I also would like to know where the Mediterranean U.S. fleet with air carrier was stationed during the attack???
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html
Hard to tell locations on 11SEP12, but I believe that we did not have a CVN in the MED at that time.
Even Bill Clinton voiced the famous words, “Where are the carriers?”....the first words uttered when SHTF somewhere in the world.