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Title: Between 9:03 and 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Defense Official at Pentagon Says, ‘We’re Next’
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Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September
URL Source: http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ ... ty.jsp?entity=jim_miklaszewski
Published: Apr 23, 2007
Author: Allison Gilbert et al.
Post Date: 2007-04-23 10:55:21 by honway
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Between 9:03 and 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Defense Official at Pentagon Says, ‘We’re Next’ After the second WTC tower is hit, NBC News correspondent Jim Miklaszewski is heading down a hall inside the Pentagon when he runs into a Defense Department official. The official says he doesn’t yet know anything specific about the attack. But, he says, it is so coordinated that “[i]f I were you I would stay off the E-ring [the outermost corridor of the Pentagon] today, because we’re next.” According to Miklaszewski, the official had no specific information, “that was just his gut instinct.” [Gilbert et al., 2002, pp. 43] Entity Tags: Jim Miklaszewski
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#9. To: honway (#0)
Pentagon intelligence official with an office in the Pentagon? That wouldn't, by any chance, be Steve Cambone? Because, if he had warning, you know Rumsfeld did as well.
Consider placing yourself in the shoes of the planner of 9/11 and assume for a moment the Bush version of 9/11 is accurate. Assume the planner of such a diabolically brilliant plan was smart enough to know the exterior walls of the Pentagon were the most hardened part of the structure.Just plain common sense,right? Would the planner instruct the pilot that demonstrated incredible skill on 9/11 to strike the exterior hardened wall or would the planner make full use of the maneuverability and destructive power of a fully fueled airliner and instruct the skilled pilot to fly into the center of the Pentagon? How could anyone unaware of the plan conclude that the attack would be on the E-ring? Didn't the practice scenario used in exercises at the Pentagon plan on a plane crashing into the center of the Pentagon, the worse case scenario because there would be restricted access for fire fighting equipment?
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/ContPlanP.html Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates scenarios in preparing for emergencies
That is why it appears whoever told him had actual knowledge. Why wouldn't an airplane aim for the center? It went out of its way to hit the one spot it hit, which just happened to be the reinforced portion.
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#14. To: aristeides, robin, ratcat, *9-11* (#9)
“[i]f I were you I would stay off the E-ring [the outermost corridor of the Pentagon] today, because we’re next.”
#16. To: All (#14)
Didn't the practice scenario used in exercises at the Pentagon plan on a plane crashing into the center of the Pentagon, the worse case scenario because there would be restricted access for fire fighting equipment?
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#17. To: honway (#16)
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