held an exercise based on the terrorist attack scenario of a twin engine private plane packed with explosives hitting the pentagon building with pentagon personnel acting out roles of victims, and with local fire departments, hospitals, and state and federal agencies practicing how to coordinate victim rescue and fire suppression.
November of year 2000. Look it up on the DC Military District website.
http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.htmlThere are pictures, names, places and everything.
During this same time frame, a plot to hijack multiple airliners and CRASH them was broken up. And later after ASSHOLE stole his first election and usurped this country's government, the preparations for the first G-8 summit in Italy included anti-aircraft missile defence, because the Secret Service and CIA were worried terrorists would attempt to take out the G-8 leaders with a private plane packed with explosives just like in the Pentagon MASCAL scenario.
The plane-as-missile idea wasn't just an idea in a book by a crap author, it was in the forefront of security agency fears and had been for some time. Condoleeza Rice was LYING --as usual.
Back in WWII the plane as missile idea took a horrible toll on the Navy in the Pacific theater, where this idea was called by the name KAMIKAZE given to it by its inventors the Japanese. Which is a pretty neat trick, considering Ms. Rice says the idea hadn't even been thought of before the year 2001.