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That comment obviously refers to AA 11. Did he say what he would've done after he knew that they use planes to attack buildings?
In interviews with us, NEADS personnel expressed considerable confusion over the nature and effect of the order
The NEADS commander told us he did not pass along the order because he was unaware of its ramifications. Both the mission commander and the senior weapons director indicated they did not pass the order to the fighters circling Washington and New York because they were unsure how the pilots would, or should, proceed with this guidance.
...the Langley pilots did not know the threat they were facing, did not know where United 93 was located, and did not have shoot-down authorization before United 93 crashed.
edition.cnn.com...
originally posted by: skyeagle409
What would pilots a have done? Shoot down an airliner over New York City without a Presidential Order?
If the airliners were shot down, what would the effects have been as those B-767's slammed into a crowded 5th Avenue, Broadway or Times Square at 500 mph while spreading burning jet fuel like napalm and finding out later the pilots shot down the wrong aircraft among the mass confusion within ATC that day?
The fourth step was to determine what was on the ground in the vicinity. The fighters were again given engagement authority because the rogue F18 had turned toward the NCA. That authority was soon withheld when the fighters reported they were over a populated area. The solution was to force the F18 out over the water. The pilots then reported that it looked like he was going to land at Baltimore. 0910204828 Ground Situation
It's unlikely anyone from NORAD would've shot down any aircraft over a populated area. As a matter of fact, they exercised a very similar scenario the day before with a rogue F-18 headed for the National Capital Area. It was decided at NEADS that it would be better to force the rogue aircraft out over the sea before shooting it down rather than shooting it down over a populated area.
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originally posted by: PublicOpinion
The other point is, that we have no source for the initial order to scramble them into said training area. It was most def not Langleys decision but rather an unknown caller from NEADS, we know that by now.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
Borgstrom mentioned this call as he mentioned very confusing radio transmissions, your transscript doesn't cover the whole process. And this could be part of a methodical deception, information only gets out in tiny fragments while some channels weren't even recorded.
The NEADS-call for the initial scramble would be number one on my priority-list then, but (all) conversations with regards to Giant Killers airspace would be interesting as well. Even if they didn't play that big role as you suggested. Some parts were never recorded in the first place, we will never know what exactly has been said.
Has anyone managed to definitively link the specific individual members of Gelitin present in the WTC photographs (or the name on the temp work ID) to the specific artists in the DEA report suspected of having Mossad or military ties?
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: AceWombat04
Has anyone managed to definitively link the specific individual members of Gelitin present in the WTC photographs (or the name on the temp work ID) to the specific artists in the DEA report suspected of having Mossad or military ties?
The question I have for you is, what are you implying?
What we have is much, much better. The actual audio recordings that are not subject to memory fade, embellishment or memory recall several years down the road. Just the 100% unadulterated truth.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
So we still have not one first-hand source for that NEADS-call.
Evidence for this please? Just kidding, I know you will never bring any evidence for this claim, just more conspiratorial nonsense.
Just tapes that got tampared with and lost data, which got restored later.
And it is your choice to dismiss evidence because it proves your preconceived beliefs to be utterly false.
Well... they equally could've made things up as well. You chose to believe that this data actually represents what happened that day, it's your decision.
You call them lies, I call them mistakes.
I learned something again, that's right. Answers from the military are not really worth the fuzz. They just keep spitting lies, you experienced that with Arnolds statement as well. Nobody had to face consequences for their actions, did they?
originally posted by: AceWombat04
So, I've been away from this topic for a while, and have yet to see this answered anywhere yet (deepest apologies if I missed it catching up with the topic this morning,) so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask again.
Has anyone managed to definitively link the specific individual members of Gelitin present in the WTC photographs (or the name on the temp work ID) to the specific artists in the DEA report suspected of having Mossad or military ties?
As near as I can find, the DEA report says only that most of the artists questioned admitted to being ex-military signals intelligence and explosive ordinance specialists, but it does not appear to specify the name Gelitin/Gelatin, or include the name of the person whose temporary work ID we see on the Methodical Deception resources page.
This seems crucial, as if Gelitin/Gelatin were not among those listed in the DEA report, then the link between them and Mossad or any suggestion of military experience on their part at all vanishes, does it not?
Peace.
