They Knew
The administration's claim that terrorists crashing planes into buildings was not foreseeable is contradicted by numerous sources:
The CIA Director had warned congress shortly before 9/11 "that there could be an attack, an imminent attack, on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected" according to a broadcast on National Public Radio
According to MSNBC, "There have been a slew of reports over the past decade of plots to use planes to strike American targets".
In 1994, the government received information that international terrorists "had seriously considered the use of airplanes as a means of carrying out terrorist attacks" (see also this article).
In 1998, U.S. officials received reports concerning a "Bin Laden plot involving aircraft in the New York and Washington, areas." Officials received reports that al Qaeda was trying to establish an operative cell in the United States and that bin Laden was attempting to recruit a group of five to seven young men from the United States to travel to the Middle East for training in conjunction with his plans to strike U.S. domestic targets. Indeed, the report concluded that "a group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosive-laden plane . . . into the World Trade Center".
A 1999 report for the National Intelligence Council warned that fanatics loyal to bin Laden might try to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the Pentagon..
In July 2001, a briefing prepared for senior government officials warned of "a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties ... (it) will occur with little or no warning.".
(more after the jump..)
FBI agents recommended to FBI headquarters, in July 2001, an urgent nationwide review of flight schools regarding terrorism, and mentioned Bin Laden by name.
President Bush was told in August 2001 that supporters of Bin Laden planned an attack within the U.S. with explosives and that they wanted to hijack airplanes.
A month before 9/11, the CIA sent a message to the Federal Aviation Administration warning of a possible hijacking "or an act of sabotage against a commercial airliner".
The August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US".
U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that Bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes, and that information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies.
9/11 Commissioner Ben-Veniste said the following to Condoleezza Rice the following question during her appearance before the 9/11 Commission:
"The extraordinary high terrorist attack threat level in the summer of 2001 is well documented, and Richard Clarke's testimony about the possibility of an attack against the United States homeland was repeatedly discussed from May to August within the intelligence community, and that is well documented. You acknowledged that Richard Clarke told you that Al-Qaeda cells were in the United States.
(or watch the video).
Newsweek stated "On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns" (pay-per-view; cached version of article here)
An employee who worked in the south tower stated "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on"
And a guard who worked in the world trade center stated that "officials had recently taken steps to secure the towers against aerial attacks"
More importantly, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the military air defense agency responsible for protecting the U.S. mainland, had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and "numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft". In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run.
And the military had conducted numerous drills of planes crashing into the Pentagon. For example, see this official military website showing a military drill conducted in 2000 using miniatures; this article concerning a May 2001 exercise of a plane crashing into the Pentagon (see also this article and this one); and this article about yet another drill of a plane hitting the Pentagon from August 2001.
Indeed, many of the drills appear to have included warning alarms and evacuation of the building.
The military had also run war games involving multiple, simultaneous hijackings (first paragraph), so this aspect of 9/11 was not as overwhelming as we have been led to believe.
See this short excerpt of a Peter Jennings newscast on 9/11 (excuse the music and subtitles)
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This is new
It is substantially beefed up from previous foreknowledge essays.
BTW, I know that foreknowledge and even LIHOP are limited hang outs. However, I think it is important to combat the lies that the government DOES say, as well as to say what is really going on.
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Imagine...
What kinds of things you could do if you knew what, where, when and how...
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
updated it to fix some of
updated it to fix some of the html, great job dood!
Nitpicking....
...this sentence misses the intended links:
"[....] (see also this article and this one); and this article [....]"
crap.. and i didn't save the
crap.. and i didn't save the old revision.. ill notify GW.. my bad.
ok, its fixed, thanks again.
ok, its fixed, thanks again.
The "Foreknowledge" WAS PART OF THE PLAN
There is NO way the US government relied upon 19 cokeheads to carry out their 9/11 plot. 9/11 could only be carried out under the sole and direct control of the US government cabal.
However, as GW points aout, they needed to have a back history of nefarious activities by these guys to point back to after the fact to make their cover story plausible.
The problem with these 19 cokeheads was that unlike true devotees and conspirators was that they were out to have fun with coke, gambling, and whores, and the level of the warnings coming through channels was excessive.
As such, there was TOO many warnings and such being generated that needed to be ignored or deflected. However, it must have been decided that "shock and awe" would prevent the sheepie from reacting in time, and by the time the public realized what had been done, it would be too late.
