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• Vigilant Warrior, a NORAD live-fly (confirmed by its second name 'warrior') exercise
mentioned in Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies page 4-5 (possibly the same as Vigilant
Guardian, or possibly the complementary "offense" or "red team" portion of the drill
involving real planes acting as simulated hijacked plane)
• Operation Northern Vigilance, which involved deploying fighter jets to locations in Alaska
and northern Canada. According to the Toronto Star: " Part of this exercise is pure simulation,
but part is real world: NORAD is keeping a close eye on the Russians, who have dispatched
long-range bombers to their own high north on a similar exercise." Planned on September 11,
it was called off when the Federal Aviation Administration had evidence of a hijacking [6].
• Operation Northern Guardian "In late August 2001, two-thirds of the 27th Fighter Squadron
are sent overseas. Six of the squadron's fighters and 115 people go to Turkey to enforce the
no-fly zone over northern Iraq as part of Operation Northern Watch. Another six fighters and
70 people are sent to Iceland to participate in "Operation Northern Guardian." These were
real-world operations which resulted in many fighters from Langley AFB to be unavailable
for scrambling on 9/11.[7]
• TRIPOD II, a joint FEMAand Department of Justice biowarfare vaccination exercise,
scheduled for September 12 at New York's Pier 29, and revealed in testimony by former New
York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the 9/11 Commission. The command center assembled at Pier
29 was used for FEMA response to the events of 9/11 after Giuliani's Office of Emergency
Management offices were evacuated and later destroyed in WTC 7.
The Vigilant Guardian war game was discussed in chapter 1, footnote 116 of the 9/11 Commission
Report: "116. On 9/11, NORAD was scheduled to conduct a military exercise, Vigilant Guardian,
which postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union. We investigated whether military
preparations for the large-scale exercise compromised the military's response to the real-world
terrorist attack on 9/11.” [War games in progress on September 11, 2001, From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia.]
Other than the curious coincidence of these war games being re-scheduled for
September 11 is the learning that the normal practice for these war games is to
schedule them in October.
“Thompson (Paul Thompson, the 9/11 Timeline) cites multiple reports (see 8:30 am) indicating
that Global Guardian is normally held in October, and that the run-through in 2001 was in fact
originally scheduled for late October and then re-scheduled for early September at some point
after March 2001. Who made that scheduling decision? That may be the most crucial question of
all in determining the criminal culpability for 9/11 among US officials.” [New Wargames
Findings, Nicholas Levis, 9/11Truth.org, Aug. 2005]
Additionally, it is noteworthy that the New York Federal Reserve was coincidentally
operating out of its back-up data facility on September 11.
“On September 11, we at the Federal Reserve never had to shift our Fedwire operations. On that
day the operations were being managed by staff at our backup facility, a procedure we undertake
regularly. Fedwire was up and running at all times.” [Jamie B. Stewart, Jr., First Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, remarks before the
Bankers' Association for Finance and Trade, April 25, 2002]
If the Navy had this relationship with Cantor-Fitzgerald, and had made economic
attacks a part of their war gaming drills during two prior occasions, it seems
appropriate to assume that on September 11, an employee(s) of Cantor-Fitzgerald
might have been tasked with running computer simulations of an economic attack on
the US securities market, not knowing a real attack was underway. In the simulaton,
one would have a computer program the simulates an “attacking” server and a
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