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Training exercise resembled 9-11. (Insider Report).
"In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last September 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings," reported the Associated Press on August 21st. "But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident."
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), based in Chantilly, Virginia, had planned a training exercise for the morning of September 11th in which a small corporate jet would collide into one of the four towers at its headquarters building. "It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing ...
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