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> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "X98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:30:30 -0700 >Subject: Pentagon RESCUE???? (Part 2 of Parts 1-4) > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>X98 >To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:51 PM >Subject: Pentagon RESCUE???? (Part 2 of Parts 1-4) > > >It was murder, actually -- with a sham "rescue" slicked over the >top. > >This article has been divided up into sections for e-mail >purposes. >You may read the entire article at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com>http://www.Public-Action.com > >* * * > >Pentagon RESCUE? Open, Bloody, Questions . . . >by Carol A. Valentine >President, Public Action, Inc. >Entire article available >at: <http://www.Public-Action.com>http://www.Public-Action.com >Copyright, June, 2002 >May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes > >* * * > >PART II > >" . . WE MAY NOT RESCUE THEM FROM A COLLAPSE . . ." > >Rescue From Collapsed Buildings >Earthquake Victims Can Live Up To 12 Days in Rubble >Wreckage Must be Removed Vertically >Unstable Sections of Building Must Be Shored >Cranes Must Be Available >Cranes On Site September 12, 13 >Wrecking Ball Used Instead of Vertical Lifting And Shoring >Murderous Use of Wrecking Ball >One Excuse After Another To Stall Rescue >Six Days Later, "Stabilization" Continues >Civilian Rescue Workers Exhausted >How Things Should Have Been >Arrival of The Soda Pop Brigade >Head Shrinking & Smoochie Poochies >Darin Pontell Calls Home From The Grave >Survivors Be Damned! Pass The Money! >Accomplices to Murder >Black Hawk Down Revisited > >RESCUE FROM COLLAPSED BUILDINGS > >Now let's turn our attention to the subject of rescuing people >trapped in collapsed buildings. The Emergency Response & >Research >Institute (ERRI) is a crisis, conflict and emergency services >news >and resource center. It has won awards from a variety of >paramedic, >security, and law enforcement organizations. The ERRI homepage >is >here: ><http://www.emergency.com/>http://www.emergency.com/ >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-homepage>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-homepage > >You can see the awards they have received from police and >emergency >rescue organizations. ><http://www.emergency.com/erriawrd.htm>http://www.emergency.com/erriawrd.htm >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-awards>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-awards > >Now let's visit the ERRI page that deals with rescues from >collapsed buildings. ><http://www.emergency.com/bldgclps.htm>http://www.emergency.com/bldgclps.htm >or ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-bldg-rescue>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-bldg-rescue > >Study these pages. This is how the pros do it when they want to >save >lives. The ERRI will be our standard for measuring the Pentagon >[non-] rescue. > >EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS CAN LIVE >UP TO 12 DAYS IN RUBBLE > >The Emergency Response & Research Institute tells rescuers that: >" . . . you should remain aware of the fact that people have been >successfully rescued alive after as much as twelve (12) days . . >. >buried in the rubble of an earthquake . . . In the March, 1992 >Turkish earthquake, a 22 year old nurse was pulled from beneath a >building collapse after eight days. She was also quoted as saying >that she had been 'talking with her two friends,' who were also >buried, for several days after the collapse . . . until she >'didn't >hear them anymore.' The thought of someone remaining buried >alive >for several days should be enough motivation for most rescuers to >continue with their efforts until every possible hope has been >exhausted." > >Repeat: >" . . . you should remain aware of the fact that people have been >successfully rescued alive after as much as twelve (12) days. . >." > >Yet here is Rumsfeld declaring the 9-11 victims dead after nine >hours . . . >"There cannot be any survivors; it just would be beyond >comprehension." >(<http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09112001_t0911sd.html>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09112001_t0911sd.html >cached at: ><http://www.public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-911pressconference>http://www.public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-911pressconference) >Rumsfeld's "it's all hopeless" statement was pulled out of thin >air. >He could not possibly have known whether the buried victims were >alive or dead. > >Leadership drives men to extraordinary effort or paralyzes them >with >apathy. Rumsfeld's words seem designed to discourage any heroic >effort. > >WRECKAGE MUST BE REMOVED VERTICALLY > >According to the ERRI webpage, debris from a collapsed building >MUST >BE REMOVED VERTICALLY. > ><http://www.emergency.com/bldgclps.htm>http://www.emergency.com/bldgclps.htm >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-bldg-rescue>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-erri-bldg-rescue > >"Most rescue experts agree that building collapse extrication >must be >a process of vertical removal, rather than horizontal movement or >reduction. The safest way to remove debris from someone that is >buried should involve carefully lifting the debris from above the >victim and continually "shoring" the sides of the entrance hole >or >excavation to ensure against additional collapse. This is a >method >that is consistent with common practices used for 'trench >rescue'." > >UNSTABLE SECTIONS OF BUILDING >MUST BE SHORED > >"In the case of building collapses, the magnitude of the shoring >efforts and the type of equipment necessary to perform the rescue >may >be very different from normal extrication . . . > >"The importance of careful overhead lifting of debris, rather >than >vertical movement, can not be emphasized enough. As many as one >third >of all building collapse victims that are rescued are found in >spaces >created by the way that building materials generally fall. Most >of >the collapse configurations that occur (lean-to, A-Frame, tent, >pancake) create 'voids' in which people may be trapped and remain >alive. Vertical movement of debris will normally further collapse >the >sides of these 'protective spaces' and can result in additional >deaths of those that might have been rescued." > >CRANES MUST BE AVAILABLE > >"In order to facilitate vertical removal of debris, it may be >essential to quickly locate and utilize various types of 'cranes' >and >other types of 'overhead lift' capabilities. It is strongly >suggested >that every rescue system have previous knowledge of and training >for >the use of heavy construction equipment. Emergency dispatchers >should >have access to a list of construction companies and other >businesses >that could provide this type of equipment on a 24 hour a day >seven >day a week basis." > >CRANES ON SITE SEPTEMBER 12, 13 > >This NPR photo shows two large cranes on the site on September >12, >but there is no sign that the debris is being lifted. ><http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/scene/091101>http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/scene/091101. >pentagonhistory.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-npr-sept12cranes>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-npr-sept12cranes > >What a photo opportunity this vertical lifting rescue operation >would >make: Cranes lifting the debris from the top, layer by layer, >while >rescue workers did whatever shoring work was necessary along the >adjacent areas. The nation would be watching, breathless, glued >to >the TV screen, waiting for news of survivors. > >Look at this photo, taken on September 13, 2001, showing the >cranes >in front of the Pentagon debris. ><http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/sres.pl?Lbox_cap=349358&dir=Photo>http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/sres.pl?Lbox_cap=349358&dir=Photo >&ttl=010911-M >4122I-031&vn=&ref=defenselink >cached at: ><http://www.public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-cranes-09-13-2001>http://www.public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-cranes-09-13-2001 > >The caption under the photo reads "Recovery efforts continue >Sept. >13, 2001 ..." Look at the wreckage of the roof, and compare what >you >see here with what was visible the previous day, September 12. It >appears that no vertical lifting had been done from 12 to >September >13. The collapsed roof line appears untouched. > >How long would it have taken those cranes to lift the debris? >The >Pentagon is five stories high with a mezzanine and basement -- it >is >not one of the World Trade Center Towers. The hole made in the >building by whatever force was just 70 feet across. (US News & >World >Report, December 10, 2001, pg. 31, ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/usn011210-1.jpg>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/usn011210-1.jpg) > >That was not a massive job. Moreover, the Washington DC area is >overburdened with construction companies equipped with cranes; >the US >military has at its command air transport planes and helicopters >capable of moving heavy equipment from any part of the country or >the >world. Lifting off the debris vertically would have been no >problem. > >WRECKING BALL USED >INSTEAD OF VERTICAL LIFTING AND SHORING > >Instead of using the cranes at the site for lifting the debris >off >vertically, the cranes at the site on September 12 and 13 were >apparently used to swing a wrecking ball into the portions of the >building still standing, to demolish those sections instead of >shoring them up. > >That, along with spraying an (alleged) aviation fuel fire with >water, >was a recipe for murder. The increased weight of new debris torn >from the damaged building by the wrecking ball must have >collapsed >any voids in the original debris that may have been sheltering >victims. The result could only have crushed the victims