Olympic False Flag Operation 2012
False flag definition according to Wiki: 'False flag (aka Black Flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is: flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations and can be used during peace-time.'
The false flag operation is the idea that the Illuminati have begin orchestrating a terror attack at the olympic games possibly on the 11th of august as the number 11 like the number 9 has sacred meaning to the illuminati such as the case with 9/11 false flag attack in New York.
Reasons for False flag operation-
1.To cause mass panic and hysteria
2.Depopulation
3.To bring in draconian laws that would never have been allowed to be passed before such an event.This woud allow newly drafted anti-terror bills that suddenly appear on the PM's desk after the attacks to become LAW and once in place it is set in stone - they will never be retracted and to bring in armed troops to the country under martial law.
3. To usher in the one world government and unite nations against a common enemy of which they have created themselves. Remember the olympics will be hosting diplomats from countries all over the world including America! An attack on such would only result in war, the war needs to be directed to the benefit of the elitists.
Before and during the attacks of 9.11 in New York and 7/7 in London there were terror drills of an identical nature to the true attacks taking place at almost the exact same time.
It would seem when it comes to Evil plans - Preparation makes perfect.
See below for information on each attack and the terror drils
7/7 London Bomb attacks exercises took place to draw attention away from the real thing
Most of us who have been paying attention have known for some time that there were two ‘drill’- type events associated with the 7/7 London bombings.
The first was the Panorama programme of May 2004 during which one overground and 3 underground explosions take place over a short space of time during the morning rush hour.
The second was the famous ‘drill’ revealed by Peter Power on the day of 7/7 itself when he said that drills were taking place in the same 3 stations and at the same time as the bombs actually went off.
For many, including this author, these were coincidences beyond all reason.
However, astonishingly, it has been revealed to the 7/7 Inquest, in documents presentedby J7 to the court last week, that there were at least two other separate drills in London prior to 7/7 that used as their template the same 3 underground bombs scenario.
We now have a group of public services practicing FOUR TIMES for the exact circumstances that prevailed on the terrible morning itself.
Does it not eventually become reasonable to suppose that those that organised ALL THESE VERY SIMILAR DRILLS also organised THE IDENTICAL EVENT ITSELF?
The media, as usual, has failed to report these staggering facts but let us appeal to them right now.
All the anomalous evidence in this Inquest points in the direction of 7/7 being a classic ‘false-flag’ state-sponsored attack. The evidence that supports the official narrative is dubious and much of the evidence nailing the new (twice-altered) timeline has not been seen before this Inquest.
Here is a detailed run-down of the drills:
1. The Panorama Program
BBC’s Panorama ran what looked like a management training exercise on screenfourteen months before 7/7. Present round the studio table were various leaders of government, public and police services, including the Conservative ex-minister Michael Portillo and Peter Power, head of Visor Consultants.
The crisis scenario hadthree blasts on the central London underground, around 8.20 am, and one above ground an hour later.
This program made the then-fictional events seem like real news: ‘The headlines at 9 o’clock. In the past hour there have been three major explosions on the London underground’. It added, ‘The Home Secretary has said the attacks bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda,’ (A year later on the day of 7/7 we heard Jack Straw intoning the same phrase, ‘The attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.’)
Panorama also used the memorable phrase, ‘The fictional day of terror unfolds through the immediacy of rolling news bringing the catastrophic attack into our living rooms;’ adding – a bit too knowledgeably – that the event was ‘Set in the future - but only just.’
Let’s here quote Webster Tarpley:
No terrorist attack would be complete without the advance airing of a scenario docudrama to provide the population with a conceptual scheme to help them understand the coming events in the sense intended by the oligarchy.’ (9/11 Synthetic Terror, 2008, p.408).
Tarpley here alludes to the seemingly unthinkable……large-scale state-sponsored terror. Such events are, he demonstrates, not at all uncommon over recent nor distant history.
2. The contemporaneous 7/7 drill
On 7/7 itself Peter Power conducted a terror drill that shadowed the cataclysm as it happened – over the same three tube stations at more or less the same time.
On the afternoon of 7/7 he was interviewed on Radio 5’s Drivetime programme:
POWER: …at half-past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for, er, over, 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 upright!
