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dbeach Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-05 12:49 PM
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Terror Drill at Logan
$700,000 for training exercise..hmmm

return to the scene of the crime...


"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060401094_pf.html

Authorities Stage Terror Drill in Boston

BOSTON -- Authorities staged an elaborate anti-terrorism drill Saturday at Logan International Airport, responding to a simulated hijacking reminiscent of the December 2001 plot to detonate a shoe bomb aboard a trans-Atlantic flight.

"Things went just as we hoped they would go," said Amy Corbett, regional administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration.

"Operation Atlas," which cost roughly $700,000 and brought together about 50 federal, state and local agencies, was billed as the first training drill involving a real airborne intercept of a commercial airliner."


Atlas held up the world just like the 9/11 perps..

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