Thursday, May 20, 2004
Village Voice May 19th, 2004: Check out the chronology of events on 9-11 (for instance, at 11 Sept 2001 the Center for Cooperative Research's detailed and heavily sourced timeline of accounts, news stories, and documents), and think about it:
American Flight 11 took off from Boston at 7:59 a.m. By probably 8:13 and certainly 8:15, the FAA knew it had been hijacked. Now, according to government officials quoted in a January 2002 Slate article, NORAD is notified by the FAA "about one minute" after it notices anything amiss, and NORAD says the military can scramble fighters "within a matter of minutes to anywhere in the United States." That didn't happen on 9-11. At 8:46, half an hour after the FAA knew that Flight 11 was hijacked, it crashed into the World Trade Center, unimpeded by any air-defense system. At almost exactly the same moment, Flight 77 from D.C. goes radically off course. Meanwhile, Flight 175 hits the WTC at 9:03. Just afterwards, Secret Service agents burst into Dick Cheney's office, grab him under his arms and propel downstairs to the White House basement and then into a bunker. Bush, at a Florida grade school, is told about the second crash into the WTC but spends the next ten minutes with second-graders, listening to them read a story called "Pet Goat."
At 9:59, the South Tower of the WTC collapses. At 10:28, the North Tower collapses.
During this entire time, New York City authorities were on their own. Beyond that, it seems scarcely conceivable, that with a nation under attack, the mayor of New York had to call Bush—not the other way around. Why was Giuliani not immediately alerted by the Pentagon or the White House or even the FAA? .....---
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