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Written by Christopher Bollyn
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
EstoniaWhen Terror Drills Turned Real:
9-11, the London Bombings & the Sinking of Estonia
The past two decades have been marked by a large number of man-made terror
events which remain unsolved to this day. Several of these events, which
involve heinous crimes of mass murder, are similar in a most remarkable way.
These are the disasters which occurred during security drills or military
exercises in which the scenario was incredibly similar, if not identical to
the real-life terror attack.
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Understanding the nature of the exercises that created the background and
framework for these attacks is essential to understanding how the attacks
were carried out. The fact that these real-life terror events occurred
within the context of virtually identical terrorism/security exercises has
been completely ignored by the media -- as if the exercises had never
happened.
Of the major terror events that occurred during such exercises, we will look
at three specific examples: the aerial attacks of 9-11, the bombings of the
London Underground and a bus in 2005, and the sinking of the Baltic ferry
Estonia in 1994.
While there certainly have been other major disasters that occurred within
the context of military exercises, the sinking of the Russian submarine
Kursk in 2000, for example, and the 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by
the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf, the three events being discussed here
involved attacks on civilian transportation systems far from any war zone.
The three disasters were all handled in the same way by their respective
governments and media. In each case, before a real investigation could begin
to establish the facts and examine the evidence, a politically acceptable
explanation was put forward by government officials and repeated, without
question, by the mass media. Evidence and facts that contradict the
"official" version of events have been confiscated, destroyed, or simply
ignored.
The extremely hasty and improper sale of the steel from the World Trade
Center to distant Asian smelters, for example, must rank as the most
egregious case of destruction of evidence from a crime scene in American
history.
The steel from the WTC
SELLING THE EVIDENCE - The steel from the WTC, the most critical evidence to
determine what really caused the towers to collapse, was quickly destroyed
after being sold to Asian smelters. Alan D. Ratner of Metal Management and
the New York-based Hugo Neu Schnitzer East profited from this criminal
destruction of evidence. Ratner sold the WTC steel to Chinese companies,
reportedly selling more than 50,000 tons of steel to a Shanghai steel
company for $120 per ton. Ratner had paid about $70 per ton for the steel.
(See Bollyn article entitled "Seismic Evidence of Underground Explosions"
for details.)
Likewise, during the official dive for evidence to the wreck of Estonia, on
which more than 852 people are known to have died, the crucial locking bolt
from the bow visor, which officials blame for having caused the catastrophe,
was thrown back into the sea.
The bolt from the Atlantic lock had been detached by divers and brought to
the surface for investigation only to be thrown back to the sea by Börje
Stenström, the Swedish navy commander who was the head of the technical
group of the international investigation commission.
Stenström's throwing the bolt back to the sea was clearly the destruction of
"one of the most important pieces of evidence," according to his own
scenario of what had caused the sinking.
THE CULT OF THE BOW VISOR - Estonia's bow visor, seen open here, is blamed
by corrupt investigators for causing the sinking. The crucial evidence that
would prove otherwise was thrown back into the sea. The Swedish government's
effort to support their "official lie" with a computer simulation of the
sinking has failed because the model of the vessel simply won't sink absent
a hole below the waterline.
The first rule in maintaining a cover-up is to control access to the
evidence. The second rule is to destroy any and all evidence that
contradicts the official version of events.
The fact that these three disasters occurred during very similar terror
scenarios being staged as part of an exercise has been ignored by the mass
media, which has treated these extremely uncanny coincidences as complete
non-issues.
Information about the exercises has been kept hidden from the public. The
government cover-ups have been greatly facilitated by the compliant mass
media which has consistently ignored the fact that several mega-disasters
occurred within the context of strikingly similar terrorism exercises.
The terrorist attacks, for example, that struck New York and Washington on
9-11 and the London bombings of July 7, 2005, were the realization, i.e. the
making real, of computer-based scenarios that were being staged in the same
place at the same time. Would a truly free press ignore the conspicuous fact
that both events occurred within the context of very similar terror
exercises?
