To: Rock_nj who wrote (9295 ) 12/14/2004 8:53:23 PM From: LPS5 Read Replies (1) | Respond to [1 ] Paine Stewart's plane was intercepted in twenty minutes according to published reports I've read. I've also read that [2 ] it is routine for the FAA to contact NORAD upon losing contact with an airplane and that military jets are routinely scrambled. [3 ] There is a published figure for the months preceeding 9/11/01, in which the military scrambled jets over 100 times in 2001 to intercept commercial aircraft. [W]e couldn't even defend our military nerve center with over an hour lead time, something really doesn't add up in that scenario. If not, why not? Why are our defenses so poorly designed? Not sure why someone would go to the trouble [of planting explosives within the World Trade Center] since they could have been detected and just the impact of the planes hitting the WTC was enough to acheive any sort of goal to put fear in the general public over terrorism. [I]f seimsmographs [sic] actually detected some sort of disturbance before the buildings collapsed, and why the buildings would fall at the rate that gravity tells us they should and not be slowed by friction with the standing parts of the building. implore you, Rock, for the love of great Ulysses, credible - source itemizing those alleged anomalies?e
