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When Terror Drills
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Solving 9-11 - Chapter 3 Tuesday, 11 March 2008 http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/911/solving911ch3/
The past two decades have been marked by a large number of man-made terror events which remain unsolved to this day. Several of these events, which involve heinous crimes of mass murder, are similar in a most remarkable way. These are the disasters which occurred during security drills or military exercises in which the scenario was incredibly similar, if not identical to the real-life terror attack. Understanding the nature of the exercises that created the background and framework for these attacks is essential to understanding how the attacks were carried out. The fact that these real-life terror events occurred within the context of virtually identical terrorism/security exercises has been completely ignored by the media -- as if the exercises had never happened. Of the major terror events that occurred during such exercises, we will look at three specific examples: the aerial attacks of 9-11, the bombings of the London Underground and a bus in 2005, and the sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia in 1994. While there certainly have been other major disasters that occurred within the context of military exercises, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in 2000, for example, and the 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf, the three events being discussed here involved attacks on civilian transportation systems far from any war zone. The three disasters were all handled in the same way by their respective governments and media. In each case, before a real investigation could begin to establish the facts and examine the evidence, a politically acceptable explanation was put forward by government officials and repeated, without question, by the mass media. Evidence and facts that contradict the "official" version of events have been confiscated, destroyed, or simply ignored. The extremely hasty and improper sale of the steel from the World Trade Center to distant Asian smelters, for example, must rank as the most egregious case of destruction of evidence from a crime scene in American history.
SELLING THE EVIDENCE - The steel from the WTC, the most critical evidence to determine what really caused the towers to collapse, was quickly destroyed after being sold to Asian smelters. Alan D. Ratner of Metal Management and the New York-based Hugo Neu Schnitzer East profited from this criminal destruction of evidence. Ratner sold the WTC steel to Chinese companies, reportedly selling more than 50,000 tons of steel to a Shanghai steel company for $120 per ton. Ratner had paid about $70 per ton for the steel. (See Bollyn article entitled "Seismic Evidence of Underground Explosions" for details.) Likewise, during the official dive for evidence to the wreck of Estonia, on which more than 852 people are known to have died, the crucial locking bolt from the bow visor, which officials blame for having caused the catastrophe, was thrown back into the sea. The bolt from the Atlantic lock had been detached by divers and brought to the surface for investigation only to be thrown back to the sea by Börje Stenström, the Swedish navy commander who was the head of the technical group of the international investigation commission. Stenström's throwing the bolt back to the sea was clearly the destruction of "one of the most important pieces of evidence," according to his own scenario of what had caused the sinking.
THE CULT OF THE BOW VISOR - Estonia's bow visor, seen open here, is blamed by corrupt investigators for causing the sinking. The crucial evidence that would prove otherwise was thrown back into the sea. The Swedish government's effort to support their "official lie" with a computer simulation of the sinking has failed because the model of the vessel simply won't sink absent a hole below the waterline. The first rule in maintaining a cover-up is to control access to the evidence. The second rule is to destroy any and all evidence that contradicts the official version of events. The fact that these three disasters occurred during very similar terror scenarios being staged as part of an exercise has been ignored by the mass media, which has treated these extremely uncanny coincidences as complete non-issues. Information about the exercises has been kept hidden from the public. The government cover-ups have been greatly facilitated by the compliant mass media which has consistently ignored the fact that several mega-disasters occurred within the context of strikingly similar terrorism exercises. The terrorist attacks, for example, that struck New York and Washington on 9-11 and the London bombings of July 7, 2005, were the realization, i.e. the making real, of computer-based scenarios that were being staged in the same place at the same time. Would a truly free press ignore the conspicuous fact that both events occurred within the context of very similar terror exercises? "The easiest way to carry out a false flag attack is by setting up a military exercise that simulates the very attack you want to carry out," Captain Eric H. May, a former military intelligence officer from the U.S. Army wrote in a recent article entitled "False Flag Prospects, 2008 - Top Three U.S. Target Cities." False flag terror attacks are designed and carried out with the intention of having the blame assigned to a targeted foe in order to manipulate public opinion, cause conflict and foment war. The complicity of the media is necessary for such false flag terrorism to succeed. "This is exactly how government perpetrators in the US and UK handled the 9/11 and 7/7 'terror' attacks," May writes, "which were in reality government attacks blamed on 'terrorists'."
