To not tell the citizens of Seattle and Chicago of this shocking but heavily-documented truth and not to warn them that it could happen again on May 12-16 -- indeed to 'warn' of the exact opposite with false certainty, that 'no actual agents' will be released during the week May 12-16 -- is an unconscionable dereliction of duty given the facts of what happened on 9-11. This dereliction of official duty is further compounded by the fact that there is no evidence that whoever betrayed the secret Sept. 11 'exercise' plan to the 9-11 hijackers and/or their controllers is not still 'on the inside' and capable of betraying the Seattle-Chicago TOPOFF2 'scenarios' to Al Qaeda again.

Is it a coincidence that the May 12-16 'TOPOFF 2' exercise is billed as 'testing the ability of authorities to respond to simultaneous Weapon of Mass Destruction attacks', and that Al Qaeda's spokesman just told a London-based magazine it is planning new mass attacks against the U.S. "on the scale of 9-11 or greater"? (Associated Press, May 8). Is it just a coincidence that the Bush Administration has publicly warned that Al Qaeda has tried to obtain nuclear material for a radiological 'dirty' bomb, and chose that very 'scenario' for the Seattle WMD exercise? Is it just a coincidence that SARS actually struck one of the two co-'players' in the 'mock' bio-terrorism 'scenario' slated for Chicago and across the border to the north -- Canada?

These may seem outlandish suggestions, until one reads page after page of documented proof by Eleanor Hill in the public report of the Joint House and Senate 9-11 Inquiry, that the President and his top advisors had multiple, even urgent warnings, of Al Qaeda's known plans, as well as past attempts, to use planes as weapons. In fact, that is why the Bush Administration 'wargamed' that very scenario on the morning of 9-11. The proof that the Administration knew about the plane-into-building 'possibility' is that very 9-11counterterrorism exercise, on precisely that scenario.

Given all of the above, and especially Al Qaeda's penchant for 'repeat' or 'twin' attacks, it would be unconscionable for the Government to proceed with the TOPOFF 2 counterterrorism exercise without first fully informing the American public -- and especially the citizens of Seattle and Chicago -- of the similar exercise that 'became real' on Sept. 11, and what, if anything, it has done to ensure that such a disastrous 'piggybacking' can never happen again.

If it does go forward with the exercise, however, it is absolutely essential - both to minimize potential loss of life and maximize the speed and success of response -- that specific 'fail safe' mechanisms be put into place, up front, to clearly separate the channels and personnel for reporting on and responding to real attacks from those dedicated to 'mere' fake attacks and 'game' reports; and to ensure that every possible mechanism is in place so that actual first responders, not 'game' responders, are called to respond to any actual attacks. On 9-11, it was confusion over whether actual hijacking reports were expected 'terrorism game' reports by responders that caused the critical delays that allowed the terrorists to succeed so horribly.

As just one example, of many reported in the mainstream press and documented to the editor of this site, Major General Larry Arnold of NORAD, which was holding a major counterterrorism communications exercise that morning called "Vigilant Guardian", then at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, said that when he heard of the hijacking, "The first thing that went through my mind was, 'Is this part of the exercise? (or) Is this some kind of screw-up?'" (ABC News, 9/11/02).

We must not allow the Government's refusal to come clean with the American public about the 'wargame' they negligently allowed to become compromised and 'turn real' on 9-11, to interfere with possibly needed actual emergency responses on May 12-16 in Chicago and Seattle.

It is also interesting that the Government chose May to hold its massive TOPOFF 2 counter-terrorism exercise, for much of what it has chosen to cover up and lie about has happened in May. On May 8, 2001, President Bush created the new Office of National Preparedness and named Vice President Cheney to head its review of the consequences of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil (Time magazine). That same month, May 2001 - only four months before 9-11 - Dept. of Defense medical personnel from the tri-Service DiLorenzo Health Care Clinic and the Air Force Flight Medicine Clinic trained inside the Pentagon "to fine tune their emergency preparedness to a plane hitting the building." (U.S. Medicine magazine, October 2001). Indeed, on the morning of 9-11 itself, Pentagon medic Matt Rosenberg was reviewing a new medical emergency disaster plan "based on the scenario of an airplane crashing into the place." Washington Post, Sept. 16, 2001).

The proof that the President, Vice President, and their top advisors were completely and totally aware that a plane might be used as a weapon to strike buildings is that they had a long-planned 'emergency game' on exactly that scenario that very morning. In fact, 'the' piece of intelligence Vice President Cheney was most worried had leaked to the public -- because, his office said, of its precise wording - was the National Security Agency (NSA) intercept of 9-11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and lead hijacker Mohammed Atta on the day before the attacks, Sept. 10, saying "The Match is about to begin." Could it be the Vice President was worried that the public would realize that the unusual choice of word - "Match" - might refer to a game, or exercise, and that this intercept was proof that the hijackers and/or their controls had a high-level informant 'inside the U.S. military-intelligence counterterrorism system that he was supposed to control?

And is it possible that the Vice President was particularly worried because the public might put two and two together and realize it was probably he who had been in charge of exactly the kind of 'emergency response' evaluation scheduled for the morning of 9-11, as head of the President's new Office of National Preparedness? Perhaps, even, Vice President Cheney has been fighting turning over the records of his Energy Task Force so hard because he doesn't want to set a precedent that would force him to also turn over records from the other group he headed - the Office of National Preparedness focused on responses to terror attacks on U.S. soil -- like 9-11.

If whoever tipped off Mohammed Atta and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed about the counterterrorism exercise on the morning of 9-11 is still 'on the inside', he almost certainly knows the details of the May 12-16 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 'exercises' -- and so does Al Qaeda. And, given Al Qaeda's penchant for 'repeat' performances - twice attacking the World Trade Center Twin Towers, and attacking two U.S. embassies in Africa almost simultaneously -- as well as 'piggybacking onto a secret U.S. Gov't counterterrorism exercise on 9-11, the 'first' time, and now looking for a 'second', if I were on the real emergency response team in the twin 'exercise' cities of Chicago or Seattle, I'd be very worried.

If I were the President -- or the highest ranking official in the exercise, Secretary of State Colin Powell - I'd also call it off.

To Alert officials of TOPOFF 2 exercise of May 12-16, 2003, contact: Chicago Office of Emergency Management: (312) 746-6421 Seattle Office of Emergency Management: (Please fill in) (Canadian) Department of Homeland Security: 1 (866) 373-0117 (Canadian) Department of State, Jo-Anne Prokopowicz: (202) 647-2492; (Canadian) Office of Deputy Prime Minister Manley, Mike Scandiffio: (613) 992-6060 U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, to report a security threat: http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus To send a message directly to the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, the highest ranking official in the TOPOFF ("Top Officials") May 12-16 exercise' in Seattle and Chicago:

http://contact-us.state.gov/ask_form_cat/ask_form_secretary.html

U.S. Gov't TOPOFF 2 official web sites:

http://www.topoff2media.net/pressroom.htm

http://www.topoff2media.net/pressrelease.htm

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