This Terror Drill in NJ & CT Today Makes Me Nervous >

Most of us remember that there was a drill going on during 9/11/01 too. Bush's numbers are in the tank. As a New Yorker I wish they would take their drills somewhere else!



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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050404/ap_on_re_us/terror_drill_1

Terror Drill Set for N.J. and Conn.
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer

TRENTON, N.J. - Health and law enforcement officials in Connecticut and New Jersey have a nasty surprise waiting for them Monday: A mock disaster.

By the time most people are settling in to begin the work week, these officials will begin participating in the largest counterterrorism drill ever held in the United States.

Named "TOPOFF 3" for top state and national officials, the drill will simulate a bioterror attack in New Jersey's Union County, the ripples of which will quickly spread. At the same time, the $16 million exercise will simulate an attack involving fake chemical weapons in New London, Conn.

The drills will be monitored by top U.S. Homeland Security officials from a command center in Washington, as well as regional centers in New Jersey and Connecticut. <more at link>

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Thanx for notice..maybe more will draw attention to these mock exercises...

tax dollars thrown away..so pols can look tuff on terror..I rememeber when the pols would try to look tuuff on crime..BUT now there's more cash to steal from the trough of homeland security..what a boondoogle!

DHS has more budget than all agencies cept DOD and eclipsed VA with money..actually VA is being reduced with a huge reduction coming in 07

They should have practiced at keeping yahoo vigilantes from invading the state from Texas instead. ;)

the following weeks. Unlike 9/11, chemical and bio symptoms might take time before appearing. Depends on chemical they use, but biological could definitely take a week or up to month to start showing up, then they can claim no connection.

This involves 3 countries, US, Canada and UK?. It is not just a local drill.

I'm afraid also. bastards.