THE GRIM FAIRY TALE
OF 9-11 – The alleged hijackers of 9-11, according to the
government and controlled media version. But why has the mass media
shown no interest in interviewing the families of these men in order
to document and support the official story? How can it be than
several of them are even reported to be alive and the media doesn't
investigate? Captain May, a Texan from Houston, certainly knows what he is talking about. He is an expert in military exercises involving simulations. May completed advanced courses at the U.S. Army's school for military intelligence officers at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and served five years with the U.S. Army's 75th Division as an Opposing Forces Controller, where he ran "contrarian scenarios." May's aim, he says, as a former military intelligence officer who spent five years conducting war games, is to warn the public that the " 'next 9/11' -- constantly promised by officials and the media -- is likely to be carried out under the guise of future military exercises. "If the American people are aware of pending exercises and the danger they represent," May says, "then the exercises cannot 'go live' and effect the very terror events that they are supposed to be rehearsing against." 9-11 and the July 7, 2005 bombings in London "have smoking guns proving that the mass murderers were not foreign terrorists but domestic tyrants," May writes. The "smoking guns," he says, are the terror exercises that simulated the attacks that actually occurred. While the terrorism/security drills created the "contrarian scenario" framework within which the real terror attacks occurred, it does not necessarily follow that the agency running the exercise is the actual terrorist. The true culprit is much more likely to be a foreign agency, who is covertly, but intimately aware of the planning of the exercise. By having access to the critical computer networks involved in the exercise this outside agency has the ability to hijack the drill and make it "go live." While the real terrorists could be from any agency that is involved in the drill, they could also be from a foreign intelligence organization that has gained "back door" access to the computer networks on which the exercise is planned and carried out. Israeli military intelligence, for example, which has long been engaged in supplying enterprise software, e.g. Ptech, and network security personnel and programs to the U.S. government and military, undoubtedly has "back door" access to these most sensitive computer networks. As May says, the "smoking gun" terror drills disprove the official fairy tale that "Islamic terrorists" are responsible for these false flag terror attacks. The Arabs and Muslims who have been wrongly blamed for 9-11 and the London bombings have simply been framed, like Lee Harvey Oswald, as part of the deception.
KILLING THE PATSY – Jacob Rubinstein, a.k.a. Jack Ruby, a violent Jew from Chicago with close ties to the Jewish organized crime network, shoots the patsy of the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, in Dallas. Ruby's father, an alcoholic carpenter and deserter from the Russian army, came to America from Sokolov, a Zionist hotbed near Warsaw with his brother, Abraham. Rubinstein's mother, Fannie, was a Yiddish-speaking illiterate who was unable to learn to even sign her own name after 35 years in the United States. The Rubinstein children spent time in foster homes due to neglect, while Fannie spent time in the mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois. (NOTE ON THE CHICAGO CONNECTION – Itzhak Rabin, a senior Israeli military officer and ally of Shimon Peres, also happened to be in Dallas on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed. So, pray tell, exactly what business did the Israeli military officer Itzhak Rabin have in Dallas on November 22, 1963? On January 1, 1964, Rabin was promoted to Chief of Staff after returning from Dallas. Rabin's father, Nehemiah, had lived some 13 years in