[DMCForum] Re: Reply #1: Intel on Iraq. Where do you get it, really? (Greg)
From: "content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:02:11 -0000
My fire department buddy has put out fires and run EMS calls all over
that building, classified areas and otherwise (for some reason the
general public has the impression the Pentagon is sealed up like Fort
Knox. It isn't. There's a very large shopping mall inside, public
offices, access to a subway station under the parking lot, etc). He's
never mentioned a briefcase bomb. Usually fills me in on anything
significant that happens even on A or B shift. I'll call him tonight
and ask just to be sure.
My father is a columnist now (ex journalist) who covers military
procurement. Pentagon is part of his beat. I'll ask him too.
Find out what ring and corridor this incident is supposed to have
occurred at. Will help to verify.
Bill Robertson
#5939
>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> So what are you saying, the Pentagon has or has never been bombed or
> attacked before? I have to tell you, it has. Had my father stayed
in his
> office for a few more minutes he wouldn't be here today. To say the
attack
> was 'insignificant' would not be correct, as he retrieved his rain
coat from
> hanging on a piece of rebar that used to be his office wall. I have
been
> trying to find any news story on this for awhile. It seems to have been
> successfully covered up. The explosive device was a briefcase left in a
> bathroom. I don't know exactly where in the building this was, but
knowing
> what security level my father had, someone got pretty far inside.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:50 AM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Reply #1: Intel on Iraq. Where do you get it,
> really? (Greg)
>
>
> I'm going to have to call you on this one:
>
> Background: The Pentagon basically has no fire department of its own.
> There is one firetruck and four firefighters stationed by the helipad
> (the little Butler building you see adjacent to Washington Boulevard
> -- coincidentally right where Flight 77 went in, destroying the fire
> truck in the process) but their only function is to put out crashed
> helicopters. Fire protection is provided by Arlington County. Station
> #5 is located two blocks south (other side of I-395). My best friend
> has been stationed there since 1988. He's fought everything at the
> Pentagon from trash can fires to full blown transformer meltdowns. Of
> course he was there September 11 too.
>
> Additional background: the only people who gossip more than little old
> ladies are Arlington County firefighters. WTOP could save a lot of
> money on its newcasts by simply giving the script to the Arlington
> County Fire Department and letting them broadcast it all over town. If
> it happens at the Pentagon, and ACFD is involved, the world IS going
> to know about it.
>
> I've heard all about Washington's September 11 in great detail (did
> you know the plane first impacted the hillside next to the helipad
> then bounced into the Pentagon?). I've heard all about the 10 days
> following as damage was assessed and demolition/repairs actually begun
> (Arlington County firefighters lived on scene and escorted the
> contractors). And I've heard about calls made to the Pentagon in the
> two years since (all the additional security, with attendant officious
> personnel, have done nothing but make the fire department's job that
> much more difficult). One thing I haven't heard a peep about is
> additional terrorist attacks. Arlington County firefighters themselves
> crashed a Gator into the side of the building as they were drag racing
> it (boredom at the end of Camp Unity), but no terrorists.
>
> Any additional terrorist attacks at the Pentagon have been so
> insignificant as to not require services of the fire department.
>
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
>
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, something I wanted to mention in a previous thread. Does anyone
> know
> > how many times the Pentagon was attacked and damaged? I can assure
> you it
> > was more than the once in 2001, but that never came up.
> >
> > Greg
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