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NORAD had drills of jets as weapons
By Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.
One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.
Have we understood you correctly?
You are calling WTC victim family member Josef Princiotta a joker?
You would take away his right to search out justice for his family in his own way?
Firefighters who gave their lives attempting to save the WTC victims are not worthy of justice?
Originally posted by thedman
Or to my church on Sunday - have a woman there whose son, FDNY
died in the Towers.
Originally posted by thedman
Spare us the phony quest for justice BS !
Have you ever meet someone who lost family members in the WTC?
Maybe can introduce you to my neighbor
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ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man", "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim. The process of proving or disproving the claim is thereby subverted, and the argumentum ad hominem works to change the subject.
Originally posted by IvanZana
No. Many of the families of the victims question the official story and are demanding that the truth be disclosed. The same is true of many dying heroes - the first responders who worked tirelessly to save lives on and after 9/11 - and are soon to become victims of the 9/11 attacks themselves. See this article
In fact, half of the victim's families believe that 9/11 was an inside job (listen to this interview).
Originally posted by cashlink
You have no proof of who, what, where, when, and how!
Just your opinion.
Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
Originally posted by IvanZana
No. Many of the families of the victims question the official story and are demanding that the truth be disclosed. The same is true of many dying heroes - the first responders who worked tirelessly to save lives on and after 9/11 - and are soon to become victims of the 9/11 attacks themselves. See this article
Funny, your article states this:
In fact, half of the victim's families believe that 9/11 was an inside job (listen to this interview).
That's not accurate now is it Ivan? 1
Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel
(CBS) President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.
Originally posted by IvanZana
Mabey you should research before spouting out ignorance and disrespect in the matter. I have received countless thank you's from vitctims of 911.
HAve you?
A coalition of 9/11 victim family members, survivors and advocacy groups will deliver a formal complaint requesting a new criminal investigation of 9/11 www.justicefor911.org/press.php
This coalition of family members seem to contradict your fuzzy logic.
Originally posted by IvanZana
Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel
(CBS) President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.
www.cbsnews.com...
Victim families, firefighters, and professionasl including more than half the population wants a new investigation of 911 and the U.s administration says no?
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by IvanZana
hijackers reportedly attempted to crash the plane, fully loaded with fuel, into the Eiffel Tower."
www.pbs.org...
Intelligence reports suggested that the hijackers intended to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris,
So even way back in 1994, terrorists wanted to crash a fully fueled plane into a large, famous building,
posted by SPreston
Have we understood you correctly?
You are calling WTC victim family member Josef Princiotta a joker?
You would take away his right to search out justice for his family in his own way?
Firefighters who gave their lives attempting to save the WTC victims are not worthy of justice?
posted by thedman
Spare us the phony quest for justice BS !
Have you ever meet someone who lost family members in the WTC?
Maybe can introduce you to my neighbor - nice little old lady who lives
across the hall in my aprtment building. Lost 2 of her sons who worked
for Cantor Fitzgerald. Has a personal license plate for car in their memory parked next to mine so am reminded of her loss every day....
As for justice - her son-in-law was counsel to the 9/11 Commission
Is that good enough for you?
Can take you to my fire department - one of our members lost a family
member on the FDNY, he was the officer in charge of Ladder 11 - died with
his entire crew.
Or to my church on Sunday - have a woman there whose son, FDNY
died in the Towers.
So your attempt to use their loss as a prop for your paranoid little conspiracy fantasty really disgusts me. Now crawl back under your rock...
But that factor does not stop me from seeking justice for the victims of 9-11.
Sandy Grazioso of Clifton lost two sons, John and Timothy, to the 9/11 hijackers. She went to Ground Zero for the first three anniversaries.
"But it's really not something I want to do anymore," says the retired paralegal.
Now, for most of the day on 9/11 she teaches history classes at Passaic County Tech Wayne. She tells students what happened -- to her, to her family, to everyone.
"I know it sounds odd, but 9/11 is history now. It's in my grandchildren's history textbooks, and these kids want to know about it, how it affected people personally."
It gives her a chance to talk about her sons, and more. She is the mother-in-law of John Azzarello, who was counsel to the 9/11 commission. Her daughter, Carolee, testified about the loss of her brothers in the federal trial of Zacharias Moussaoui, who was the only person convicted in the 9/11 conspiracy.
"The children invigorate me," says Grazioso.
After class, her daughter will host a "celebration of the lives of John and Tim."