9/11 Conspiracy? Pentagon Missle Defense Failure Options

[richard cranium]

I just saw this article posted at http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-4204-0-0-0--.html and thought it might be of interest. It is stated as being published on 5/13/2009 and has it's source as the Houston Examiner ( wow,isn't that considered main stream media? ). Anyway,I found it to be a pretty good article. I find it GREAT if more of the public reads it.


Source: Houston Examiner


Remember Star Wars? Do you remember the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative to build a massive missile defense system that raised so much controversy during the Reagan and first Bush years?

130 billion of our tax dollars were poured into developing that system. It was designed to detect and intercept missiles fired from an unknown destination traveling at well over 10 times the speed of a commercial airliner, and to shoot them down in 15 minutes or less, before they reached their US targets.

According the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) website, "a defensive system may need to hit a warhead smaller than an oil drum that is traveling above the atmosphere at speeds greater than 13,000 miles per hour." The CBO report states that missile defense and intercept systems must take down an ICBM in a matter of minutes or it is all over.

You may remember that before 9/11, there were a number of tests of the Pentagon's missile defense systems. Some tests failed, while others succeeded. But there is an important question here. If these sophisticated military systems were designed to detect missiles fired from unknown locations at over 13,000 mph and shoot them down in mere minutes, why on 9/11 could they not detect any one of the four large airliners traveling at a mere 600 mph, especially when two of them were known to be lost for over 40 minutes before they crashed?

This question applies especially to Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. The first plane hijacking on 9/11 was reported at about 8:20 AM (see NY Times article), well over an hour before Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:38. According to the Times article, Flight 77 was reported lost at 8:56 A.M., 42 minutes before it crashed. Even if the FAA radar systems completely failed and FAA officials failed to alert the military, all military leaders certainly knew within minutes that the World Trade Center had been hit at 8:46. By 9:03, when the second tower was hit, they certainly knew there were big problems.

How is it possible that the Pentagon's highly touted missile detections systems could not locate Flight 77 in the 42 minutes it was known to be lost before it crashed into the heart of the defense system of the U.S.? The missile detection systems did not depend on FAA radar and were programmed to pick up any unaccounted for objects and raise alarms immediately, as mentioned on the CBO website.

Here's another related question. Why was the Pentagon's billion-dollar missile defense system such a hot topic in the media before 9/11, yet we've heard almost nothing about it since? Could it be that there are elements in the government and military who don't want people to think about questions like those asked here? And an even bigger question is why isn't our media asking these questions and more?

Why is it that the 9/11 Commission budget was far less than the budget allotted to the Challenger space shuttle disaster or even the Monica Lewinsky affair? The 9/11 commission was originally allotted only $3 million. Eventually, after much begging and haggling, the commission was given $15 million. Yet a CNN article lists the cost of the Lewinsky investigation at $30 million. A Los Angeles Times article states the cost of the Columbia space shuttle disaster investigation was $175 million.

How could 9/11 – the greatest disaster in American history – be given such a small budget for investigation? Why didn't the Pentagon want to aggressively investigate the greatest failure ever in U.S. defenses? And why did both the president (see CNN article) and vice-president (see Newsweek article) initially oppose any investigation at all?

Why aren't we, the public, asking these questions and demanding answers? It's not too late. Let us take action now and seek answers to these vital questions. For further reliable information on this topic, go to the revealing two-page 9/11 summary at available here. All information is taken only from major media sources. You can easily verify each fact provided in this summary by using the links provided to read the original articles on the major media websites from which the facts were taken.

For more vitally important raising questions of a 9/11 conspiracy, don't miss a 15-minute clip of the powerful, eye-opening documentary 9/11: Press for Truth below:




To watch the full, revealing documentary, click here. And to understand why all of this disturbing information isn't getting extensive media coverage, visit this link. If these facts were reported in headline news where they belong, caring citizens would be astounded and demand to know more. This has not happened, which is why we feel compelled to provide them here. It is now up to us, the citizens of all countries to come together to bring light to the hidden shadows so that we can more effectively work towards a better world for all of us.

The box immediately below provides several ideas on what you can do to educate yourself on these matters and spread the word. We also invite you to comment below and let us know what you think. Were certain elements of the U.S. government involved in the 9/11 conspiracy?




To administrator: if I posted this under the wrong topic feel free to move it. (and ,sorry )


rc

[albertchampion]

i think dmole can put up my posts on this topic.

and in fact, my comments on this subject were aired on rense within hours of the events of that day.

i can assure you, dc is ringed with sams. yet on that day, none were activated. LIH?

one of the most interesting oddities is the flight path of 77. a hijacked[sic] commercial airliner virtually flew over camp david[the catoctins]. do you know how many sam batteries are there? lots.

either those batteries were ordered to "stand down" or the aircraft that flew over the pentagram was an aircraft that did not fly over the catoctins.

and of course, there is a similar situation in the hudson river valley. there are sam batteries surrounding west point and the us mint. the purportedly hijacked aircraft flew within the range of those batteries. yet no sams were launched.

LIH?

or is it that the entirety of the tales of that day are "legends"?