The Stand Down That Is Not Acknowledged

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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:36:13 -0400
Subject: The Stand Down That Is Not Acknowledged
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From: John Judge


     Friends,

     I continue to work on this thesis, as I have from 9/11 when I was
     an earwitness and could not believe there was no response. Do not
     forget nearby Bolling AFB as well as Anacostia Naval Air Station
     (DCANG) and Andrews AFB, and the 177th Air Wing in Pomona, NJ
     which covers both DC and NY, and Otis AFB where two planes did
     scramble only to arrive too late to intercept the planes that hit
     the twin towers.

     However, I have this from a source whose son serves at Otis and
     talked to the pilots. They told him that after the second tower
     was hit they knew about Flight 77 headed for Washington, and they
     turned to target it. They were called back to base. That is a
     stand down!

     Pilots at the 177th told one researcher that they were taken down
     off regular scrambling maneuvers and flights two weeks prior to
     9/11, and as a result the planes did not have air-to-air missiles
     loaded, which they claim takes half an hour. I find that less than
     credible, but a plane can intercept even without a full complement
     of attack weapons.

     Have any of you come across an article saying that half the
     scramble-ready fighters were taken off readiness three days before
     9/11? A free-lance Pentagon correspondent in DC last October told
     me this was reported in the New York Times, and used it to explain
     the lack of response that day. I said, "Are you making your
     argument or mine?" If this can be traced and verified, it also is
     very important.

     In addition to scramblers, other air defenses were not used, such
     as ground-to-air missiles at the White House and Pentagon, and
     radar at the Pentagon that was "watching for planes" back in 1997
     according to the head of building security then.

     At a minimum from 9:05 am to 9:45 am, with a known hostile plane
     headed to DC, and no other conclusion possible than it would be
     used as a weapon here, with public and even the employees at the
     Pentagon forewarned and being evacuated, "there was no mechanism"
     for defending themselves? This single point is where the whole
     matter unravels.

     This is the "advance knowledge" that cannot be denied, because we
     all knew it, and this is the "stand down" that cannot be
     explained. Perhaps that's why the disinformation story being
     spread from France across the internet, that Flight 77 did not hit
     the Pentagon, is being pushed. But it is patently untrue. I have
     talked to people who watched it hit, who ducked as it flew over
     them. The wings are full of fuel, they exploded.

     A good friend of mine, and fellow researcher, was a flight
     attendant almost every day on Flight 77, and she survived. She was
     taken into the Pentagon and saw the wreckage of the plane, parts
     of which she knew intimately. She was also shown a photo of a
     severed arm with a bracelet that belonged to her best friend at
     work, who died that day. There were autopsies done on the bodies
     of the crew.

     Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, alright. But it could have been
     stopped or delayed. It could have been intercepted or shot down.
     It came into the most restricted air space in the country with
     plenty of advance warning, and it went wherever it wanted to go.
     It did not even fly straight to the Pentagon, but looped around
     and dived into the empty side, 270 degrees out of its way. That
     sort of flying would turn off a simulator, and required a very
     experienced and competent pilot.

     There is much we still do not know about what happened and who was
     responsible for 9/11. Meanwhile, we descend into world war. Thanks
     for all you are doing.

     John Judge