3. Atlantic Blue
The massive-but-totally-secret Atlantic Blue exercise was held over 5-8 April, 2005. All echelons of government participated in this big, international terror-drill. Walking wounded were taken into hospitals etc, and its difficult to ascertain how far this was really happening on the pavement etc versus being on a video screen. Two thousand Met police were involved, plus 14 different government departments, the NHS etc. It involved terrorist attacks upon UK transport networks that coincided with a major international summit. Visor Consultants were involved, in co-ordination with the US department of Homeland Security. It was co-ordinated from Hendon, the same place that ‘Gold Command’ police acted from once 7/7 started to happen (It thus had a connection with the Northern line of the London Underground). Total secrecy was imposed upon the British media. The Observer was able to publish a brief outline of what had happened in the UK’s Atlantic Blue exercise, but only from Washington sources: it revealed that this had been the biggest transatlantic counter-terrorism exercise since 9/11 and that it included bombs being placed on buses and also explosives left on the London underground.
After July 7th, the Independent, carried out an hour-by-hour analysis of the catastrophe, and made the following comment upon what had happened at 9.10 am:
By an extraordinary coincidence, all the experts who formulate such plans are together in a meeting at the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service – and they are discussing an exercise they ran three months ago that involved simulating four terrorist bombs going off at once across London.
What a surprise, the top London Ambulance Service experts were all gathered together on the morning of 7/7, and they just happened to be reminiscing about a game-simulation they had been involved in three months earlier – i.e., Atlantic Blue. We would like to be told exactly when the four mock-bombs went off, during the Atlantic Blue terror-game.
London’s mayor Ken Livingstone was over in Singapore on the day of 7/7 – to celebrate Britain’s being awarded the Olympic Games for 2012, the day before – and in giving his evidence to the July 7th Review Committee he recalled the Atlantic Blue exercise a few months earlier:
I said from Singapore that we had actually done an exercise of multiple bomb attacks on the Underground as one of the exercises…
That is almost the only British statement about Atlantic Blue! America and Canada also participated in the event, which overall was called ‘Global Shield.’ The US exercise was called TOPOFF3. (alluding to Top Officers, and 3 as the 3rd such event) The latter had an intriguing ‘Red Team’ which generated the ‘enemy’ simulation…
4. Operation Hanover
London’s police hold a little-known yearly terror-drill practice, called Operation Hanover. On 2005 it just happened to be held on 1-2 July. Its game-plan was threefold: three ‘simultaneous’ bomb attacks on three underground stations. The police have been reticent about discussing this astounding precursor event, mere days before 7/7, only revealing it in 2009:
226. The Metropolitan Police Service told the Committee that they had, in the past, run exercises with scenarios similar to what actually happened on 7 July 2005. Since 2003, they have run an annual exercise known as Operation HANOVER which develops different scenarios for attacks on London and rehearses how the Metropolitan Police Service would respond. By coincidence, their 2005 exercise, run by the Security Co-ordinator’s office in the Anti-Terrorist Branch, took place just a few days before the attacks – on 1–2 July. The office-based scenario for this exercise was simultaneous bomb attacks on three London Underground trains at Embankment, Waterloo and St James’s Park stations. Once again, the scenario is quite similar to what actually took place, and the fact that it took place so close to the actual attacks is an interesting coincidence.
We do need to know the time for that Operation Hanover simultaneous-bomb mock-event.
NB I posted this article up on 27th October, since when the web-link to the Met’s account of the Operation Hanover, has gone down. So the only reference to the above para, is now to be found in the J7 submission to the 7/7 Inquest – scroll down to ‘Hanover Series.’ Its reference 26 has been deleted - to the Intelligence & Security Committee 2009 Report, ‘Could 7/7 have been Prevented,’ now offline.
Questions for the Inquest
If the Inquest wants to find out the cause of death of 52 Londoners, then the most important and crucial questions which Lady Justice Hallett could possibly ask the Met, concern these four terror-drills:
It is not in any way reasonable to suppose that this sequence of central-London imaginary-drill events be a mere coincidence!
Peter Power and the “Gennifer Flowers” defense
There was much head-scratching as to why a participant at the very centre of the 7/7 drills would decide to ‘go public’ about these exercises, immediately, on that same day.
Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential Campaign alleging that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.There were rumours (at the very least) that some of Clinton’s ex-lovers were proving to be very ‘unlucky’ young women. It was widely speculated that Flowers decided to ‘get it out there’ so that any future accident that might befall her would act against, rather than in favour of, the Clinton interests. She was, it seems, very interested in staying alive.
