The Amalgam Virgo exercise of June 2001

“We couldn’t possibly have known this.  We didn’t know that airlines are subject to this kind of attack.”

                                                                 — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Was the Amalgam Virgo exercise in June 2001 a “dress rehearsal” for 9/11!

            Just looking at the cover of this proposal, you might get a shiver.  But the contents of this scenario were even more startling.

 The cover of NORAD’s June 2001 Amalgam Virgo exercise proposal

(Image: National Defense Industrial Association NDIA).

Among other things, this exercise, which was run only two months prior to 9/11, was composed of:

·         Osama Bin Laden terror theme.

·         A terrorist hijacking of an airliner.

·         Suicide attacks with planes.

·         Multi-coordinated and varied attacks on different targets.

·         Eluding a multifaceted defense network with confusing flight patterns.

·         Attacking civilians, cities, and large buildings (Panama City, FL).

·         Using MQM-107 drones masquerading as cruise missiles.

·         The drones were being remote-controlled from a circling aircraft that relayed signals from the ground.

·         Coordination with FEMA and FBI during and after the attacks.

Raytheon MQM-107 Streaker drone (Image: NDIA).

The MQM-107 must evade several layers of defense

before attacking the city (Image: NDIA).

The drone attacks a skyscraper (Image: NDIA).

The multifaceted defense network that should have been in effect on 9/11 (Image: NDIA).

Terrorists acquire weapons (cruise missiles and drones).

They strike many targets over several hours (Image: NDIA).

A multi-regional short duration airborne terrorism attack.

Sounds familiar! (Image: NDIA).

The exercise calls for a hijacked airliner which

goes to Washington D.C.!  (Image: NDIA).

Civilian Agencies, like FEMA, FAA, and FBI also played a large part of 9/11 (Image: NDIA).

Aircraft labeled MU-2 is circling above the drone relaying it

instructions via radio remote control (Image: NDIA).

An EC-130 (DC variant) is fully capable of controlling an aircraft remotely (Photo: USAF).

Here the drone signals are relayed through ground channels

 (Image: NDIA).

Complex routes by numerous aircraft simultaneously would simulate an event similar to the FAA grounding (Image: NDIA).

The above image contains several aircraft types:

SUICIDE – Commercial airliner (?)

UAV – “Phoenix Air” BD-5 “mini jets” (as surrogate UAVs).

RPV – MQM-107 drones (as surrogate “cruise missiles”).

UNK – Unknown.

CD – Diversions, Lear jets (?)

The Amalgam Virgo literature made reference to this photo of a Lear jet, which are used by the likes Phoenix Air (Image: NDIA).

Phoenix Air was involved with the Amalgam Virgo exercise — this is the same air school the supposed hijackers were using: 

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The July memo from a Phoenix, Arizona, FBI agent talking about Middle Eastern men taking flying lessons and the information about Zacarias Moussaoui arrested in August went to the same FBI task force at headquarters, according to an official. …[1]

Also, it is Interesting that the same “nodal pattern” of programmed

flight-paths was seen in the hijacked flights on 9/11

(Image: team8plus.org).

The similarities between Amalgam Virgo and 9/11 are irrefutable.  The exercise literature clearly demonstrates how the attacks would commence, including how the radar systems were perplexed.  We also have more amazing details of the UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), which we will explore in a later chapter. 

            There is little wonder that the war games issue is never brought up, by the Department of Defense or the 9/11 Commission.  If the general public found out the truth, the consequences to the Cheney-Bush Administration would be devastating.

Meanwhile on 9/11 — Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is directing Global Guardian training exercise!

