Turns out the FAA got LOTS of information from observant flight attendants very early on 9/11 - and, in violation of law and standard operating procedures, didn't do anything with it. NORAD sat on its hands, no planes were scrambled - the entire East Coast air defense system just did NOTHING.
American’s Flight 11 took off from Logan Airport in Boston at 7:59 a.m. By 8:14 a.m., the F.A.A. controller following that flight from a facility in Nashua, N.H., already knew it was missing; its transponder had been turned off, and the controller couldn’t get a response from the pilots.
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At least 20 minutes before the plane crashed, the airline had the names, addresses, phone numbers and credit cards of three of the five hijackers. They knew that 9G was Abdulaziz al-Omari, 10B was Satam al-Suqami, and 9D was Mohamed Atta—the ringleader of the 9/11 terrorists.
"The nightmare began before the first plane crashed," said Mike Sweeney, "because once my wife gave the seat numbers of the hijackers and Michael Woodward pulled up the passenger information, Mohamed Atta’s name was out there. They had to know what they were up against."http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.aspFor over an hour, these planes headed towards their civilian targets - exactly as predicted by the 9 urgent intel memos which had been passed on to Bush & Condi.
Bush calmly sat in a Florida kindergarten reading a children's book to the class.
NORAD did nothing as these missiles did exactly what the CIA had told Bush they would - giving him his "Trifecta" - his Reichstag Fire - so he could suspend the Constitution and wage pre-emptive war.
The ONLY way this all makes sense is if we consider Cheney's secret plans to invade Iraq, and PNAC's statement that without a new "Pearl Harbor" there would be no support for such a war.
Put 2 and 2 together. Remember Member of Parliament Meacher's article from the Guardian, which ties it all together:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html