In finding us "feverish" about the upcoming terrorism drills in Oregon, the Oregonian got our symptoms wrong ("Different shades of unthinkable" 10/2/07).
It's not fevers we suffer over TOPOFF and VIGILANT SHIELD, but a bad case of flashbacks. Our worries that drills can turn “live” stem from historical facts.
During the September 11, 2001 attacks and the July 7, 2005 London bombings, parts of exercise scripts did, in fact, become real events.
Now that drills involving nuclear explosions and martial law are coming to Oregon, we think a frank look at this history is in order.
In May of 2001, Bush placed Cheney in charge of nuclear terrorism response training.
On the morning of 9/11, multiple military wargames and terrorism drills were underway. Vigilant Warrior, Vigilant Guardian, Northern Guardian and Northern Vigilance, to name a few, all served to either divert attention from, or paralyze, US responses to the attacks.
Northern Vigilance diverted many jets to the North Pole on an outdated Cold War scenario.
When northeast sector air traffic controllers saw commercial jets off course, they immediately notified the FAA, which alerted NORAD.
Due to the drill, NORAD had very few jets to scramble, and none turned a wheel for over 80 minutes. That is 70 minutes slower than normal.
Vigilant Warrior simulated a "live-fly" hijacking, meaning that one or more jets were in the sky that morning, simulating the real thing. Vigilant Warrior also placed false radar blips on ATC screens.
This masked the four "real" hijacked planes by simulating as many as 21 separate hijackings.
Controllers couldn't tell which were actual threats. Later that day, an FAA official illegally destroyed a recording of controllers’ recollections.
Both a civilian and a CIA exercise on 9/11 simulated airplanes crashing into buildings. The civilian drill evacuated employees of the National Reconnaissance Office just when they would have been observing their satellite screens showing the 9/11 attacks.
Oddly, the 9/11 Commission barely mentioned these exercises, citing only one in a footnote and ignoring the rest.
Now to London. On 7/7/05, the private firm Visor Associates ran a mock bombing drill involving three train stations and a double-decker bus. As the exercise began, bombs exploded at those same three stations and, about an hour later, on that same bus route.
Despite continuing official refusal to investigate it, this history is well documented in mainstream sources.
Our goal is simply to expose these improbable coincidences and the serious questions they raise.
We leave feverish predictions to the experts, such as Vice President Cheney.
He warned us in April that "the greatest threat now is 'a 9/11' occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities… it’s a very real threat."
We note that Cheney was in charge to "prepare" us for terror attacks on 9/11.
You can check your own temperature on that.
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