Evan Ravitz
9/11 "Smoking Gun": NORAD's own press release
Mon Apr 12, 2004 14:16
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Subject: 9/11 "Smoking Gun": NORAD's own press release
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:04:30 -0600 (MDT)
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz
To: People@vote.org


Friends, Boulderites, Countryfolk, your ears!

I'm forwarding this message everywhere because understanding the
9/11 attacks is the most important issue of our time, and I've seen
no analysis as succinct as mine below. Please distribute it widely
-perhaps with the first paragraph and last sentence deleted- and
contact your representatives and the 9/11 Commissioners
( http://www.9-11commission.gov/  ) Thank you -Evan Ravitz

A very interesting video by Barry Zwicker (see
http://www.viewerplus.com/product.asp?Stat=Vision&ID=12043 )
regarding unanswered questions about the 9/11 attacks will be shown
at the St. Johns Episcopal Church annex (just East of the main
church) at 7PM this Thursday April 15. We will talk afterward and
write letters to our representatives in Washington.

To me the most obvious flaw in the official story of what happened
on 9/11 is: what happened to our air defences? Since 1958 NORAD
(North American Aerospace Defence Command) and later the FAA
(Federal Aviation Administration) have maintained a seamless
constant watch on everything that flies, in air or outer space, and
send jet fighters to chase any plane off course. In the year before
9/11 they chased 67 planes. Sometimes they've chased flocks of
birds which looked like planes on radar.

Yet, on 9/11, the only time in history that 4 planes were hijacked,
no jets flew until far too late, from far too far away, at far to
slow a speed. NORAD's own 9/18 press release is the "smoking gun":

http://www.norad.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.news_rel_09_18_01

It shows near the top that the jets traveled at 9 miles a minute or
mach .9 or 540 mph. Yet the F-16s involved can go 1500mph and the
F-15s involved can go 1870mph!

It shows the 2 F-15s which "chased" the 2 planes headed for the WTC
left from Otis AFB on Cape Cod, 153 miles away. Yet, no planes left
McGuire AFB in NJ, only 70 miles away, though fully ready.

It shows the 2 F-16s which "chased" the plane headed for the
Pentagon left from Langely AFB in VA, 105 miles away. Yet, no
planes left Andrews AFB in DC, 10 miles away, though fully ready.

(another "smoking gun" is that the DC Air National Guard -at
Andrews AFB- "mission statement" was changed on Sept. 12: It used
to read "DC Air National Guard mission: To provide combat units in
the highest state of readiness." They made it far tamer, and now
seem to have eliminated the "mission" page altogether. You can see
the story at:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/nodate/dchanghomepage.html )

The Pentagon also has its own radar and, supposedly, antiaircraft
missiles -but this information is classified. If the $500 billion a
year "Defense" Department can't defend the Pentagon, what can it
defend?

The Norad press release also shows the FAA notified NEADS
(Northeast Air Defence Sector, part of NORAD) of the 2 planes
headed for the WTC at 8:40 and 8:43. Yet, there was evidence as
early as 8:13 that Flight 11 was hijacked: according to journalist
Will Thomas -formerly of Boulder (see www.WillThomas.net ) Boston
Air Traffic Control both heard Middle Eastern voices in the cockpit
shouting "Nobody do anything stupid!" and saw that flight 11 had
stopped climbing as per their flight plan. His audio book "Stand
down" has the recording of the cockpit voices.

Certainly, at 8:20, when the transponder (locator) was turned off
on Flight 11 (see testimony of NORAD's Col. Alan Scott to the 9/11
Commission at http://www.danford.net/testimon.htm ), NORAD should
have known directly.

There were 2 other ways authorities should have known much earlier:
radar shows whenever planes are off-course, and at least 2 flight
attendants made calls to their airlines saying they were hijacked,
which have been aired on the media.

Our jets should have easily caught all the planes and circled them
awaiting orders from the president to shoot them down. (Bush
continued to read to children at a Florida school, after having
been notified!) Since the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily
Briefing released by the White House on Saturday 4/10, titled "Bin
Ladin Determined to Strike in US" says Bin Ladin "would follow the
example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef" and mentions
"hijack a US aircraft", when the planes headed straight for the
WTC, they should have been shot down. Richard Clark warned of
planes used as missiles on Jan. 25.

There are many other unanswered questions about what really
happened on 9/11, which are all over the internet. I hope you will
join us to see the video, talk and write letters to Reps. Udall and
DeGette asking for further investigation.

Evan

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