DC Metro Launches Terror Drill at Union Station
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020200794.html?hpid=dy...
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Scores of Metro Transit Police officers with dogs and bomb technicians swarmed one of the system's busiest stations during the morning rush Tuesday in a show of force against a potential terrorist attack, part of a broader effort to bolster security in the rail system.
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About 50 officers, including Metro's anti-terrorism unit, criminal investigators, special response teams and other squads, moved into Union Station about 7:30 to demonstrate heightened vigilance, Metro officials said.
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Tuesday's operation is a prelude to a series of much larger emergency exercises -- the biggest ever in the Metro system -- that will involve hundreds of officers from across the region responding to simulated explosions and gunmen in scenarios mirroring mass-casualty terrorist attacks on Madrid commuter trains in 2004, the London Underground in 2005 and in Mumbai in 2008, Metro officials said.
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About 200 to 300 police officers and other emergency responders from across the region and the FBI will take part in tactical exercises Feb. 12, 13 and 24 that will include simulations of the bombing of a Metrobus, an explosion in the tunnel between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail stations, and shooters at the Friendship Heights Station.
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More details:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020200794....
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About 50 officers, including Metro's anti-terrorism unit, criminal investigators, special response teams and other squads, moved into Union Station about 7:30 to demonstrate heightened vigilance, Metro officials said.
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Tuesday's operation is a prelude to a series of much larger emergency exercises -- the biggest ever in the Metro system -- that will involve hundreds of officers from across the region responding to simulated explosions and gunmen in scenarios mirroring mass-casualty terrorist attacks on Madrid commuter trains in 2004, the London Underground in 2005 and in Mumbai in 2008, Metro officials said.
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About 200 to 300 police officers and other emergency responders from across the region and the FBI will take part in tactical exercises Feb. 12, 13 and 24 that will include simulations of the bombing of a Metrobus, an explosion in the tunnel between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail stations, and shooters at the Friendship Heights Station.
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More details:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020200794....
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