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Air Defenses Stood Down On 911 After ATC Alerts Given
Dozens of air bases were within minutes of both 9.11 targets
by R. Anderson
December 23, 2001
(With minimal editing by the ratitor to enhance readabilty)
There is now irrefutable evidence which proves massive complicity
on the part of the highest levels of government -- along with
numerous accomplices and co-conspirators in the military,
intelligence and administrative sectors -- in the September 11
atrocities perpetrated against the American people.
Here's the deal.
1. Dozens of Air Force and Air National Guard bases are located
within ten to thirty minutes intercept time of both 9.11
target locations. (List of bases provided below.)
2. Most of these installations have, at the ready, fighter jets
such as F-16s to be scrambled on a moment's notice, for
intercepting troubled or problem aircraft.
3. Air defense units did receive alerts from Air Traffic
Controller (ATC) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
officials on a number of aircraft across the East Coast which
had broken communications and deviated radically from
established flight paths on the morning of September 11.
4. Standard intercept procedures for dealing with these kinds of
situations are totally established, in force and on-line in
the United States 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a
day.
5. Air National Guard and Air Force air defense units of the
United States were prohibited from carrying out their
standard intercept procedures (detailed in the following list
of FAA documentation) on the morning of 9.11; after they had
received the alerts from ATC and FAA.
Regarding rules governing Instrument flight rules (IFR)
requirements, see:
* FAA Order 7400.2E, Procedures for Handling Airspace Matters
Effective Date: December 7, 2000, (Includes Change 1,
effective July 7, 2001), Part 4. Terminal and En Route
Airspace, "Chapter 14 Designation of Airspace Classes"
Section "14-1-2. Definitions". (Full text at:
http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIR/air1401.html#14-1-2)
* Aeronautical Information Manual, Guide to Basic Flight
Information and ATC Procedures (Includes Change 3, Effective:
July 12, 2001), "Chapter 5 Air Traffic Procedures", "Section
6. National Security and Interception Procedures", "Section
5-6-4. Interception Signals"
(http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap5/aim0506.html#5-6-4)
* FAA Order 7110.65M, Air Traffic Control, (Includes Change 3,
Effective: July 12, 2001), "Chapter 10. Emergencies,"
o "Section 1. General," "10-2-1. Emergency Determinations"
(http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/ATC/Chp10/atc1001.html#10-1-1)
o "Section 2. Emergency Assistance," "10-2-5. Emergency
Situations"
(http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/ATC/Chp10/atc1002.html#10-2-5)
* FAA Order 7610.4J Special Military Operations, (Effective
Date: November 3, 1998; Includes: Change 1, effective July 3,
2000; Change 2, effective July 12, 2001)
o "Chapter 4 FAA/NORAD/PACAF PROCEDURES FOR CONTROL OF AIR
DEFENSE AIRCRAFT," "Section 5. AIR DEFENSE LIAISON
OFFICERS (ADLO'S)," "Air Defense Liaison Officers
(ADLO's)"
(http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/MIL/Ch4/mil0405.html)
o "Chapter 7 ESCORT OF HIJACKED AIRCRAFT," "Section 1.
GENERAL," "7-1-2. Requests for Service"
(http://faa.gov/ATpubs/MIL/Ch7/mil0701.html#7-1-2)
* Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3610.01A, 1
June 2001, "Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of
Derelict Airborne Objects," "4. Policy (page 1). PDF at:
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf.
Backup at:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/3610_01a.pdf
* For a clear and detailed description of flight plans, fixes,
and Air Traffic Control, see: `Direct-To Requirements' by
Gregory Dennis and Emina Torlak at:
http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/atc/D2/D2Requirements.htm
Absolutely no executive-level input of any kind is required for
standard intercepts to be scrambled.
There was no indication in any alerts received by air defense
units that "shoot-downs" may be required as opposed to intercepts
-- i.e. that the planes were definitely under control of "hostile"
forces -- because ATC/FAA could not have known that.
When the first alerts were received from Air Traffic Control, all
that air defense units were required to do was scramble standard
interceptors to make contact with the incommunicado and off-course
jets. F-16s and other fighter planes would have overtaken every
single hijacked plane on September 11, before they had reached
their targets! (See below for locations of air bases.)
If, at the time of interception, it was determined the aircraft
were under hostile control and likely to impact targets,
high-level air defense commanders at the Pentagon's National
Military Command Center (NMCC) are fully authorized under existing
and established regulations and procedures to authorize a
shoot-down, in order to protect the United States of America from
attack.
Yet air defense units that were ready and waiting on 9.11 at
dozens of nearby installations were ordered not to scramble
interceptors: they were ordered to stand down from carrying out
even the first stage of standard intercept procedures.
These orders came from the executive office of the president as
well as from complicit individuals in the aforementioned NMCC.
There is no question that if these interceptors had been scrambled
at the time alerts were received, they would have intercepted the
hijacked planes before targets were approached in every instance.
And there is no way that the office of the President or the NMCC
could have known through any standard means that these
incommunicado flights required anything other than standard
interceptions, because ATC and FAA alerts did not relay any such
information. The alerts simply requested that standard intercept
procedures be implemented and that interceptors be scrambled
forthwith.
Some disingenuous excuse-makers say things like: "Well, there was
no air defense response because the U.S. had no procedures for
dealing with such `attacks,' because the U.S. had never been
`attacked' this way before."
This is sheer, complete nonsense. Fully established procedures for
dealing with intercepts of all kinds, including of hostile
aircraft, existed on September 11, as detailed above.
Furthermore, when those first alerts were received from ATC/FAA,
there was no mention of any "attack" and no need for "unusual"
procedures. There was only a need for standard, first-stage
interceptions to be scrambled, and higher authorities prevented
that.
