AMERICAN MILITARY ORDERED TO STAND DOWN ON 9/11/01

[AmariYah]

Stand Down

Exposing NORAD's Wag The 911 Window Dressing Tale

by Mark R. Elsis, Lovearth.net, January 8, 2003

"In the beginning of a change,

the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned.

When his cause succeeds however,

the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

Mark Twain

"Fear not the path of truth,

for the lack of people walking on it."

http://Robert FKennedy.net

(StandDown.net is printable as is, 33 pages)

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Breaking News

Federal Lawsuit: Ellen Mariani (911 Widow) vs. Bush

The "Summary of Facts" will set the foundation to support Plaintiff Counts as set forth herein. A complete highly researched timelines of "911" by American Citizen Mark R. Elsis ( http://911Timeline.net and http://StandDown.net ) who has agreed to testify to his research on behalf of Plaintiff, and believed to be one of the "most comprehensive minute by minute accounts of the events of "911".

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9-11 Commission Subpoenas FAA and NORAD

911 Commission Subpoenas FAA

http://StandDown.net/911commissionsubpoenasfaa.htm

911 Commission Subpoenas NORAD

http://StandDown.net/911commissionsubpoenasnorad.htm

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Planes That Flew Too Close To The White House

Private Plane Flew Too Close To The White House

http://StandDown.net/privateplaneflewtoocl...ewhitehouse.htm

Cessna 182 Flew Too Close To The White House

http://StandDown.net/cessna182flewtooclose...ewhitehouse.htm

Frontier 737 Flew Too Close To The White House

http://StandDown.net/frontier737flewtooclo...ewhitehouse.htm

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Stand Down is dedicated to Scott Shuger. Scott was known as the first Internet reporter. He was also the only mainstream or alternative media writer, besides myself, who had the courage to write about the elementary mathematical facts (that the two United States Air Force (USAF) F-15 fighters ordered to intercept United Airlines Flight 175 and the two or three USAF F-16 fighters ordered to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 were flying at only 25.8% and 27.4% of their top speed) of the NORAD Press Release of September 18, 2001. Scott's article is called IGNORAD The Military Screw-up Nobody Talks About. Scott Shuger died in a scuba diving accident June 15, 2002.

IGNORAD

The Military Screw-up Nobody Talks About

by Scott Shugar

http://AttackOnAmerica.net/IGNORAD.htm

With a minute-by-minute chronology from 7:59 a.m. till 10:06:05 a.m., this article will dismantle the Wednesday September 18, 2001 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Press Release. This press release encompasses the (supposed) response times of the United States Air Force on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

This article will explain to you exactly what happened for the almost one hour and fifty-three minutes that elapsed between the time American Airlines Flight 11 lost voice contact with air traffic control and was hijacked at 8:13:31, till the time United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:06:05.

NORAD Press Release: http://StandDown.net/NORADSeptember182001PressRelease.htm

AP Article On NORAD PR:

http://www.AttackOnAmerica.net/8MinutesAway.htm

Also, when reading this article, please keep in mind the following five very significant pieces of information.

1) The United States Government will spend more on the military in fiscal year 2003, than all the rest of the countries on Earth combined. Current expenditures are 437 billion and our past obligations are 339 billion, this equals 776 billion. Forty-six percent of our Taxes go to the Military Industrial Complex: http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm This figure doesn

[AmariYah]

If anyone is truly interested the rest of standdown.net/ gives a minute by minute breakdown of the events that transpired on Sept. 11 2001.

[AmariYah]

NORAD 911 Stand Down Math for Dummies

Is a short synopsis of:

Stand Down

Exposing NORAD's Wag The 911 Window Dressing Tale

http://StandDown.net

by Mark Elsis

AP Article On NORAD PR: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...-jets0919.story

NORAD Press Release: http://StandDown.net/NORADSeptember182001PressRelease.htm

8:13:31: American Airlines Flight 11 (AA11) last transmission with Boston Air Traffic Control (ATC).

8:13:32 to 8:20: AA11 goes off course and is hijacked.

8:20: AA 11 transponder signal stops.

8:36: NORAD spokesman, Major Mike Snyder, confirmed that the FAA notified NORAD of AA 11 hijacking.

8:38: Boston ATC notifies NORAD that AA11 has been hijacked.

8:39: AA11 flies directly over our # 1 terrorist target, Indian Point nuclear stations.

8:40: FAA notifies NORAD that AA11 has been hijacked.