"The easiest way to carry out a false flag attack is by setting up a
military exercise that simulates the very attack you want to carry out,"
Captain Eric H. May, a former military intelligence officer from the U.S.
Army wrote in a recent article entitled "False Flag Prospects, 2008 - Top
Three U.S. Target Cities."
False flag terror attacks are designed and carried out with the intention of
having the blame assigned to a targeted foe in order to manipulate public
opinion, cause conflict and foment war. The complicity of the media is
necessary for such false flag terrorism to succeed.
"This is exactly how government perpetrators in the US and UK handled the
9/11 and 7/7 'terror' attacks," May writes, "which were in reality
government attacks blamed on 'terrorists'."
THE GRIM FAIRY TALE OF 9-11 – The alleged hijackers of 9-11, according to
the government and controlled media version. But why has the mass media
shown no interest in interviewing the families of these men in order to
document and support the official story? How can it be than several of them
are even reported to be alive and the media doesn't investigate?
Captain May, a Texan from Houston, certainly knows what he is talking about.
He is an expert in military exercises involving simulations. May completed
advanced courses at the U.S. Army's school for military intelligence
officers at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and served five years with the U.S.
Army's 75th Division as an Opposing Forces Controller, where he ran
"contrarian scenarios."
May's aim, he says, as a former military intelligence officer who spent five
years conducting war games, is to warn the public that the " 'next 9/11' --
constantly promised by officials and the media -- is likely to be carried
out under the guise of future military exercises.
"If the American people are aware of pending exercises and the danger they
represent," May says, "then the exercises cannot 'go live' and effect the
very terror events that they are supposed to be rehearsing against."
9-11 and the July 7, 2005 bombings in London "have smoking guns proving that
the mass murderers were not foreign terrorists but domestic tyrants," May
writes. The "smoking guns," he says, are the terror exercises that simulated
the attacks that actually occurred.
While the terrorism/security drills created the "contrarian scenario"
framework within which the real terror attacks occurred, it does not
necessarily follow that the agency running the exercise is the actual
terrorist. The true culprit is much more likely to be a foreign agency, who
is covertly, but intimately aware of the planning of the exercise. By having
access to the critical computer networks involved in the exercise this
outside agency has the ability to hijack the drill and make it "go live."
While the real terrorists could be from any agency that is involved in the
drill, they could also be from a foreign intelligence organization that has
gained "back door" access to the computer networks on which the exercise is
planned and carried out.
Israeli military intelligence, for example, which has long been engaged in
supplying enterprise software, e.g. Ptech, and network security personnel
and programs to the U.S. government and military, undoubtedly has "back
door" access to these most sensitive computer networks.
As May says, the "smoking gun" terror drills disprove the official fairy
tale that "Islamic terrorists" are responsible for these false flag terror
attacks. The Arabs and Muslims who have been wrongly blamed for 9-11 and the
London bombings have simply been framed, like Lee Harvey Oswald, as part of
the deception.
KILLING THE PATSY – Jacob Rubinstein, a.k.a. Jack Ruby, a violent Jew from
Chicago with close ties to the Jewish organized crime network, shoots the
patsy of the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, in Dallas. Ruby's
father, an alcoholic carpenter and deserter from the Russian army, came to
America from Sokolov, a Zionist hotbed near Warsaw with his brother,
Abraham. Rubinstein's mother, Fannie, was a Yiddish-speaking illiterate who
was unable to learn to even sign her own name after 35 years in the United
States. The Rubinstein children spent time in foster homes due to neglect,
while Fannie spent time in the mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
(NOTE ON THE CHICAGO CONNECTION – Itzhak Rabin, a senior Israeli military
officer and ally of Shimon Peres, also happened to be in Dallas on the day
President John F. Kennedy was killed. So, pray tell, exactly what business
did the Israeli military officer Itzhak Rabin have in Dallas on November 22,
1963?
