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While the US government still claimed in late 2002, that September 11th was the result of "incompetence", they never reported on their competent BioTerror-Scenarios, which took place between 2000 and 2001. The most succesful one was DarkWinter (See Exercises) During 2000-2001 the US Government organised various exercises regarding possible terrorist attacks: 1) On Jan. 22, 2000 James Woolsey, ex-CIA director participated in a CFR Project run as a war-game simulation at its Manhattan headquarters. For the simulation, the CFR enlisted 75 people, including bankers, former Treasury Secretaries, and former State Department officials. Participants were divided into four teams, sent into four rooms, with the ability to communicate with each other and with a command headquarters through the computers.
2) In May 2000 Woolsey,James participated in a bioterrorism exercise at Andrews Air Force Base. The Johns Hopkins Center, already in collaboration with the ANSER Institute for Homeland Defense, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Oklahoma Memorial Institute for the Study of Terrorism organised this event. Former Senator Sam Nunn played the President. David Gergen played the National Security Advisor. Governor Frank Keating played himself, Frank Wisner was Secretary of State, ex-CIA director James Woolsey (ironically) played CIA Director, John White played Defense Secretary, and Dr. Margaret Hamburg was HHS Secretary. The Attorney General was played by George Terwilliger, William Sessions was FBI Director, and Jerome Hauer played FEMA Director. http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/pages/library/fema.html "One of the striking observations of this exercise was the unfamiliarity of these distinguished and experienced professionals with the basic decisions and trade-offs associated with managing the response to the epidemic." Observant was Tara O'Toole, MD, MPH Senior Fellow, Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies and at that time Deputy Director of Johns Hopkins Institute. This started a series of different "war games." The May 2000 exercise involved key emergency management personnel. The result was named "TOPOFF" - because of the engagement of top U.S. government officials. The $3 million TOPOFF drill tested the preparedness of top government officials in responding to three simulated terrorist attacks against the United States: a chemical weapons assault in Portsmouth, NH, a nuclear terrorism event in the greater Washington, D.C. area, and a bioweapons attack in Denver, CO. In the fictional scenario, an aerosol of pneumonic plague has previously been released at the Denver Performing Arts Center. The release has gone undetected, so the exercise starts with a hypothetical, unconfirmed attack. http://www.biohazardnews.net/scen_plague.htm#topoff http://www.biohazardnews.net/scen_plague.htm#topoff http://www.biohazardnews.net/scen_plague.htm 3) From July 12-13, 2000 Woolsey was part of yet another CFR "conference" called "The Next Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control and Impact" This was played out before a high-powered audience of 250 people, comprised largely of bankers, investors, corporation officials, and policymakers, mostly from the United States, a few from Europe, of the possibility that the U.S. stock market, and potentially the world financial system would undergo a melt down. 4/5) In June and July 2000, Dr. Thomas Inglesby of Johns Hopkins Institute organised other bioterrorism scenarios in Atlanta and St.Louis: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/documents/Atlanta/BTScenario.pdf In three storyboards by the "CDC," they "confirmed" the bio agent Yersinia pestis (the black plague). 6) On Nov 3, 2000, Don Abbott (Command Emergency Response Training, eFilms) organised a simulated crash on the Pentagon with miniature planes and a model of the Pentagon. http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 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. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas. 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.... 7) On November 28, 2000 Dr. Inglesby (Hopkins) participated at the Second National Symposium on Bioterrorism. Other guests included Jerry Hauer, Tara O'Toole, Margaret Hamburg, Michael Osterholm and Laurie Garrett. Inglesby's biggest project, however, was DARK WINTER. He was the principal designer, author and facilitator of the BioTerror Exercise of June 2001. 8) On June 22-23, 2001, the US GOV organised their last big scenario before Sep11th : DARK WINTER. It was about a possible smallpox attack. Jerome Hauer (ex-OEM) participated as well, this time "playing" the director of the FBI. The whole list is still mirrored at http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/participants.html http://www.mipt.org/darkwinter06222001.html http://www.homelanddefense.org/darkwinter/index.cfm Among the other participants once again: Woolsey,James, ex-CIA director Hon. Sam Nunn George Terwilliger etc. Observing, among many others: Thomas Inglesby, at that time Senior Fellow Johns Hopkins Institute On July 14th, 2001 the testimony on DARK WINTER was released: http://www.csis.org/press/ma_2001_0723.htm 9) "Terrorist" exercise Amalgam at the Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., June 1-4, 2001. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/amalgam-virgo.htm "...Amalgam Virgo (was) a joint-service, cruise-missile defense exercise at Tyndall AFB about "Fast, low-flying cruise missiles". ...Participants had been "members of the 513th Air Control Group deployed to Florida for the "Amalgam Virgo" cruise missile defense exercise. The multi-service exercise tested the defense and response capabilities to a cruise missile attack on Tyndall Air Force Base... ...Contributing to the air picture was the Navy Aegis cruiser, USS Yorktown, in the Gulf of Mexico. Equipped with a high-powered radar capable of tracking more than 100 targets simultaneously, the Yorktown also played a role in the multi-layered defense used to shoot down a cruise missile... "What was perhaps a bit different about this exercise was that it involved U.S. homeland defense and practicing to merge a variety of sister services' capabilities to create a uniform picture and response.... ...The Coast Guard, Navy and U.S. Southern Command, took the lead in detecting, identifying and prosecuting the surrogate terrorist vessel that "launched" the cruise missiles for the exercise... ...During the June 2001 exercise Amalgam Virgo, ANZUS, Inc. demonstrated the Rosetta LINK-16 / Link-11 gateway functionality. Tracks and data were forwarded between both links in both directions in real-time. This demonstration served as the pre-certification contractor test which was scheduled for October 2001 at JITC. Additionally, ANZUS demonstrated the JMMTIDS JICO toolset capabilities developed to support the Joint Interface Control Officer in managing a complex combined interface architecture..." This is a possible document of a slideshow about this event. The document is authentic. It came from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and is from a committee Powerpoint Slide Show in June 2001. It includes some disturbing highlights about a possible "terrorist attack" on the USA and mentions for odd reason the Phoenix Flight School (where the FBI monitored some of the hijackers) and includes quotes by former DoD Henry H. Shelton and William Cohen:
More here: (See Amalgam) 10) CIA terrorist exercise by John Fulton on Sep11th, 2001 http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/46834.htm "One U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings" On John Fulton: He is on staff for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), currently serving as Chief of the Strategic War Gaming Division of the National Reconnaissance Office, and as a member of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Project Alpha - a prestigious "think tank" for advanced concepts related to such issues as homeland security. He formerly served as the mission director for our nation's satellite imagery program as well as replacing Army Astronaut Same Gemar as the Director of the National Security Space Master Plan for the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Space Communities under the auspices of the Deputy UnderSecretary of Defense (Space). http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm 11) TricareExercise
12) The DynCorp-Lockheed-Los Alamos-Battelle-Terror Attack Scenario June 2-3, 1998: Dr. Joe Furman, Dyncorp supported a workshop on "Medical Surveillance" regarding possible bio attacks. The Workshop was organised by the US Department of Energy and furthermore supported by the Argonne National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Battelle-Pantex, Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:O0biH8ya-0cC:tis.eh.doe.gov/be/agda_fin.PDF+dyncorp+los+alamos&hl=en&ie=UTF-8