Canada invades the U.S. !!!

Jets prowl skies: Pilots practise for Super Bowl
Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star
Published: Thursday, January 26, 2006

Terrorists and clueless pilots were the targets of a wide array of military aircraft filling the skies over Windsor and Detroit in the wee hours this morning as NORAD conducted a Super Bowl XL defence air exercise.

Residents may have seen helicopters and the low-flying fighter aircraft, said Lt. Lisa Citino, spokeswoman for the continental United States NORAD region, headquartered at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.

DEFENCE SYSTEM

Among the hardware being used to test the military's binational interception and identification capabilities being put in place to defend Super Bowl Sunday: CF-18s out of Bagotville, Que., F-16s out of Michigan's Selfridge Air National Guard Base, a CH-146 Griffon helicopter out of Kingston, air refuelling tankers and an E-3 AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and Control System) aircraft out of Oklahoma.

For security reasons, the exact times and locations of the exercise, as well as the number of participating aircraft, remain confidential, but there are also H-65 helicopters, "multiple" Cessna aircraft and a C-21 Learjet involved. Citino said there will be "multiple fighter jets."

A news release issued Wednesday by Canadian NORAD region, headquartered in Winnipeg, said the aircraft will be flying "at low altitudes," but in phone interviews with The Star, both Citino and Winnipeg-based NORAD public affairs officer Capt. Jennifer Faubert said most residents in Windsor and Detroit will likely be oblivious to the whole enterprise.

SIMULATED ATTACKS

"We're not providing a show for everyone. If you hear the noise, that is what your military does -- we're up there defending you," said Citino.

The exercises, likely to conclude by dawn today, will see targeted aircraft simulating terrorist attacks, as well as so-called "tracks of interest," which Citino describes as the radar trails left by unknown aircraft that wander suspiciously -- but probably innocently -- into what will become a flight-restricted area during the Super Bowl Feb. 5.

On game day, military aircraft will remain largely out of sight but will be circling Ford Field from far above as part of what Citino describes as "a robust, multi-layered air defence."

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Sneaky danged Canadians!

I just dont trust them, this could be part of a huge plot by the new Prime Minister to invade the U.S. and replace all our rulers, speed limit signs and tools with the silly metric system garbage.