On January 1, 1964, Rabin was promoted to Chief of Staff after returning
from Dallas. Rabin's father, Nehemiah, had lived some 13 years in Chicago's
West Side Yiddish-speaking Jewish community, some of that time at 2734
Crystal Street with a Solomon Turovlin of the Jewish Daily Forward, the
Yiddish language paper. The elder Rabin (said to have been born Rubitzov,
although not one record has been found in that name) was involved in the
same Yiddish-speaking Zionist community, which the Rubinstein family was
also part of, before migrating to Palestine as a member of the "Jewish
Legion" sometime after September 1918. Rabin's father from Chicago engaged
in fighting in the Jordan Valley of Palestine and was one of the founders of
the underground Zionist militia, the Haganah, in Jerusalem in 1920.
Why has the U.S. media ignored the extensive ties between Zionists like
Rabin and Rubinstein to the world of Jewish organized crime?)
LONDON – JULY 7, 2005
At the exact time of the terror bombings of the London Underground and a bus
at Tavistock Square, a man named Peter Power was, with his crisis management
company, Visor Consultants Ltd., conducting a terrorism drill for a
mysterious un-named client. The Visor exercise was precisely identical to
the bombings that occurred. Just how likely is such a coincidence?
Peter Power had previously worked at Scotland Yard, the Anti Terrorist
Branch, and as a police superintendent in West Dorset, England. In 1993,
Power was himself the subject of a criminal investigation which, in April
1993, led to his suspension and retirement from the police.
Superintendent Power was suspended following an internal police inquiry,
which resulted in a file being submitted to the Director of Public
Prosecution. Oddly, the details of the Power investigation have been kept
classified. After a five-month investigation, Power retired from the police
force in September 1993, at the age of 42, "on health grounds."
PETER POWER - The July Seventh Truth Campaign in Britain has revealed
Power's troubled past and his links with previous terror incidents in
Britain. But the details of the criminal investigation into Peter Power have
been kept secret since 1993. What did he do in Dorset and who was the
mysterious un-named company with whom he planned and conducted the terror
exercise on July 7?
"THIS IS THE REAL ONE"
Just hours after the London bombings, Power explained the incredible
coincidences with the drill his company was conducting in a radio interview
with Peter Allen on BBC 5:
Power: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise
for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous
bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this
morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right
now.
Peter Allen: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see
how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the
exercise?
Power: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned
this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name
but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis
managers, for the first time they'd met, and so within five minutes we made
a pretty rapid decision, "this is the real one" and so we went through the
correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow
time to quick time thinking and so on.
WHO CHOSE A SCENARIO
Later on July 7, Power appeared in a television interview on ITV News in
which he revealed more about the nature of the operation:
Power: Today we were running an exercise for a company - bearing in mind I'm
now in the private sector - and we sat everybody down, in the city - 1,000
people involved in the whole organisation - but the crisis team. And the
most peculiar thing was we based our scenario on the simultaneous attacks on
an underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an
exercise from 'fictional' to 'real'. And one of the first things is, get
that bureau number, when you have a list of people missing, tell them. And
it took a long time.
ITV Host: Just to get this right, you were actually working today on an
exercise that envisioned virtually this scenario?
Power: Er, almost precisely. I was up to 2 o'clock this morning, because
it's our job, my own company Visor Consultants, we specialise in helping
people to get their crisis management response. How do you jump from 'slow
time' thinking to 'quick time' doing? And we chose a scenario - with their
assistance - which is based on a terrorist attack because they're very close
to, er, a property occupied by Jewish businessmen, they're in the city, and
there are more American banks in the city than there are in the whole of New
York - a logical thing to do. And it, I've still got the hair....
One would think that such astounding revelations of a British terrorism
expert about how the terror bombings were "almost precisely" like the
exercise he had been conducting for a mysterious company would be of great
interest to the media. That has, however, not been the case.
