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3.   Procedures

     a. General. Military personnel will provide the following types of support: intercept, surveillance, lift, equipment and communications. Military personnel may not participate in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity. This restriction would include the apprehension of aircraft hijackers or the use of military aircraft (fixed wing or helicopter) or other vehicles as platforms for gunfire or the use of other weapons against suspected hijackers. In addition, assistance may not be provided under this enclosure if it could adversely affect national security or military preparedness.

     b.   Support. When notified that military assistance is needed in conjunction with an aircraft piracy (hijacking) emergency, the DDO, NMCC, will:

     (1) Determine whether or not the assistance needed is reasonably available form police or commercial sources. If not, the DDO, NMCC, will notify the appropriate unified command or NORAD to determine if suitable assets are available and will forward the request to the Secretary of Defense for approval in accordance with DODD 3025.15, paragraph D.7 (reference d).

    (2) If suitable assets from a unified command or NORAD are not reasonably available, the DDO, NMCC will coordinate with the appropriate Military Service operations center to provide military assistance.

c. Military Escort Aircraft

   (1) When notified that the escort aircraft are needed in conjunction with an aircraft piracy (hijacking) emergency, the DDO, NMCC, will notify the appropriate unified command or USELEMNORAD (US Element North American Aerospace Defense Command) to determine if suitable aircraft are available and forward the request to the Secretary of Defense for approval in accordance with DODD 3025.15, paragraph D.7 (reference d).

   (2) Pursuant to reference j, the escort service will be requested by the FAA hijack coordinator by direct contact with the NMCC. Normally, NORAD escort aircraft will take the required action. However, for the purpose of these procedures, the term �escort aircraft� applies to any military aircraft assigned to the escort mission. When the military can provide escort aircraft, the NMCC will advise the FAA hijack coordinator of the identification and location of the squadron tasked to provide escort aircraft. NMCC will the authorize direct coordination between the FAA and the designated military unit. When a NORAD resource is tasked, FAA will coordinate through the appropriate Air Defense Sector/ Regional Air Operations Center.

Well, as you can see there was/is a policy in place to react to situations such as those that occurred on Sept. 11. This policy was developed after the incident in which a private Lear 35 piloted by the golfer Payne Stewart reached its cruising altitude and failed to report. Air Force F-16�s were scrambled within 25 minutes after the failure to communicate was reported. These F-16�s were launched from Eglin AFB five hundred miles behind the Lear 35 and within a half an hour reached it.

The above policy includes information that states that once an aircraft or derelict airborne object is observed the NMCC is to be notified and that a course of action is to be taken. It was not known or would it have been known that the aircraft was to be used as WMD�s but the policy was/is in place to investigate such incidents without executive orders.   The only way to block this nearly automated response is from the top down. From this one can only conclude that decisions had been made that allowed the deaths of thousands on that day and subsequent deaths of thousands more through the course of the West�s War on Terror. Thus to me and hopefully now you will see the that there is a path to complicity between the actions of the terrorists and the inaction�s/actions of the �elected and appointed� policy makers of the U.S. Ultimately though you must decide what you believe but what I have presented above is fact not conjecture or perspective.

In addition the Department of Defense along with a myriad of other alphabet soup agencies for quite some time has been instructed to take better and preemptive measures to prevent and protect the people. These measures were designed so that such atrocities as those which occurred on Sept. 11 could be avoided.

Publications and directives applying to this are included below:

*Foreign Terrorist Organizations (which is compiled every two years by the Department of State)

*Department of Defense Instruction Number 2000.14 June 15, 1994
Subject Combating Terrorism

*Department of Defense Instruction Number 2000.16 June 14 2001
DoD AntiTerrorism Standards