Chicago's West Side Yiddish-speaking Jewish community, some of that time at 2734 Crystal Street with a Solomon Turovlin of the Jewish Daily Forward, the Yiddish language paper. The elder Rabin (said to have been born Rubitzov, although not one record has been found in that name) was involved in the same Yiddish-speaking Zionist community, which the Rubinstein family was also part of, before migrating to Palestine as a member of the "Jewish Legion" sometime after September 1918. Rabin's father from Chicago engaged in fighting in the Jordan Valley of Palestine and was one of the founders of the underground Zionist militia, the Haganah, in Jerusalem in 1920. Why has the U.S. media ignored the extensive ties between Zionists like Rabin and Rubinstein to the world of Jewish organized crime?) LONDON – JULY 7, 2005At the exact time of the terror bombings of the London Underground and a bus at Tavistock Square, a man named Peter Power was, with his crisis management company, Visor Consultants Ltd., conducting a terrorism drill for a mysterious un-named client. The Visor exercise was precisely identical to the bombings that occurred. Just how likely is such a coincidence? Peter Power had previously worked at Scotland Yard, the Anti Terrorist Branch, and as a police superintendent in West Dorset, England. In 1993, Power was himself the subject of a criminal investigation which, in April 1993, led to his suspension and retirement from the police. Superintendent Power was suspended following an internal police inquiry, which resulted in a file being submitted to the Director of Public Prosecution. Oddly, the details of the Power investigation have been kept classified. After a five-month investigation, Power retired from the police force in September 1993, at the age of 42, "on health grounds."
PETER POWER - The July Seventh Truth Campaign in Britain has revealed Power's troubled past and his links with previous terror incidents in Britain. But the details of the criminal investigation into Peter Power have been kept secret since 1993. What did he do in Dorset and who was the mysterious un-named company with whom he planned and conducted the terror exercise on July 7? "THIS IS THE REAL ONE"Just hours after the London bombings, Power explained the incredible coincidences with the drill his company was conducting in a radio interview with Peter Allen on BBC 5:
WHO CHOSE A SCENARIOLater on July 7, Power appeared in a television interview on ITV News in which he revealed more about the nature of the operation:
One would think that such astounding revelations of a British terrorism expert about how the terror bombings were "almost precisely" like the exercise he had been conducting for a mysterious company would be of great interest to the media. That has, however, not been the case. There has been virtually no discussion in the "mainstream" media that the London bombings, or other terror atrocities and disasters like 9-11 and the sinking of Estonia, occurred within the context of security drills that were very similar to what actually happened. Why has this crucial background information been censored? Astonishing first-hand accounts, like Peter Power's, from people engaged in these exercises were reported shortly after the events occurred, yet these important stories were confined to local news outlets and not reported in the major national and international news outlets, in newspapers like the New York Times, for example, whose motto is: "All the news that's fit to print." Power's comments about the amazing coincidences with his security drill were censored by the BBC in the same way as the eyewitness report of Stephen Evans, their reporter who was at the World Trade Center on 9-11. Evans was on the ground floor of the South Tower when planes struck the complex. When he appeared on BBC World television shortly after the collapse of the twin towers, Evans repeatedly described a "series of explosions" he had seen and felt at the base of the tower before it was demolished.