All this would have been successful in the Iraq adventure had not turned into a gigantic pile of disgraceful garbage.
Now there is the devil to pay.
I Agree
The deliberate creation of these 'foreknowlege accounts' is the only plausible explanation. They were so worried the plot would be exposed in the short term that they made sure there was plenty of evidence of 'Arab activity' before hand. They either neglected to realize, underestimated, or justified the eventuality of this stuff coming back to bite them in the ass.
It certainly explains why they would pick such conspicuous people for the 'hijackers'.
Here's a...
Non pay-per-view version of both NEWSWEEK articles.
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Oh...
Here's the article 911myths.com uses to "debunk" this...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0...
You'll see it says, "The memo, issued just four days before the attacks on New York and Washington, identified the threat as coming from "extremist groups with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization."
The warning Newsweek is talking about that caused "a group of top Pentagon officials" to "suddenly" have "canceled travel plans for the next morning... may have been received the night before the attacks."
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
MIHOP=CIA aided by the ISI
MIHOP=CIA aided by the ISI infiltrate Al Qaeda and help with the mission, help logitically, funded them etc using ISI double agents.
They carry out numorous power down/evacuations of the buldings in the lead up to the attacks, bomb sniffer dogs are taken away as the security levels are lowered.Criminal elements of the CIA employ a team of explosive/demolition experts to wire and fit the buildings with stragegically placed explosives , with the help of Marvin Bush who is connected to the security company for the WTC buildings.
The planes all hit there target with Cheney's help who was in control in his bunker and prevented any jets scambling to intercept the planes.He made sure the FAA etc were all very confused by putting up fake blips on there radar screens etc.
Someone remote detonates the explosives from wtc7 which is destroyed later the same day.
The hijackers could well be legitamate hijackers who could NEVER EVER have carried this out without insider help, insider help they didn't know they were getting.
But then i guess you'd have to believe the pilots were top guns, which from Hanjours flight instructor we know he wasn't
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One of my favorite articles...
Regarding 9/11 Truth.
NORAD Had Drills Of Jets As Weapons
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.
One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.
Unrealistic? You mean those Defense officials thought that a commercial airliner flying into the Pentagon shouldn't have been able to happen? Why is that?
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Your link does not show the
Your link does not show the images any more....
But Google found me these copies:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/ContPlanP.html
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:vYM7dUO2vMQJ:www.ratical.org/ratvil...
No...
It's not regarding the MASCAL exercises. It's a different exercise.
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
Sorry, my fault! I was
Sorry, my fault!
I was following a link from George Washington's original article, contained in this sentence:
"For example, see this official military website showing a military drill conducted in 2000 using miniatures, [....]"
And that link indeed does only provide the text, but no photos. However, the copies from Google's cache and from another website do have the photos:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/ContPlanP.html
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:vYM7dUO2vMQJ:www.ratical.org/ratvil...
My question is...
Why on EARTH would NORAD be conducting "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" if, as MSgt Timothy L. Hoffman, USAF said, "before 9/11 our focus was protecting our airspace from EXTERNAL threats--i.e. threats coming from outside North America?"
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
I laugh every time I read
I laugh every time I read that info. Which goes back to the real POINT of the Pentagon attack. No commercial/private plane should be able to hit the Pentagon without a stand down of both Interceptors and anti-air defenses.
It just cannot happen, that is what makes the proposed drill, unrealistic.
This establishes admittance of LIHOP....
..and are now we are on our way to MIHOP...
Condi infamously testifies on TV before the Zelikow Commission that, "I don't think anyone had any idea that commercial airliners could be used as weapons" (I paraphrase)...
We then learn immediately of the leaked Aug. 6 PDB, "Bin Laden determined to attack in US", which talked about just that. This contradicts Rice.
Then we learn that our government had 23 warnings from 11 different countries about impending domestic terrorist attacks; some of the warnings specify airplanes as weapons. This contradicts Rice. (The Administration declines to alert the American people).
Then we learn there were as many as 15 secret War Games/Drills on 9/11, some of which involved "an airplane hitting a government building"! (again, contradicting Rice).
Now we learn that Condileeza-liesalot and Ashcroft were warned by the CIA, in the strongest possible terms. on July 10th and the 17th, respectively, about terrorists attacking with commercial airliners. AND THEY DECLINED AGAIN TO ALERT THE PUBIC, even as Ashcroft changes from flying commercial to flying private jets, to protect himself.
