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None of the exercises or training or drills or anything encompassed the events that happened on 9/11. He cannot name a single one that mimiced the exact events of that day.
Originally posted by jackinthebox
He doesn't have to. The strategy is called "compartmentalization" and it is probably the best weapon in the clandestine arts.
Is that a joke? It has to be a joke.
Originally posted by jackinthebox
reply to post by snoopy
Is that a joke? It has to be a joke.
Is that yet another example of someone talking when they have nothing useful to say? If you do not know anything about clandestine operations, then obviously you will have some difficulty talking about this subject matter.
Go ahead kid, impress us.
And the fact remains there were no exercises at all that encompassed the events that occurred on 9/11. If there is, then please name the exercise that covered the event.
Originally posted by jackinthebox
reply to post by snoopy
And the fact remains there were no exercises at all that encompassed the events that occurred on 9/11. If there is, then please name the exercise that covered the event.
This has already been explained to you, but has obviously flown right over your head.
There didn't need to be one all-encompassing exercise. Do you understand what compartmentalization means?
I ask again, please name an exercise that encompassed the events of 9/11.
Ivan is simply being dishonest and not truthful.
Originally posted by IvanZana
Snoopy is a terrorist and aides them aswell.
His methods are weak. His type should be ignored.
There goal is to ruin threads and say things like " duh...no" or " thats silly" call every one kids or troothers....
There is undeniable proof that not only was the U.S prepared for 9/11, they planned for it.
Originally posted by jackinthebox
What good would that do? No one has claimed that there was one single overall exercise. The only thing that is being discussed is that there were preperations made for 9/11 beforehand. When Condy Rice said that they never could have imagined such an attack, she is flat out lieing, which has already been proven time and time again.
EDIT to add:
Ivan is simply being dishonest and not truthful.
Prove it. If you cannot, then you have made clear your agenda.
[edit on 4/6/0808 by jackinthebox]
you two have no interest in truth, you two just want to trick people.
Why not give them the correct information and let people make up their own minds instead of trying to trick them?
Originally posted by snoopy
Originally posted by jackinthebox
He doesn't have to. The strategy is called "compartmentalization" and it is probably the best weapon in the clandestine arts.
Is that a joke? It has to be a joke.
Originally posted by Res Ipsa
On 9/11 what exercises were being conducted by any branch of the U.S. armed services?
Operation Northern Vigilance
Conducted from September 9-11, this exercise redeployed jets that normally patrolled the northeast sector to northern Canada and Alaska. It echoed a Russian exercise scheduled from September 10-14 in which long-range bombers were dispatched to their northern territory. 1
The Vigilant Warrior and Vigilant Guardian Training Exercises
These were apparently a pair of war games (attacker versus defender) which involved live-fly simulations of hijackings. Both this pair of exercises and Northern Vigilance probably involved the use of "injects" into screens to simulate aircraft. These games apparently resembled the actual attack sufficiently to confuse military officers, as suggested by the following transcript.
FAA Boston Center contacts NEADS, saying, "We need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out."
“Is this real world or an exercise?” asked the military liaison officer?
"No, this is not an exercise," responded the FAA official. "Not a test." 2
The only known source for the exercise named Vigilant Warrior is Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies. 3 It is possible that the exercise referred to by Clarke was actually Amalgam Warrior, a NORAD field training exercise involving life-fly air interception, held twice yearly, in the spring on the East Coast and the fall on the East Coast. 4
The Global Guardian Exercise
On the morning of the attack, a large-scale military training exercise called Global Guardian was "in full swing." Global Guardian is an annual exercise involving Stratcom (the US Strategic Command), the US Space Command, and NORAD. 5
There is evidence that the date of the 2001 Global Guardian exercise was changed to correspond with the the terrorist attack. NBC News military analyst William Arkin, in his book Code Names, gives the date of the exercise as October 22-31, 2001. 6 Also, a military newspaper, the Space Observer, reported in an article dated 3/23/01 that the exercise was scheduled for October of that year.
Stratcon directed the exercise, which included all the US strategic forces, from Offutt Air Force Base. 7
The NRO designs, builds and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. NRO products, provided to an expanding list of customers like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), can warn of potential trouble spots around the world, help plan military operations, and monitor the environment.
An exercise, called Tripod, was scheduled to take place in New York on September 12, 2001. It was intended to test how well the OEM could administer treatment in the event of a biological-terrorism attack. More than 1,000 Fire Department trainees and Police Academy cadets were hired.
www.newyorkmetro.com...
www.9-11commission.gov...
Due to the 9/11 attacks, Tripod was called off. However the drill helped the city respond to the real 9/11 attacks.
web.archive.org...://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artID=418
www.9-11commission.gov...
Mayor Giuliani used Pier 92, where it was to have taken place, as a command center to coordinate the real 9/11 emergency response.
Rudi Giuliani:
“The equipment was already there so we were able to establish a command center there within three days that was two-and-a-half to three times bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center.”
www.9-11commission.gov...
Thanks to these drills many emergency response personnel were in New York City in time for the attacks and FEMA showed up with a considerable amount of equipment not long after the towers fell.
(Dennis Smith: Report From Ground Zero, p. 126)
And the CIA needed practise, too.
On the morning of September 11th
“The CIA were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building.”
(National Law Enforcement Security Institute, 8/02)
“The agency is about four miles (6.4 kilometres) from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport. (...)
American Airlines Flight 77 (…) took off from Dulles (...) 50 minutes before the exercise was to begin.”
www.sfgate.com.../news/archive/2002/08/21/national1518EDT0686.DTL
And the Air defense practised, too.
Vigilant Guardian, one of NORAD’s four major annual exercises. The week-long exercise was also taking place on 9/11.
www.newhousenews.com...
www.codeonemagazine.com...
www.globalsecurity.org...
All of NORAD was participating in Vigilant Guardian. Senior officers involved with the exercise were manning NORAD command centers throughout the US and Canada that morning.
web.archive.org...:/www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_stor.htm
“NEADS (NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector) was fully staffed, its key officers and enlisted supervisors already manning the operations center ‘battle cab’.”
web.archive.org...:/www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_stor.htm
Vigilant Guardian is described as “an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide”; as a “simulated air war”; and as “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.”
www.newhousenews.com...
(CR, 458)
At NEADS headquarters in Rome, New York, most of the dozen or so staff on the operations floor the morning of 9/11 had no idea what the exercise that day was going to entail and were ready for anything.
www.uticaod.com...
"Everybody" at NORAD initially thought the real hijackings were part of the exercise.
web.archive.org...:/www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_stor.htm