From the first minute Evans spoke, however, it was quite obvious that his eyewitness report was being censored by the higher powers at the BBC. When the BBC revisited the events of 9-11 with Evans, there was absolutely no mention of the "series of explosions" he had witnessed on the morning of the attacks. How can that be? Such blatant and intentional omissions are properly defined as censorship. Evans' astonishing eyewitness account from 9-11 was evidently dropped into the "memory hole" at the BBC. Peter Power's revealing comments about the London bombings met the same fate. For independent journalists to question the controlled-media's version of events, from which such significant first-hand accounts have been censored, is to risk being branded a "conspiracy theorist." The public is now told that eyewitness accounts can not be trusted – at least when they differ from the official version. Eyewitness reports from people who were in the disaster or who saw it with their own eyes can not be considered as reliable testimony, we are told. How very odd. Such was the case with the downing of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York in 1996, when more than 100 eyewitnesses reported seeing what appeared to be a missile streak from the surface of the ocean, strike the aircraft, and cause an explosive fireball. I attended the final presentation of the official TWA 800 report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2000, when David Mayer, whose only credential as a panel member was a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology from Rice University, audaciously dismissed the reports of more than 100 eyewitnesses as the collective hallucinations of intoxicated New Yorkers, based solely on the fact that it was a summer weekend evening! At that point, it was abundantly clear that there was something seriously wrong with the NTSB and their investigation of the downing of TWA 800. The cover-up could hardly have been more obvious. THE PLANE-INTO-BUILDING DRILL OF 9-11On 9-11, an agency of the Dept. of Defense and the CIA was conducting a terror scenario in which an imaginary airplane from Washington's Dulles International Airport was to crash into one of the four towers of the suburban campus of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia, just a few miles west of the Pentagon. The plane that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon, American Airlines Flight 77, departed from the very same airport at 8:20 a.m. on 9-11. When the terror scenario became real in New York and at the Pentagon, the NRO exercise was cancelled and nearly all its three thousand employees, the people who operate the nation's "eye in the sky," were sent home. BIZARRE COINCIDENCEThe government said it was a "bizarre coincidence" that the NRO, a military intelligence agency working under the Dept. of Defense and CIA, had planned a simulated exercise with a mock "plane-into-building" crash on the morning of 9-11. "It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility," spokesman Art Haubold told the Associated Press in August 2002. "As soon as the real world events began, we canceled the exercise." As the agency that operates many of the nation's spy satellites, the NRO personnel come from the military and the CIA. When the attacks occurred, however, most of the 3,000 people who work at the agency were sent home. Why would they do that? Does it make any sense at all for a nation to shut its eyes while it is under attack? The fact that the spy agency had planned such a drill was casually leaked in an announcement for a homeland security conference in Chicago in 2002. In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's strategic gaming division, the announcement said:
CRITICAL FAILURESThe most pressing questions about why the U.S. military air defense system failed to intercept the four hijacked planes on 9-11 are obviously of crucial importance. Captain May writes that "even official apologists call [9-11] the greatest defense failure in American history." How could the most modern and expensive air force in the world fail to intercept four airliners, three of which roamed wild for hundreds of miles before striking landmark buildings in New York and Washington? Why was the U.S. air defense system unable to intercept several large, slow-moving planes before they struck the nation's largest city and its capital? If the U.S. Air Force couldn't intercept lumbering civilian planes, how could they possibly stop a hostile invasion of fighter jets or missiles? These crucial questions have never been raised by the government appointed commissions or the media, which have all avoided discussing the military exercises of 9-11. It's not that these drills were not reported, but rather that their connection to the disasters has not been openly discussed and investigated. Four months after 9-11, the Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, published an article by Hart Seely that featured first-hand accounts of the military radar operators of the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. These radar operators were the eyes of the U.S. air defense system for the eastern part of the nation on 9-11. In Seely's article, the NEADS personnel explained how a North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) exercise called Vigilant Guardian, which they were participating in, had caused systemic confusion which prevented an effective military response to the real emergency. The confusion at NEADS was evident from the moment Boston Flight Control informed them that a plane had been hijacked. At 8:38 a.m. an air traffic controller telephoned Sergeant Jeremy Powell at NEADS to inform him that one of their planes had been hijacked and was headed to New York : "Is this real-world or exercise?" Powell asked. "No. This is not an exercise; not a test," Powell was told, according to transcripts of the 9-11 Commission report. Seely's informative article described the context -- and the confusion -- at NEADS: IT MUST BE PART OF THE EXERCISE6 a.m.: WAR GAMES Day 1 of the simulation had moved slowly. She hoped the exercise gathered steam. It made a long day go faster. 8:40 a.m.: REAL WORLD In the Ops Center, three
rows of radar scopes face a high wall of wide-screen monitors.
Supervisors pace behind technicians who peer at the instruments.
