People Could Have Planted Bombs In the World Trade Center Without Anyone Noticing

[Ed Jewett]

Ed,

I find your "script" overly complex, despite almost unlimited budgets. Coordinating hundreds if not thousands of actors, rehearsals, devices with perfect reliability and a plan that needs to step though the script absent and FUBARs. Not likely to happen.

My (and others) research seems to point to a rather simple means to take down the towers (twins)... and this would accordingly require few "managers" ... few mechanics ... very little "stealth"...and much much less possibility for FUBAR. The "take down" would also end up looking like a "natural collapse" as opposed to a CD and it would destroy most of the evidence of the engineered "take down".

Such an operation would still require covert assets and access to "high tech" demolition devices (mechanics) provided with ordinance etc... by those with access to same (managers).

But who directed the managers... and what were their motives as it seems like there were several???

You need to learn more about the courses in exercise design in the system known as NIMS... national incident management system -- in which exercises are created and tested in both classroom settings as well as in full-blown walk-through drills involving the movement of many agencies, vehicles, people. It is the same thing "turned inside out" in terms of intent. I have participated in table-top drills involving as many as 50 people. I have been in incident command centers and EOM's at the local municipal or statewide level with as many as 50 people, each armed with a telephone and a computer, each with a big screen overview in front of them. You should see if you can find images of the "situation rooms" used inside the government. The purpose of the myriad of drills, exercises and simulations in the months before 9/11 was in all likelihood to draw out information about how things worked, how things were "seen" by other players, how systems interacted, etc. Keep in mind that the Federal Government had, at its beck-and-call, numerous computerized systems. Poindexter's work in total information awareness is key among them. Keep in mind that the offices of the NRO (as well as others) were "disabled" by evacuation. Cheney was a master of the AAR (after-action report) and "lessons learned" aspects of drills:

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=7521

You need to go back to the original source -- I have, and I have posted about it at length for years, and it has been mirrored in several locations -- which include the work of USAF Lt.Col. John Boyd (focused mostly on his OODA loop theory, but which goes beyond that), and which found life in practice in military systems in the run-up to Desert Storm (an activity that involved dozens of units -air, land, sea -- over thousands ofd square miles) and which was coordinated with a spreadsheet, which was then turned into a civilian tool and used in the system under the direct command of Dick Cheney that day. You could Google "Dick Cheney OODA" and it used to be that my posting would come up #1 but it is now re-directed to a useless site. I know where the original is, and I know what I know, and I know the work I did to create that info. It had applications and implications in computer technology as well, since Boyd himself stole a million dollars worth of computer time to do his research into the energy maneuverability elements of the F-15.

There was no perfect reliability. If you look at the events of that day, even centered simply on lower Manhattan, you will find dozens of things that simply did not go right... aberrations, if you will .. that emerge to the uninformed witness and even researcher as anomalies or events that seem to fall outside the thesis or the evidence. You need to understand the prevalent mind-set of the militarized US world at that time which involved was is known as "free play" in which some actors are purposefully given freedom and license to improvise within a framework of intent.

I think sometimes that researchers in this arena want every little nugget to fit pristinely as if it were a giant table-top puzzle. But the OODA loop and my understanding of incident management and response -- which derives in great part from Enrico Quarantelli's monographs on disasters at his Disaster Research Center -- both allow and insist upon seeing these kinds of things as dynamic events. Boyd specifically speaks to this in his monograph "Destruction and Creation", borrowing upon "the Uncertainty Principle". The event is changing and manifesting while we are standing there.

As for who directed the managers, the answer seems clear, given the titular and formal authority given over to Cheney and Rumsfeld, given the proven use of virtually-connected spreadsheets and scripts, etc. Who directed them? The answer would be illuminating.

As before, I am agnostic, untrained, uninformed about matters of ignition, bombs, destruction, etc. I was offered a "career path" to become a Special Ops soldier in college, but I declined and devoted my life to life-saving. And that has made all the difference.