http://victorypost.com/?p=1956
"...Boston has hosted the training exercise since 2011, and has had teams of
police participating in it as far back as 2007. The exercise continues to be surrounded in secrecy with officials giving the public minimum notice ahead of its schedule date and declining to give details about the drills “to avoid tipping off participants.”
But what about
the details of last years drills? Surely the public can be informed of the exercise plans that are more than a year old. Officials have yet to provide an explanation of the Boston Urban Shield 2013 exercises which were quietly canceled after the attacks on the Marathon. The only reason we know anything about them at all is because an anonymous law enforcement official leaked the plans to a Boston Globe reporter who
wrote a single article about it. But what we learned from that one article was so interesting, many found it odd that it gained virtually zero traction in the rest of the mainstream media and was never followed up on.
The article revealed that, at the time of the bombing of the Marathon, officials in Boston were planning Urban Shield scenarios that were “frighteningly similar” to the actual attacks. The drills involved a domestic terrorist group that would plant backpacks full of explosives around Boston, requiring the same type of police response that we saw unfold after the bombings took place. The Globe reported that, “in the scenario, the terrorists would flee police in stolen cars…” and investigators, “would have to track down footage of the bombers caught by street surveillance cameras and the phones of ‘witnesses.’ The anonymous official told the Globe, “the real thing happened before we were able to execute.”
Although the use of multiple “improvised explosive devices” (IEDs) to cause mass casualties
on US soil was called a first and considered to be a “watershed moment,” it seems that officials in Boston had been intensely exercising this very scenario leading up to and possibly during the Marathon.
One month before the event, officials ran exercises drilling a scenario of an IED explosion during the Marathon, and then the week before they ran another drill that included a bombing scenario. These are just the examples I know of and are admitted..."
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