Here it is always quiet, always dark, except for the green radar
glow. At 8:40, Deskins noticed senior technician Jeremy Powell waving his hand. Boston Center was on the line, he said. It had a hijacked airplane. "It must be part of the exercise," Deskins thought. At first, everybody did. Then Deskins saw the glowing direct phone line to the Federal Aviation Administration. On the phone she heard the voice of a military liaison for the FAA's Boston Center: "I have a hijacked aircraft," he told her. American Airlines Flight 11, headed to Los Angeles, had veered off course, apparently toward New York. The liaison said to get "some F-16s or something" airborne. Forty-one minutes earlier, Flight 11 had left Logan Airport with 81 passengers. For the last 27 minutes, it had not responded to ground control. Deskins requested Flight 11's latest position, which an operator put up on the screen. Flight 11 wasn't there. Someone had turned off its transponder, the device that identifies the plane to ground control. Boston Center could still track it on primary radar, but the operators in Rome would be hard-pressed to find it amid the jumble of blips on their screens. We'll direct the intercept, the liaison told Deskins. Just get something up there. Deskins ran up a short flight of stairs to the Battle Cab and reported the hijacked plane - real world, not a simulation.
NEADS RADAR OPERATORS
– These were the military radar
personnel who were confused on 9-11 because of the Vigilant Guardian
simulation. Did Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, a.k.a. Osama bin Laden
and the 19 flight school drop outs, know all about the NORAD and NRO
simulations and possess the "super-user" ability to hack into the
military, FAA, and NORAD computer systems to manipulate the data in
order to cause confusion and thwart an effective response? NOT A SIMULATIONWhat is most peculiar is that Seely's informative article about the confusion among the critical military radar operators at NEADS was never published or referenced by any national newspaper in the United States. The New York Times, for example, has never even mentioned "Vigilant Guardian," the air defense exercise that contributed to the confusion behind the military's failure to protect New York City on 9-11. Oddly, among the national newspapers and news magazines of the United States, Vigilant Guardian has only been mentioned once, very briefly, in a Washington Post book review of the 9-11 Commission report. The review began with the painfully obvious truth: "If the 9-11 report had been written as a novel, nobody would believe it. The story is too far-fetched." The Post only mentioned Vigilant Guardian when it quoted "a little-noticed footnote" from the report:
Vigilant Guardian obviously confused the military because simulated hijackings and false "injects," which are radar indications of non-existent planes, were reportedly part of the exercise. This is why Deskins and others were initially uncertain whether the reports of hijacked planes were "real world" or simulation. "First thing that went through my mind was, 'Is this part of the exercise? Is this some kind of a screw-up?' " Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, who was at a command center at the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, told ABC News. The military's inability to respond effectively to the rogue aircraft of 9-11 was evidently caused, at least in part, by the NORAD exercise. The fact that a similar exercise, involving a plane striking a military facility near the Pentagon, was being staged on the morning of 9-11, indicates that the computer-based exercises played key roles in the actual terror attacks that occurred. Is this why the controlled media has ignored them? What role the military exercises played in the 9-11 terror attacks and how they could have been hijacked, and by whom, are all questions that need to be answered, but these are questions that will be addressed in greater detail in a subsequent chapter. THE ESTONIA CATASTROPHEThe unexplained sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia on its way to Stockholm from Tallinn in late September 1994 is the third mega-disaster (not in chronological order) that occurred within the framework of a military exercise. The day before it sank Estonia had also been the scene of a terrorism exercise in which the scenario was a terror bombing of the ferry. Looking at the NATO military assets that were assembled nearby and the terrorism drill that had just been conducted on the ship, the stage was clearly set and the actors were in place for what turned out to be a real disaster. The Estonia catastrophe is Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II. 852 people are known to have died when Estonia sank in the early hours of September 28, 1994, but more than 1,000 may have perished, if, as reported, some 150 Iraqi Kurds were being smuggled to Sweden in one of the trucks on its car deck. Scores of people died in the frigid water of the Baltic Sea waiting for rescue boats and helicopters that came too late. More than ninety bodies were retrieved from the life rafts.
