On the evening of September 11, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world. The people who perpetrate it have no regard whatsoever for the sanctity or value of human life, and we the democracies of the world must come together to defeat it and […]
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Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] immediately invoked Article 5, which meant that all nations that had signed onto the NATO agreement were now joined together in united military operations.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 143 […]
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Vice President Dick Cheney was in a bunker beneath the White House on the morning of September 11, 2001, when an unidentified aircraft was located 80 miles away from Washington, D.C.: “A military aide asked Cheney for authorization to take out the aircraft. Cheney gave it without hesitating. The military aide seemed surprised that the answer […]
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Speaking from the White House at 8:30 p.m. on September 11, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.’ It was the first articulation of a policy that would come to be known throughout the world as the Bush doctrine.” – […]
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On September 11, 2001, “At 10:39 AM, [Vice President Dick] Cheney spoke to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for the first time [following the terrorist attacks]. He reviewed the events of the past hour. ‘There’s been at least three instances here where we’ve had reports of aircraft approaching Washington,’ said Cheney. ‘A couple were confirmed […]
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“According to the government, UA [United Airlines Flight] 93 crashes at 10:03 [on September 11, 2001], just north of the Somerset County Airport, about eighty miles southeast of Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania], 124 miles or fifteen minutes from Washington, D.C. The [cockpit voice] recording appears to end a minute before the official crash time. But a U.S. […]
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At 9:56 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “The president [Bush] leaves Sarasota, Florida. He later says that he doesn’t make any major decisions about how to respond to the 9/11 attacks until he’s in his airborne command center. This means, in effect, that the commander in chief takes almost fifty minutes after being informed that […]
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At 9:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “UA [United Airlines Flight] 175 hits the WTC’s South Tower. As millions watch on TV, at least one hundred people are killed or injured on impact; another six hundred eventually die.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 234 […]
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“According to the [9/11] Commission, Boston flight control contacts NEADS/NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Northeast Air Defense Sector] at this time [8:38 a.m. on September 11, 2001] to inform them that AA [American Airlines Flight] 11 has been hijacked. Lt. Colonel Dawne Deskins, the mission crew chief for Vigilant Guardian [a war game taking […]
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At 8:20 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “Boston flight control decides that Flight 11 has probably been hijacked. The protocol calls for NORAD to be notified immediately, but the [9/11] Commission says that the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] doesn’t inform the North American Air Defense Command until 8:38 a.m., eighteen minutes later.” – Peter Lance, […]