8:43: FAA notifies NORAD that United Airlines Flight 175 (UA175) has been hijacked.

8:46:26: AA11 impacts the North Tower of the WTC between the 94th and 98th floors.

8:46: NORAD finally orders Otis to scramble two F-15's. NORAD has held on to this vital information for at least 6, 8 or 10 minutes, and probably up to 26 or 32 minutes.

8:52: Two F-15's from Otis are airborne.

9:02:54: UA175 impacts the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors. NORAD says the F-15's from Otis are still 71 miles away. This means their average flight speed was only 23.9% of their top speed in trying to intercept UA 175. Otis is 153 miles from WTC - F-15's have a top speed of 1875 MPH. Minus 71 miles from 153 miles = 82 miles covered in 11 minutes from 8:52 to 9:03 -

60 minutes divided by 11 minutes = 5.45 x 82 miles = 447.3 MPH divided by 1875 MPH = 23.9%.

9:30: Three F-16's from Langley are airborne.

9:37: American Airlines Flight 77 hits the Pentagon. NORAD says the F-16's from Langley were still 105 miles and 12 minutes away.

9:49: It takes the F-16's from Langley 19 minutes to reach Washington. This means their average flight speed was only 27.4% of their top speed in trying to protect our nations capital. Langley is 130 miles from the Pentagon - F-16's have a top speed of 1500 MPH - 60 minutes divided by 19 minutes = 3.16 x 130 miles = 410.5 MPH divided by 1500 MPH = 27.4%.

Andrews Air Force Base has two fighter wings that are 10 miles from the Pentagon, yet they inconceivably waited till after all of the attacks were over to finally get airborne.

The United States will spend more on the military in fiscal year 2003 (at least 396 billion) than the next 25 biggest countries combined. Also, the United States Air Force is by far and away the most technologically advanced and dominate military force ever known to man. So knowing all of these facts, what type of a preposterous wag the NORAD Reponse Times tale is this?

[AmariYah]

NORAD Stand-Down

The Prevention of Interceptions of the Commandeered Planes

It is standard operating procedure (SOP) to scramble jet fighters whenever a jetliner goes off course or radio contact with it is lost. Between September 2000 and June 2001, fighters were scrambled 67 times. 1

There are several elements involved in domestic air defense. The air traffic control system continuously monitors air traffic and notifies NORAD of any deviations of any aircraft from their flight-paths or loss of radio contact. NORAD monitors air and space traffic continuously and is prepared to react immediately to threats and emergencies. It has the authority to order units from the Air National Guard, the Air Force, or other armed services to scramble fighters in pursuit of jetliners in trouble.

Routine interception procedures were not followed on September 11th, 2001. This can be seen clearly by comparing incidents.

A Case for Comparison

An example of how the air defense network normally responds to domestic emergencies is illustrated by the well-reported 1999 case of Payne Stewart's Lear jet. When the golfer's jet failed to respond to air traffic controller communications, F-16 interceptors were quickly dispatched. According to an Air Force timeline, a series of military planes provided an emergency escort to Payne's stricken Learjet starting about 20 minutes after contact with his plane was lost. 2

This contrasts with the long periods of time apparently hijacked planes roamed the skies of the Northeast on September 11th without any interceptions. 83 minutes elapsed between the time that Flight 11 veered off course and the Pentagon was hit, and 112 minutes elapsed between the time that contact was lost with Flight 11 and Flight 93 crashed. According to the official story, not a single fighter was scrambled in time to intercept any of the four jetliners. At least 28 air stations were easily within distance to protect New York City and Washington DC. 3 None of them did. Note that, if anything, intercept times for the four jetliners should have been far shorter than for Payne Stewart's jet:

Stewart's jet merely failed to respond to communications. Each of the four jetliners, in addition to going silent, veered dramatically off course and switched off their transponders.

Stewart's jet went off course in the South, which has fewer air defense stations than the NorthEast corridor.

Air traffic controllers more carefully monitor large passenger aircraft in crowded air corridors than small private aircraft.

Stewart's jet went off-course at 45,000 feet, 10,000 feet higher than jetliners fly.

After the first hijacking, the air traffic controllers, the FAA, and NORAD should have been prepared to respond immediately to subsequent off-course aircraft.

Layered Failures

The air defense network had, on September 11th, predictable and effective procedures for dealing with just such an attack. Yet it failed to respond in a timely manner until after the attack was over, more than an hour and a half after it had started. The official timeline describes a series of events and mode of response in which the delays are spread out into a number of areas. There are failures upon failures, in what might be described as a strategy of layered failures, or failure in depth. The failures can be divided into four types.

