Salon: 9/11 panel raps response to hijackings

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By Hope Yen

June 17, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- Plagued by miscommunication and confusion, the Pentagon's air-defense command had little opportunity to intercept the four hijacked planes that crashed on Sept. 11 and killed nearly 3,000 people, the federal panel reviewing the attacks said Thursday.

At the commission's final public hearing, a report recounting the details of what happened with each of the planes was read aloud before an audience that included victims' relatives, some clutching photos of their loved ones.

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The report largely blamed inadequate emergency procedures that contemplated more time to react to a traditional hijacking rather than a suicide hijacking.

"NORAD and the FAA were unprepared for the type of attacks launched against the United States on September 11, 2001," the report said. "They struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense against an unprecedented challenge they had never encountered and had never trained to meet."

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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/06/17/911_panel_raps_response/index.html

What REALLY pisses me off about this is that approximately three months BEFORE 9/11 NORAD held drills about hijacked jets being used as weapons of terror. And now we hear "...and had never trained to meet." LIES, LIES, LIES!!!

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1. Liars, liars whose pants are on fire?