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HOSPITAL WORKER: I SAW OSAMA, by CBS News
And in Pakistan, at a military hospital, all of the urologists are replaced by a special team in order to host their guest of honor, Osama Bin Laden, who was carefully escorted inside to be watched carefully and looked after. September 11, 2001: The National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia, is preparing for an exercise in which a small corporate jet crashes into their building. NORAD is in the middle of a number of military exercises. The first, Vigilant Guardian, is described as: “An exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide.”
“Sept. 11 was Day II of Vigilant
Guardian, an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North
American Air Defense outposts nationwide.” The second, Northern Vigilance, moved fighter jets to Canada and Alaska to fight off an imaginary Russian fleet.
"Northern Vigilance, planned
months in advance, involves deploying fighter jets to locations in
Alaska and northern Canada.” Three F-16s from Washington D.C.’s National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base, 15 miles from the Pentagon, are flown 180 nautical miles away for a training mission in North Carolina. This left 14 fighter jets to protect the contiguous United States. FAA: “Hi, Boston Center TMU, we have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out. NORAD: Is this real-world or exercise? FAA: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.”
Command Center: Uh, do we want to think about scrambling aircraft? FAA Headquarters: Oh, God, I don’t know. Command Center: Uh, that’s a decision somebody’s gonna have to make probably in the next ten minutes. FAA Headquarters: Uh, ya know, everybody just left the room.” Reporter: The first question I have, is basically to get from you a sense of how you would rate the American media in their coverage of the events of the attack last September. Hunter S. Thompson: Well, let’s see, shamefully is a word that comes to mind. Reporter: This just in. You are looking at, obviously, a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the Towers of the World Trade Center. Hunter S. Thompson: But overall, the American Journalism was cowed and intimidated by this massive flag sucking, this patriotic orgy. You know, if you criticize the President, it’s unpatriotic and there is something wrong with you, and you may be a terrorist. Reporter: So in that sense, Hunter S. Thompson, there’s not enough room for dissenting voices? Hunter S. Thompson: Well, there’s plenty of room. There’s just not been enough people who are willing to take the risk. A LOUDER THAN WORDS PRODUCTION
Mark: There was definitely a blue logo, it was like a circular logo on the front of the plane. It definitely did not look like a commercial plane. I didn’t see any windows on the sides. Reporter: Mark, if what you say is true, those could be cargo planes. You said you didn’t see any windows on the side? Mark: I didn’t see any windows on the sides. It was not a normal flight that I’ve ever seen. At the airport, there was a plane that had a blue logo on the front and it just did not look like it belonged in this area. Hunter S. Thompson: It’s just sort of a herd mentality, a lemming like mentality. If you don’t go with the flow, you’re anti-American and therefore suspect. LOOSE CHANGE
Reporter: This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. You can see the firemen assembled here, the police officers, FBI agents, and you can see the Two Towers – a huge explosion now raining debris on all of us.
Reporter: WE BETTER GET OUT OF THE WAY!
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: KOREY ROWE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: JASON BERMAS
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