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Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Fighter jets were also sent far off-course over the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the attacks (testimony of Senator Mark Dayton), so as to neutralize their ability to intercept the hijacked airliners.
[edit on 10-6-2010 by Shadow Herder]
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Come one weedwhacker, hooper and Goodoledave. You seem to be the only 'debunkers' who attempt to discredit facts here on ATS.
3 out of 1000 is quite the minority. Some facts are hard to bury or cover with lies such as the ones put forth in this thread.
[edit on 16-6-2010 by Shadow Herder]
Originally posted by trebor451
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Example # 3- the "interceptors were sent out over the ocean" claim. What isn't being pointed out is that out by Long Island there's a military aircraft staging area, where miliitary planes are put into holding patterns so they won't collide with commercial aircraft. This is classical cherrypicking information out of context.
Exactly, and the exact same standard operating procedures are exhibited with the aircraft that launched out of Langley.
These procedures had not been updated since the cold war era, 10 years prior. The threat for these NORAD interceptors was going to be external - long range Soviet Bears and Badgers pressing to 200 miles or closer to launch air to surface missiles at whatever targets they deemed were worthy along the coast.
Launching an alert section or aircraft would initially be sent to a marshaling point off the coast until a definitive vector was ready or the necessary intercept information was obtained.
The confusion or "fog" of 9/11 resulted in the Langley aircraft being sent out to the overwater warning area - nothing extraordinary about that to anyone who a) is familiar with the standard operating procedures or b) did the *barest* amount of research into the events that day.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
So the majority agrees that the 911 attacks has shown that it has been planned withing the country and not from who the media claims caused 911.
The exercises taking place in 2001 were used as an operational cover to execute the attacks.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
You really need to learn to stop going to these damned fool conspiracy web sites for your information. Their agenda has absolutely nothing to do with researching the events of 9/11 and everything to do with getting people all paranoid over shadows.
Example # 1- the "NORAD ran drills of planes being used as wepons" claim. This person omits the fact that planners always believed such planes would be flying in from outside the country. The posters own sources says that there was never any drill that was identical to the events of 9/11. This is classical conspiracy monger innuendo dropping.
Example # 2 - the "Cheney was in charge of the wargames" claim. The false claim is made that "the secret service is in charge of the air force" (only in matters of presidentiual security can the secret service influence Air Force planning), which then leads to "Bush was out of commission at a florida school leaving Cheney in the White House" overlookign the fact that Bush was still president regardless of where he was, which is then perverted into becoming, "cheney was in charge of the war games". This is classical five degrees of separation, Kevin Bacon game playing.
Example # 3- the "interceptors were sent out over the ocean" claim. What isn't being pointed out is that out by Long Island there's a military aircraft staging area, where miliitary planes are put into holding patterns so they won't collide with commercial aircraft. This is classical cherrypicking information out of context.
Whether you're a truther, debunker, researcher, realist, or just a stamp collector, it doesn't matter. If someone has to play these mind games to manipulate their material to get the rest of us to believe what they want us to believe, and then pass it off as "undeniable facts", it's a de facto admission they know what they're saying is false, regardless of who it is that's doing it.
Originally posted by time91
reply to post by GoodOlDave
Have you ever read Crossing the Rubicon? War games on 9/11 aren't just about "getting paranoid over shadows". What about the insider trading, the warnings from every intelligence agency on earth, the fact that a jerk off doofus reporter managed to find Bin Laden but our intelligence agencies (with the highest budget of any intel agency on earth) have been looking for him for years, and can't find him...
Just a few more nails in the coffin of the OS. The only option left that saves the government from being complicit is that the "terrorists" have been running our intelligence agencies for years.
Originally posted by thedarktower
i have one thing to add. If it all happend the way they claim it did, why were all cctv videos of the Pentagon crashed removed and never shown to the public?
Originally posted by thedarktower
i have one thing to add. If it all happend the way they claim it did, why were all cctv videos of the Pentagon crashed removed and never shown to the public?
Originally posted by thedarktower
i have one thing to add. If it all happend the way they claim it did, why were all cctv videos of the Pentagon crashed removed and never shown to the public?
Originally posted by pacific_waters
Good post Dave. The entire conspiracy web is built in giant leaps of logic. A few facts sufficient to provide plausibility are established then a whole scenario is constructed of supposition, dissembly and conjecture to "prove" the hypothesis. Our government doesn't help either with it's proclivity toward lying and obfuscation. Any explanation for a fact that doesn't support the paranoia is dismissed. I would disagree your final statement though. Most of the people I know who believe in the 9/11 conspiracy mashup are true believers. I am sure there are some who are pushing conspiracy who have a ulterior motive. I just don't know any.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
2) Air Defense Failures
a. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedures for responding to diverted passenger flights.
b. Timelines: The various responsible agencies - NORAD, FAA, Pentagon, USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission - gave radically different explanations for the failure (in some cases upheld for years), such that several officials must have lied; but none were held accountable. c. Was there an air defense standdown?
Originally posted by 12arcFanatical Muslims would, I assume, want to cause maximum carnage and crash as many planes as possible into any high profile target they could get their hands on.