Jihad Had Come to America ….. The Tapes

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ABC News: For the first time, the full audio recordings of communications between military and civilian air traffic controllers as they were dealing with the hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, have been made public. The multimedia document, published by the Rutgers Law Review, provides a rare real-time look at how government agencies were responding as the hijacking of the four planes was unfolding.

"We have a problem here. We have hijacked aircraft headed towards New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up here to help us out," a worker at Boston Center's Traffic Management Unit said at 8:37 a.m., according to the recordings. No planes had struck any targets yet.

The official on the other end of the line, unaware they were minutes away from witnessing firsthand the worst terror attack in U.S. history, asked if it was all a test.

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"No, this is not an exercise, this is not a test," the worker said.

While some of the recordings had been played during the 9/11 Commission hearings in 2004, other parts had not been heard before they were transferred to the National Archives after the commission was shut down the same year.

Another portion showed the abject horror from officials as they witnessed United Flight 175 slamming into the World Trade Center.

"Hey, can you look out your window right now?… Can you see a guy at about 4,000 feet, about five East of the airport right now?… Do you see that guy — look — is he descending into the building also?" one official asks another. Seconds after the person on the other end of the line says yes to all the hurried questions, the plane explodes inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

"Wow. Another one just hit it hard. Another one just hit the World Trade," someone says in the background of the recording. "Oh my God."

The 9/11 Commission staff had started compiling the recordings and transcripts into the multimedia document released today but had not completed it in time to be released with the 9/11 Commission report.

Miles Kara, a retired Army colonel and investigator for the 9/11 Commission, aided by a team from the Rutgers School of Law whose dean is former 9/11 Commission Senior Counsel John Farmer, dug out the original electronic files and completed what commission staff called the "audio monograph".

According to the New York Times, which first reported on the release of these recordings, one key tape remains unreleased: the recording from the last half hour in the cockpit of United Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania instead of its intended target in Washington DC. Though it was played at the trial for one of the plotters, the families of the passengers who took on the hijackers requested the audio not be made public.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL RUTGERS REPORT AND AUDIO

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blindreason
blindreason
12 years ago

“a worker at Boston Center’s Traffic Management Unit”
A “worker” called the DoD? What the hell is a worker? The janitor? We pay trillions to our military to defend our country and it’s all a waste if we have idiots running the show. 9/11 was the most disgraceful failure of government in American history.

ServantCEO
ServantCEO
12 years ago

The video on top only shows highlights from abcnews. NO MENTION of the great content in the article.

Stephanie
Stephanie
12 years ago

http://newstime.co.nz/sep-8-2011-german-police-foil-potential-terror-attack.html
The Prophet called, “War (i.e. jihad) is deceit”
Bukhari Vol. 4, Book 52, #267
“I have been made victorious with terror”
Bukhari Vol. 4, Book 52, #220
8:12 “…I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers”
8:60″…to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah” (i.e. “Unbelievers” 8:59)

sean
sean
12 years ago

Isn’t it about time we forgot about the actual historical facts of 9/11 and concentrated more on the feelings and emotions of the real victims, the Muslims who are still suffering from Islamophobia resulting from this incident?
May I respectfully suggest that 9/11 be renamed ‘Islam Awareness Day’, with non-Muslim children being taken on tours of Mosques (like the one to be built at Park51) and interfaith dialogue services where pastors, priests and rabbis make unreserved apologies to Muslims for post 9/11 trauma.
Alternatively, we could develop some HARBITUDE

Cate
Cate
12 years ago

For me, the link at for the Rutgers report and audio is not working. Anyone else having that problem?

Clare
Clare
12 years ago

Who is carrying live coverage of your Freedom Rally? Fox News advertised that they were carrying live coverage of the other one.

Cate
Cate
12 years ago

Yup. Time for us all us “harbis” to grow some big hairy cojones and put these Muslim savages right where they belong…on the next plane/boat/raft/piece of driftwood back to whatever islamic hellhole they came from.

Cate
Cate
12 years ago

YES! At the very least, for those who are unable to be there, it’s really important to have that live coverage!

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

I’ll see you on Sunday Pamela and all others who will be there. God bless!

blindreason
blindreason
12 years ago

What? Another name for a Harbi is a Kaffir? I remember our local liberal newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, praising Mark Mathabane’s book on apartheid South Africa, “Kaffir Boy,” and I suspect it was similiarly praised in the liberal press nationally. But now it’s OK for Muslims to refer to non-Muslims as Kaffirs and not a peep out of these hypocrites? Thanks, Sean.

Anne
Anne
12 years ago

Yes Cate, I can only get the written, not audio, transcript.

Betty
Betty
12 years ago

some one need to strike horror in obamas heart. and the muslam brotherhood water bordering is to good for them

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