ok - so ive been meaning to write for a week about this weeks upcoming 911comm hearings cos they are gonna be looking at norad and all that. for those who arent yet convinced that the whole thing is a whitewash, the fact that they are looking at norad's role (and stand-down) just a month before the delivery of the
report should be proof enough. the norad thing is one of the most damning elements of the whole story. (the fact that the entire commission is based on the assumption that 'obl did it' is the most egregious 'error')

a quick recap of the norad thing - most flights that go off-radar for any reason are quickly attended by a fighter jet - usually in about 15 minutes. this sort of thing apparently happens all the time for a variety of reasons. on 911, hijacked planes were flying around 90 minutes before they got any attention. the jets that were finally put in the sky came from an airfield miles away (not the closest) and actually flew at something like 40% of their top speed - ensuring that they wouldnt be where they needed to be. the other important element of the stand-down which nobody seems to appreciate much, is that if we assume that 911 was reasonably planned, then the hijackers must have expected to be intercepted
by the jets - they must have expected that they'd only have a max of 15 mins to hit their targets - in no plan would it have ma de sense to think they could fly half way round the country for 90 mins before hitting their targets. any normal plan would have the planes hijacked simultaneously and headed straight for their
targets. even the 15 mins difference between the 2 wtc hits is outside the entire expected notification-to-inteception interval.

you might remember the odd story that the pentagon was actually carrying out an exercise on 91101 where they envisaged a hijacked plane crashing into buildings. this story has largely been used as evidence that condi was wrong when she sed 'we never imagined...' but ive been wondering whether this 'exercise' might come out in the 911comm as the excuse for not putting jets into the sky "we thought it was an exercise" - that would be a reasonablish-sounding excuse, albeit a 'tragic coincidence' - the problem is that it raises the question about whether
boogeybinladen might have had inside word that the training exercise was on that day.

just in time, we get this article "Bin Laden's plan was to strike before September 11"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41841-2004Jun14.html,
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=531944 et al

"That scenario would mark a dramatic revision of the commonly understood narrative of the Sept. 11 attacks and contrasts sharply with prevailing theories of FBI agents investigating the plot."
we know what i think of dramatic revelations, 34 months later...

"Analysts who have pored over the hijackers' computer and e-mail records believe they carefully researched flight plans and schedules, and specifically selected Boeing 757 and 767 jets, on which they had trained. This was more important than the choice of a particular airport."
as far as i know, most plane schedules use a specific plane per route - eg the 8.45 from logan to lax is generally the same type of plane every flight.(?)
apparently this alqacell had been working on the plan for 2 years or some such, and yet they were checking random routes to find 757/767s just 2 weeks before the attack and hoped that they could find four planes of the right type within a few minutes of each other, and within striking distance of their targets (and
this is after the operation is already a few months late). and given the expected time-constraints wrt norad mentioned above, the idea that the specific airport was irrelevant seems mucho dubiouso, ergo we can assume that we are being told it for a reason...

"The new evidence indicates that the original timing of the attacks was postponed for readiness reasons and not in reaction to heightened security in the early summer of 2001"
its not exactly sure what sort of readiness was required - they already knew how to fly the planes, and they didnt apparently do any/much airport recon, given that the ariport didnt matter much. "they're not only looking at Boston, Newark and Dulles,"

"a half-dozen hijackers had flown as passengers in reconnaissance missions earlier in the summer." even though they still hadnt decided which flights or airports to use by aug2501 so one wonders exactly what these recon flights actually achieved. praps they were just checking out the floorplan of the 757/767 - altho if u'd been preparing for a couple of years, you'd prolly wanna
have some familiarity with the plane way way in advance - not at the last minute. it seems 13 of the hijackers didnt need any recon flights.

remember way back in the old days when we were told that they specifically chose east/west coast flights to ensure the maximium fuel/explosion - this latest news puts some of that logic under question given that neither the departure airport nor the flight seemed to matter - they dont bother mentioning the destination
airport. this might have something to do with the fact that the 'international fire engineers association' or whatever they are called have stated categorically that the heat required to collapse the wtc buildings was about 3 times higher than the highest estimates for the exploding fuel.

"The leading hijackers began flying transcontinental routes passing through Las Vegas, according to evidence compiled by FBI investigators." heres that odd vegas reference again - apparently totally superflous, again. you might remember my guess for the october surprise is a nuke in vegas... ashcroft will be so happy.

we also get this trite observation:
"This is an example of al Qaeda postponing something and carrying it through with great success," said Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, died at the World Trade Center. "This means they follow through, and I hope we learn from that."

the next 2 days at 911comm might also throw some light on the purpose of this recently 'uncovered' email
http://www.pogo.org/p/homeland/hl-040402-homelandsecurity.html from a mr tropes sent @ 12.34 sep18 which i discussed when it was released in april.

id like to say that the next 36 hours will be interesting - but i doubt anything interesting will happen. the most interesting things will be the ones that dont happen (and to see the purpose of this latest info).

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