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US Conducts Major Bio/Chemical Mock Terrorist Attacks
[Editor's Note: Expect to see more and more of this. The NWO wants to get you acclimated to seeing military troops on every corner and not become alarmed about it, so this is how they ease into it; all done in the name of 'protecting' you of course. Remember, when the NWO kicks in, FEMA will control your life like a military dictator, which is precisely the authority that recent presidential executive orders have given to that agency.]

By Patrick Connole
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000520/18/news-security-attacks
5-21-00

            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A series of mock terrorist attacks began on Saturday in the United States, testing the ability of top local, state and federal officials to respond to a catastrophic sequence of biological and chemical releases.

In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a spoof explosion of a Chevrolet van loaded with unknown chemical agents kicked off the drill a few hours after daybreak near the town's port, fictionally killing and maiming around 50 people.

A biological "attack" took place outside Denver, Colorado, and a third series of exercises were being run in and around the nation's capital, the Justice Department said. Called "Topoff" -- short for Top Officials -- the largest ever such dress rehearsal is being conducted by theDepartment of Justice and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Thousands will participate in the 10-day exercise, including Attorney General Janet Reno, other Cabinet members, mayors, local and state police, hospital personnel and volunteer actors playing the role of injured and dead civilians, according to the Justice Department.

"The goal of the exercise is to assess the nation's crisis and consequence management capacity under extraordinarily stressful conditions," said Gina Talamona, a Justice Department spokeswoman.

At a cost of $3.5 million, Topoff is the largest drill of its kind ever conducted in the United States, and while the various officials knew the exercise was to take place, they did not know before the exercise the size and scope of what they were going to have to deal with, and still may not.

"No one was surprised, that's not the critical part. People knew this was a drill they were responding to, but not to what they were responding to," said Jim Van Dongen from the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management.

NO PLANS FOR PUBLIC PANIC

"Topoff" is being carefully orchestrated so as not to alarm the general public. Police in responding areas are not using sirens and though physical activity is taking place on the ground, it is not being done in a way to excite the uninformed.

"The intent is to make sure this does not turn into the War of the Worlds," said a source with the Clinton administration, referring to the radio play produced by Orson Welles in the 1930s which scared many Americans into thinking Martians were attacking the planet.

In the Portsmouth attack, local officials said shortly after 8:20 a.m. EDT, at the start of a make believe charity foot race, a fake car bombing sent a foul smelling concoction of garlic mixed with Gatorade over the picturesque Portsmouth Port Authority facility.

"A Portsmouth police officer was the first on the scene, then fire trucks," said Van Dongen. Following procedure, local authorities called in toxic hazard teams, then informed the statehouse of what was happening. Federal involvement followed, after the governor's office requested a presidential disaster declaration, freeing the FBI and FEMA to respond to the incident.

FBI Special Agent Barry Mawn told reporters the exercise was "going pretty well," as federal agents and police scurried around the dead and wounded in Portsmouth. The spoof terror incident in Colorado actually began two days ago under a scenario in which a "terrorist" released "anthrax spores" in Denver.

Police were called to a Denver hotel room after a body was found. But what first looked like a simple death soon turned into something else when police noticed vomit and blood.

Other "information" that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had "received" about the same time      prompted sending hazardous material personnel to the scene. Soon the bomb squad was dispatched to the hotel room, which was actually on an old army hospital. Other events were expected during the 10-day exercise in the Denver metropolitan area.

CONGRESS MANDATED TERROR DRILLS

"Topoff" stems from a provision inserted in a 1998 spending bill by Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire calling for "practice operations" for a terror attack. Critics of the exercise say it overstates the real threats facing America and that such a broad range of attacks would be unlikely to happen all at the same time.

In congressional testimony in March, CIA Director George Tenet said major threats to U.S. security came from groups such as Saudi exile Osama bin Laden's, which were trying to acquire biological and chemical weapons capabilities.

Tenet said over the next few years U.S. cities faced ballistic missile threats from a wide variety of sources: North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq.

