Loose Change

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March 13th, 1962.

Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presents a proposal to

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, named Operation Northwoods.

The document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay to

provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.

The plans included starting rumors about Cuba using clandestine radio, landing

friendly Cubans inside the base to stage attacks, starting riots at the main

gate,

blowing up ammunition inside the base, starting fires, sabotaging aircraft and

ships on the base, bombing the base with mortar shells, sinking a ship outside

the entrance, staging funerals for mock victims, staging a terror campaign in

Miami, Florida and Washington, D .C., and finally, destroying a drone aircraft

over Cuban waters.

The passengers, federal agents in reality, would allegedly be college

on vacation.

A plane at Eglin Air Force Base would be painted and numbered as a duplicate of

a registered civil aircraft belonging to a CIA front in Miami.

The duplicate would be substituted for the real plane and loaded with the

passengers. The real plane would be converted into a drone. The two planes

rendezvous south of Florida. The passenger -laden plane would land at

Force Base to evacuate its passengers and return to its original status.

The drone would pick up the scheduled flight plan and, over Cuban waters,

transmit a mayday signal before being blown up by remote control.

The plan is rejected by McNamara, and President John F. Kennedy personally

removes Lemnitzer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

December 1st, 1984.

A remote -controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base and is

crash -landed by NASA for fuel research.

Before its destruction, the plane flew a total of 16 hours and 22 minutes,

including 10 takeoffs, 69 approaches, and 13 landings.

August, 1997.

The cover of FEMA's Emergency Response to Terrorism depicts the World Trade

Center in crosshairs.

February 28, 1998.

The Global Hawk, Raytheon's unmanned aircraft vehicle, completes its first

flight over Edwards Air Force Base in California at an altitude of 32 ,000

cruising altitude for a commercial jetliner.

1999.

NORAD begins conducting exercises in which hijacked airliners are flown into

World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

June 2000.

The Department of Justice releases the Terrorism Manual with the World Trade

Center in crosshairs.

September 2000.

The Project for a New American Century, a neoconservative think tank whose

members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz,

releases their report, entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses.

In it, they declare that The process of transformation, even if it brings

revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and

catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.

October 24, 2000.

The Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises called MASCAL, which

simulate a Boeing 757 crashing into the building.

Charles Burlingame, an ex -Navy F -4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon,

participates in this exercise before retiring to take a job at American

Airlines. where, less than a year later, his Boeing 757 allegedly crashes into

the building.

April, 2001.

NORAD plans an exercise in which a plane is flown into the Pentagon, but is

rejected at too unrealistic.

June, 2001.

The Department of Defense initiates new instructions for military intervention

in the case of a hijacking. It states that for all non -immediate responses,

Department of Defense must get permission directly from the Secretary

Defense.

Attorney General John Ashcroft begins flying on charter jets for the remainder

of his term due to a threat assessment by the FBI.

July 4th, 2001.

Osama Bin Laden, wanted by the United States since 1998, receives medical

attention at the American Hospital in Dubai, where he is visited by a local

chief of the CIA.

July 24th, 2001.

Larry A. Silverstein, who already owned World Trade Center 7, signs a $3 .2

billion 99 -year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex six weeks

9 -11.

Included in the lease is a $3 .5 billion insurance policy, specifically covering

acts of terrorism.

September 6, 2001, 3 ,150 put options are placed on United Airlines stocks.

A put option is a bet that a stock will fall.

That day, put options were more than four times its daily average.

Bomb -sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade Center, and security guards

end two weeks of 12 -hour shifts.

September 7, 2001.

27 ,294 put options are placed on Boeing stocks, more than five times the daily

average.

September 10, 2001.

4 ,516 put options are placed on American Airlines, almost 11 times its

average.

Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon brass canceled their flight

for the next morning.

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to

the next morning.

Pacifica Radio later reveals that this phone call came directly from National

Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

And in Pakistan, at a military hospital, all of the urologists are replaced by a

special team in order to host their guest of honor, Osama bin Laden.

who is carefully escorted inside to be watched carefully and looked after.

September 11, 2001 The National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly,

is preparing for an exercise in which a small corporate jet crashes into their

building.

NORAD is in the middle of a number of military exercises.

The first, Vigilant Guardian, is described as an exercise that would pose

imaginary crisis to North American air defense outposts nationwide.

