To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (2244 ) 11/30/2004 3:10:28 AM From: Raymond Duray Respond to of 361020 Re: YOu gotta admit (al CIAda) had alot of luck for the 9/11 stunt to have been successful. After reading a half dozen books, watching half a dozen DVDs and reading thousands of pages of information on the Internet regarding the events of 9/11/01, I can state categorically that Arab terrorists had a minor, peripheral role to play in the terrorism. Basically, the 19 Arabs (7 of whom dispute that they are actually dead) were patsies. Much as Lee Harvey Oswald was the designated patsy in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Luck had almost nothing to do with the events of 9/11. It wasn't luck that had the USAF/NMCC/NORAD involved in at least five training exercises that day.oilempire.us (See below) Training exercises that had Air Traffic Control asking "is this live or exercise?" at one point that morning. No, there is growing evidence that the training exercises were schedule by the Vice-President's office. See: newsociety.com Link to the "Excerpt" for the best discussion I've ever seen on the FAA/NORAD response on 9/11. No, al CIAda did not miraculously get the USAF to stand-down on 9/11. That was taken care of internally. I could go on with dozens of other examples, but you'll find a lot of reasons to doubt "the official story" when you take a look at Dr. David Ray Griffin's "The New Pearl Harbor" and "9/11 Commission: Ommissions and Distortions". interlinkbooks.com interlinkbooks.com *** 9/11 Training Exercises: War Games 1) CIA / National Reconnaissance Office "plane into building" exercise Associated Press, August 21, 2002 simulation of a plane crash into the NRO headquarters (near Dulles Airport, Virginia) - this was not a "terrorism" exercise but it did result in the evacuation of most NRO employees just as the "real" 9/11 was taking place, making it more difficult for the nation's spy satellites to be used to track the hijacked planes 2) Vigilant Guardian Aviation Week & Space Technology, June 3, 2002, Newhouse News, others (these articles are reproduced below) The publicly available mass media articles about these exercises state that they were similar enough to the actual events that top NORAD personnel were confused, not sure if 9/11 was "part of the drill" or a real world event. 3) Vigilant Warrior: Richard Clark, "Against All Enemies" (March 2004) referenced by Richard Clark, but other information is not publicly available. Vigilant Guardian and Vigilant Warrior were probably related exercises (defender and attacker). 4) Northern Vigilance: Toronto Star, December 9, 2001 "Operation Northern Vigilance, planned months in advance, involves deploying fighter jets to locations in Alaska and northern Canada." This ensured that there would be fewer fighter planes available to protect the East Coast on 9/11. Simulated information was fed into radar screens - is this what confused the air defenses that morning? 5) Northern Guardian: Toronto Star, December 9, 2001 only mention was in the early edition of this article, no details publicly available (probably related to Northern Vigilance) 6) Tripod II: US Department of Justice and City of New York Rudolph Giuliani's testimony to the 9/11 Commission, May 2004 biowar exercise in New York City scheduled for September 12, 2001