Two-hour special with Webster Tarpley: “46 Drills of 9/11”

PRE-9/11 PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Drill

Date

Scenario

1

NORAD

Between 1991 and 2001

Foreign hijacked airliner crashing into famous US building

2

White House, Richard Clarke

1998

Terrorists load Lear Jet with explosive, attack Washington DC

3

NORAD

1999-2001

Hijacked aircraft hit many targets, including WTC, MASCAL

4

Able Danger: DIA, US-SOCOM, LIWA

Dec. 1999-2001

Manipulate al Qaeda; data mining (patsy control)

5

Stratus Ivy: DIA

Dec. 1999-2001 (?)

Operate on patsies “out of the box” (patsy control)

6

Door Hop Galley: DIA (?)

Dec. 1999-2001 (?)

Still secret (patsy control?)

7

Proactive Pre-emptive Operations Group (P2OG)

unknown

“Stimulating reactions” of terrorists (patsy control)

8

NORAD (NEADS) Exercises: UN HQ, NYC

October 16, 2000

Terrorist crashes Federal Express plane into UN HQ NYC

9

NORAD (NEADS) Exercises: UN HQ NYC

October 23, 2000

Terrorist crashes FedEx plane with WMD into UN HQ NYC

10

Pentagon MASCAL exercise

Oct. 24-28, 2000

Commercial aircraft hits Pentagon, MASCAL

11

FAA drill

December, 2000

Scenario: a chartered flight out of Ohio that had turned its transponder off

12

Positive Force ’01: NORAD plus a dozen agencies; worldwide

April 17-26, 2001

COG; attacks on transportation; one scenario: terrorist group hijacking commercial airliner and flying it into Pentagon (Pentagon attack)

13

Unified Vision ’01: US JFCOM; US CENTCOM; US SOCOM: 40 agencies

May 7-24, 2001

Invasion of Afghanistan and Pakistan (prepared Operation Enduring Freedom)

14

Red Ex (Recognition, Evaluation, and Decision-Making Exercise); NYC OEM; FDNY; NYPD; FEMA; FBI

May 11, 2001

Plane crashes and building collapses in New York City (WTC attack, demolition)

15

Amalgam Virgo ’01: US-Canada multi-agency drill; NORAD; SEADS; Coast Guard, Army, Navy

June 1-2, 2001

UAV drone launched from rogue freighter in Gulf of Mexico or cruise missile from barge in Atlantic Ocean; Joint Based Expeditionary Connectivity Center (JBECC) mobile radar command center tested. (Pentagon attack)

16

Mall Strike 2001, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (near Shanksville); 600 local first responders and emergency managers

June 16, 2001

Toxic chemical agent and the simulated release of radiation and radiological contamination; (indoctrination of first responders).

17

FAA Drill: FBI Miami field office, Miami-Dade County Police Department.

Summer 2001

Varig airlines Boeing 767 hijacked over Florida

18

Ft. Belvoir, Davison Army Airfield helicopter base MASCAL

June 29, 2001

Scenario based on plane hitting Pentagon (indoctrination of first responders).

19

US Department of Transportation Hijacking Exercise

August 31, 2001

US Dept. of Transportation Crisis Management Center drilled hijacks; simulated cell phone calls.

20

NORAD, NEADS (Vigilant Guardian)

September 6, 2001

Tokyo to Anchorage flight hijacked by “Mum Hykro” to Vancouver and San Francisco

PRE-9/11 PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT (continued)

Drill

Date

Scenario

21

NORAD, NEADS (Vigilant Guardian)

September 6, 2001

Seoul to Anchorage flight hijacked by “Lin Po” to Seattle

22

NORAD, NEADS (Vigilant Guardian)

September 9, 2001

UK to NYC flight hijacked, blown up

23

NORAD SEADS NEADS (Vigilant Guardian)

September 10, 2001

Ilyushin IL-62 from Cuba hijacked by asylum seekers, lands at Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia

ON 9/11

Drill

Date

Scenario

24

FBI training exercise in Monterey, California for FBI/CIA Anti-Terrorist Task Force

Through 9/11

Diverts top FBI, CIA anti-terrorist and special operations agents and heavy equipment away from Boston, NYC, Washington DC

25

NORAD annual readiness drill, Cheyenne Mountain, CO (Vigilant Guardian)

9/11

Full ‘battle staff’ levels to test entire organization

26

Vigilant Guardian: NORAD, NEADS, US-Canada

9/11

Live-fly hijacking and air defense; hijack multiplication, diversion and confusion

27

NORAD/JCS Vigilant Warrior

Through 9/11

Reported by Richard Clarke

28

Operation Southern Watch

Through 9/11

Diverts 174th Fighter Wing, New York Air National Guard, to Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, to impose no-fly zone over southern Iraq

29

Operation Northern Watch

Through 9/11

Diverts 6 fighters from Langley AFB sent to Incirlik AFB, Turkey to impose no-fly zone over northern Iraq

30

Operation Northern Vigilance

Through 9/11

Diverts fighters, 350 personnel to Alaska and northern Canada to counter a Russian bomber drill

31

Operation Northern Guardian, Keflavik AFB, Iceland

Through 9/11

Diverts fighters from Langley Air Force Base (Virginia) deployed to Keflavik AFB, Iceland to counter a Russian bomber drill

32

Red Flag, Nellis AFB, Nevada: 100 pilots

9/11

Diverts most F-15s of 71st Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, VA; DC ANG’s 121st Fighter Squadron of Andrews Air Force Base also depleted.

33

Andrews AFB local drill

9/11

Diverts 3 F-16s to North Carolina

34

National Reconnaissance Office drill, Chantilly, Virginia

9/11

Simulated plane crash into high-rise government building; satellite imaging (WTC attack)

35

Tripod II, New York City

9/11

Response to biochemical attack; run from backup command center at Pier 92, Hudson River.

36

Fort Meyer VA Education Center training drill for local firemen

9/11

Assembled and indoctrinated Pentagon first responders.

37

Timely Alert II, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey

9/11

Indoctrination of WTC first responders.

38

World Trade Center Emergency Drill, Fiduciary Trust Co., 97th floor, South Tower

9/11

Meeting called to assemble and silence unreliable outside contractors?

ON 9/11 (continued)

Drill

Date

Scenario

39

Global Guardian, STRATCOM: Offutt AFB, Nebraska; Barksdale AFB, Louisiana; Minot AFB, North Dakota; Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

9/11

Nuclear warfighting; Armageddon. (deterrence of Russia and China during invasion of Afghanistan and Pakistan)

40

Amalgam Warrior

9/11

Large live-fly air defense and air intercept, tracking, and surveillance drill; air defense against foreign retaliation.

41

Crown Vigilance, Air Combat Command

9/11

No details known.

42

Apollo Guardian, US Space Command

9/11

No details known.

43

AWACS drill, ordered by NORAD commander Gen. Larry Arnold

9/11

Two AWACS aircraft from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma sent over Washington DC and Florida; surveillance of capital and president during coup.

44

Global Guardian Computer Network Attack

9/11

Enemy forces “war dialed” STRATCOM’s telephone and fax systems; “bad insider” has access to key C³ system (missile launch option)

45

STRATCOM Strategic Advisory Committee, Offutt AFB, Nebraska; Andrews AFB, MD; Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio.

9/11

Three E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes (Doomsday or Looking Glass) airborne; passengers include Brent Scowcroft; Warren Buffet at Offutt. (Committee. of Public Safety option?)

IN ADVANCED PREPARATION ON 9/11

Drill

Date

Scenario

46

Amalgam Virgo ‘02

Scheduled for June 2002

Air defense, interception, surveillance, and pursuit drill; Delta 757 with real Delta pilots, actors as passengers, FBI as hijackers – deviated from Salt Lake City to Hawaii; Canadian police to hijack DC-9 near Vancouver BC