The second, northern vigilance, moved fighter jets to Canada and Alaska to

off an imaginary Russian fleet.

Three F -16s from Washington, D .C.'s National Guard at Andrews Air Force

15 miles from the Pentagon, are flown 180 nautical miles away for a training

mission in North Carolina.

This left 14 fighter jets to protect the entire United States.

The first question I have is basically to get from you a sense of how you would

rate the American media in their coverage of the events of the attack

September. Well, let's see.

Shamefully is a word that comes to mind.

This just in, you were looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot

That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning

that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.

But overall, the American journalism was cowed and intimidated by this massive

flag -sucking, this patriotic orgy. You know, if you criticize the president,

it's unpatriotic. If there's something wrong with you, you may be a terrorist.

So in that sense, Hunter S. Thompson, there's not enough room for dissenting

voices? Well, there's plenty of room.

People are willing to take the risk.

Jim, I don't know whether we've confirmed that this was an air draft, or

more specific, some people said they thought...

There was definitely a blue logo. It was like a circular logo on the front of

the plane.

It definitely did not look like a commercial plane. I didn't see any

the side.

Mark, if what you say is true, those could be cargo planes. You said you

see any windows in the side?

I didn't see any windows on the side. It was not a normal flight that I've ever

seen at an airport. It was a plane that had a blue logo on the front, and it

just did not look like it belonged in this area.

It's just sort of a herd mentality, a lemming -like mentality.

If you don't go with the flow, you're anti -American, therefore a suspect.

This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. You can

see the firemen assembled here, the police officers, FBI agents, and you can

the two towers.

A huge explosion now, raining debris on all of us. We better get out of the way!

You sort of wonder when something like that happens, well, who stands to

benefit? You know, who had the opportunity and the motive?

You just kind of look at these basic things. I don't assume that I know the

truth about what went on that day. And, yeah, I'm just looking around and

looking for, well, who had the motive? Who had the opportunity?

Who had the equipment?

Who had the will?

Well, the White House and the campaign,

I don't know enough people who do these things to know that the public version

of the news is never right with them. And these people, I think, are willing

take that even further.

It seems a very long bow to me, but are you sort of suggesting that this works

in the favour of the Bush administration?

Oh, absolutely.

938, Arlington, Virginia.

Hani Hanyor allegedly executes a 330 degree turn at 530 miles per hour.

Descending 7 ,000 feet in two and a half minutes to crash American Airlines

Flight 77 into the ground floor of the Pentagon.

The final approach took it directly across Interstate 395.

Knocking white poles out of the ground and bouncing off of the lawn before

impact.

First, let's meet Hani Hanyor.

Hanyor had come to Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland one month earlier

to rent a small plane.

However, when Hanyor went on three test runs in the second week of August, He

had trouble controlling and landing a single -engine Cessna 1782.

Well, my name is Marcel Bernard, and I'm the chief flight instructor here at

Freeway. Well,

basically what happened with him is he showed up at the airport and wanted to

get checked out in the aircraft.

See, he was already certified.

He didn't come to us for flight training.

He had already earned...

His private instrument commercial at a school in Arizona, and I don't remember

the name of the school, but it already had certificates in hand.

And we sometimes occasionally have pilots that come to us that don't want

training but just want to rent our aircraft.

Which is the case of Hany Heiner. Which is the case of Hany. He wanted to get

checked out, as we call it, to rent our aircraft. And our insurance requires

that he flies with one of our instructors to be found competent to

And that was the process that he was going through.

Regardless?

Air traffic controllers at Dulles International Airport that were tracking

Flight 77 all thought that it was a military plane.

Second, the light poles.

On November 22, 2004, a private jet en route to Houston to pick up George Bush

Sr. clipped a single light pole and crashed a minute away from landing at

Houston's Hobby Airport.

The wing ripped off upon impact, scattering debris over 100 yards.

And yet...

Flight 77 managed to tear five light poles completely out of the ground

damaging either the wings or the light poles themselves.

Instead, they seem to have just popped out of the ground.

Third, you only have to look at the photos from that day to realize that

whatever hit the Pentagon did not bounce off the lawn.

If Flight 77 had crash landed and skidded into the Pentagon, it would have

looked like this.

Instead, it looked like this, without a single scratch on the launch.

Fourth, why is there absolutely no trace of Flight 77?

You know, it might have appeared that way, but from my close -up inspection,