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October 29, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- United Flight 93 shot down by Air Force jets scrambled from Andrews publication date: Oct 28, 2007 Previous | Next October 29, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- United Flight 93 shot down by Air Force jets scrambled from Andrews According to U.S. intelligence sources, the archives of the National Security Agency (NSA), available to cleared users via the INTELINK network, contains an archive of Flash precedence and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) NSA intelligence messages known as "CRITICs." Click here for an older version of a list of CRITIC messages from 1964. One such CRITIC from September 11, 2001, which includes a number of follow-on intelligence reports, concerns United Airlines flight 93, downed over Shanksville, Pennsylvania. However, the CRITIC is at odds with the official account of the fate of United 93, which is that passengers and crew attacked the hijackers and forced the plane to crash into the ground. Then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, a former Governor of Pennsylvania, added to the legend of the passengers and crew on United 93 in stating, "The passengers and crew did whatever they humanly could--boil water, phone the authorities, and ultimately rush the cockpit to foil the attack." A Hollywood movie, "United 93," put the legend ascribed to the flight on the big screen. United 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people on board, took off from Newark International Airport at 0841 Eastern Daylight Time on September 11. The NSA CRITIC, according to sources who have seen it, is about five or six sentences, and paraphrasically states: "Two F-16s scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base at [likely 1336 Zulu]. Civilian airline hijacked. Over state of Pennsylvania civilian airliner was "intercepted" at (Latitude and Longitude of intercept]." Several follow-up CRITICs are appended to the first United 93-related CRITIC. One follow-up CRITIC mentioned a possible fifth hijacked plane flying south from Canada that was near the Canadian-U.S. border. Another CRITIC states the plane "intercepted" over Pennsylvania was "confirmed civilian." A number of NSA analysts have seen the CRITICs in question and it is well-known within the signals intelligence (SIGINT) community that United 93 was shot down by two U.S. Air Force interceptors on the morning of September 11 over Pennsylvania. NSA CRITICs describe interception of United 93 over Pennsylvania by fighters scrambled from Andrews AFB. Furthermore, according to U.S. Army and Navy sources, the debris of United 93 was brought by trucks to Andrews Air Force Base. One senior Navy officer on duty at Andrews during the morning of 9/11, told his wife and son (the son was also serving in the military), "We shot down the plane." On December 2, 2005, WMR reported: "Cheney order to shoot down United Flight 93 confirmed again. Vice President Dick Cheney ordered two U.S. Air Force fighters to shoot down United flight 93 over Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, according to an intelligence officer who was monitoring the flow of intelligence between the Pentagon and the White House that morning. After the target was identified as United flight 93, Cheney gave the order to engage the target and shoot it down. There have been previous reports that Cheney ordered the shoot down." On May 27, 2005, WMR reported: ". . . the career NSA operational personnel may be getting squeezed not so much for policy and management differences but because of what they know about the lies of the Bush administration. In addition to the obvious lies about Iraqi WMDs, many personnel are well aware that what occurred on the morning of 9/11 was not exactly what was reported by the White House. For example, President Bush spoke of the heroic actions of the passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 over rural Pennsylvania on the morning of 911. However, NSA personnel on duty at the NSOC that morning have a very different perspective. Before Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, NSA operations personnel clearly heard on the intercom system monitoring military and civilian communications that the "fighters are engaged" with the doomed United a ircraft. NSOC personnel were then quickly dismissed from the tactical area of the NSOC where the intercom system was located leaving only a few senior personnel in place. NSA personnel are well aware that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not 'misspeak' when, addressing U.S. troops in Baghdad during Christmas last year, said, 'the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania.' They believe the White House concocted the 'passengers-bring-down-plane' story for propaganda value.'" The most recent revelations from the intelligence community bolster the case that the Bush administration created a series of myths, eagerly amplified by the corporate news media, regarding the events of 9/11. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
