Right.
Wolfowitz: There didn't seem to be much to do about it immediately and we went on with whatever the meeting was. Then the whole building shook. I have to confess my first reaction was an earthquake. I didn't put the two things together in my mind. Rumsfeld did instantly.
Q: Did he really?
Wolfowitz: Yeah. He went charging out and down to the site where the plane had hit, which is what I would have done if I'd had my wits about me, which may or may not have been a smart thing to do. But it was, instead the next thing we heard was that there'd been a bomb and the building had to be evacuated. Everyone started streaming out of the building in a quite orderly way. Congregated on the parade ground basically right in front of the Pentagon which would have been about the worst place to have a crowd of a couple of thousand people in that moment if we'd again had our wits about us. But we were out of the building anyway.

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030509-depsecdef0223.html

As far as I can see this is new and certainly deserves an explanation. It is unlikely that Wolfowitz needed still in 2003 an explanation why he sat on his hands on 911. Apparently he didn't go into the NMCC in time neither.

I'd like to point out as well the well-known supra-natural powers of Rummy. He's at the other end of the building and knows immediately that a plane hit it. Remember you couldn't be further away from the crash site than him. Moreover the first thought most people in the Pentagon had was that it was a bomb.
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John Doe II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 04:34 AM
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1. Let's not forget Wolfi!
As there are several threads out there now discussing the inaction of people in charge: Let's not forget about Wolfowitz who decided to do nothing either although he SHOULD have. It was his responsibility and he took an oath and defending the US, didn't he?
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philb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:16 AM
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2. There was evidence for unexplained explosions at Pentagon
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John Doe II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 03:45 PM
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3. Yeah, but what's so strange about Wolfi's statement is
that he implies that AFTER the attack happened (whatever it caused) there was an evacuation due to a bomb threat. So we would talk of two different events here.
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Sweet Pea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 12:55 PM
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4. Read the quote again.
He clearly states that "after" the building shook (the impact of the aircraft) was when "...we heard was that there'd been a bomb and the building had to be evacuated."

I don't know where you get the idea this bomb threat happened *after* the attack occured.

I know there were evacuations in the aftermath of the aircraft impact based on rumors of follow-on aircraft approaching the area, but Wolfowitz did not say there was a bomb threat after the impact.
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John Doe II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 05:32 PM
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5. Sorry,
I got it wrong. Thanks for the correction.
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