Other disingenuous excuse-makers then say: "Well, of course higher
authorities stepped in, because they had to see what was going on
with the whole situation, as `America was under attack.'"
Again, America was not "under attack" when those first alerts were
received. Certainly ATC and FAA had no way of knowing so early in
the proceedings that the jets which had broken communications and
gone off-course were part of any "attack."
So why did the executive branch and high-level military
authorities deliberately order the air defense interceptors to
stand down? Nobody could have known that early in the proceedings
that "America was under attack" . . . or could they have known?
Obviously, those who ordered the stand-down did know that early in
the proceedings that "America was under attack" because they were
complicit in the attack, and took all possible steps to ensure
that the attack would take place, unimpeded by the air defenses of
the United States.
True patriots in this land who have sworn to protect and defend
our Republic must consider these irrefutable facts and set about
unswervingly to bring these complicit individuals to justice.
From: AC
Subject: USAF ON 11/9/01
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 02:19:23 -0600
As I may have told you long ago, I am a tyro at
questioning the state. And such a task is not my
principal activity. I am a small, specialty manufacturer
who has gotten caught up in being disgusted by my
government's lies. And that has caused me to look at
certain events more closely than those who are thought
to be responsible for that scrutiny.
As you know by now, I have also been outraged by the
monstrous lies that the government has foisted on the
public, with the cooperation of the press, concerning
the failure of the us military to interdict and prevent
the murderously damaging conclusion of 3 or 4 commercial
airliners on 11/9/01.
Just by searching NYT archives, I found the policy and
the methodology for intercepting a runaway Lear 35
[Payne Stewart's charter]. The story clearly establishes
that F16's were scrambled to intercept this bizjet
within 25 minutes of its failure to report to
controllers upon its reaching its cleared altitude of
39,000 ft. These F16's were scrambled only upon the loss
of a radio communication: the transponder never ceased
to function.
The way I view the intercept, the F16 out of Eglin, 500
miles behind the lear 35, travelling at its posted max
speed, mach 2+, caught the lear 35 in 30 minutes.
For all of us who care about relating how the attempted
coup was facilitated, and care to reveal 11/9/01 as a
coup for posterity, then it seems to me essential that
this technical record be established . . . an F16 can
catch a 767 within 30 minutes [if it is ordered to do
so].
With that understanding, since no one else has done it,
I thought it would be of interest to see how many Air
Force [including Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve]
facilities might have been within 500 miles of the
"terror" airliners on 11/9/01.
Here are the facilities that I found on the USAF
website[s].
1. Andrews AFB [11 miles SE of DC].
2. Bolling AFB [3 miles south of US CAPITOL].
3. Dover AFB [3 miles southeast of Dover, Delaware]
4. Hanscom AFB [17 miles northwest of Boston]
5. Langley AFB [3 miles north of Hampton, VA]
6. McGuire AFB [18 miles southeast of Trenton,NJ]
These are the major, active Air Force facilities that
could have launched intercepts with the commandeered
airliners. All of them, if ordered in a timely fashion,
could have intercepted and prevented the collisions with
the WTC and the Pentagon.
Then there are these minor, active Air Force facilities.
I don't know how they function, but for the sake of
history, let us note their existence within the umbrella
of intercept before any collision with civilians could
occur.
7. Cape Cod, MA AFS
8. New Boston, NH AFS
And then there are the Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve Bases.
9. Atlantic City Airport, NJ [10 miles west of
Atlantic City]
10. Barnes Municipal Airport, MA [3 miles northwest of
Westfield]
11. Bradley International Airport, Conn [Windsor Locks]
12. Byrd Field, VA [4 miles southeast of Richmond]
13. Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport [4 miles
south of Martinsburg]
14. Frances S. Gabreski Airport, NY [Westhampton Beach]
15. Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, PA [15
miles nw of Pittsburgh]
16. Harrisburg International Airport, PA [10 miles east
of Harrisburg]
17. Martin State Airport, MD [8 miles east of
Baltimore]
18. New Castle County Airport, DE [5 miles south of
Wilmington]
19. Otis ANGB, MA [7 miles northeast of Falmouth]
20. Pease ANGS, NH [Portsmouth]
21. Quonset State Airport, RI [Providence]
22. Rickenbacker ANGB, OH [Columbus, Oh]
23. Stewart International Airport, NY [Newburgh, NY]
24. Westover ARB, MA [5 miles northeast of Chicopee]
25. Willow Grove Naval Air Station, PA [14 miles north
of Philadelphia]
26. Eager Airport, WVA [4 miles northeast of
Charleston]
27. Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport ARS, OH [16
miles north of Youngstown]
I am not so naive as to think that all of these
installations were prepared to put up intercept, or
take-down aircraft that morning. But some number of them
may have been able to do that.
And the question has to be, why didn't they? Because all
that were prepared to intercept and terminate could have
done so. What prevented them from even launching
intercept aircraft?
That is the question. Have we just watched a 7 Days In
May? Wouldn't you like to see the orders that caused all
of these aircraft to stand down?
I sure would. Because based on the Payne Stewart story,
such orders had to have been given. as has been
admitted, the automatic response would ordinarily be to
intercept and to shoot down.
And based on the Payne Stewart story, we can only
conclude that elements within our government, or the
shadow government behind it, prevented the intercept and
shootdown of the terrorist-commandeered airliners.
Can that be viewed as anything other than treason?
There, I have said it. Anyone care to contest that
appraisal? I invite the argument.
I regret that I gave you some reason to doubt the
thoroughness of my thinking.
Wishing you a peaceful holiday season.
ace
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