Henry Shelton
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| Born | 1942-01-02 Tarboro, North Carolina, USA | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • North Carolina State University • Auburn University • Air Command and Staff College • National War College | |||||||||||||||
US General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom some have linked to 9/11.
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Henry Shelton is an US General whom some have linked to 9/11.[1]
9/11
On 9/11 he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9-11. He supported formation of Able Danger.[1]
Iraq war pretext
In the late 1990s, Shelton says a member of Clinton's cabinet asked him to allow Saddam Hussein to shoot down an American U-2 plane over Iraq as a pretext for starting a war. During that time the US had U-2 aircraft on reconnaissance sorties over Iraq, designed to fly at extremely high speeds and altitudes both for pilot safety and to avoid detection. The request was that "we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event - something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough - and slow enough - so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down? While not mentioning the official, Shelton hints that the request came from Madeleine Albright.[2]