There has been virtually no discussion in the "mainstream" media that the
London bombings, or other terror atrocities and disasters like 9-11 and the
sinking of Estonia, occurred within the context of security drills that were
very similar to what actually happened. Why has this crucial background
information been censored? Astonishing first-hand accounts, like Peter
Power's, from people engaged in these exercises were reported shortly after
the events occurred, yet these important stories were confined to local news
outlets and not reported in the major national and international news
outlets, in newspapers like the New York Times, for example, whose motto is:
"All the news that's fit to print."
Power's comments about the amazing coincidences with his security drill were
censored by the BBC in the same way as the eyewitness report of Stephen
Evans, their reporter who was at the World Trade Center on 9-11.
Evans was on the ground floor of the South Tower when planes struck the
complex. When he appeared on BBC World television shortly after the collapse
of the twin towers, Evans repeatedly described a "series of explosions" he
had seen and felt at the base of the tower before it was demolished.
Stephen EvansSTEPHEN EVANS - The BBC reporter and eyewitness to the
destruction of the World Trade Center on 9-11. When Evans went on BBC
television shortly after the collapses all he talked about was the "series
of explosions" he had witnessed. The producers in London were clearly not
interested in discussing that subject. How did the BBC editors know that
explosions were something that should not be discussed? Why did they censor
Evans' eyewitness account?
From the first minute Evans spoke, however, it was quite obvious that his
eyewitness report was being censored by the higher powers at the BBC. When
the BBC revisited the events of 9-11 with Evans, there was absolutely no
mention of the "series of explosions" he had witnessed on the morning of the
attacks. How can that be? Such blatant and intentional omissions are
properly defined as censorship.
Evans' astonishing eyewitness account from 9-11 was evidently dropped into
the "memory hole" at the BBC. Peter Power's revealing comments about the
London bombings met the same fate. For independent journalists to question
the controlled-media's version of events, from which such significant
first-hand accounts have been censored, is to risk being branded a
"conspiracy theorist."
The public is now told that eyewitness accounts can not be trusted – at
least when they differ from the official version. Eyewitness reports from
people who were in the disaster or who saw it with their own eyes can not be
considered as reliable testimony, we are told. How very odd.
Such was the case with the downing of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New
York in 1996, when more than 100 eyewitnesses reported seeing what appeared
to be a missile streak from the surface of the ocean, strike the aircraft,
and cause an explosive fireball.
I attended the final presentation of the official TWA 800 report by the
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2000, when David Mayer, whose
only credential as a panel member was a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental
Psychology from Rice University, audaciously dismissed the reports of more
than 100 eyewitnesses as the collective hallucinations of intoxicated New
Yorkers, based solely on the fact that it was a summer weekend evening!
At that point, it was abundantly clear that there was something seriously
wrong with the NTSB and their investigation of the downing of TWA 800. The
cover-up could hardly have been more obvious.
THE PLANE-INTO-BUILDING DRILL OF 9-11
On 9-11, an agency of the Dept. of Defense and the CIA was conducting a
terror scenario in which an imaginary airplane from Washington's Dulles
International Airport was to crash into one of the four towers of the
suburban campus of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly,
Virginia, just a few miles west of the Pentagon.
The plane that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon, American Airlines Flight
77, departed from the very same airport at 8:20 a.m. on 9-11. When the
terror scenario became real in New York and at the Pentagon, the NRO
exercise was cancelled and nearly all its three thousand employees, the
people who operate the nation's "eye in the sky," were sent home.
BIZARRE COINCIDENCE
The government said it was a "bizarre coincidence" that the NRO, a military
intelligence agency working under the Dept. of Defense and CIA, had planned
a simulated exercise with a mock "plane-into-building" crash on the morning
of 9-11.
"It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an
aircraft crashing into our facility," spokesman Art Haubold told the
Associated Press in August 2002. "As soon as the real world events began, we
canceled the exercise."
As the agency that operates many of the nation's spy satellites, the NRO
personnel come from the military and the CIA. When the attacks occurred,
however, most of the 3,000 people who work at the agency were sent home. Why
would they do that? Does it make any sense at all for a nation to shut its
eyes while it is under attack?
