"There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course..." - Jim Marrs, Author, Inside Job


This is well known enough to be in the 9 11 commission report, the made for tv 911 movie and tabloids.

What are we supposed to say?
Gee what an unfortunate coincedence. It made for incredible confusion and dely in getting a real response in the air. This must be the reason for the stand down orders we heard about.

Oh dear, of all days for the terrorists to choose, it had to be the one when we were pretending to be under attack by hijacked planes that were guided into buildings.