Summary
The September 11 hijacking of four commercial jetliners by al Qaeda terrorists overwhelmed both civilian and military officials, who struggled to respond to an airborne "challenge they had never encountered and had never trained to meet," a federal commission said yesterday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), along with the White House, lacked any specific or timely information on the terrorist hijackings, creating a confused response by those U.S. authorities seeking to defend America, according to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Responders Overwhelmed by 9/11 'Phantoms'
"We fought many phantoms that day," Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the 10-member commission, which noted in a statement that the chaotic nature of the U.S. response resulted in numerous bogus reports of hijackings, car bombings and other terrorist acts.
The statement, issued during the commission's final meeting yesterday in...See the full content of this document
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