Failures to report: Based on the official timeline, the FAA response times for reporting the deviating aircraft were many times longer than the prescribed times.

Failures to scramble: NORAD, once notified of the off-course aircraft, failed to scramble jets from the nearest bases.

Failures to intercept: Once airborne, interceptors failed to reach their targets because they flew at small fractions of their top speeds.

Failures to redeploy: Fighters that were airborne and within interception range of the deviating aircraft were not redeployed to pursue them.

Had not there been multiple failures of each type, one or more parts of the attack could have been thwarted. NORAD had time to protect the World Trade Center even given the unbelievably late time, 8:40, when it claims to have first been notified. It had time to protect the South Tower and Washington even given its bizarre choice of bases to scramble. And it still had ample opportunity to protect both New York City and Washington even if it insisted that all interceptors fly subsonic, simply by redeploying airborne fighters.

Failures to Report

Comparing NORAD's timeline to reports from air traffic control reveals inexplicable delays in the times the FAA took to report deviating aircraft. The delays include an 18-minute delay in reporting Flight 11 and a 39-minute delay in reporting Flight 77. The delays are made all the more suspicious given that, in each case, the plane failed to respond to communications, was off-course, and had stopped emitting its IFF signal.

Failures to Scramble

No plausible explanation has been provided for failing to scramble interceptors in a timely fashion from bases within easy range to protect the September 11th targets. Fighters that were dispatched were scrambled from distant bases. Early in the attack, when Flight 11 had turned directly south toward New York City, it was obvious that New York City and the World Trade Center, and Washington D.C. would be likely targets. Yet fighters were not scrambled from the bases near the targets. They were only scrambled from distant bases. Moreover there were no redundant or backup scrambles.

New York City

Flight 11 had been flying south toward New York City from about 8:30 AM. Yet no interceptors were scrambled from nearby Fort Dix or Laguardia, or from Langley, Virginia. Numerous other bases were not ordered to scramble fighters.

Washington D.C.

No interceptors were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base to protect the capital, at least not before the Pentagon was hit. Andrews Air Force Base had two squadrons of fighters on alert, and is only 10 miles from the Pentagon.

Failures to Intercept

Even though the interceptors were not dispatched from the most logical bases, the ones that were scrambled still had adequate time to reach their assigned planes. Why didn't they? Because they were only flying at a small fraction of their top speed. That is the conclusion implicit in NORAD's timeline.

Otis to the WTC

The first base to finally scramble interceptors was Otis in Falmouth, Massachusetts, at 8:52, about a half-hour after Flight 11 was taken over. This was already eight minutes after Flight 11 hit the North Tower, and just 9 minutes before Flight 175 hit the South Tower.

According to NORAD, at the time of the South Tower Impact the two F-15s from Otis were still 71 miles away. Otis is 153 miles east-northeast of the WTC. That means the F-15s were flying at: (153 miles - 71 miles)/(9:03 - 8:52) = 447 mph

That is around 23.8% of their top speed of 1875 mph.

At 9:11 the F-15s finally reached the World Trade Center. Their average speed for the trip was: 153/(9:11 - 8:52) = 483 mph

That is around 25.8% of their top speed.

Langley to the Pentagon

The F-16s from Langley reached the Pentagon at 9:49. It took them 19 minutes to reach Washington D.C. from Langley AFB, which is about 130 miles to the south. That means the F-16s were flying at: 130 miles/(9:49 - 9:30) = 410.5 mph

That is around 27.4% of their top speed of 1500 mph.

Andrews to the Pentagon

Andrews Air Force Base, located on the outskirts of the capital, is just over 10 miles from the Pentagon. One would have expected interceptors to be scrambled to protect the capital within a few minutes of the 8:15 loss of contact with Flight 11. Instead, no fighters from Andrews reached the Pentagon until 9:49, several minutes after the assault.

Failures to Redeploy

Fighters that were in the air when the attack started were not redeployed to intercept the deviating planes. When fighters scrambled to protect Manhattan arrived there too late, they were not redeployed to protect the capital even though they had plenty of time to reach it before the Pentagon was hit.

