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Better summation of the war games ongoing during 9/11.
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[h1]War Games[/h1][h2]Multiple War Games Were Being Conducted on 9/11/01[/h2]
Several different war game exercises were in play onthe day of the attack.The limited public information on these exercisesshows that they simulated the following events:
These events are all elements of the actual attack,which involvedfour alleged hijackings,three jetliner crashes into buildings,and the toxic calamity atGround Zeroin the wake of the World Trade Center's destruction.[h3]Operation Northern Vigilance[/h3]
- Hijackings
- Attacks on buildings using aircraft as missiles
- Attacks using toxic or infectious substances
Conducted from September 9-11,this exerciseredeployed jets that normally patrolled the northeast sectorto northern Canada and Alaska.It echoed a Russian exercise scheduled from September 10-14in which long-range bombers weredispatched to their northern territory.[size=-1][sup]1[/sup] [/size]
[h3]The Vigilant Warrior and Vigilant Guardian Training Exercises[/h3]
These were apparently a pair of war games(attacker versus defender)which involved live-fly simulations of hijackings.Both this pair of exercises and Northern Vigilance probablyinvolved the use of "injects" into screens to simulate aircraft.These games apparently resembled the actual attack sufficientlyto confuse military officers, as suggested by the following transcript.
FAA Boston Center contacts NEADS, saying,"We need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out."
“Is this real world or an exercise?