Likewise, this is the most obvious explanation for Power’s seeming “faux-pas”. He knew he held very dangerous information and feared this made him a possible target of the dark forces of the state…….and this is a man who really understands just how dark those forces can be……so he got the facts out there, pronto!
The false flag operation is the idea that the Illuminati have begin orchestrating a terror attack at the olympic games possibly on the 11th of august as the number 11 like the number 9 has sacred meaning to the illuminati such as the case with 9/11 false flag attack in New York.
Reasons for False flag operation-
1.To cause mass panic and hysteria
2.Depopulation
3.To bring in draconian laws that would never have been allowed to be passed before such an event.This woud allow newly drafted anti-terror bills that suddenly appear on the PM's desk after the attacks to become LAW and once in place it is set in stone - they will never be retracted and to bring in armed troops to the country under martial law.
3. To usher in the one world government and unite nations against a common enemy of which they have created themselves. Remember the olympics will be hosting diplomats from countries all over the world including America! An attack on such would only result in war, the war needs to be directed to the benefit of the elitists.
Before and during the attacks of 9.11 in New York and 7/7 in London there were terror drills of an identical nature to the true attacks taking place at almost the exact same time.
It would seem when it comes to Evil plans - Preparation makes perfect.
See below for information on each attack and the terror drils
7/7 London Bomb attacks exercises took place to draw attention away from the real thing
Most of us who have been paying attention have known for some time that there were two ‘drill’- type events associated with the 7/7 London bombings.
The first was the Panorama programme of May 2004 during which one overground and 3 underground explosions take place over a short space of time during the morning rush hour.
The second was the famous ‘drill’ revealed by Peter Power on the day of 7/7 itself when he said that drills were taking place in the same 3 stations and at the same time as the bombs actually went off.
For many, including this author, these were coincidences beyond all reason.
However, astonishingly, it has been revealed to the 7/7 Inquest, in documents presentedby J7 to the court last week, that there were at least two other separate drills in London prior to 7/7 that used as their template the same 3 underground bombs scenario.
We now have a group of public services practicing FOUR TIMES for the exact circumstances that prevailed on the terrible morning itself.
Does it not eventually become reasonable to suppose that those that organised ALL THESE VERY SIMILAR DRILLS also organised THE IDENTICAL EVENT ITSELF?
The media, as usual, has failed to report these staggering facts but let us appeal to them right now.
All the anomalous evidence in this Inquest points in the direction of 7/7 being a classic ‘false-flag’ state-sponsored attack. The evidence that supports the official narrative is dubious and much of the evidence nailing the new (twice-altered) timeline has not been seen before this Inquest.
Here is a detailed run-down of the drills:
1. The Panorama Program
BBC’s Panorama ran what looked like a management training exercise on screenfourteen months before 7/7. Present round the studio table were various leaders of government, public and police services, including the Conservative ex-minister Michael Portillo and Peter Power, head of Visor Consultants.
The crisis scenario hadthree blasts on the central London underground, around 8.20 am, and one above ground an hour later.
This program made the then-fictional events seem like real news: ‘The headlines at 9 o’clock. In the past hour there have been three major explosions on the London underground’. It added, ‘The Home Secretary has said the attacks bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda,’ (A year later on the day of 7/7 we heard Jack Straw intoning the same phrase, ‘The attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.’)
Panorama also used the memorable phrase, ‘The fictional day of terror unfolds through the immediacy of rolling news bringing the catastrophic attack into our living rooms;’ adding – a bit too knowledgeably – that the event was ‘Set in the future - but only just.’
Let’s here quote Webster Tarpley:
No terrorist attack would be complete without the advance airing of a scenario docudrama to provide the population with a conceptual scheme to help them understand the coming events in the sense intended by the oligarchy.’ (9/11 Synthetic Terror, 2008, p.408).
Tarpley here alludes to the seemingly unthinkable……large-scale state-sponsored terror. Such events are, he demonstrates, not at all uncommon over recent nor distant history.
2. The contemporaneous 7/7 drill
On 7/7 itself Peter Power conducted a terror drill that shadowed the cataclysm as it happened – over the same three tube stations at more or less the same time.
On the afternoon of 7/7 he was interviewed on Radio 5’s Drivetime programme:
POWER: …at half-past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for, er, over, 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 upright!