to death >as >they awaited rescue. > >MURDEROUS USE OF WRECKING BALL > >"Rescue teams planned to use a wrecking ball in the collapsed >area to >clear away unstable rubble . . ." ("No Hope of Survivors in >Pentagon >Attack," September 12, 2001, United Press International. > ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-upi-09-12-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-upi-09-12-2001) > >" . . . By evening [Wednesday, September 12] crews had started >tearing down unstable parts of the building to continue their >search. >They hoped to have enough demolition work done by morning to >enter >the impact area," (Pentagon Says About 190 People Dead," >Associated >Press, September 13, 2001; ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-13-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-13-2001) > >"Rescue teams were preparing to use a large wrecking ball on the >collapsed section to clear away unstable ruble so that four >special >urban search and rescue teams of about 60 specialists each could >get >access to damaged nearby areas. > >"Rescuers probed as far as they could but 'obviously in the >collapsed >areas, that will have to take place a later time, after we have >made >the building safe,' Plaugher [Arlington Country Fire Chief] >said." >(Reuters, "Pentagon Reopens, Death Toll Uncertain," Sept. 12, >2001; ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-reuters-09-12-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-reuters-09-12-2001) > >"Crews began removing victims' remains Wednesday afternoon but >there >was no word on how many bodies were recovered. By evening, crews >had >started tearing down unstable parts of the building to continue >their >search. They hoped to have enough demolition work done by morning >to >enter the impact area . . . > >"Authorities did not rule out finding people in adjacent areas >after >a wrecking ball could be used to clear unstable debris, but they >did >not appear confident of that possibility . . . Pentagon officials >acknowledged the prospects of finding anyone alive was extremely >remote." (Pentagon Says About 190 People Dead," September 13, >AP, ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-13-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-13-2001) > >But of course "authorities" were not "confident" of finding >people >alive: they were doing everything wrong to ensure they died. >They >might as well have used a flame-thrower to relieve a toothache, >or a >steam shovel to perform an appendectomy. > >"And just as we may not rescue them from a fire, so may we not >rescue >them from a collapse [of debris] or from water or from anything >that >may destroy them." > >ONE EXCUSE AFTER ANOTHER TO STALL RESCUE > >One excuse after another interrupted rescue operations. > >On September 13, Thursday, 2001, a Washington area radio station, >WGMS FM, broadcasted an interview with a Fairfax County Fire and >Rescue worker, who said all rescue operations had been suspended, >due >to a "credible" terrorist threat. > >Think about it. On September 13, the US military had complete >control of the perimeter of the Pentagon. Air space was still >closed. How could any terrorist threat be "credible" under those >circumstances? This report from the New York Times corroborated >the >WGMS report: > >"By late afternoon, firefighters and rescue workers had so far >managed to remove only 70 bodies from the building, their work >hampered first by smoke and fire, then by unstable debris and >another >tense, lengthy evacuation Thursday morning, this time because of >a >bomb threat. > >"Firefighters who had been working around-the-clock shifts >recounted >how their desperate efforts had been stymied from the start by >repeated evacuations, including some in the first frantic hours >on >Tuesday when authorities believed a second attack was imminent. > >'''We were there about 14 hours straight, battling smoke in the >dark. >But the most frustrating thing was we had to keep dropping our >gear >and running for our lives when we wanted to stay and save other >lives,' said Andrea Kaiser, a firefighter from Arlington County." >("Pentagon toll at 190," New York Times, September 14, 2001, ><http://www.ocregister.com/breakingnews/attack/09142001/14nypentac>http://www.ocregister.com/breakingnews/attack/09142001/14nypentac >ci.shtml >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-nyt-09-14-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-nyt-09-14-2001) > >"Capt. Robert F. Wirtz, also of the Arlington County Fire >Department, >said the military authorities had twice warned that radar >stations >had detected airplanes headed toward the Pentagon, forcing >rescuers >to drop their hoses and axes and race from the building, raising >the >question of whether other victims could have been saved in early >hours." (New York Times, "Pentagon toll at 190," September 14, >2001, >URL above.) > >Needless to say, every alarm was a false alarm. Every one. > >SIX DAYS LATER, "STABILIZATION" CONTINUES > >This from an Associated Press report of September 17, 2001: >"Recovery of the 188 victims of the terrorist attack on the >Pentagon >neared the halfway point Monday as officials began relieving >exhausted search and rescue crews . . . Teams from Fairfax >County, >Va., and Montgomery County, Md., first on the scene after the >hijacked airliner crashed Sept. 11, were being replaced by a >search >and rescue unit from New Mexico . . . 