04 August 2006
The NORAD Tapes
"The real story is actually better than the one we told," a NORAD general admitted to 9/11-commission staffers when confronted with evidence from the tapes that contradicted his original testimony. And so it seems.
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At 8:14 a.m., as an Egyptian and four Saudis commandeered the cockpit on American 11, the plane that would hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, only a handful of troops were on the NEADS "ops" floor.
The tapes...
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08:37:08
O.K., a couch, an ottoman, a love seat, and what else … ? Was it on sale … ? Holy smokes! What color is it?
08:37:52
BOSTON CENTER: Hi. Boston Center T.M.U. [Traffic Management Unit], we have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out.
POWELL: Is this real-world or exercise?
BOSTON CENTER: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
At this point, someone at NEADS apparently switched the from the shopping channel to CNN.
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08:51:11
ROUNTREE: A plane just hit the World Trade Center.
WATSON: What?
ROUNTREE: Was it a 737?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (background): Hit what?
WATSON: The World Trade Center—
DOOLEY: Who are you talking to? [Gasps.]
WATSON: Oh!
DOOLEY: Get—pass—pass it to them—
WATSON: Oh my God. Oh God. Oh my God.
ROUNTREE: Saw it on the news. It's—a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.
DOOLEY: Update New York! See if they lost altitude on that plane altogether.
So the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon, the U.S. Air Force, NORAD, the Attorney General of the U.S., the FAA and the Department of Transportation all lied about 9/11?
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Nah. Didn't happen.
JR Ford
UP (Unsubstantiated Press
St. Petersburg, Fl.
sixtimeseven@aol.com
"One day soon, it will not be difficult for anyone to decide which was the greater disaster: 9/11 or this administration." -- JR Ford, Aug 2006.
