Vanity Fair Plays the NORAD 9/11 Tapes
Christian Beckner writes on Homeland Security Watch:
Vanity Fair has a new story online today that provide a detailed chronology of the morning of 9/11 from the perspective of the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), the East Coast regional HQ for NORAD.Much more here.
The author of the story received 30 hours of audio files from the operations floor at NEADS, which serve as the basis for the piece. The tapes tell a story of mass confusion on the day of 9/11, with multiple contradictory pieces of evidence about hijackings lasting all day. And while F-15 fighters were finally in place over DC after AA 77 hit the Pentagon, they were not authorized to shoot down UA 93 until after it had already crashed in Shanksville, PA, in large part because the FAA did not notify NORAD about UA 93 for 35 minutes.
This belies the commonly-accepted wisdom about this decision...
posted by Fergie @ 8/02/2006 09:50:00 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home