The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th

The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th

Within three hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Robin Hordon knew it was an inside job. He had been an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for eleven years before Reagan fired him and hundreds of his colleagues after they went on strike in the eighties. Having handled in-flight emergencies and two actual hijackings in his career, he is well qualified to comment on what NORAD should have been able to achieve in its response to the near simultaneous hijacking of four domestic passenger carriers on the morning of September 11th, 2001.

Comment: Do not confuse this with the "I failed you, your country failed you" horsecrap that was being said after the 9/11 Commission Report was released. They did not fail you. It was not incomptetence that lead to the deaths of an estimated 3,000 people, as you would have to be a fool to think so. The reason NORAD stood down on 9/11 is because the Pentagon was running anti-terrorist training drills at the exact same time, making it so that Air Trafic Controllers think the actual attacks were part of an excercise.

Hence the now very highly circulated audio tape of "Is this real world or excercise" and then the person on the line saying "Oh everyone just left the room" when he is told that a decision has to be made within 10 minutes whether or not to scramble jets. The fake anti-terror drills, or war games, were being run so that the plans would be able to hit their targes untouched. Now thats not something I just pulled out of the air, that is fact. You can all go look it up for yourselves.