When that dreadful day happened we all were brought to our knees asking whichever God we worship to give us the strength to make it through the weeks to come. Now when we really think about it and look at the facts that are laid before us we wonder “was it all really necessary.” There was plenty of quotes from several high up representatives including:

“I don’t think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center,” from National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

“There were lots of warnings’” from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

“No warnings’” from Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.

“Your government failed you, and I have failed you,” from White House Advisor Richard Clarke.

The only question I have is, why are these officials of our government not in agreement when it comes to the safety of this nation. In the following text you will find some very interesting facts that can be viewed all over the web but I have decided to compile it together in one place so we all can see what really happened that day.

On 3/13/1962 Lyman Lemnitzer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presents a proposal to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara called operation “Northwoods.” In this proposal is was suggested that we stage terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay to describe pretexts which would provide justification of US Military intervention in Cuba. Plans included starting rumors about Cuba using clandestine radio. Landing friendly Cubans in the base to stage attacks and to start riots at the main gate. Blowing up ammunition inside the base. Starting fires. Sabotaging aircrafts and naval ships. Bombing the base with mortar shells. Sinking a ship outside the base entrance, then staging mock funerals for the mock victims. Staging a terror campaign in Miami, Fl and D.C. And finally the worst of all, in my opinion of course, they were to take a plane, paint it and number it as a duplicate of a registered civil aircraft belonging to the CIA front in Miami. The duplicate plane would be loaded with college students on vacation. The real plane would be converted into a drone aircraft. The two planes would fly to Cuba where they would rendezvous south of Florida. The passenger carrying plane would land at Eglin Air Force base to deliver the passengers then return to it’s original status. The drone would then pick up the scheduled flight plan and over Cuban waters send out a “Mayday” signal then be blown up by remote control. McNamara rejected this proposed plan followed shortly by the removal of Lemnitzer personally by the US President JFK.

On 12/1/1984 a remote controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base and is crashed landed by NASA for fuel research. The plane flew for a total 16 hours and 22 minutes before it was crashed. Which also included 10 take offs, 69 approaches, and 13 landings.

8/1997 the cover to FEMAs emergency response to terrorism depicts a picture of the World Trade Center in cross hairs.

2/28/1998 the global hawk completes its first unmanned flight at an altitude of over 32,000 feet over Edwards afb.

1999 NORAD begins conducting exercises where a plane was flown into the world trade center and the pentagon.

6/2000 the Department of Justice releases a terrorism manual where the world trade center is depicted in cross hairs.

9/2000 the project for a New American Century which includes Dick Chaney, Jeb Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz release a report entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” in it they concluded that the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one. Unless some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new pearl harbor happens to awaken the public.

On 10/24/2000 the Pentagon conduct the first of two training exercises called NASCAL, which simulate a Boeing 757 crashing into the building. Charles Burlingame an ex navy f4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon participates in this exercise before retiring and starting his new career with American Airlines. Less than 1 year later the Boeing 757 that crashed into the building just happened to be piloted by him.

4/2001 NORAD proposes an exercise where a plane crashes into the pentagon but it is rejected due to being to realistic.

6/2001 the Department of Defense submits new instructions for the military intervention in the case of a high jacking. All immediate responses must get approval from the Secretary of Defense before the DOD assists. During this same time frame Attorney General John Ashcroft begins flying chartered jets for the remainder of his term due to threat assessment from the FBI.

On 7/4/2001 Osama Bin Ladin, who has been wanted by the US since 1998, receives medical attention at the American hospital in Dubai. During that stay he is visited by a local chief of the CIA.

On 7/24/2001 Larry A Silverstein, who already own the World Trade Center, signed a 3.2 billion dollar, 99 year lease for the twin towers. Part of that lease included a 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy specifically for terrorist attacks. Just incase you didn’t realize this happens to be just 6 weeks before 911.

On 9/6/2001 3,150 put options are placed on American Airlines stock. A put option is a bet that the stock will fall. On that day the put options were more than four time the daily average. On 9/7/2001 27,294 put options are put on Boeing stock, which was more than 5 times the daily average. On 9/10/2001 4,516 put options were put on American Airlines stock 11 times the daily average

On 9/10/2001 Newsweek reports that a number of top pentagon brass cancel their flight plans for the next morning. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to fly the next morning. The phone call was traced back to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. In Pakistan, at a military hospital all the urologists are replaced by a special team to host their special guest Osama Bin Laden, who was escorted inside to be watched carefully and to be looked after

9/11/2001 the national reconnaissance office in Chantilly, VA is preparing for an exercise in which a small corporate jet crashed into their building. NORAD is in day two of their exercise “Vigilant Guardian” which would pose an imaginary crisis to North American air defense outposts nationwide. “Northern Vigilance” which was planned months in advance involved deploying fighter jets to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada to fight off an imaginary Russian fleet. 3 F16s for the national guard from Andrews AFB in WA D.C. were only 15 miles from the pentagon, are flown 180 nautical miles away for a training mission in NC which only left 14 fighter jets to protect the US.

And the rest, as they say, is history. The Twin Towers are collided into, the Pentagon is crashed into, and a plane falls in the VA plains. But with all of these interesting facts laid in front of you the question remains, “Could all of those deaths have been prevented.”