Re: Did Mock Terror Drill Go Live on 7/7?


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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:20:24 -0400, "yossarian" <yossarian@xxxxxxxxx>
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7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks?
Fictional 7/7 "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's subway
Professor Michel Chossudovsky | August 11 2005

<snip - cut&paste monkey's job>

Are you going to spend the whole of the school holidays cut&pasting
every bit of crap you find?

Why are you so dedicated to being willfully ignorant?

Yossarian


http://www.infowars.com/articles/London_attack/mock_drill_relationship_to_real_attack.htm


7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks?
Fictional 7/7 "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's subway
Professor Michel Chossudovsky | August 11 2005
A fictional "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's underground took
place at exactly the same time as the bomb attack on July 7, 2005.
Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a private firm on
contract to the London Metropolitan Police, described in a BBC interview how
he had organized and conducted the anti-terror drill, on behalf of an
unnamed business client. RELATED:
London Bombings Archive
London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real
Attack




The fictional scenario was based on simultaneous bombs going off at exactly
the same time at the underground stations where the real attacks were
occurring:
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise
for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous
bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this
morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right
now.
HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how
you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the
exercise?
POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned
this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name
but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis
managers for the first time they'd met and so within five minutes we made a
pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the
correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow
time to quick time thinking and so on.

(BBC Radio Interview, 7 July 2005)

In response to the flood of incoming email messages, Peter Power --who is a
former senior Scotland Yard official specializing in counterterrorism--
responded in the form of the following "automatic reply":

"Thank you for your message. Given the volume of emails about events on 7
July and a commonly expressed misguided belief that our exercise revealed
prescient behaviour, or was somehow a conspiracy (noting that several
websites interpreted our work that day in an inaccurate / naive / ignorant /
hostile manner) it has been decided to issue a single email response as
follows:
It is confirmed that a short number of 'walk through' scenarios planed [sic]
well in advance had commenced that morning for a private company in London
(as part of a wider project that remains confidential) and that two
scenarios related directly to terrorist bombs at the same time as the ones
that actually detonated with such tragic results. One scenario in
particular, was very similar to real time events.
However, anyone with knowledge about such ongoing threats to our capital
city will be aware that (a) the emergency services have already practiced
several of their own exercises based on bombs in the underground system
(also reported by the main news channels) and (b) a few months ago the BBC
broadcast a similar documentary on the same theme, although with much worse
consequences [??]. It is hardly surprising therefore, that we chose a
feasible scenario - but the timing and script was nonetheless, a little
disconcerting.
In short, our exercise (which involved just a few people as crisis managers
actually responding to a simulated series of activities involving, on paper,
1000 staff) quickly became the real thing and the players that morning
responded very well indeed to the sudden reality of events.
Beyond this no further comment will be made and based on the extraordinary
number of messages from ill informed people, no replies will henceforth be
given to anyone unable to demonstrate a bona fide reason for asking (e.g.
accredited journalist / academic).
[ signed ] Peter Power"
(quoted in London Underground Exercises: Peter Power Responds, Jon
Rappoport, July 13 2005
http://www.infowars.com/articles/London_attack/power_responds_terror_
drills.htm)
Mock Terror Drills
There was nothing "routine" in the so-called "walk through" scenarios.
Visor's mock terror drills (held on the very same day as the real attack)
was by no means an isolated "coincidence". Power's email response suggests
that mock drills are undertaken very frequently, as a matter of routine, and
that there was nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the exercise
conducted on July 7th, which just so happened to coincide with the real
terror attacks.
There have indeed been several documented high profile cases of mock terror
drills in the US and the UK, held prior or on exactly the same day and at
the same time as the actual terror event. In the three previous cases
reviewed below, the mock drills bear a canny resemblance to the real time
terror attacks.
1. CIA Sponsored Exercise on the Morning of 9/11
On the morning of September 11 2001, within minutes of the attack on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the CIA had been running "a pre-planned
simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if
a plane were to strike a building". The simulation was held at the CIA
Chantilly Virginia Reconnaissance Office.
The Bush administration described the event as "a bizarre coincidence". The
matter was not mentioned by the media.(AP, 22 August 2002)
The CIA sponsored simulation consisted in a "scheduled exercise" held on the
morning of September 11, 2001, where "a small corporate jet crashed into one
of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing
a mechanical failure. (Quoted in Associated Press, 22 August 2002.)
The news concerning the 9/11 Chantilly aircraft crashing simulation was
hushed up. It was not made public at the time. It was revealed almost a year
later, in the form of an innocuous announcement of a Homeland Security
Conference. The latter entitled "Homeland Security: America's Leadership
Challenge" was held in Chicago on September 6, 2002, barely a few days
before the commemoration of the tragic events of 9/11.
The promotional literature for the conference under the auspices of the
National Law Enforcement and Security Institute (NLESI) stated what nobody
in America knew about. On the morning of 9/11, the CIA was conducting a
pre-planned simulation of a plane striking a building. One of the key
speakers at the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute conference
was CIA's John Fulton, Chief of the Strategic War Gaming Division of the
National Reconnaissance Office a specialist in risk and threat response
analysis, scenario gaming, and strategic planning.
(See . The National Law Enforcement and Security Institute website is:
http://www.nlsi.net/ See also The Memory Hole at
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm):
On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team at the CIA
were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response
issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little
did they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that day.
Information is the most powerful tool available in the homeland security
effort. At the core of every initiative currently underway to protect our
country and its citizens is the challenge of getting the right information
to the right people at the right time. How can so much information from
around the world be captured and processed in meaningful and timely ways?
Mr. Fulton shares his insights into the intelligence community, and shares a
vision of how today's information systems will be developed into even better
counter-terrorism tools of tomorrow. (Ibid)
2. October 2000 Mock Terror Attack on the Pentagon
In late October 2000 (more than ten months prior to 9/11), a military
exercise was conducted which consisted in establishing the scenario of a
simulated passenger plane crashing into the Pentagon. The Defense Protective
Services Police and the Pentagon's Command Emergency Response Team
coordinated the exercise. According to a detailed report by Dennis Ryan of
Fort Myer Military Community's Pentagram, "the Pentagon Mass Casualty
Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that
emergency response teams were exposed to on Oct. 24-26 [2000]":
The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the
Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight.
Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. (.) Don Abbott, of
Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and
extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was
a simulated one.
On Oct. 24, there was a mock terrorist incident at the Pentagon Metro stop
and a construction accident to name just some of the scenarios that were
practiced to better prepare local agencies for real incidents.
(Dennis Ryan, "Contingency planning, Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates
scenarios in preparing for emergencies", MDW NEWS 3 Nov 2000.
http://www.mdw.army.mil/ )
3. Britain's Atlantic Blue, April 2005
In Britain, there were several documented exercises of terror attacks on
London's underground system.
In addition to the 7/7 exercise conducted by Visor Consultants, a similar
mock terror drill on London's transportation system entitled "Atlantic Blue"
was held in April 2005, barely three months prior to the real attacks. In
2003, a mock terror drill labelled OSIRIS 2 was conducted. It consisted,
according to Peter Power in testing the "equipment and people deep in the
Underground of London". It involved the participation of several hundred
people. (Interview with Peter Power, CTV, 11 July 2005).
"Atlantic Blue" was part of a much larger US sponsored emergency
preparedness exercise labelled TOPOFF 3, which included the participation of
Britain and Canada. It had been ordered by the UK Secretary of State for the
Home Department, Mr. Charles Clarke, in close coordination with his US
counterpart Michael Chertoff.
The assumptions of the Visor Consultants mock drill conducted on the morning
of July 7th were similar to those conducted under "Atlantic Blue". This
should come as no surprise since Visor Consultants was involved, on contract
to the British government, in the organisation and conduct of Atlantic Blue
and in coordination with the US Department of Homeland Security.
As in the case of the 9/11 simulation organized by the CIA, the July 7, 2005
Visor mock terror drill, was casually dismissed by the media, without
further investigation, as a mere "coincidence", with no relationship to the
real event.
Foreknowledge of the 7/7 Attack?