Long Island to Manhattan

Two F-15s flying off the coast of Long Island were not redeployed to Manhattan until after the second tower was hit. 4

WTC to the Pentagon

By the time the two F-15s from Otis reached Manhattan, the only jetliner still flying with its IFF transponder off had just made a 180-degree turn over southern Ohio and had been headed for Washington D.C. for 12 minutes. It was still 34 minutes before the Pentagon was hit. Had the fighters been sent to protect the capital, they could have traveled the approximately 300 miles in: 300 miles/1875 mph = 9.6 minutes

They even could have made it to the capital in time to protect the Pentagon if they had continued to fly at only 500 mph.

http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/norad/

[AmariYah]

Just a couple more links for the skeptics and hard-headed among us;

http://www.rense.com/general18/atcd.htm

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/cah911TL.htm

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.html

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm

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

[AmariYah]

And finally...

AirForceStanddown

The attack at the Pentagon took place in one of the most heavily guarded air spaces in the world.

The notion that Flight77 could fly into Washington and carry out the PentagonAttack unopposed, almost an hour after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, at a time when the FAA and NORAD know that more than 2 planes have been hijacked, is absurd. Of all the flights of 9/11, Flight 77 was the easiest to detect, the easiest to intercept, and given its supposed target, the most obvious to be intercepted.

Andrews Air Force base, ten miles from the Pentagon is home to two 'combat-ready' squadrons:

the 121st Fighter Squadron (FS-121) of the 113th Fighter Wing (FW-113), equipped with F-16 fighters;

the 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-321) of the 49th Marine Air Group, Detachment A (MAG-49 Det-A), equipped F/A-18 fighters. CBS (Cached)

F-15s can travel at speeds of 1875 mph while F-16s can travel at 1500 mph. FAS

There is evidence of a cover up.

The mission statement for the DC Air National Guard (DCANG) at Andrews used to read: 202

"DCANG MISSION: To provide combat units in the highest possible state of readiness."

On September 13th 2001 this Mission Statement was pulled, and a blander non-sequitur that mentions neither combat nor readiness. The base becomes, according to the website, home to a transport squadron only.

There is evidence that fighters accompanied at least one of the 9/11 flights:

The Nashua controllers have learned through discussions with other controllers that an F-16 fighter stayed in hot pursuit of another hijacked commercial airliner until it crashed in Pennsylvania, the employee said. Although controllers don't have complete details of the Air Force's chase of the Boeing 757, they have learned the F-16 made 360-degree turns to remain close to the commercial jet, the employee said. APFN Portland News

"Allah blinds the heathens' radar" scenario:

There are 4 active military radar sites within range of Washington.

There is evidence that at least some parts of the Air Force was told to stand down.

No hijacker in history has turned off a transponder:

The transponder broadacasts the plane's altitude and location.

The transponder is used by pilots to signal a hijacking.

Without the transponder, the aircraft does not show up on some smaller civilian radar, but still shows up on active military radar.

http://911review.org/Wiki/AirForceStanddown.shtml

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I just heard a very interesting interview with Stanley Hilton. I'm posting the transcript of that interview. If it is true and this lawsuite goes through, some interesting things may well come to light. This may well give some insite as to the stand down..... and more.

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Transcript: Alex Jones Interviews Stanley Hilton

The Alex Jones Show | September 13 2004

The MP3 of this interview is available at http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/091204hilton.htm

AJ: He is back with us. He is former Bob Dole

[Matthitjah]

Saint's,

I wanted to just add here that most of this compilation has been put together by a man named Mark R. Elsis. He has a website named Loveearth Network.

Here is an excerpt from his own biography;

Mission in Life; I seek and disseminate scientific and spiritual knowledge and wisdom to create awareness. That we are at the fork in the road in human evolution and that we are about to reach the Omega Point for our species. Within the next 5 to 10 years.

I am the Founder and Director of Loveearth Organization. Our intent is to create an awareness of the problems that are putting our species at the brink of Omega Point.The top problem being the all out destruction of the Rainforests and the 550 species in the web of life that are going extinct everyday because of this. When you fully recognize the severity of the Rainforests and extinctions problem? 100% logically and emotionally. The solutions then will pour out of you to tell others. When a unity of 1% of Humanity (60 Million people) Truly understand and are creating their own solutions to spread this to as many as possible. Something know as Universal Consciousness, The Hundredth Monkey or Morphic Resonance will occur. These 1% will act like tuning forks and resonate this to the other 99%.

Here is the link for his biography;

http://lovearth.net/mebio.jpg

I will now lock this as our Father is not the author of fear nor confusion.

Read this cautiously and with discernment. :il:

Peace,

Dave