beardedbruce --

92. Thierry Meyssan, who has referred to these anti-missile batteries (Pentagate [London: Carnot, 2002], 112, 116), has said with regard to his source of information: "The presence of these anti-missile batteries was testified to me by French officers to whom they were shown during an official visit to the Pentagon. This was later confirmed to me by a Saudi officer."

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982

There are other mentions of the surface-to-air system in various articles. Can't find anything about the phalanx system right now, but I remember they announced they were going to put arms on the roof of the pentagon AFTER 9/11 and lots of articles at the time pointed out that there already WERE arms, and the phalanx was mentioned. I also remember thinking the phalanx was pretty outdated. That may have been about the time the new rolling airframe missiles was being deployed. GWBush had a surface-to-air battery set up on the roof where he was staying in Sarasota on 9/10/01. The things are portable and hard to argue with, so why would the pentagon be without a few? I'd look more, but some of those other forums get even me down. It's incredible how many people support the murder in Iraq. Just poke around with some word combinations in search engines and something will turn up.

Point is, the pentagon wasn't defenseless. And the boss was in the building (and reportedly patched in to a videoconference call discussing the unfolding events, so he knew a plane was coming his way). So he should have had MPs with rifles on the lawn shooting at the thing, if nothing else. But he just sat safely on the other side of the building while not a single round of anything was fired in defense.