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LOOSE CHANGE 2ND EDITION CONTAINS UNLICENSED FOOTAGE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, COPYRIGHTED FOOTAGE OWNED BY FOX, CNN, NBC, CSPAN AND CAMERAPLANET, AS WELL AS GIDEON AND JULES NAUDET, AND JAMES HANLON (DIRECTORS OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM ENTITLED “9/11 – THE FILMMAKER’S COMMEMORATIVE EDITION”). THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN LOOSE CHANGE MAY NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS OR THE INDIVIDUALS FEATURED IN SUCH FOOTAGE. THE NAUDET BROTHERS, MR. HANLON, THE FIREFIGHTERS THEY INTERVIEWED FOR THEIR FILM, AND PARAMOUNT (WHICH DISTRIBUTED THE NAUDET/HANLON FILM) DO NOT ENDORSE OR SUPPORT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN LOOSE CHANGE. DEDICATED TO THE LIVES WE LOST ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001
“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take
an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.”
“There were lots of warnings.”
“No warnings.”
“Your government failed you, and I failed you.” JUSTIFICATION FOR U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CUBA (OPERATION NORTHWOODS
March 13, 1962: Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presents a proposal to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara named Operation Northwoods. The document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay to provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba. The plans included: starting rumors about Cuba using Clandestine radio, plant friendly Cubans inside the base to stage attacks, starting riots at the main gate, blowing up ammunition inside the base, starting fires, sabotaging aircraft and ships on the base, bombing the base with mortar shells, sinking a ship outside the entrance, staging funerals for mock victims, staging a terror campaign in Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C., and finally, destroying a drone aircraft over Cuban waters. The passengers – federal agents in reality – would allegedly be college students on vacation. A plane at Eglin Air Force Base would be painted and numbered as a duplicate of a registered civil aircraft belonging to a CIA front in Miami. The duplicate would be substituted for the real plane and loaded with the passengers. The real plane would be converted into a drone. The two planes would rendezvous south of Florida. The passenger laden plane would land at Eglin Air Force Base to evacuate its passengers and return to its original status. The drone would pick up the scheduled flight plan and, over Cuban waters, transmit a May Day signal before being blown up by remote control. The plan was rejected by McNamara, and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff months later. December 1, 1984: A remote controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base and is crash-landed by NASA for fuel research. Before its destruction, the plane flew unmanned for a total of 16 hours and 22 minutes, including 10 takeoffs, 69 approaches, and 13 landings. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO TERRORISM, SELF-STUDY, 1997
August, 1997: The cover of FEMA’s emergency response to terrorism depicts the World Trade Center in cross-hairs.
February 28, 1998: The Global Hawk, Raytheon’s unmanned aircraft vehicle, completes its first flight over Edwards Air Force Base in California at an altitude of 32,000 feet, cruising altitude for a commercial jet liner. NORAD HAD DRILLS OF JETS AS WEAPONS, BY STEVEN KOMAROW AND TOM SQUITIERI, USA TODAY
1999: NORAD begins conducting exercises in which hijacked airliners are flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. MANAGING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION INCIDENTS: AN EXECUTIVE LEVEL PROGRAM FOR SHERIFFS -- PARTICIPANT MANUAL
June, 2000: The Department of Justice releases a terrorism manual with the World Trade Center in cross-hairs.
REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES, A REPORT OF THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY September, 2000: The Project for a New American Century, a neo-conservative thinktank, whose members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, releases their report, entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” In it, they declare that the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.
CONTINGENCY PLANNING PENTAGON MASCAL EXERCISE SIMULATES SCENARIOS IN PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES
October 24, 2000: The Pentagon conduct the first of two training exercises called “Mascal,” which simulate a Boeing 757 crashing into the building. Charles Burlingame, ex Navy F-4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon for 17 years, participates in an earlier version of this exercise in 1989, before retiring to take a job at American Airlines where, 12 years later, his Boeing 757 allegedly crashes into the Pentagon.
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