'Certainly it takes a toll >on >the men and workers in there,' said Tom Carr, leader of the >Montgomery County task force. 'We have to admit that.' > >"But Carr described the rotation of search crews as standard >practice >for a prolonged effort like this. He said the reduction in the >number >of crews at the Pentagon of four to three indicates that work to >stabilize the damaged building is nearly complete." > >Notice the numbers of rescuers were being REDUCED, on or before >Day >Six, September 17, 2001. > >"Recovery of the bodies is expected to take much longer. Pentagon >officials said the remains of 88 victims had been removed by >Sunday. >Much of the recovery effort overnight was concentrated in the >impact >area where the roof of the Pentagon's outer ring collapsed." >("Exhausted rescue teams relieved at Pentagon," September 17, >2001, ><http://www.nando.net/special_reports/terrorism/rescue/story/80695>http://www.nando.net/special_reports/terrorism/rescue/story/80695 >p-1126250c.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-17-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-17-2001) > >So here we are, six days after the disaster, and they have just >started "concentrating" on the roof? WHAT?? Have a look at the >NPR >photo again. On September 12, the roof was within easy reach of >the >cranes. ><http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/scene/091101>http://www.npr.org/news/specials/americatransformed/scene/091101. >pentagonhistory.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-npr-crane>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-npr-crane > >"'We've been finding bodies throughout the night,' said Arlington >County fire battalion chief Jim Bonzano. He estimated it will >take >another 10 days to two weeks to complete the recovery effort." >("Exhausted rescue teams relieved at Pentagon," Associated Press, >September 17, 2001, ><http://www.nando.net/special_reports/terrorism/rescue/story/80695>http://www.nando.net/special_reports/terrorism/rescue/story/80695 >p-1126250c.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-17-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-ap-09-17-2001) > >Once again: The Pentagon was just five stories high, and the hole >left by whatever happened on September 11 was 70 feet across. >But >we've just read that it's going to take 16 to 20 days for the >world's >mightiest miliary force with the most sophisticated and powerful >equipment at its fingertips to recover the victims? > >Notice that throughout this AP article, the CIVILIAN rescue >people >are quoted. The rescue efforts at the Pentagon should have been >a >military effort from Day One. After all, the 9-11 attack was an >"act >of war," was it not? > >CIVILIAN RESCUE WORKERS EXHAUSTED > >Let me repeat one sentence from the September 14 New York Times >article quoted above. A civilian Arlington County firefighter >said >of the time she and her fellows spent at the scene: >"'We were there about 14 hours straight . . .'" >(<http://www.ocregister.com/breakingnews/attack/09142001/14nypenta>http://www.ocregister.com/breakingnews/attack/09142001/14nypenta >cci.shtml >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-nyt-09-14-2001>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-nyt-09-14-2001) > >Not only is the Pentagon close to Andrews and Bolling Air Force >Bases, the Quantico Marine Base, but it is also minutes away from >the >Ft. Belvoir and Ft. Myer Army bases. The Pentagon had at its >command >thousands of able bodied troops. > >Why were civilians working 14-hour shifts? > >HOW THINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN > >For a remarkably contrasting incident, let's turn our attention >to >President Kennedy's Inauguration Day, 1961: > >"Early on the morning of January 20, 1961, Washington lay buried >beneath half a foot of freshly fallen snow . . . Throughout the >region, schools, businesses, and factories were shut down, and >airports diverted inbound flights . . . > >"By daybreak, the military began their takeover. From Fort >Belvoir, >a heavy armored division of more than a hundred snowplows, >front-loaders, dump trucks, and road graders crossed into the >city to >attack the ice and heavy drifts . . ." (Body of Secrets, James >Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, pg. 64.) > >If Fort Belvoir could turn out vehicles to help clear the snow on >Inauguration Day, what happened to its public spirit on September >11, >2001? If rapid mobilization and friendly occupation was no >problem >in a 1961 snowstorm, why was it a problem on a fine September day >in >2001? > >ARRIVAL OF THE SODA POP BRIGADE > >Instead of