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2009-05-18 Home Front: WoT
Huge New York rehearsal for next terror strike
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Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-18 00:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 This isn't the first time, as Judith Miller reported in the Summer 2007 City Journal.


Tensions also grew between the FBI and Sheehan’s Counter Terrorism Bureau. In the summer of 2003, officials said, the FBI passed an unverified tip to the CTB that a “dirty bomb” might be on its way to New York. When Sheehan called a Friday afternoon meeting to discuss a possible deployment to the city of local, state, and federal investigators, emergency-response personnel, and nuclear-detection technology, the FBI began downplaying the threat. Furious, Kelly, Cohen, and Sheehan decided to use the tip to test the city’s emergency-response and intelligence teams in a massive drill. “What we learned from that episode was that when and if we needed federal assets, we were still on our own, even after 9/11,” a former senior city official complains.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2009-05-18 07:27||   2009-05-18 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "when and if we needed federal assets, we were still on our own, even after 9/11"

And this surprises you because....?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-05-18 18:22||   2009-05-18 18:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I say this is an excellent thing to do. And do again. And again. Keep practicing and looking for the weak spots (there are no doubt plenty.) Because another attack will come. You check your smoke detectors yearly, don't you? And your office building has at least one fire drill a year. Etc. Remember air-raid drills and either ducking under your desk or filing into the halls when the alarm sounded (dating myself)?
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2009-05-18 19:13||   2009-05-18 19:13|| Front Page Top

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