Iron Man DO5

Iron Man is not his real name. It’s the name given to him by the U.S. government. The mainstream media never mentioned him or told his story.

I have copies of his documents, originally marked SECRET/NOFORN.

He was a Counter-Terrorism/Counter-Intelligence Analyst for Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS). He was assigned to Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC) from April 1998 to June 2001.

He served as the Deputy of JFIC’s Asymmetric Warfare Branch (DO5), and served as the acting Branch Chief from late 2000 to June 2001.

Iron Man is the only person who has come forward with this information. He just wanted to tell the truth.

He wanted others to tell the truth.

On May 8, 2006, he filed a formal complaint with the Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General. He stated that in May 2002, in response to a Congressional Inquiry, the JFIC falsely reported information related to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. As a result, DOD officials reported false information to Congress.

Iron Man indicated that he was personally involved in JFIC intelligence activities related to al-
Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks and had first-hand knowledge of circumstances surrounding that false reporting to the Office of Secretary of Defense and Congress.

In 2008, the DOD Inspector General issued a 37 page report in response to Iron Man’s complaint. The report states “We found no evidence that the JFIC misled Congress by withholding operational information in response to the 9/11 Commission.”

It should be noted that the DOD response was not even accurate. They named the 9/11 Commission. Iron Man’s complaint was directed at the 2002 Congressional Inquiry, not the 9/11 Commission.

It’s interesting that a complaint aimed at the DOD was investigated by the DOD.

There is no reason to doubt Iron Man, and I believe him. He had nothing to gain by lying about this. No one even knows his real name. He hasn’t gained any fame or fortune. In fact, he was falsely accused of leaking classified information. He risked being falsely imprisoned just for coming forward.

Iron Man filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain a copy of his original complaint. He filed it on September 11, 2006 and it was granted on April 8, 2011. The document was released with minimal redactions, mostly hiding the names of those involved and is available for anyone to read.

Here are the facts as stated by Iron Man:  

There was a DO5 briefing in the summer of 2000, given to Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) senior staff.

The briefing indicated that World Trade Centers #1 and #2 were the most likely buildings to be attacked in the U.S., followed closely by the Pentagon.

The briefer indicated that the worst case scenario would be one tower collapsed onto the other.

The possibility of planes striking the buildings was discussed in the red cell analysis leading up to the briefing.

The acting deputy of DO5 proposed that the building could be struck by a jetliner.

Discussion followed on contacting World Trade Center security and engineering/architectural staff, but the idea was not further explored because of a command climate discouraging contact with the civilian community.

However, JFCOM J3 directed that the national military terrorism exercise for FY 02 be based on a New York worse-case scenario. They couldn’t do it in 2001, because the military was already committed to another exercise.

The JFIC routinely prepared analytical reports and supplemented national agencies with original intelligence on UBL and Afghanistan. (Osama bin Laden was sometimes referred to as Usama bin Laden or UBL for short).

Iron Man stated that the last JFIC commanding officer he served under was adamantly opposed to JFIC conducting any original analysis on al-Qaeda and directed such work be stopped in late 2000-early 2001.

Here is my analysis:

The JFIC was told to stop tracking Osama bin Laden at the exact time when the 9/11 attacks would have been in the final planning and preparation stages.

There were other events in late 2000 and early 2001.

On October 12, 2000 there was a terrorist attack on the USS Cole that killed seventeen sailors. This was certainly not a good time to cut back on analysis of al-Qaeda. The JFIC should have been ordered to increase their analysis on al-Qaeda, not eliminate it.

In 1999, NORAD conducted an exercise named Falcon Indian that involved five terrorists hijacking a jetliner with the intention of crashing into the UN building. The plane in the exercise was flying coast to coast. Similar hijacking exercises involving jetliners crashing into buildings were conducted until at least October 2000.

In 2000, according to five witnesses, Mohamed Atta’s picture was on a chart created by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It was part of a classified military planning effort named Able Danger. Three other 9/11 hijackers were identified on the chart.