The Forward, a popular Jewish weekly in the US, will later report that at the end of 2001, the Israeli government admits to having conducted a large-scale spying operation in the US before 9/11, using art students and moving vans as cover stories. The Forward quotes an anonymous former US official said to have been regularly briefed about the US investigation into Israeli spying: “The assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and operatives employed by it. The conclusion of the FBI was that they were spying on local Arabs but that they could [be deported] because they did not know anything about 9/11.” He further claims that US officials confront the Israeli government at this time and Israel privately admits the operation while continuing to publicly deny it...
One "art student" was a former Israeli military intelligence officer named Hanan Serfaty, who rented two Hollywood apartments close to the mail drop and apartment of Mohammed Atta and four other hijackers. Serfaty was moving large amounts of cash: he carried bank slips showing more than $100,000 deposited from December 2000 through the first quarter of 2001; other bank slips showed withdrawals for about $80,000 during the same period. Serfaty's apartments, serving as crash pads for at least two other "art students", were located at 4220 Sheridan Street and 701 South 21st Avenue. Lead hijacker Mohammed Atta's mail drop was at 3389 Sheridan Street--approximately 2,700 feet from Serfaty's Sheridan Street apartment. Both Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the suicide pilot on United Airlines Flight 175, which smashed into World Trade Center 2, lived in a rented apartment at 1818 Jackson Street, some 1,800 feet from Serfaty's South 21st Avenue apartment.
These incidents were in the months leading up to 11 September 2001. During that same period we were all receiving frantic calls from sources in for increased vigilance, and that all indications the Middle East that the CIA were ignoring calls pointed to a terrorist attack involving one or more passenger planes on the Eastern Seaboard was imminent. Unlike the FBI and CIA we in the intelligence media had no knowledge of the huge Israeli espionage operation that was occurring across the United States.
Despite Commission formal requests for a copy of the tapes and a transcript, NEADS was unable to deliver in time for our first visit the last week in October, 2003. I arranged with our POC to obtain a copy of the tapes on site; there would be no transcript.
As agreed, NEADS provided, piecemeal, digitized copies of their tapes as Commission Staff was conducting interviews. We worked with a copy of the partial transcript and the audio files and attempted to walk interviewees through the events of the morning of 9-11. It quickly became apparent that the transcript was insufficient for the task at hand. Our Team Leader, John Farmer, consulted with Colonel Marr and informed him that we were terminating the visit prior to the final interview with him.
- Digital Recording Expert Spends Two Weeks Working on Transcripts
- Transcripts Needed for Investigation
- Tollack's Work Not Reviewed
-9/11 Commission Not Initially Made Aware of NEADS Tapes
conspiratorial nonsense
You are pulling a classic conspiracy theory move here. You speculate a conspiracy, I debunk it with irrefutable evidence, you claim larger conspiracy.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
... utter nonsense to be precise, digitized and remastered. Copy-Chuckle away!
Together with DoD we approached the manufacturer, Dictaphone [General Dynamics], and they were able to not only recover all the files but provide them to us in a format which was useful and effective.”
irrefutable evidence
Yes. Now you're claiming even more people were involved in the conspiracy?
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
The original tapes?
Tollack worked for Marr as he digitized the stuff we talk about, didn't he?
The “Freedom Files”
The Dictaphone-provided files are the “Freedom Files,” alluded to in my question to Tollack about timing errors. For a reason never determined, Dictaphone’s recovery process introduced a 20-minute error across the board for all NEADS audio files provided as a result of the manufacturer’s recovery process. That error has no analytical impact except that it must be accounted for and analysts, researchers, and historians need to remember which set of files is at hand as they work.
the Washington Post ran a story that stopped me dead in my tracks: "60 Israelis on Tourist Visas Detained Since Sept. 11," but it was the subhead that really got my attention: "Government Calls Several Cases 'of Special Interest,' Meaning Related to Post-Attacks Investigation." In addition to the 1000-plus Middle Easterners of the Muslim persuasion swept up in Ashcroft's post-9/11 dragnet, it seems, some 60 Israelis were in custody. And these were no ordinary tourists: INS officials testified in immigration court hearings that this group was "of special interest to the government" – the same argument used to justify the detention of Arabs in connection with the investigation into 9/11.