WAR GAMES

"Is this real world or an exercise?"

 Unfortunately, for Air Traffic Controllers across the country and just under 3,000 unsuspecting Americans, it was both.

OPERATION NORTHERN VIGILANCE: Planned months in advance of 9/11 ensuring that on the morning of 9/11, jet fighters were removed from patrolling the US east coast and sent to Alaska and Canada, therefore reducing the amount of fighter planes available to protect the east coast.

BIOWARFARE EXERCISE TRIPOD II: FEMA arrived in New York on September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices of a 'biowarfare exercise scheduled for September 12. Rudolph Giuliani was to use this post as a command post on 9/11 after he evacuated WTC Building 7. Giuliani knew when to leave WTC 7 because he got advanced warning that the Trade Towers were about to collapse. "We were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse," Rudolph Giuliani told Peter Jennings of ABC News. 

OPERATION VIGILANT GUARDIAN: This exercise simulated hijacked planes in the north eastern sector and started to coincide with 9/11. Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, NORAD unit's airborne control and warning officer, was overseeing the exercise. At 8:40am she took a call from Boston Center which said it had a hijacked airliner. Her first words, as quoted by Newhouse News Service were, "It must be part of the exercise." 

OPERATION NORTHERN GUARDIAN: The details of this exercise are still scant but it is considered to be part of Vigilant Guardian, relating to simulating hijacked planes in the north eastern sector.

OPERATION VIGILANT WARRIOR: This was referenced in Richard Clarke's book 'Against All Enemies', and is thought to have been the 'attack' component of the Vigilant Guardian exercise. 

Dick Cheney was initially taken by the secret service to an underground bunker in the White House called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center where, according to CNN, the Vice President directed the US government's response to the unfolding attack. 

Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Cheney as Flight 77 approached Washington, D.C. On May 23, 2003 in front of the 9/11 Commission, Secretary Mineta testified: "During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the Vice President, "Do the orders still stand?" to which the Vice President turned and tersely replied: "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?" 

Sudden Response 05 will take place this August on Fort Monroe and will be carried out as an internal command post exercise. The exercise is intended to train the JTF-CS staff to plan and execute Consequence Management operations in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV's response to a nuclear detonation.

 Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) is planning its next exercise on the premise that a seafaring vessel transporting a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead makes its way into a port off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Terrorists aboard the ship attempt to smuggle the warhead off the ship to detonate it.

 Do the orders still stand? Is "the ship" 10 miles out?

SHIFT HAPPENS: One Day Only

If there are thousands of Souls still floating between worlds as a result of the betrayal of September 11, 2001, they can not be happy or proud of what they see four years later.