THE TOLL - The bodies of some of the Estonia victims retrieved from the Baltic Sea. NATO'S "SEARCH & RESCUE" EXERCISEAlthough it is seldom mentioned, the Estonia catastrophe occurred on the first day of a 10-day NATO naval exercise called Cooperative Venture 94, in which more than 15 ships and "a number of maritime aircraft" were prepared to conduct "humanitarian and search and rescue operations" in nearby waters. The NATO exercise, which involved 10 NATO member states and the Baltic "partner" nations of Russia, Sweden, Poland, and Lithuania, was to be staged in the Skagerrak, between Denmark and Norway, and the Norwegian Sea, according to the NATO press release about the exercise from September 16, 1994. The NATO nations who participated in the exercise were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. Many other allies and partners sent observers to the exercise, according to the NATO press release. The fact that Estonia sank as the submarines, ships, planes, personnel, and satellites from the navies of 14 nations were preparing to begin their 10-day "search and rescue operations" exercise off the coast of Sweden raises several obvious questions that deserve to be answered: First and foremost, if NATO had 15 ships and a number of aircraft assembled and prepared to conduct "search and rescue operations," why didn't NATO assist in the early morning rescue operation for the victims from the Estonia catastrophe? The Swedish rescue helicopters were ill-prepared and ill-equipped, which resulted in a fatal delay for those waiting to be rescued. "Were there specially-equipped rescue helicopters or other aircraft that could have assisted?" Drew Wilson, author of The Hole (2006), a book about the Estonia catastrophe, wrote: Survivors who didn't die from hypothermia while floating on upturned boats or flotsam in the biting water waited four-six hours for rescue. NATO search-and-rescue personnel and equipment could have saved some lives. Flying time was under 1 hour. Why didn't they respond to the distress traffic? What happened? The evidence indicates that the Mayday signals from Estonia had been jammed, as were all radio communications in the area. "A series of comprehensive malfunctions in regional communication systems all at once, and all at the exact time the ferry had sunk suggest involvement by a military or intelligence services," Wilson writes in The Hole. "Was a distress call intentionally blocked? If so, why? Communications throughout the Northern Baltic Sea were disrupted during the time of the accident." As Wilson documents, VHF Channel 16, the international Mayday channel, and Channel 2182 were blocked. "Signal jamming of all radio communications apparently occurred on the Southern coastline of Finland as the accident unfolded." The NSA of the United States, the intelligence and spy agency which monitors signal intelligence around the world, reportedly has a file of documents about the Estonia catastrophe which remain classified more than 13 years after the passenger and car ferry supposedly sank due to a faulty bow visor. Why would the NSA maintain top-secret files about an innocent ship wreck in the Baltic Sea in 1994? Wilson wrote: Werner Hummel, the German investigator, said that his Group had documentation showing that the regional telephone network servicing the catastrophe site failed just as it was needed most. The malfunction was truly a startling coincidence. The telephone company stated its entire radio communications network, for unknown reasons, had been down from 1:03 to 1:58 a.m. – almost exactly the time the Estonia first encountered trouble until the time it disappeared from radar. Didn't the NATO communications units prepared for the "search and rescue" exercise overhear the distress calls coming from Estonia? NATO, with state-of-the-art satellite and airborne surveillance assets in place over the Baltic Sea certainly must know who was blocking the SOS calls. Why has this information been kept secret since 1994? Blocking SOS calls and jamming distress signals is a violation of international law. Why has this crime not been investigated? The intentional blocking of the Mayday signals from Estonia points to complicity in mass murder. "Naval exercises are meant to be as realistic as possible," Olivier Schmidt, author of The Intelligence Files: Today's Secrets, Tomorrow's Scandals, writes. What was the "search and rescue" scenario of NATO's Cooperative Venture 94 exercise, which was commanded at sea by the Dutch submarine commander Gijsbert Goofert Hooft? I sent a series of pertinent questions to Robert Pszczel, NATO's press officer for Baltic issues, about NATO's response to the Estonia catastrophe: Did NATO have any naval assets in the Baltic Sea on the night of September 27-28, 1994 and what actions did NATO take in the immediate aftermath of the Estonia disaster? Did NATO pick up the Mayday signals being sent (and jammed) from Estonia? Why didn't NATO assist, given the urgent need to retrieve hundreds of freezing people from life rafts? What was the scenario of NATO's search and recovery exercise? Despite telephone calls and email exchanges with the press office at NATO headquarters, Robert Pszczel failed to respond to a single question about NATO's response to the Estonia catastrophe for this article. Drew Wilson ran into the same wall of silence at NATO when he asked questions about Estonia for his book The Hole. If NATO has a reasonable
explanation for its failure to respond and assist during Europe's
worst maritime disaster since World War II, why is it unwilling to
provide it? To whom is this organization accountable?
