A few lesser known facts about 9/11/2001

A few lesser known facts about 9/11/2001:

In May 2001, four of the Saudi Arabian terrorist hijackers spent a few days at the Fairfield Motor Inn (since renamed to Circle Hotel Fairfield) and reportedly met with a Jordanian national who lived in Bridgeport, CT and who was later charged with providing false identification documents to "illegal Arab aliens".

On March 4, 2001, 6 months before the September attack, The Lone Gunmen Pilot Episode aired on US and Canada TV with a plot to fly a commercial airplane into the World Trade Center North Twin Tower. Obviously the story and episode were written and filmed before the air date, so some Hollywood writers were able to think of that idea at least a year before it happened. Perhaps the writers got their idea from someone in the US Government who told them about the fact that, according to USA Today, "In the two years before the attacks on September the 11th, NORAD conducted exercises using hijacked airliners as weapons. And one target was the World Trade Center." as reported by Peter Jennings. I wonder if NORAD's airline counter terrorism war game scenario test exercise was called Scenario 12D? Nah, I'm sure Hollywood would change the names of things a little, just like their airplane was National Flight 265 heading to Boston at 6:50 pm, but still with the WTC Twin Tower as the target, but via remote control instead of hijackers flying the plane. So one to two years before the attack, NORAD, Hollywood, and the terrorists all had the same idea, yet our US Government leaders, President Bush and Condoleezza Rice, both told us no one could have conceived of using a commercial airplane to fly into a building like a missile before it actually happened on 9/11/2001.

On December 24, 2004, during a visit to US troops in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld referred to the 9/11 terrorists as "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon" (CNN transcript). On the 27th, a "Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke [about Flight 93 being shot down over Pennsylvania]" (CNN article).

15 of the 19 9/11 terrorist hijackers were Saudi Arabians, and Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden had been living in Pakistan for 9 years (since 2002) when he was killed in May 2011. Yet for 18 years now, the US Government under President Bush (Republican), President Obama (Democrat), and President Trump (Republican) have retained as Secret "the name of a person who allegedly directed two men in California who assisted hijackers in the 9/11 attacks." because they claim releasing the name "could undermine national security." I'm not sure if they mean ours or Saudi Arabia's.