Antifascist Calling reported October 6 that nine months prior to the
9/11 terrorist attacks, Donald Rumsfeld signed off on revisions for the
Pentagon’s secretive Continuity of Operations Program (COOP).
Based on a document (AR 500-3) published by the whistleblowing website
Wikileaks, it described “all hazards COOP planning” as the
mechanism by which “the Army remains capable of continuing
mission-essential operations during any situation, including military
attack, terrorist activities, and natural or man-made disasters.”
The Wikileaks document is all the more relevant since a September
report in Army Times described how the 3rd Infantry Division’s
1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) would be deployed October 1 “under
the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North,” the “service
component” of NORTHCOM.
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