Exercise Atlantic Blue: 7/7 Rehearsal?
from the Guardian:
Anti-terror drill revealed soft targets in London
"A massive anti-terror exercise carried out last April to find out how safe London's transport systems were from attack raised concern over the vulnerability of passengers, The Observer can reveal.
Washington sources have revealed that the biggest transatlantic counter-terrorism exercise since 9/11 - which included 'bombs' being placed on buses and explosives left on the London underground - raised fears over the vulnerability of 'soft targets' in the capital.
The anti-terror drill, codenamed Exercise Atlantic Blue, involved 10,000 personnel in the UK and 2,500 in the UK. It was billed as the biggest test of the anti-terror defences of both the UK and the US and was designed to improve security. The exercise featured simulated explosive, biological and chemical attacks and, in the case of London, concentrated on testing security weaknesses in the transport system."
Another drill...
"...A full-scale mock attack was staged in September 2003 to give emergency services the chance to rehearse: lessons learnt from it, including the need for specially adapted trolleys to use in rescuing passengers from narrow tunnels, were put into place last week. Firefighters have also been trained to drive tube trains, so that if a driver were killed they would be able to move a train to the safety of a platform; the trains hit last week were too badly disabled to be moved..."
more...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1525247,00.html--UPDATE--
From Continuity Forum:
In a March 17, 2005 interview Home Office Minister Hazel Blears was asked:
Question: "What happens if a terrorist incident occurs during the exercise?"
Answer: "In the event of a major incident of any sort a decision would be taken to halt the exercise. There will be no impact on the level of policing or security within London during the week of the exercise."
http://www.continuityforum.org/news/atlanticblue--------------------------------------------------
"Police and intelligence agents are investigating the theory that a gang of white "mercenary terrorists" was hired by al-Qa'ida to carry out last week's devastating attacks on London.
The Independent on Sunday can reveal today that investigations into the bombings of three Tube trains and a bus, which left at least 49 people dead, are focusing on the possibility that criminal gangs were paid to mount the worst atrocities in British history."
"The theory was given credence by the fact that the security services had no advance warnings, suggesting that the bombers were not known extremists. Police and intelligence agencies admitted yesterday they were caught off guard."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298105.ec...Does this indicate there is some evidence suggesting the bombers were white caucasians? Of course it could be al-qaida paying them.
The explosive devises were "sophisticated".
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298105.ece------------------------------------
Have you seen?
Here is an eery transcript from the BBC about a similar attack... Very War of the Worlds type broadcast but creepy, and look at the timing: drill took place same day as Operation Transit SAFE, as Culhavoc pointed out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/pano...NB: THIS TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A TRANSCRIPTION UNIT RECORDING AND
NOT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT: BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF MIS-
HEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY, IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL
SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS ACCURACY.
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PANORAMA
LONDON UNDER ATTACK
RECORDED FROM TRANSMISSION: BBC-1 DATE: 16:05:04
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The events in this programme are fictional
Everything else is fact
KIRSTY: This is BBC News on Tuesday May 25th, it's 8 o'clock – the headlines. The American Secretary
of State is due to arrive shortly at Heathrow Airport beginning his official visit to the UK.
GAVIN ESLER: What you are about to see is series of terrorist attacks.
KIRSTY: The Bank of England is due to revue interest rates this afternoon. Experts are saying they could
rise.
ESLER: This scenario is well researched but fictional.
KIRSTY: And police in London are on extra alert for the this evening's European Champions League Cup
Match between Arsenal and the Turkish side Galatasaray. We're just receiving news of an explosion in the
London underground near Hyde Park, this has not yet been confirmed by the police.
Tues May 25 08:27
BREAKING NEWS
There has been a second explosion in the underground, this time close to Oxford Circus. Both explosions
appear to have occurred on the trains as they were moving. We've got on further details at this stage but we
will bring you more information on this as soon as we get it.
ESLER: This is the kind of terrorist attack the government repeatedly says is going to happen.
November 2002
Tony Blair Prime Minister
Would Al-Qaeda buy weapons of mass destruction if it could? Certainly. Would it use such weapons?
Definitely.
June 2003 (Actor's voice)
Eliza Manningham-Buller
Director General MI5
We are faced with the realistic possibility of some form of unconventional attack.
December 2003
David Veness
Assistant Commissione, Metropolitan Police
We need to confront murder on a mass scale.
(more)
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Culhavoc (11 posts)
Sun Jul-10-05 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #14
The US companion drill on May 16th, 2004
In the early morning hours of May 16, OEM hosted Operation Transit SAFE, the City's first interagency subway exercise, at lower Manhattan's Bowling Green subway station. Inspired by the Madrid bombings of March 2004, the four-hour drill was designed to test the City's response to a terrorist attack in the subway.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP), Transit SAFE involved more than 500 emergency responders and 400 NYPD recruits and FDNY probationary firefighters posing as "victims" and "evacuees."
http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/events/2004.05.16_transitsafe.htmlAlthough the US/NYC drill and the London drill both occur on May 16th, 2004, there are no British agencies in the list of participants of Operation Transit SAFE.
-Culhavoc
deconstructing a false-flag operation
http://culhavoc.blogsome.com