The fact that the spy agency had planned such a drill was casually leaked in
an announcement for a homeland security conference in Chicago in 2002. In a
promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's
strategic gaming division, the announcement said:
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team ... were
running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues
that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they
know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that day.
CRITICAL FAILURES
The most pressing questions about why the U.S. military air defense system
failed to intercept the four hijacked planes on 9-11 are obviously of
crucial importance. Captain May writes that "even official apologists call
[9-11] the greatest defense failure in American history."
How could the most modern and expensive air force in the world fail to
intercept four airliners, three of which roamed wild for hundreds of miles
before striking landmark buildings in New York and Washington?
Why was the U.S. air defense system unable to intercept several large,
slow-moving planes before they struck the nation's largest city and its
capital? If the U.S. Air Force couldn't intercept lumbering civilian planes,
how could they possibly stop a hostile invasion of fighter jets or missiles?
These crucial questions have never been raised by the government appointed
commissions or the media, which have all avoided discussing the military
exercises of 9-11. It's not that these drills were not reported, but rather
that their connection to the disasters has not been openly discussed and
investigated.
Four months after 9-11, the Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, published
an article by Hart Seely that featured first-hand accounts of the military
radar operators of the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) at the former
Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. These radar operators were the
eyes of the U.S. air defense system for the eastern part of the nation on
9-11.
In Seely's article, the NEADS personnel explained how a North American
Aerospace Defense (NORAD) exercise called Vigilant Guardian, which they were
participating in, had caused systemic confusion which prevented an effective
military response to the real emergency.
The confusion at NEADS was evident from the moment Boston Flight Control
informed them that a plane had been hijacked.
At 8:38 a.m. an air traffic controller telephoned Sergeant Jeremy Powell at
NEADS to inform him that one of their planes had been hijacked and was
headed to New York :
"Is this real-world or exercise?" Powell asked.
"No. This is not an exercise; not a test," Powell was told, according to
transcripts of the 9-11 Commission report.
Seely's informative article described the context -- and the confusion -- at
NEADS:
IT MUST BE PART OF THE EXERCISE
6 a.m.: WAR GAMES
Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins figured it would be a long day. Sept. 11 was Day 2 of
"Vigilant Guardian," an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to
North American Air Defense outposts nationwide. The simulation would run all
week, and Deskins, starting her 12-hour shift in the Operations Center as
the NORAD unit's airborne control and warning officer, might find herself on
the spot.
Day 1 of the simulation had moved slowly. She hoped the exercise gathered
steam. It made a long day go faster.
8:40 a.m.: REAL WORLD
In the Ops Center, three rows of radar scopes face a high wall of
wide-screen monitors. Supervisors pace behind technicians who peer at the
instruments. Here it is always quiet, always dark, except for the green
radar glow.
At 8:40, Deskins noticed senior technician Jeremy Powell waving his hand.
Boston Center was on the line, he said. It had a hijacked airplane.
"It must be part of the exercise," Deskins thought. At first, everybody did.
Then Deskins saw the glowing direct phone line to the Federal Aviation
Administration.
On the phone she heard the voice of a military liaison for the FAA's Boston
Center: "I have a hijacked aircraft," he told her.
American Airlines Flight 11, headed to Los Angeles, had veered off course,
apparently toward New York. The liaison said to get "some F-16s or
something" airborne.
Forty-one minutes earlier, Flight 11 had left Logan Airport with 81
passengers. For the last 27 minutes, it had not responded to ground control.
Deskins requested Flight 11's latest position, which an operator put up on
the screen. Flight 11 wasn't there. Someone had turned off its transponder,
the device that identifies the plane to ground control. Boston Center could
still track it on primary radar, but the operators in Rome would be
hard-pressed to find it amid the jumble of blips on their screens.
We'll direct the intercept, the liaison told Deskins. Just get something up
there.