US Strategic Command (Stratcom) headquarters, at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska, is “in full swing” with Global Guardian when the 9/11 attacks begin.  The commander in chief of Stratcom and the director of the exercise, Admiral Richard Mies is at Offutt AFB that morning.[xviii]

Because of Global Guardian, bombers, missile crews, and submarines around the United States are all being directed from Stratcom’s Command Center, from the reinforced bunker below Offutt AFB.[xix]  This bunker is staffed with top military personnel.  Because of Global Guardian, three E-4Bs (National Airborne Operations Center “Doomsday” planes) are up in the air that morning on 9/11.  These military command aircraft with sophisticated communications equipment — are command posts for top government officials from where they can direct US forces, execute war orders while coordinating the actions of civil authorities in times of national emergency.  Supposedly, Global Guardian is cancelled at 9:03 a.m., shortly after the second WTC tower is hit.^{68 [xx]} But, even after Global Guardian is called off, the three E-4Bs remain airborne.⁶⁹

Most interestingly, on the morning of 9/11, a small group of business leaders are at Offutt AFB!  They were invited to a charity fundraiser due to take place there, later in the day, hosted by the billionaire Warren Buffett.  Many executives and business leaders that would have been in the WTC are at Offutt AFB with Buffett for the gathering.  When the attacks begin, these visitors are having breakfast with Admiral Mies, the director of Global Guardian.^{68 69 [xxi]}

Northern Vigilance another massive international-scope exercise (U.S., Russia, Canada) was in full swing!

On 9/11, NORAD is at full “battle staff” levels for another major annual exercise that tests every facet of the organization.  Operation Northern Vigilance, had been planned months in advance, and involved deploying fighter jets to locations in Alaska and northern Canada.  Part of this exercise is to keep a close watch on the Russians, who had dispatched long-range bombers to their own high north on a similar exercise.”[xxii]

A Canadian stand-in [!!!], Capt. Mike Jellinek, was overseeing the center command of NORAD, when NEADS, based in Rome, N.Y., reported the FAA had evidence of a hijacking and was asking for NORAD support.  They were told, “this is not part of the exercise.”  In a flash, Operation Northern Vigilance had been called off.  Any simulated information, what’s known as an “inject,” was purged from the screens.  They claimed, that soon after they watched a monitor displaying CNN and saw the World Trade Center, with smoke coming out of it.⁷²

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was running a drill for the scenario of an aircraft crashing into a government building!

The drill took place at the exact same time as an identical scenario was perpetrated in reality!  Mr. John Fulton and his team at the CIA, called for an evacuation of the National Reconnaissance facility.  It just so happens that NRO operates satellite surveillance equipment, which can see just about anything![xxiii]  Could it be, that someone wanted to disrupt satellite surveillance that morning?

FBI/CIA Anti-terrorist Task Force sent away from Washington on training exercise in California!     

USA Today reports that on 9/11, “a joint FBI/CIA anti-terrorist task force that specifically prepared for this type of disaster” is on a training exercise in Monterey, CA.  Consequently, “with airports closed around the country, the task force still [hasn]’t found a way to fly back to Washington.”[xxv]  The political website, evote.com — added that the FBI has deployed all of its anti-terrorist and top special operations agents at a training exercise, with all associated helicopters and light aircraft in Monterey, CA.  So at the time of the attacks, “the chief federal agency responsible for preventing such crimes [is] being AWOL.”

The 9/11 Commission Hearings deliberately avoided the war games issue.

…An individual stood up and repeatedly questioned why the Commission was not addressing the issue of 9-11 war games — specifically Operation Vigilant Guardian — wherein fighters were already in the air during the attacks, some just minutes away from New York City.  The legitimate questions were ignored and secret service and FBI agents removed the petitioner.

What role, if any, did Secretary Rumsfeld, Undersecretary Wolfowitz, and acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers play in any war game scenario on the morning of September 11, 2001?

“No Comment”

When asked by the 9/11 Commission, who was responsible for coordinating the multiple war games running on the morning of September 11, 2001, General Ralph E Eberhart, the man in charge of NORAD on the morning in question replied, “No Comment.” 

Was Cheney in charge?  Absolutely.  On May 8, 2001 — the president placed Dick Cheney in charge of:

[A]ll federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies…[xxvii]

This included all “training and planning” which needed to be “seamlessly integrated, harmonious and comprehensive” in order to “maximize effectiveness.”  This mandate created the Office of National Preparedness in FEMA, overseen by Dick Cheney. ^BM

There was a lot of activity at Crawford Ranch, during Bush and Cheney’s extended-vacation.  The long vacation ended just prior to 9/11  (Photo: AP).