Pentagon

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"American Airlines Flight 77 struck a portion of the building that had already been renovated. It was the only area of the Pentagon with a sprinkler system, and it had been reconstructed with a web of steel columns and bars to withstand bomb blasts. [...] The area struck by the plane also had blast-resistant windows - 2 inches thick and 2,500 pounds each - that stayed intact during the crash and fire. It had fire doors that opened automatically and newly built exits that allowed people to get out. [...] While perhaps 4,500 people normally would have been working in the hardest-hit areas, because of the renovation work only about 800 were there Tuesday, officials said."[1]

Pentagon MASCAL

Im Pentagon war man auf das Szenario eines in das Gebäude stürzenden Flugzeuges schon vor 9/11 eingerichtet. In einer Übung namens Pentagon Mass Casualty project (Pentagon MASCAL) wurde dies bereits im Oktober 2000 am Modell geübt. Freilich handelt es sich bei der Übung nicht um einen Terrorakt sondern um das Szenario eines Unfalls.

"The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas. Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the 'plane crash' was a simulated one. The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room."[2]

2,3 Billionen US-Dollar

Donald Rumsfeld erklärte am Vortag der Anschläge, dass im jahrzehntealten Buchungssystem des Pentagon der Verbleib von schätzungsweise 2,3 Billionen US-Dollar nicht belegt werden könne. Warum veröffentlichte Rumsfeld diese negative Meldung an einem Montag statt wie üblicherweise Freitag spät nachmittags? Man darf vermuten, dass sie ohne die Ereignisse von 9/11 für deutlich mehr Aufsehen gesorgt hätte.

"The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible."[3] — Donald Rumsfeld

"One Army office in the Pentagon lost 34 of its 65 employees in the attack. Most of those killed in the office, called Resource Services Washington, were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. They were at their desks when American Airlines Flight 77 struck."[4]

Auch an Bord von American Airlines 77 kam mit Bryan Jack, dem "director of the programming and fiscal economics division", ein Mitarbeiter des Verteidigungsministeriums um, der mit den Finanzen des Pentagon betraut war.[5]

Mit der Aufklärung der Bilanzfehler wurde Dov S. Zakheim betraut, der von Mai 2001 bis April 2004 Rechnungsprüfer des Pentagon war.

Quellen und weiterführende Links

Quellen

1. Pentagon, a Vulnerable Building, Was Hit in Least Vulnerable Spot -- Los Angeles Times, 16.9.2001
2. Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL -- Military Districit of Washington, 3.11.2000
3. Donald Rumsfeld, Rede, 10.9.2001
4. Army history unit piecing together accounts of Pentagon attack -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16.12.2001
5. Remember September 11, 2001 - Bryan Jack

weiterführende Links

1. Unvollständige Liste von Opfern unter den Mitarbeitern des Pentagon