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How Could Hijacked Airliners Have Struck the WTC and the Pentagon?

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How Could Hijacked Airliners Have Struck the WTC and the Pentagon?

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IF STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES of the FAA and the U.S. military had been carried out on 9/11, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 would have been intercepted before they reached Manhattan, and Flight 77 would have been intercepted long before it could have reached the Pentagon. Such interceptions are routine, and are carried out about 100 times a year. A month after 9/11, the Calgary Herald reported that in the year 2000, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) had scrambled fighters 129 times. Just a few days after 9/11, Major Mike Snyder, a NORAD spokesperson, told the Boston Globe that, “[NORAD’s] fighters routinely intercept aircraft.” Why did such interceptions not occur on 9/11? We have never been given a plausible explanation. Indeed, we have received three mutually inconsistent stories. In the first few days, military officials said that no fighter jets were dispatched until after the 9/11 strike on the Pentagon at 9:38 AM, even though sign

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