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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 430
NORAD. The DOD is obligated to respond to these emergencies with interceptors. 14
interceptors are kept on alert for this purpose. An average of 11 planes per month were
intercepted in 2000 and the first half of 2001. And their were many warnings of an impending
attacks using commercial airliners on September 11th from many different sources. Despite these
facts, neither the planes crashing into the WTC nor the Pentagon were intercepted. Taking into
account the many advance warnings, one would expect that not only would all air bases in the
United States be on high-alert but that jet fighters would be in the air ready to intercept any
hijacked planes. Just the opposite occurred!
Military Exercises
Rather than having extra air bases on alert, the military and US government had at least
eight exercises ongoing on 9/11. These included among others:
Global Guardian – An annual exercise that normally is conducted in October or
November including US Strategic Command (Stratcom) and NORAD was ongoing on 9/11.
According to Space Observer, Global Guardian was originally scheduled for October 2001. The
exercise sought to test Stratcom's ability to respond to an “Armageddon” type nuclear attack
scenario and had been ongoing for a week when 9/11 occurred. According to the website of
Global Security, Global Guardian is linked with other military exercises such as Crown
Vigilance (an Air Combat Command exercise), Apollo Guardian (a US Space Command
exercise), and NORAD exercises such as Vigilant Guardian and Amalgam Warrior.
Vigilant Guardian – A NORAD exercise described as “an exercise that would pose an
imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide”; as a “simulated air war”;
and as “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.” The 9/11 Commission
further revealed that, it “postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union.” A NORAD
exercise, presumably Vigilant Guardian, was canceled at 9:03 AM.
Amalgam Warrior – This NORAD exercise appears to have also been ongoing on 9/11
as well. This is based on a statement made by General Richard Clarke who said that “Vigilant
Warrior” was ongoing on the morning of 9/11. This appears to be a misstatement in which he
combined the names of Vigilant Guardian and Amalgam Warrior suggesting that both exercises
were in operation. The exercise is a “large-scale, live-fly air defense and air intercept field
training exercise.” “A previous Amalgam Warrior in 1996 involved such situations as tracking
unknown aircraft that had incorrectly filed their flight plans or wandered off course, in-flight
emergencies, terrorist aircraft attacks, and large-scale bomber strike missions.”
NRO Simulation – The National Reconnaissance Office had planned “a simulation of an
airplane accidentally crashing into its headquarters” in Washington DC on the morning of 9/11.
The exercise was canceled at 9:00 AM as the mornings real life events unfolded. The simulation
exercise was allegedly headed by John Fulton “and his team at the CIA.”
Operation Northern Vigilance – This is a NORAD exercise that “deploys fighters to
Alaska and Northern Canada to monitor a Russian air force exercise in the Russian arctic.” The
exercises place NORAD's staff levels at full battle strength. The battle simulation “injects” false
radar blimps into the radar screens. The military exercise, which began two days prior to 9/11
was canceled at 9:00 AM.
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