Deskins ran up a short flight of stairs to the Battle Cab and reported the
hijacked plane - real world, not a simulation.
NEADS RADAR OPERATORS – These were the military radar personnel who were
confused on 9-11 because of the Vigilant Guardian simulation. Did Ali Baba
and the 40 Thieves, a.k.a. Osama bin Laden and the 19 flight school drop
outs, know all about the NORAD and NRO simulations and possess the
"super-user" ability to hack into the military, FAA, and NORAD computer
systems to manipulate the data in order to cause confusion and thwart an
effective response?
The real perpetrators of 9-11 certainly did.
NOT A SIMULATION
What is most peculiar is that Seely's informative article about the
confusion among the critical military radar operators at NEADS was never
published or referenced by any national newspaper in the United States. The
New York Times, for example, has never even mentioned "Vigilant Guardian,"
the air defense exercise that contributed to the confusion behind the
military's failure to protect New York City on 9-11.
Oddly, among the national newspapers and news magazines of the United
States, Vigilant Guardian has only been mentioned once, very briefly, in a
Washington Post book review of the 9-11 Commission report.
The review began with the painfully obvious truth: "If the 9-11 report had
been written as a novel, nobody would believe it. The story is too
far-fetched."
The Post only mentioned Vigilant Guardian when it quoted "a little-noticed
footnote" from the report:
When FAA officials realize (late) that planes are being hijacked, they can't
monitor them - or decide what to do. The vice president thinks he has issued
orders to shoot down civilian planes, but the pilots in the air don't get
the word. The military's air-defense command isn't sure whether it's dealing
with an exercise or a real event. Incredibly, according to a little-noticed
footnote in the report, "On 9/11, NORAD was scheduled to conduct a military
exercise, Vigilant Guardian, which postulated a bomber attack from the
former Soviet Union."
Vigilant Guardian obviously confused the military because simulated
hijackings and false "injects," which are radar indications of non-existent
planes, were reportedly part of the exercise. This is why Deskins and others
were initially uncertain whether the reports of hijacked planes were "real
world" or simulation.
"First thing that went through my mind was, 'Is this part of the exercise?
Is this some kind of a screw-up?' " Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, who
was at a command center at the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, told ABC
News <http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/abcnews091402.html> .
The military's inability to respond effectively to the rogue aircraft of
9-11 was evidently caused, at least in part, by the NORAD exercise. The fact
that a similar exercise, involving a plane striking a military facility near
the Pentagon, was being staged on the morning of 9-11, indicates that the
computer-based exercises played key roles in the actual terror attacks that
occurred. Is this why the controlled media has ignored them?
What role the military exercises played in the 9-11 terror attacks and how
they could have been hijacked, and by whom, are all questions that need to
be answered, but these are questions that will be addressed in greater
detail in a subsequent chapter.
THE ESTONIA CATASTROPHE
The unexplained sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia on its way to Stockholm
from Tallinn in late September 1994 is the third mega-disaster (not in
chronological order) that occurred within the framework of a military
exercise.
The day before it sank Estonia had also been the scene of a terrorism
exercise in which the scenario was a terror bombing of the ferry. Looking at
the NATO military assets that were assembled nearby and the terrorism drill
that had just been conducted on the ship, the stage was clearly set and the
actors were in place for what turned out to be a real disaster.
The <http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php> Estonia catastrophe is
Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II. 852 people
<http://elaestonia.org/sea/index.php> are known to have died when Estonia
sank in the early hours of September 28, 1994, but more than 1,000 may have
perished, if, as reported, some 150 Iraqi Kurds were being smuggled to
Sweden in one of the trucks on its car deck.
Scores of people died in the frigid water of the Baltic Sea waiting for
rescue boats and helicopters that came too late. More than ninety bodies
were retrieved from the life rafts.
THE TOLL - The bodies of some of the <http://elaestonia.org/sea/index.php>
Estonia victims <http://elaestonia.org/sea/index.php> retrieved from the
Baltic Sea.
