I Still Need These Two Questions Answered

Dateline:April 23, 2004

March 2, 2006: I still do not have the answer to these questions. So I am still asking them.

There are only two questions which The 911 Commission needs to ask first. Only when this Administration has answered these, do we need to know why and how it happened. After we get the answers to these questions, we must put into place measures and laws, that will assure us, that this will never happen
again.

1. After receiving the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing), of August 6, 2001, (following the briefings from the Clinton administration during the transition, and all the other briefings and warnings from our government agencies and other governments, before this date), why were there no alerts given to the Air National Guard (NORAD or any of the Military Air Services) whose job it is to protect our skies, putting them on higher alert status? They had over a month to put into place all the measures needed to protect us.

2. Why were there no Air National Guard (or any other military) planes flying (normally there are hundreds of planes up training. Everyday there are at least 16 military planes whose job it is to patrol America’s skies, 24 hours/365 days of the year). Why were there not even the usual amount of protective air cover (*see the article “They Played Games” which will be posted in the coming weeks) and no extra planes ordered up that day to protect America’s skies, the moment that there was a hint of a hijacking as had happened sixty-six times in the previous eight months?

Our Intelligence services had “chatter or warnings” about planes being used against America and that a big attack was planned. The President and his Administration were informed in their briefings about these, during the nine months preceding the attacks.

On September 11, 2001, one plane, flight #11 notified it’s home office at 8:21 that “there has been stabbings, one passenger’s throat has been cut and “they” have gotten into the cockpit”. It’s impact on the WTC #1 Tower is at 8:46. There were three other planes which were known to be hijacked and not one of our military planes were sent up in time, or flew above 23.9% of their top speed, to intercept any of these four planes which were known to be hijacked.

How could one, let alone three other planes, off course, transponders off and failing to respond to commands, go unchallenged for over 25 minutes? (A total of 1 hour and 53 minutes from the first notice of hijacking to the final plane “crashing” in Pennsylvania, plenty of time for planes from the western states, to get there in time).

In the previous eight months, before September 11, 2001, military planes intercepted planes which had “gone off course or had other suspicious problems” sixty-seven times. {Source}

There were thirty-three USAF Bases within range on 911. There were seven Air Stations on Full Alert covering the Continental United States, (five of these seven Air Stations were within range of the four airliners hijacked on 911). There were twenty-eight other Air Stations in range of the four hijacked airliners on 911.

Here is the list of the seven Air Stations that were armed and on full alert to protect the continental United States on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

The Air National Guard exclusively performs the air sovereignty mission in the continental United States, and those units fall under the control of the 1st Air Force based at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) in Panama City, Florida. The Air National Guard maintains seven alert sites with 14 fully armed fighters and pilots on call around the clock. Besides Tyndall AFB, alert birds also sit armed and ready at; Homestead Air Reserve Base (ARB), Homestead, Florida; Langley AFB, Hampton, Virginia; Otis Air National Guard (ANG), Falmouth, Massachusetts; Oregon ANG, Portland, Oregon; March ARB, Riverside, California; and Ellington ANG, Houston, Texas. {Source}

The report by CNN on golfer Payne Stewart’s plane: An Air Force spokesman says two U.S. Air Force F-15s from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, intercepted the plane shortly after it lost contact with aircraft controllers, and followed it to Missouri. Over Missouri, four F-16s from an Air National Guard unit based in Fargo, North Dakota, took over the escort mission, and stayed with the plane (four hours) until it crashed. The Air Force says additional F-16s were also scrambled from the Oklahoma Air National Guard unit in Tulsa, but were not used because the Fargo planes arrived first. (See mid page Troubled Plane Shadowed by Military Planes) {Source}

All this for one small executive jet off course. And yet, according to the government, not one military plane was able to get up on September 11, 2001 and escort all of these errant planes, in the twenty-five minutes before the first plane slammed into the WTC tower and the one hour and fifty-three minutes until the last plane “crashed” into the ground in Pennsylvania!

This is from the Otis Air National Guard, in Falmouth, Massachuesetts 102nd Fighter Wing’s mission statement of September 11, 2001. “Our aircraft and their crews are on continuous 24-hour, 365-day alert to guard our skies. The 102nd Fighter Wing’s area of responsibility includes over 500,000 square miles, 90 million people, and the major industrial centers of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.”

From Otis to the World Trade Center is a 10 to 12 minute flight for these military planes.

Condi Rice stated, “We had no idea that planes could be used as missiles”. Then why at the G8 summit in the summer of 2001, were there counter-measures taken to thwart this type of threat? Did she not know about these? She is the National Security Advisor and she says she did not know! Did she ever study history? Planes were used, by diving bombing into ships in WWII. Recently a plane was flown into the White House. Either she is lying or she does not have enough brainpower, (or imagination) to be the National Security Advisor.

These are the only questions I want answered now. After those have been answered, then it is time for this administration to answer how this happened! And why!

To say that we did not have warnings, specific enough to take action to protect America, is a outright lie, and any thinking person knows it.

If the news tells me that there are dangerous felons who have escaped from prison and they are heading my way, I will lock my doors, get out the guns and bring the dogs into the house…..I will do everything I can think of to protect my family. Good God, these people get paid to protect America and they can’t do what any reasonable person would do!