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topic: planes-as-missiles before 9/11.... sorted by: most recent to past
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| 1 | NORAD exercise had jet crashing into building | archived: ref 93 |
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| CNN April 19, 2004 |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sometime between 1991 and 2001, a regional sector of the North American Aerospace Defense Command simulated a foreign hijacked airliner crashing into a building in the United States as part of training exercise scenario, a NORAD spokesman said Monday. | |||||
| 2 | The Plot | archived: ref 150 |
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| LA Times September 1, 2002 |
The plans were left behind on a Toshiba laptop. They included a plot to assassinate the pope and another audacious scheme to board a dozen American jumbo jets, place homemade bombs aboard them and blow them up over the Pacific. Yet another plan on the computer called for the terrorists to dive-bomb an airplane into CIA headquarters. | |||||
| 3 | Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building | archived: ref 472 |
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| AP August 21, 2002 |
WASHINGTON ó In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident. | |||||
| 4 | Press Briefing | archived: ref 97 |
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| White House web site May 16, 2002 |
Q Dr. Rice, are you aware of the reports at the time that -- was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th, $100,000 was wired to Pakistan to this group here in this area? While he was here meeting with you or anybody in the administration? DR. RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with me. |
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| 5 | National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing | archived: ref 289 |
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| White House website May 16, 2002 |
Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane -- people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people. But I think that there's always a fine balance, but even in retrospect, even in hindsight, there was nothing in what was briefed to the President that would suggest that you would go out and say to the American people, look, I just read that terrorists might hijack and aircraft. | |||||
| 6 | 1996 Olympic Games warned of air threat | archived: ref 250 |
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| Chicago Tribune November 18, 2001 |
WASHINGTON -- Five years before the World Trade Center towers toppled, U.S. authorities had identified crop dusters and suicide flights as potential terrorist weapons, taking steps to avert an attack from the air during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. | |||||