NATO'S "SEARCH & RESCUE" EXERCISE
Although it is seldom mentioned, the Estonia catastrophe occurred on the
first day of a 10-day NATO naval exercise called Cooperative Venture 94
<http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1994/p94-082.htm> , in which more than 15 ships
and "a number of maritime aircraft" were prepared to conduct "humanitarian
and search and rescue operations" in nearby waters.
The NATO exercise, which involved 10 NATO member states and the Baltic
"partner" nations of Russia, Sweden, Poland, and Lithuania, was to be staged
in the Skagerrak, between Denmark and Norway, and the Norwegian Sea,
according to the NATO <http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1994/p94-082.htm> press
release about the exercise from September 16, 1994.
The NATO nations who participated in the exercise were Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, and
the United States. Many other allies and partners sent observers to the
exercise, according to the NATO press release.
The fact that Estonia sank as the submarines, ships, planes, personnel, and
satellites from the navies of 14 nations were preparing to begin their
10-day "search and rescue operations" exercise off the coast of Sweden
raises several obvious questions that deserve to be answered: First and
foremost, if NATO had 15 ships and a number of aircraft assembled and
prepared to conduct "search and rescue operations," why didn't NATO assist
in the early morning rescue operation for the victims from the Estonia
catastrophe?
The Swedish rescue helicopters were ill-prepared and ill-equipped, which
resulted in a fatal delay for those waiting to be rescued.
"Were there specially-equipped rescue helicopters or other aircraft that
could have assisted?" Drew Wilson, author of The Hole (2006), a book about
the Estonia catastrophe, wrote:
Survivors who didn't die from hypothermia while floating on upturned boats
or flotsam in the biting water waited four-six hours for rescue. NATO
search-and-rescue personnel and equipment could have saved some lives.
Flying time was under 1 hour. Why didn't they respond to the distress
traffic? What happened?
The evidence indicates that the Mayday signals from Estonia had been jammed,
as were all radio communications in the area.
"A series of comprehensive malfunctions in regional communication systems
all at once, and all at the exact time the ferry had sunk suggest
involvement by a military or intelligence services," Wilson writes in The
Hole. "Was a distress call intentionally blocked? If so, why? Communications
throughout the Northern Baltic Sea were disrupted during the time of the
accident."
As Wilson documents, VHF Channel 16, the international Mayday channel, and
Channel 2182 were blocked. "Signal jamming of all radio communications
apparently occurred on the Southern coastline of Finland as the accident
unfolded."
The NSA of the United States, the intelligence and spy agency which monitors
signal intelligence around the world, reportedly has a file of documents
about the Estonia catastrophe which remain classified more than 13 years
after the passenger and car ferry supposedly sank due to a faulty bow visor.
Why would the NSA maintain top-secret files about an innocent ship wreck in
the Baltic Sea in 1994?
Wilson wrote:
Werner Hummel, the German investigator, said that his Group had
documentation showing that the regional telephone network servicing the
catastrophe site failed just as it was needed most. The malfunction was
truly a startling coincidence. The telephone company stated its entire radio
communications network, for unknown reasons, had been down from 1:03 to 1:58
a.m. – almost exactly the time the Estonia first encountered trouble until
the time it disappeared from radar.
Didn't the NATO communications units prepared for the "search and rescue"
exercise overhear the distress calls coming from Estonia? NATO, with
state-of-the-art satellite and airborne surveillance assets in place over
the Baltic Sea certainly must know who was blocking the SOS calls.
Why has this information been kept secret since 1994? Blocking SOS calls and
jamming distress signals is a violation of international law. Why has this
crime not been investigated?
The intentional blocking of the Mayday signals from Estonia points to
complicity in mass murder. "Naval exercises are meant to be as realistic as
possible," Olivier Schmidt, author of The Intelligence Files: Today's
Secrets, Tomorrow's Scandals, writes.