ESTONIA'S BOMB DRILLSThe Estonia ferry had been the object of bomb threats and had participated in at least two terror bomb exercises in 1994, one in February and another just the day before it sank. On February 2, 1994, Estonia was the subject of a major mock bomb exercise conducted with RITS, Sweden's maritime fire and rescue agency, and the Stockholm police. The Stockholm police had requested to take part in the exercise and used bomb-sniffing dogs to find explosives. The terror simulation involved a scenario in which "bombs" had been placed in the sauna and swimming pool area on the lowest deck, below the waterline in the bow of the ship. A second "bomb" was placed in the sleeping quarters on the first deck, also below the waterline. In the Estonia terrorism scenario, the explosives in the sauna were to be found by the dogs, while the second "bomb" was to explode. The purpose of this terrorism drill was to train with the ship's crew and include shore-based terrorism experts and police with bomb-sniffing dogs, brought to the ship by helicopter. In the simulation, the "bombs" were set to explode about half way between the Estonian and Swedish coasts, which is where the ship actually sank in September 1994 after a similar mock bomb threat exercise. When Estonia sank, another mock bomb exercise on the ship had just been concluded. Survivors from the sinking actually reported hearing two huge explosions immediately before the ship listed to starboard. Several crew members testified to having heard the coded fire alarm "Mr. Skylight to No. 1 and 2" over the ferry's public address system at about 1:02 a.m. after the vessel had listed severely. This is the exact same message for the crew that was used during the previous bomb drill in February 1994. "Mr. Skylight" was a signal for the fire fighters to proceed to their fire stations 1 and 2 and prepare for damage control. The fact that this coded alarm was given indicates that there was damage caused by a fire or explosion that required immediate attention. The ferry sank within 30 minutes. Eyewitness testimony from survivors plus the fact that the ship sank extremely quickly strongly suggest that explosives were used to tear a large hole in the hull below the waterline. Swedish policemen who had just conducted training involving a mock bomb threat on the ferry were returning home when Estonia sank. Of the 70 policemen, only 7 survived.
Estonia was being used to ferry drugs and Soviet military contraband, which probably included advanced space weapons technology, when she sank. The highest officials in Swedish customs, the government, and military were aware of the sensitive and illegal shipments that put the ferry at risk. Is this why they are so dedicated to protecting the lies about the sinking?
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STEPHEN EVANS - The BBC reporter and eyewitness to the destruction
of the World Trade Center on 9-11. When Evans went on BBC television
shortly after the collapses all he talked about was the "series of
explosions" he had witnessed. The producers in London were clearly
not interested in discussing that subject. How did the BBC editors
know that explosions were something that should not be
discussed? Why did they censor Evans' eyewitness account?
NATO had 14 ships, submarines, aircraft, and personnel from the
United States, Europe, Sweden, and Russia assembled near the scene
of the sinking of Estonia,
Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II. The purpose of
the NATO exercise included "search and rescue" operations, yet when
disaster struck, NATO did nothing to help. Why? What was NATO doing
that was more important than saving the lives of their citizens? Why
won't they even talk about it? If not the citizens, to whom is NATO
accountable? What kind of organization is this?