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"...in
April 2001 NORAD requested that war games run by the Joint Chiefs
include an
''event having a terrorist group hijack a commercial airline
... and fly
it into the Pentagon."
Donald Rumsfeld - "Here we're talking
about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with
our citizens,
and the missile to damage
this building
and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade
Center."
"We heard what sounded like a
missile."
"He said the plane, which
sounded like the
high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet,
appeared to hold about
eight to 12 people."
"Where did the plane go?
For some reason I expected it to bounce off the Pentagon wall in pieces.
But there was
no plane visible..."
"There was
no
huge explosion, no huge rumbling on ground, it
just went ‘pfff.’"
"In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders
reportedly drafted plans to
kill innocent
people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S.
cities to create public support for a war against Cuba." |
Unscathed lawn in front of the
Pentagon.
(Photo source:
defenselink.mil [HiRes])
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"Investigators have identified
remains [of all but one]...who were aboard American Airlines Flight
77...including those of the five hijackers...A team of more than 100
workers...primarily relied on DNA testing..." -Washington Post
"...Capt. Charles Burlingame,
who had been a Navy F-4 pilot and once
worked on
anti-terrorism strategies in the Pentagon...Friends and family
remembered him as a man who was unabashedly patriotic, who embraced
military life even after he retired from...working until 1996 as a
liaison in the Pentagon (where he had worked...as a Naval Reserve
officer). When his plane went down Tuesday, it ripped through
a section...that includes the Navy Reserve offices.
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"I'm still to this day
amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon...
[Hanjour]
could not fly at all."
"The side they hit wasn't that populated... the other contributing factors --
fewer
engines ...
it hit initially on the newly renovated section ...able to withstand more of an impact...
the old section ...had just been evacuated"
"I was convinced it was a
missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane."
"I did not see the engines,
I saw the body and the tail."
On Sept. 10, a group of top Pentagon officials
suddenly canceled travel plans
for the next morning, apparently because of
security concerns.
"...the gas
station's security cameras are close enough to the Pentagon to have
recorded the moment of impact. "I've never seen what the pictures looked
like...The
FBI was here within minutes and took the film."
"...one of
the most bizarre ironies of all this is that [the five Flight 77] hijackers
lived in a motel right outside the gates
of the NSA." |