What was the "search and rescue" scenario of NATO's Cooperative Venture 94
exercise, which was commanded at sea by the Dutch submarine commander
Gijsbert Goofert Hooft?
I sent a series of pertinent questions to Robert Pszczel, NATO's press
officer for Baltic issues, about NATO's response to the Estonia catastrophe:
Did NATO have any naval assets in the Baltic Sea on the night of September
27-28, 1994 and what actions did NATO take in the immediate aftermath of the
Estonia disaster?
Did NATO pick up the Mayday signals being sent (and jammed) from Estonia?
Why didn't NATO assist, given the urgent need to retrieve hundreds of
freezing people from life rafts? What was the scenario of NATO's search and
recovery exercise?
Despite telephone calls and email exchanges with the press office at NATO
headquarters, Robert Pszczel failed to respond to a single question about
NATO's response to the Estonia catastrophe for this article.
Drew Wilson ran into the same wall of silence at NATO when he asked
questions about Estonia for his book The Hole.
If NATO has a reasonable explanation for its failure to respond and assist
during Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II, why is it
unwilling to provide it? To whom is this organization accountable?
NATONATO had 14 ships, submarines, aircraft, and personnel from the United
States, Europe, Sweden, and Russia assembled near the scene of the sinking
of Estonia, Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II. The purpose
of the NATO exercise included "search and rescue" operations, yet when
disaster struck, NATO did nothing to help. Why? What was NATO doing that was
more important than saving the lives of their citizens? Why won't they even
talk about it? If not the citizens, to whom is NATO accountable? What kind
of organization is this?
ESTONIA'S BOMB DRILLS
The Estonia ferry had been the object of bomb threats and had participated
in at least two terror bomb exercises in 1994, one in February and another
just the day before it sank.
On February 2, 1994, Estonia was the subject of a major mock bomb exercise
conducted with RITS, Sweden's maritime fire and rescue agency, and the
Stockholm police. The Stockholm police had requested to take part in the
exercise and used bomb-sniffing dogs to find explosives. The terror
simulation involved a scenario in which "bombs" had been placed in the sauna
and swimming pool area on the lowest deck, below the waterline in the bow of
the ship. A second "bomb" was placed in the sleeping quarters on the first
deck, also below the waterline.
In the Estonia terrorism scenario, the explosives in the sauna were to be
found by the dogs, while the second "bomb" was to explode. The purpose of
this terrorism drill was to train with the ship's crew and include
shore-based terrorism experts and police with bomb-sniffing dogs, brought to
the ship by helicopter. In the simulation, the "bombs" were set to explode
about half way between the Estonian and Swedish coasts, which is where the
ship actually sank in September 1994 after a similar mock bomb threat
exercise.
When Estonia sank, another mock bomb exercise on the ship had just been
concluded. Survivors from the sinking actually reported hearing two huge
explosions immediately before the ship listed to starboard. Several crew
members testified to having heard the coded fire alarm "Mr. Skylight to No.
1 and 2" over the ferry's public address system at about 1:02 a.m. after the
vessel had listed severely.
This is the exact same message for the crew that was used during the
previous bomb drill in February 1994. "Mr. Skylight" was a signal for the
fire fighters to proceed to their fire stations 1 and 2 and prepare for
damage control. The fact that this coded alarm was given indicates that
there was damage caused by a fire or explosion that required immediate
attention. The ferry sank within 30 minutes.
Eyewitness testimony from survivors plus the fact that the ship sank
extremely quickly strongly suggest that explosives were used to tear a large
hole in the hull below the waterline. Swedish policemen who had just
conducted training involving a mock bomb threat on the ferry were returning
home when Estonia sank. Of the 70 policemen, only 7 survived.
Estonia was being used to ferry drugs and Soviet
<http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=136> military
contraband, which probably included advanced space weapons technology, when
she sank. The highest officials in Swedish customs, the government, and
military were aware of the sensitive and illegal shipments that put the
ferry at risk. Is this why they are so dedicated to protecting the lies
about the sinking?
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