sending in real help -- trained aviation fire fighters >and >disciplined men trained to work with heavy equipment in tightly >coordinated teams -- the military sent soda pop and other >sundries to >the (civilian) rescuers. The soda pop was provided by the Army >and >Air Force Exchange Service, thus: > >"Mobilizing two 45-foot trailers from its Newport News, Va., >distribution center, AAFES has established a field-style exchange >store that provides rescue workers with free towels, bottled >water, >soft drinks, snacks, lip balm, T-shirts, socks and other items. >The >facility is operating around the clock. > >"'This is just wonderful, just fantastic, how AAFES is supporting >the >soldier,' said Staff Sgt. Michele Hammonds, a public affairs >noncommissioned officer with the Army Reserve's 214th Mobile >Public >Affairs Detachment, Fort Belvoir, Va.'" ("AAFES Provides Free >Items >To Pentagon Rescue Workers," September 15, 2001. American Forces >Press Service. ><http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/n09152001_200109156.html>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/n09152001_200109156.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-sodapop>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-sodapop) > >PR flack Hammonds is gushing about the support being shown >"soldiers." But the rescuers were civilians. Did she fail to >notice >the anomalies herself, or was she hoping we were too dumb to >notice >them? > >HEAD SHRINKING & SMOOCHIE POOCHIES > >The military also provided "love dogs" and head shrinking >sessions to >the bereaved whose "loved ones" were missing. > >"Arlington, VA., Sept. 15, 2001-- More than 300 family members >and >loved ones of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the >Pentagon have visited DoD's Family (Casualty) Assistance Center >in >the Sheraton Hotel here since it opened three days ago, according >to >DoD spokesman Marine Corps Maj. Ben Owens. > >"'The first family member arrived at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning,' >Owens >noted. 'They're met at the entrance and escorted upstairs where >they're interviewed to find out what their concerns and needs >are. >We ensure they know what the status of their missing loved one is >and >provide them with the newest information we have. Currently, we >have >families here looking for more than 60 missing loved ones.' . . . > >"Depending on the family members' and loved ones' needs, the >center >provides such resources and services as counseling, chaplains, >benefits, compensation, transportation, and financial, legal and >lodging assistance. Family members are coupled with chaplains >and >counselors and taken to rooms for their private discussions. >Forty >rooms are available at the Sheraton, and other hotels in the area >have offered rooms to handle the overflow . . . > >"'We also have 'stress and love dogs' provided by Therapy Dogs >International, Inc.,' Owens said. 'We asked for the therapy dogs >because a family said it would be helpful if we had them.'" >("Round-the-Clock Center Aids Families, Loved Ones of Pentagon >Casualties," American Forces Press Service, Sept. 15, 20010.) ><http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/n09152001_200109152.html>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/n09152001_200109152.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-lovedogs>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-lovedogs) > >DARIN PONTELL >CALLS HOME FROM THE GRAVE > >According to the Washington Post, January 20, 2002, "The Last >Watch," >(front page, Style section), the entire chain of command of the >super >secret Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP) were >killed in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. > >One of the victims was Darin Pontell, who worked in CNO-IP. The >Post >reported that two days after the attack, Darin's parents were >still >hoping Darin was alive. Here is an excerpt from "The Last >Watch," >Washington Post, January 20, 2001, pg.F1. > >"'Where'd I put my cell phone? Where is it?' Marilyn Pontell, >Darrin's mother, grew frantic looking for her purse. Her Nokia >was >chiming 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game.' > >"Marilyn would be sick if she missed that call. Maybe it was >news >about her son. maybe it was Darin himself. > >"Two days later, Marilyn and Gary Pontell still hoped their >youngest >boy had been spared. Gathered at Darin and Devora's apartment in >Gaithersburg on Thursday afternoon, they could barely process the >idea that he was dead . . . > >"Navy officials gave garbled reports: One person said someone who >looked like Darin walked from the scene. Somebody else claimed >he >was working far away, in the A-Ring. An officials said they >couldn't >find his Acura Integra in the Pentagon lot ... > >"The Nokia sang again, then silence. Too late. when she finally >got >to the phone, Marilyn scrolled through the menu. One missed >call: >1:57 p.m. No message. But the incoming number was clearly >identified. It was Darin's. > >"My