Military Non-Response

The non-response of the military to defend against the attack was immediately noticed by people who understood something about the United States' air defense network.

• Sites exposing stand-down
• Pages highlighting lack of military response
• Timelines detailing military action

Sites Exposing Stand-Down

site and description	format	focus
StandDown.net This approximately 20-page document describing the stand-down by the air defense system on September 11th is the work of Mark Elsis.	expository document with supporting pages	stand-down
OilEmpire.us This site has a great deal relating to the apparent stand-down, including a page on the stand-down, and a page on the war games before and during the attack.	original essays with abundant excerpts and illustrations	motive, complicity, peak oil
911Dossier.co.uk This was once a well organized site with a reasonably good analysis of the military non-response. Now it pushes the book 9/11 Revealed whose purpose seems to be to surreptitiously reinforce the official story by promoting hoaxes and strategically avoiding strong evidence of official complicity.	collection of original articles	book promotion

Pages Highlighting Lack of Milirary Response

URL and description	format
arabesque911.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-did-civilian-air-traffic-controller.html Why did a Civilian Air Traffic Controller do a Better Job of Defending the Skies on 9/11 than NORAD? This article points out that, whereas there is ample evidence that NORAD was "aware" that Flight 77 was approaching the Pentagon, they failed to scramble any planes, whereas a C-130 was notified, not by the military but by a civilian air traffic controller, to intercept the jetliner.	text article
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayairdefense.html THE FAILURE TO DEFEND THE SKIES ON 9/11 By Paul Thompson Detailed summary of the (lack of) air defense response on 9/11/01	timeline
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/AOPof911p12.html Stand Down from Incompetence or Complicity? The full title of this analysis by David T. Ratcliffe is "9-11 Timeline: minute-by-minute: Stand Down from Incompetence or Complicity?"	text article
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/standdownIndc.html 911 Stand Down Indicators: Skewered Script / Timeline Distortion This page by John Judge points out some of the red flags in the official timeline.	text article
communitycurrency.org/Part1C.html Summation of Civilian Air Defense, Sept 11, 2001 Chapter from article by Malcontent X	text article
emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm Guilty For 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers Lays out and exposes lies of the official story, using quotes from officials.	text article
emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm Mr. Cheney's Cover-Up A second exposé focusing on Cheney.	text article
emperors-clothes.com/indict/update630.htm Powerful Evidence that Air Force Was Made to Stand Down on 9-11 Has information on accessing mission statements of the Air National Guard bases.	text article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#War_Games_Paralleled_Attacks War Games Paralleled Attacks Provides a detailed description of military exercises in play at the time of the attack.	text article

Timelines Detailing Military Action

site and description	format	focus
The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11 This timeline runs through events before 9/11/01 that provided ample warnings about the use of jetliners as weapons, and gives a detailed timeline about the military's actions on the day of the attack. Another timeline, Military Exercises Up to 9/11 provides detailed information on war games preceding the attack.	thoroughly sourced timeline	air defense failures on 9/11/01
911timeline.net This 9-11 timeline is also maintained by Mark Elsis. It is detailed but not nearly as detailed as Paul Thompson's timelines, and lacks references, but has relatively more analysis.	timeline	stand-down, foreknowledge

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