9/11 - White House as Target - Explanations Explained

INVESTIGATION: Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Tuesday, 19 February 2002, 1:33 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor
SCOOP EDITORS NOTE: The following detailed analysis of the events of September 11th was submitted to Scoop by its author with a request that it be republished. It also appears at http://www.communitycurrency.org/MainIndexMX.html where the embedded references are formatted as hyperlinks. While this analysis follows closely in the footsteps of analysis from The Emperor’s New Clothes (tenc.net) it is considerably more complete and thorough in its scope. Like the TENC.NET analysis of 911 previously published by Scoop (see also...part 2 and part 3) and that of Michael Rowbotham, its implications are deeply disturbing.

Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
By MalcontentX

White House as Target
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00079.htm

Explanations Explained
Readers may recall (from Part 1A) that top White House officials repeatedly claimed, (on Sept 11 and 12) that Air Force One, (the President’s plane) was re-routed to Louisiana, then Nebraska on Sept 11, because there had been "credible evidence that Air Force One and the White House were targets."

As we have documented, this claim was later dismissed as false and/or irrelevant(!?) by those same top officials.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sept2001/bush-s28.shtml

It's the 'White House' aspect of this story that was also used to explain why the Pentagon was caught 'off-guard' in relation to Flight 77.

In response to reporters comments about radar data showing a direct path to the Pentagon, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said,

"That's not the radar data we have seen... the plane was headed for the White House."(CBS news, cited below)

Pentagon officials may have been trying to corroborate this when they said,

"Air Force Lt. Col. Vic Warzinski....The Pentagon was simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way."

"To call for a general evacuation, at that point, it would have been just guessing," said a Pentagon spokesman, Glenn Flood. "We evacuate when we know something is a real threat to us."(Newsday, ibid)

Vice-President Dick Cheney also makes his contribution,

"As best we can tell, they [the terrorists on Flight 77] came initially at the White House and... when it entered the danger zone and looked like it was headed for the White House was when they grabbed me and evacuated me to the basement..."

Cheney continues,

"...under these circumstances, they just move. They don't say "sir" or ask politely. They came in and said, "Sir, we have to leave immediately," and grabbed me and...

"MR. RUSSERT: Literally grabbed you and moved you?

"VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yeah. And, you know, your feet touch the floor periodically. But they're bigger than I am, and they hoisted me up and moved me very rapidly down the hallway, down some stairs, through some doors and down some more stairs into an underground facility under the White House, and, as a matter of fact, it's a corridor, locked at both ends..."

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?cp1=1

This colorful commentary from Cheney receives an interesting examination in the following article,

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm

comparing his "treatment" by the secret service with that of George. W Bush.

In great detail, the article shows that both Bush and the Secret Service knew about the first terrorist attack before Bush left the hotel in Sarasota Florida, (at about 8:55). The President should have been considered to be in relatively great danger. Terrorist planes were attacking buildings. His intinerary for the morning was well-known. In comparison to Cheney, he was out in the open. Yet absolutely no extra precautions were taken.

Cheney may have indeed been privy to a joy ride to the basement, but the treatment of George W. suggests that it was neither necessary nor consistent with the actual priorities of the secret service on that day.

The most descriptive of all the 'white-house-as-target' stories came from numerous voices in the mainstream press,

http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20010913/Story06.htm

"In the skies over the city flight AA77 was heading straight for the White House when at 9.38 it suddenly veered 270 degrees to right away from White House and headed towards the Pentagon, It crashed into the west side two minutes later."

"Just before the crash a civilian plane was filmed over the city apparently banking hard and there were reports of a military plane circling the US capital. Moments later, the Department of Defense was hit."

and The Washington Post, Sept. 12th

".. the jet was aimed directly at the president's mansion and was traveling at a gut-wrenching speed--full throttle.

"But just as the plane seemed to be on a suicide mission into the White House, the unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver.

The plane circled 270 degrees from the right to approach the Pentagon from the west, whereupon Flight 77 fell below radar level, vanishing from controller's screens, the sources said." pgs. 1 & 11

That sounds pretty confident, right? Is it unanimous?

Readers may recall an earlier report from Bob Orr, CBS Transportation Correspondent,

http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,310721-412,00.shtml

It says,

"New radar evidence obtained by CBS News strongly suggests that the hijacked jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon hit its intended target."

"Top government officials have suggested that American Airlines Flight 77 was originally headed for the White House and possibly circled the Capitol building. CBS News Transportation Correspondent Bob Orr reports that's not what the recorded flight path shows."

"Eight minutes before the crash, at 9:30 a.m. EDT, radar tracked the plane as it closed to within 30 miles of Washington. Sources say the hijacked jet continued east at a high speed toward the city, but flew several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White House."

"At 9:33, [it] crossed the Capital Beltway... flying at more than 400mph, [which] was too fast and high when it neared the Pentagon at 9:35. The hijacker pilots were then forced to execute a difficult high-speed descending turn."

"Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes."

"The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it’s clear there was no fight for control going on. And the complex maneuver suggests the hijacker had better flying skills than many investigators first believed."

"The jetliner disappeared from radar at 9:37 and less than a minute later it clipped the tops of street lights and ploughed into the Pentagon at 480mph."

Obviously, these two stories contradict one another, (although they both agree that a sharp turn was made).

One of them is clearly wrong.

Which one?

As Bob Orr shows in his report, the main source of the White-House-as-target story appears to be government officials.

Judging from the fact that,

these same White House officials already played big-time media-spin with the original story about Air Force One, (and White House) as being targets; and since,

CBS news is actually daring to openly contradict the White House position with evidence in hand, (albeit, after nobody cares); and since,

Bob Orr's report is the one with the most accurate timeline; and since,

Dick Cheney has shown himself not to be above making well-crafted lies,

it seems likely that the radar records do indeed show Flight 77 by-passing the White House no-fly zone, heading directly toward the Pentagon.

(NOTE: The term, "new", in the above article, may be journalistic-speak for facts which agree with what most experts and informed reporters already know to be correct -in spite of what the White House is saying.)

It appears far more likely, that White House officials concocted the White-House-as-target story in order to justify George W's absence from Washington for 9 & 1/2 hours, then found a ready excuse for the Pentagon not warning its own employees.

The presentation of this position, to explain why the Pentagon was caught 'off-guard,' merely masks the far more-important falsehood: the Pentagon claiming it was "not informed" about Flight 77 thirty-five minutes before.

As per usual, many in the mainstream media found it more convenient -simply to take the government pronouncements as fact, and reproduce them, (with an artistic flourish of a most consistent, clandestine kind).

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Unanswered Questions, Part 1F:
Military-Media Alliance

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Now that we have examined the events of Sept. 11th, and found, (in the realm of civilian air defence) a glaring, criminal negligence existing alongside the acts of terror...

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