- Jeff,
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- Gee whiz..... and here is another one of those "Interesting
Coincidences". Unbelievable!!!
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- Noble Eagle
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- P.S. - Now doesn't this CONTRADICT what Bushie, and Company
was saying only a couple of months ago. Remember when Condi said,"We
never even thought that a hijacked plane could do such a thing..."....hmmmmmmm
yet the NRO was planning a TRAINING Exercise around that very concept.
I guess no one told Rummy, Condi, Dicky, or Bushie..... CAUGHT IN YET ANOTHER
LIE!!!!!
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- GO GET 'EM, JEFF!
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- Spy Agency Planned Exercise On September 11 Built
Around A Plane Crashing Into A Building
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- By John J. Lumpkin
Associated Press Writer 8-22-2
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- WASHINGTON - In what the government describes as a bizarre
coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last
Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings.
But the cause wasn't terrorism - it was to be a simulated accident.
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- Officials at the Chantilly, Virginia-based National Reconnaissance
Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate
jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters
building after experiencing a mechanical failure.
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- The agency is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the runways
of Washington Dulles International Airport.
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- Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to test employees'
ability to respond to a disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No actual
plane was to be involved ó to simulate the damage from the crash,
some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find
other ways to evacuate the building.
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- "It was just an incredible coincidence that this
happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility," Haubold
said. "As soon as the real world ( news - Y! TV) events began, we
canceled the exercise."
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- Terrorism was to play no role in the exercise, which
had been planned for several months, he said.
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- Adding to the coincidence, American Airlines Flight 77
ó the Boeing 767 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon
( news - web sites) ó took off from Dulles at 8:10 a.m. on Sept.
11, 50 minutes before the exercise was to begin. It struck the Pentagon
around 9:40 a.m., killing 64 aboard the plane and 125 on the ground.
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- The National Reconnaissance Office operates many of the
nation's spy satellites. It draws its personnel from the military and the
CIA ( news - web sites).
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- After the Sept. 11 attacks, most of the 3,000 people
who work at agency headquarters were sent home, save for some essential
personnel, Haubold said.
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- An announcement for an upcoming homeland security conference
in Chicago first noted the exercise.
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- In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer
assigned as chief of NRO's strategic gaming division, the announcement
says, "On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team
... were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response
issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little
did they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that
day."
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- The conference is being run by the National Law Enforcement
and Security Institute.
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- On the Net:
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- National Reconnaissance Office http://www.nro.gov/
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- Central Intelligence Agency http://www.cia.gov/
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- National Law Enforcement and Security Institute http://www.nlsi.net/
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