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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Time to dust off the old tinfoil chapeau again
Posted by Jill | 10:12 AM

Remember how on 9/11/01 there was an intelligence exercise planned that would simulate planes flying into buildings? And how the semi-annual "Vigilant Guardian" NORAD war games, designed to pose an imaginary crisis to North American air defenses, were in their second day?

Well, guess what. In a BBC Radio 5 interview that aired on the evening of the 7th, one Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a PR firm...

told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.

POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.

HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the exercise?

POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and so on.


Now, doesn't it seem just a bit odd to you that on the days of BOTH attacks, government-related drills dealing with the EXACT SAME SCENARIO were being carried out?

But that's tinfoil hattery, right? It's just a coincidence, right?

Right?

Please?

Bueller? Bueller?
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