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US Military Foresaw Trade Center Attack in 1999
(Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY, 18 April 2004)
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. . . . NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such hijacking exercises occurred. . . . A White House spokesman said Sunday that the Bush administration was not aware of the NORAD exercises. But the exercises using real aircraft show that at least one part of the government thought the possibility of such attacks, though unlikely, merited scrutiny. . . . On April 8, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks heard testimony from [incompetent] national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that the White House didn't anticipate hijacked planes being used as weapons. . . . President Bush said at a news conference Tuesday, "Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale." . . . NORAD officials have acknowledged that "scriptwriters" for the drills included the idea of hijacked aircraft being used as weapons.

posted by LoZo 10:19 AM