From: bakoenin (bakoenin@yahoo.com)
Date: 15 Sep 2001 02:57 uur
in
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93993
staat het volgende:
Secret Service was told: 'Air Force One is next'
Government
By Jeremy Laurance
14 September 2001
As the second airliner slammed into the south tower
of the World Trade
Centre, Vice-President Dick Cheney was staring at a
television in the White
House. It was 9.03am. His Secret Service men grabbed
him and hurried him
down to the President's emergency operations centre,
an underground
bunker hardened to withstand a nuclear attack
The dramatic events were revealed by William Safire,
the respected New York
Times columnist who is close to the Republicans.
On the way to the bunker, Mr Cheney was told that
another plane, or a
helicopter loaded with explosives, was heading for
the White House. He called
the President in Florida and urged him not to come
back to Washington
immediately.
In the bunker, the Vice-President was joined by
Condoleezza Rice, the
national security adviser, and the Transportation
Secretary, Norman Mineta,
among others. They were told six commercial aircraft
were unaccounted for,
all of which were potential missiles. One had
supposedly crashed in Kentucky
(not true), and another in Pennsylvania (accurate;
its passengers or crew,
apparently struggling with the hijackers, may have
saved the White House).
The airliner that had taken off at Dulles AA Flight
77 did a turn away from
the White House and, at 9.45am, slammed into the
Pentagon.
At about that time, accounts began coming into the
White House bunker that
four international flights were heading toward
Washington over the Atlantic
and another from Korea. Whether they were hostile
could not be determined.
A threatening message received by the Secret Service
that "Air Force One is
next" was relayed to agents accompanying the
President. The use of American
codewords made the threat credible.
Karl Rove, the President's senior adviser, told Mr
Safire: "When the President
said 'I don't want some tinhorn terrorists keeping me
out of Washington,' the
Secret Service informed him the threat contained
language showing the
terrorists had knowledge of his procedures and
whereabouts. It was decided
to get airborne with a fighter escort."
After the President landed at an air force base in
Louisiana and made a tape
for broadcast, he was, in Mr Rove's words, "pretty
antsy" about not being at
the centre of command.
Mr Cheney, a former defence secretary, suggested Air
Force One go to
Offutt base in Nebraska, headquarters of the
Strategic Air Command, where
the President could convene the National Security
Council.
The worry now must be that knowledge of codewords,
presidential
whereabouts and secret procedures indicates the
terrorists may have a mole
in the White House or the Secret Service, FBI, FAA
or CIA. If so, America's
war on terror may well have to start in its own front
room.
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