Folks, this all adds up to an admission of LIHOP.....they knew and they repeatedly didn't warn the public or alert the national security apparatus. How many examples of that do the skeptics need before "incompetence" turns into "foreknowledge", which turns into "LIHOP"?
And widespread awareness of the War Games hints strongly toward the forced future admission of MIHOP....it's coming, people.....
MIHOP=CIA aided by the ISI
MIHOP=CIA aided by the ISI infiltrate Al Qaeda and help with the mission, help logitically, funded them etc using ISI double agents.
They carry out numorous power down/evacuations of the buldings in the lead up to the attacks, bomb sniffer dogs are taken away as the security levels are lowered.Criminal elements of the CIA employ a team of explosive/demolition experts to wire and fit the buildings with stragegically placed explosives , with the help of Marvin Bush who is connected to the security company for the WTC buildings.
The planes all hit there target with Cheney's help who was in control in his bunker and prevented any jets scambling to intercept the planes.He made sure the FAA etc were all very confused by putting up fake blips on there radar screens etc.
Someone remote detonates the explosives from wtc7 which is destroyed later the same day.
The hijackers could well be legitamate hijackers who could NEVER EVER have carried this out without insider help, insider help they didn't know they were getting.
But then i guess you'd have to believe the pilots were top guns, which from Hanjours flight instructor we know he wasn't
????????????????
Correction...
Condi infamously testifies on TV before the Zelikow Commission that, "I don't think anyone had any idea that commercial airliners could be used as weapons" (I paraphrase)...
We then learn immediately of the leaked Aug. 6 PDB, "Bin Laden determined to attack in US", which talked about just that. This contradicts Rice.
The August 6 PDB said nothing about commercial airliners being used as weapons. Michael Moore made the same claim in F9/11 and it was wrong then. The 8/6 PDB talked about the "historical" stuff Condi mentioned in her testimony, hijackings to obtain the release of a prisoner, surveillance of federal buildings in NY and bin Laden supporters "in the US planning attacks with explosives."
I point this out not because Condi Rice wasn't lying (she was) but because this particular claim used to point out that she lied is often repeated and is just plain wrong. The rest of your comment is great, but please leave out the 8/6 PDB in the future. It's a limited hangout, one that I fell for at the time.
I appreciate your correction...
...and will take that into consideration, thanks....I guess I blurred the line with "hijackings" and "federal buildings" "in NY" and "attacks with explosives"...all those things happened, but not exactly the way they are described in the memo....I take your point.
However, her lame spin that the PDB was "historical in nature" is exposed as the deception it is when you look at the title, however....there is nothing "historical" about the word "to"....They don't waste the President's time with "historical" PDBs....the people who prepared this were looking forward and had information hijackings would be involved and still the Admin. did nothing to alert the American public (if one is a LIHOPer, that is).
Sho'nuf
Rather than asking you to leave out mention of the PDB I should have just asked you to reference the PDB accurately, which you do here. And yeah, the whole "historical in nature" thing was a joke.
Limited hang out
the whistle was all over the 6th August PDB- even here in Germany we knew back in 2002.
So after they could not deny the existence any more, they release a heavy redacted version and said it was all about unspecific stuff. But how do we know, as 10 pages are still missing for public knowledge?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2306
I would wonder if these
I would wonder if these warnings were fabricated in attempt to cover the tracks left behind by the real perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks
OT:Google video
How nice it is to see '9/11 Mysteries' and 'Terrorstorm' on the Top100 list.
I had to give this a low
I had to give this a low rating, "foreknowledge" is of little importance with proof of direct involvement. People shouldn't get distracted by irrelevant issues.
Even if...
Those "irrelevant issues" bring more people to the movement?
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"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this."
one of the best ways to
one of the best ways to trash the official story is to fill it full of holes, from there people will listen to alternative explanations, until then they have too much faith or trust in the official story to even hear any alternatives.. IMO
With the way the country's
With the way the country's going though, I think people are already open to alternate theories.
And I wonder just how much more time we have left.
Mass Acceptance Of LIHOP Is First Step
I occasionally post on dkos, there is a growing realization at dkos that the "official version" is crap. It is too much for many mainstream liberals to consider MIHOP, so LIHOP is becoming "respectable".