Reply #4: Pentagon Rehearsed For Hijacked Planes Used As Bombs Before 911 [View All]

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Ten months before 911, the Pentagon already ran exercises for the potential scenario of a hijacked airliner crashing into the Pentagon. It's right there on the Pentagon's own website (link below):

"...Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 — The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas.

Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one. The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room.

On Oct. 24, there was a mock terrorist incident at the Pentagon Metro stop and a construction accident to name just some of the scenarios that were practiced to better prepare local agencies for real incidents..."

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http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html