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            Were There Real-Life Victims In TOPOFF Terrorist Exercises?
            Karl V. Simone From: UMBRATK@aol.com 5-21-00

            The collapse of two structures in urban areas killing three and injuring hundreds the same weekend that the U.S. government and military were conducting the highly-classified anti-terrorist PROJECT TOPOFF, raises questions about a possible role of the government in the dual tragedies. TOPOFF (short for "Top Officials") saw Attorney General Janet Reno, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, and FEMA director Jamie Lee Witt being ensconced with Pentagon, law enforcement, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and intelligence officials who were conducting counter-terrorism mock exercises in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Denver, Colorado; and Washington, DC and nearby Prince George's County, Maryland. Efforts were clearly concentrated on how hospitals would respond to a terrorist chemical, biological, or nuclear attack.

            Joining Reno and Shalala in the secret exercises were Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (who had just returned from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where a week before the government deliberately started a forest fire that destroyed over 200 homes and several lab research structures), Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater (who was simultaneously keeping tabs on a massive northeast Philadelphia building fire that had closed the Interstate 95 - meanwhile as TOPOFF kicked off another suspicious fire raced through downtown Tampa's historic Ybor City area), Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner.

            On Friday night, May 19 as TOPOFF was getting underway, a Delaware River nightclub on Pier 34 in Philadelphia collapsed, killing three (possibly five with two others still missing) and sending scores of others to Philadelphia area hospitals. Although Philadelphia was not officially part of TOPOFF, it is crawling with federal government and military personnel in preparation for      July's Republican National Convention. The next night, as NASCAR fans were departing the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina, a pedestrian walkway suddenly collapsed sending over a hundred people onto U.S. Highway 29.

            Charlotte had been a guinea pig for the federal anti-terrorist forces before. In 1997, a Military Operation in Urban Training (MOUT) exercise was conducted in the city by U.S. Special Forces, including the Delta Force. The Pentagon said that the exercises, which involved helicopters flying in populated areas during the night, would not disrupt the civilian community. They said the military would go door-to-door to inform civilians about the training. Not so, Charlotte's Mayor Pat   McCrory claimed. He said the Pentagon "misled" Charlotte. McCrory said people were so frightened some got their guns thinking it was a real invasion. No wonder, because some 20 helicopters were firing live rounds in the proximity of condominiums. The police and city       managers were not informed of the details of the exercise. But would the military kill innocent American civilians? Unfortunately some would. A 1994 survey conducted by the Marine Corps resulted in 26 per cent of the polled Marines saying they would shoot to kill American citizens if they were under Federal government orders to confiscate their privately-owned guns.

            The Charlotte scenario was replayed for frightened citizens in Houston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Richmond. The secrecy surrounding these exercises was repeated in TOPOFF. Colorado's Governor Bill Owens said he was kept completely in the dark about the exercise planned for Denver. He said he did not know if the plan was to stage a mock contamination of Denver's water supply or a release of an airborne pathogen.

            But would the government rig the supports of the Philadelphia pier and the Charlotte walkway to provide emergency officials with real live victims? The answer is yes. One of the participants in TOPOFF was the CIA. In the past, this agency has shown total disregard for the      health and well-being of American citizens. It subjected Americans to secret hallucinogenic drug experiments and, according to a retired US Army researcher, once worked with the US Army to spray radiological and influenza agents in the subway systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia at the height of the rush hours in those cities. Another participant in TOPOFF was the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, held responsible by many for the massacre of innocent civilians, including children, at the Brach Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.

            But targeting civilians in such an operation is illegal, that certainly would stop the government from taking such action? Again, the answer is no. When Delta Force was in search of cities in which to conduct urban training, it offered bribes to city officials in return for their support for the training exercises. San Antonio City Councilman Mario Salas says he was offered such a bribe in 1999. In 1999, Delta Force officers withdrew $1600 from a Kingsville, Texas ATM to pay city officials for a fire they started during exercises there.

There is evidence of illegal financial dealings by Delta Force in Houston, Corpus Christi, and Port Aransas, Texas. In 1997, a Marine patrol shot and killed 18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez, Jr. who was herding sheep on his family's Texas ranch. The nation witnessed a Federal agent menacing 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez with a high-powered automatic weapon in Miami just weeks before TOPOFF. The bottom line is the federal government could care less about the safety of U.S. citizens or legal residents.

So, as investigators look at what was responsible for the Philadelphia pier and Charlotte walkway collapse, they should also look at who. They should ask for the planning documents for TOPOFF. If they are not provided, Congress should subpoena them, although the track record with the Clinton administration means they may have a very, very long wait.

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