God, maybe he was alive. > >"For five more days, they waited. On Sept. 18, the Navy informed >the >Pontells that Darin's body had been positively identified. His >cell >phone was never returned to the family. They presume it was >never >found. Perhaps the flip-phone had somehow dialed Marilyn's >number >when the rubble shifted. But didn't all cell phones have to be >turned off upon entry into the CNO-IP [Chief of Naval Operations >Intelligence Plot]? > >"The FBI offered a one-word explanation for that call: >'anomaly.'" >SURVIVORS BE DAMNED! PASS THE MONEY! >While Gen. Rescue Shelton, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Rabbi >Dov >Zakheim, and Army Secretary White should have been rescuing Darin >and >his Army and Navy colleagues from the debris during those early >frightful days, what did they do instead? > >On September 15, the DoD announced it had awarded a contract to >the >Hensel Phelps Construction Company of Chantilly, Virginia to >rebuild >the Pentagon. The contract has a potential value of $758 >million, >according the DoD release, "Contract Awarded to Rebuild the >Pentagon." ><http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/b09152001_bt431-01.html>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/b09152001_bt431-01.html >cached at: ><http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-henselphelps>http://www.Public-Action.com/911/rescue/obq-afis-henselphelps > >Now let's see: Disaster struck on September 11. According to the >Emergency Response and Rescue Institute, there may have been many >living survivors in that rubble on September 15. Yet on >September >15, the contract to rebuild over the ruins had already been >awarded. >Is that bad taste, or what? > >Come to think of it, does it sound as if the damage suffered by >the >Pentagon on 9-11 came as a surprise to certain people in the DoD >contracting office? Does it sound like the job awarded to Hensel >Phelps was open to competitive bidding and went through channels? >How do you spell "fast track"? Did the Comptroller and >Undersecretary of the DoD, Rabbi Zakheim, have a role in the 3/4 >$billion award? Whose friends and relatives will be on the >receiving >end of that? Surely no one would be tasteless enough to ask. > >ACCOMPLICES TO MURDER > >As the Emergency Response & Research Institute website told us, >victims trapped by debris from earthquakes and other disasters >can >live up to 12 days. Do you think that maybe Darin Pontell was >still >alive on September 11, when Rumsfeld, "visibly upset," at his >press >conference, was swearing there could be no survivors? Perhaps >Darin >was alive on September 12, waiting for the cranes to lift the >debris >and free him. Perhaps he was alive on September 13, when his >parents >received a call from his cell phone. Had he been reached in >time, >perhaps Darin might be alive today. > >Gen. Leave-No-Man-Behind Shelton, Messrs. Rumsfeld, and >Wolfowitz, >Rabbi Zakheim, and the National Command Center were surely >accomplices to the murder of Darin Pontell and the others. The >gang >simply used different weapons. They used water, a >fire-cum-rescue >media event, and a wrecking ball. And lies, lies lies, and more >lies. > >However, there is another explanation for what we see, and for >Rumsfeld's certainty on 9-11 that "there cannot be any survivors; >it >just would be beyond comprehension." We'll get to that later on. > >BLACK HAWK DOWN REVISITED > >On May 24-25, 2002, the Washington Post ran a two-part story >concerning seven (7) Special Operations team members who died >during >an attempt to rescue another soldier in Afghanistan in March, >2002. >The incident began when a US helicopter attempted to land to >engage >al Qaeda forces. > >"How it unfolded highlighted the extraordinary commitment of the >American soldiers not to leave fallen comrades behind: The entire >episode spiraled out of an attempt to rescue a single SEAL, who >had >fallen out of the initial helicopter . . ." (Washington Post, >May >24-25, 2002. "Ambush at Takur Ghar" series, Part I: "Bravery and >Breakdowns in a Ridgetop Battle" ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1951-2002May23.htm>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1951-2002May23.htm >l >Part II: "A wintery Ordeal at 10,000 Feet" ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6815-2002May24.htm>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6815-2002May24.htm >l) > >There is something very wrong here. Without a chance to verify >information for ourselves, we are told a heroic story of events >in >far-off lands, first in Somalia, now in Afghanistan. We are told >that every individual soldier is precious to the top command. > >Yet close to home, with verification at hand, we see that the >former >commander of the Special Operations Command and current Chairman >of >the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other top brass, were actually >accomplices in the murders of 125 Pentagon personnel. >-- >Carol A. 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