Fw:NORAD Shrugged?

By way of the sadly named blog
mckinneysucks.blogspot.com:

:: Thursday, June 20, 2002 ::

The myth of NORAD's non-response on 9/11. One of the
prominent 
arguments
made by Government Foreknowledge/Complicity theorists
is that the
standing FAA/NORAD procedures for intercepting wayward
civilian 
aircraft
were not followed, which means that our air defense
system had to have
been "stood down" - an act which would have required
intervention from
the highest levels.

Damian Penny addresses this assertion, also made by
one of Canada's own
media mental patients, Barry Zwicker, with today's
report that this 
same
system failed to intercept a Cessna that violated
White House airspace
late yesterday. He might also have mentioned the case
of Charles Bishop
whose own suicidal crash into a Tampa building fialed
to elicit a
military intercept until 45 minutes after he had taken
off without
authorization.

Zwicker cites an NBC report - aired just hours after
the attacks 
occurred
- which stated that no jets were sortied until after
the attack on the
Pentagon. This statement is directly contradicted by
NORAD, whose 
website
posted the timelines of their response to all four
hijackings:

American Airlines Flight 11 ? Boston enroute to Los
Angeles
FAA Notification to NEADS 0840*
Fighter Scramble Order (Otis Air National Guard Base,
Falmouth, Mass. 
Two
F-15s) 0846**
Fighters Airborne 0852
Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 1) 0846
(estimated)***
Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location
Aircraft not
airborne/153 miles 

United Airlines Flight 175 ? Boston enroute to Los
Angeles
FAA Notification to NEADS 0843
Fighter Scramble Order (Otis ANGB, Falmouth, Mass. 
Same 2 F-15s as Flight 11) 0846
Fighters Airborne 0852
Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 2) 0902
(estimated)
Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location
approx 8 min****/71
miles

American Flight 77 ?Dulles enroute to Los Angeles
FAA Notification to NEADS 0924
Fighter Scramble Order (Langley AFB, Hampton, Va.
2 F-16s) 0924
Fighters Airborne 0930
Airline Impact Time (Pentagon) 0937(estimated)
Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location
approx 12 min/105
miles

United Flight 93 ? Newark to San Francisco
FAA Notification to NEADS N/A *****
Fighter Scramble Order (Langley F-16s already airborne
for AA Flt 77)
Fighters Airborne (Langley F-16 CAP remains in place
to protect DC)
Airline Impact Time (Pennsylvania) 1003 (estimated)
Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location
approx 11 min/100
miles 
(from DC F-16 CAP)

[....]

Other versions of this flavor of conspiracy theory
reject the evidence
that NORAD responded before the Pentagon was hit as a
"cover story" 
which
is contradicted by initial reports. Reasonable people
understand that 
in
a crisis, first reports are often wrong, but to these
mental 
defectives,
those initial reports are the Freudian slips that
emanate the truth, 
and
anything reported after reflection is part of a cover
up.

[....]

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