In 2010, one of the witnesses, Lt. Col. Shaffer, published a book. The DOD purchased and burned 9,500 copies of the book. The DOD claimed it revealed too many secrets.

The CIA had tracked future hijackers Nawaf Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar to San Diego after the men were photographed at an al Qaeda planning meeting in Malaysia in January 2000. The CIA never informed the FBI. 9/11 may well have been prevented if they had.

It has been leaked that the 28 pages outline Saudi government support for these same two hijackers.

These two known terrorists were not put on a watch list until August 23, 2001.

It was too late. According to ABC news, the State Department, unaware that Al-Midhar was a suspected terrorist, had issued him a new multi-entry visa two months before. Alhamzi was already in the country. These two terrorists were listed as hijackers on the plane that hit the Pentagon.

President Bush was elected in late 2000 after a long dispute over the vote totals. He was sworn in on January 20, 2001. According to multiple sources, he did not put a high priority on terrorism threats.

Within days of President Bush taking office, his top terrorism expert on the National Security Council, Richard Clarke, urged National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to resume drone flights to track down bin Laden. The Predators, however, were not put back in the air before Sept. 11.

In May 2001, Visa Express was implemented. This policy made it easy for Saudi Arabian nationals to get a visa and come to the United States. Fifteen of the hijackers were Saudis and some of them used Visa Express to enter the country. In 2002, a reporter, Joel Mowbray, was detained and questioned by the State Department after publishing articles about the policy. It wasn’t cancelled until July 19, 2002.

Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial jets in the summer of 2001.

NORAD was conducting hijacking exercises on 9/11 and those exercises had been moved up from October to the exact day of the 9/11 attacks. The fake hijackings appeared on radar along with the real ones.

Speaking of radar, the plane that hit the Pentagon flew through a radar gap. It disappeared from radar screens for a half hour or more. No one knows how the terrorists could have known where the radar gap was. It helped to make the attack on the Pentagon successful.

The Pentagon was hit, just like the DO5 predicted, but it was hit in a reinforced section, minimizing casualties, and in an area far away from where military commanders had their offices.

The Pentagon had been conducting MASCAL (Mass Casualty Plan) exercises in the months before 9/11. This training also minimized casualties. Everyone knew exactly what to do after the plane hit.  

In a Pentagon article, written shortly after the attacks, General Myers is quoted as saying “We hadn’t thought about this”.

The truth is, they thought about all of it.

They had the exact targets. They named both World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. They named the method of attack; a jetliner. They had some of the exact faces and names on a chart, including Atta, the ringleader. NORAD conducted an exercise involving five hijackers, the exact number of hijackers on each 9/11 plane that hit a target. The plane in the exercise was traveling from coast to coast, just like the 9/11 planes.

The entire attack was predicted. The only detail the military got wrong was that one tower did not collapse onto the other. They both came straight down.

During the 9/11 Commission hearings, all military and government officials insisted that they could never have envisioned anything like 9/11.

Condi Rice was one of those officials. In one of her statements to the 9/11 Commission, she said “No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon ... into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile.”

One of the 9/11 widows wrote a scathing letter to Condi Rice. She asked her to “please stop lying”. The letter is titled: “Condi Rice: Here’s Your 9/11 Smoking Gun”.

She told Condi: “Many of the teams tracking these terrorists were inexplicably thwarted, blocked, and ordered to STOP their surveillance, investigation, and analysis of the 9/11 terrorists who went on to kill 3,000 innocent people like my husband.”

As a side note, there would not have been a 9/11 Commission if it weren’t for the efforts of this 9/11 widow and other 9/11 family members. Bush and Cheney did not want an investigation.

Here is a link to Iron Man’s documents.

http://www.truth-out.org/files/inspector-general-complaint-911-iron-man.pdf

Here is a link to the 9/11 widow’s letter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/condi-rice-heres-your-911-smoking-gun_b_8430814.html

My next post will discuss Iron Man’s reason for filing his complaint and the other member of the DO5 mentioned in his complaint. That man is no longer with us and can’t complain about anything. 

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