According to a report of the Associated Press correspondent in Jerusalem,
the Israeli embassy in London had been advised in advance by Scotland Yard
of an impending bomb attack:

Just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the
Israeli Embassy to say they had received warnings of possible attacks, the
official said. He did not say whether British police made any link to the
economic conference.(AP, 7 July 2005)

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by his embassy not to
attend an attend an economic conference organized by the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange (TASE) in collaboration with the Israeli embassy and Deutsche Bank.

Netanyahu was staying at the Aldridge Hotel in Mayfair. The conference venue
was a few miles away at the Great Eastern Hotel close to the Liverpool
subway station, where one of the bomb blasts occurred.

Rudolph Giuliani's London Visit

Rudolph Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City at the time of the 9/11
attacks, was staying at the Great Eastern hotel on the 7th of July, where
TASE was hosting its economic conference, with Israel's Finance Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu as keynote speaker.

Giuliani was having a business breakfast meeting in his room at the Great
Eastern Hotel, close to Liverpool Street station when the bombs went off:

"I didn't hear the Liverpool Street bomb go off," he explains. "One of my
security people came into the room and informed me that there had been an
explosion. We went outside and they pointed in the direction of where they
thought the incident had happened. There was no panic. I went back in to my
breakfast. At that stage, the information coming in to us was very
ambiguous." (quoted in the Evening Standard, 11 July 2005.)

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rudolph Giuliani knew each
other. Giuliani had officially welcomed Netanyahu when he visited New York
City as Prime Minister of Israel in 1996. There was no indication, however,
from news reports that the two men met in London at the Great Eastern. On
the day prior to the London attacks, July 6th, Giuliani was in North
Yorkshire at a meeting.

After completing his term as mayor of New York City, Rudi Giuliani
established a security outfit: Giuliani Security and Safety. The latter is a
subsidary of Giuliani Partners LLC. headed by former New York head of the
FBI, Pasquale D'Amuro.

After 9/11, D'Amuro was appointed Inspector in Charge of the FBI's
investigation of 9/11. He later served as Assistant Director of the
Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and, Executive Assistant
Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. D'Amuro had close
links to the Neocons in the Bush adminstration.

It is worth noting that Visor Consultants and Giuliani Security and Safety
LLC specialize in similar "mock terror drills" and "emergency preparedness"
procedures. Both Giuliani and Power were in London at the same time within a
short distance of one of the bombing sites. While there is no evidence that
Giuliani and Power met in London, the two companies have had prior business
contacts in the area of emergency preparedness. Peter Power served on the
Advisory Board to the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP),
together with Richard Sheirer, Senior Vice President of Giuliani and
Partners. who was previously Commissioner at the NYC Office of Emergency
Management, and Director of New York City Homeland Security.
(See CCEP at http://www.ccep.ca/ccep_shei.html)
Concluding Remarks
One should not at this stage of the investigation draw hasty conclusions
regarding the mock terror drill of a terror attack on the London
underground, held on the same day and at the same time as the real time
attacks.
The issue cannot, however, be dismissed. One would expect that it be
addressed in a serious and professional fashion by the police investigation
and that the matter be the object of a formal clarification by the British
authorities.
The issue of foreknowledge raised in the Associated Press report also
requires investigation.
More generally, an independent public inquiry into the London bomb attacks
is required.



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