3. Atlantic Blue
The massive-but-totally-secret Atlantic Blue exercise was held over 5-8 April, 2005. All echelons of government participated in this big, international terror-drill. Walking wounded were taken into hospitals etc, and its difficult to ascertain how far this was really happening on the pavement etc versus being on a video screen. Two thousand Met police were involved, plus 14 different government departments, the NHS etc. It involved terrorist attacks upon UK transport networks that coincided with a major international summit. Visor Consultants were involved, in co-ordination with the US department of Homeland Security. It was co-ordinated from Hendon, the same place that ‘Gold Command’ police acted from once 7/7 started to happen (It thus had a connection with the Northern line of the London Underground). Total secrecy was imposed upon the British media. The Observer was able to publish a brief outline of what had happened in the UK’s Atlantic Blue exercise, but only from Washington sources: it revealed that this had been the biggest transatlantic counter-terrorism exercise since 9/11 and that it included bombs being placed on buses and also explosives left on the London underground.
After July 7th, the Independent, carried out an hour-by-hour analysis of the catastrophe, and made the following comment upon what had happened at 9.10 am:
By an extraordinary coincidence, all the experts who formulate such plans are together in a meeting at the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service – and they are discussing an exercise they ran three months ago that involved simulating four terrorist bombs going off at once across London.
What a surprise, the top London Ambulance Service experts were all gathered together on the morning of 7/7, and they just happened to be reminiscing about a game-simulation they had been involved in three months earlier – i.e., Atlantic Blue. We would like to be told exactly when the four mock-bombs went off, during the Atlantic Blue terror-game.
London’s mayor Ken Livingstone was over in Singapore on the day of 7/7 – to celebrate Britain’s being awarded the Olympic Games for 2012, the day before – and in giving his evidence to the July 7th Review Committee he recalled the Atlantic Blue exercise a few months earlier:
I said from Singapore that we had actually done an exercise of multiple bomb attacks on the Underground as one of the exercises…
That is almost the only British statement about Atlantic Blue! America and Canada also participated in the event, which overall was called ‘Global Shield.’ The US exercise was called TOPOFF3. (alluding to Top Officers, and 3 as the 3rd such event) The latter had an intriguing ‘Red Team’ which generated the ‘enemy’ simulation…
4. Operation Hanover
London’s police hold a little-known yearly terror-drill practice, called Operation Hanover. On 2005 it just happened to be held on 1-2 July. Its game-plan was threefold: three ‘simultaneous’ bomb attacks on three underground stations. The police have been reticent about discussing this astounding precursor event, mere days before 7/7, only revealing it in 2009:
226. The Metropolitan Police Service told the Committee that they had, in the past, run exercises with scenarios similar to what actually happened on 7 July 2005. Since 2003, they have run an annual exercise known as Operation HANOVER which develops different scenarios for attacks on London and rehearses how the Metropolitan Police Service would respond. By coincidence, their 2005 exercise, run by the Security Co-ordinator’s office in the Anti-Terrorist Branch, took place just a few days before the attacks – on 1–2 July. The office-based scenario for this exercise was simultaneous bomb attacks on three London Underground trains at Embankment, Waterloo and St James’s Park stations. Once again, the scenario is quite similar to what actually took place, and the fact that it took place so close to the actual attacks is an interesting coincidence.
We do need to know the time for that Operation Hanover simultaneous-bomb mock-event.
NB I posted this article up on 27th October, since when the web-link to the Met’s account of the Operation Hanover, has gone down. So the only reference to the above para, is now to be found in the J7 submission to the 7/7 Inquest – scroll down to ‘Hanover Series.’ Its reference 26 has been deleted - to the Intelligence & Security Committee 2009 Report, ‘Could 7/7 have been Prevented,’ now offline.
Questions for the Inquest
If the Inquest wants to find out the cause of death of 52 Londoners, then the most important and crucial questions which Lady Justice Hallett could possibly ask the Met, concern these four terror-drills:
- Concerning the Panorama program, to the producers of the program: From where did they get the idea?
- Concerning the Atlantic Blue terror-drill: What were the times and locations of the four bombs in the ‘game’? Were they three on tubes and one on a bus? We would also like full disclosure concerning the whole event.
- Likewise for Operation Hanover, let the Met state times and locations of the tube bombs in the exercise.
- Likewise Peter Power should be asked for the exact times and locations of the four bombs imagined in the Visor terror-drill that morning.
It is not in any way reasonable to suppose that this sequence of central-London imaginary-drill events be a mere coincidence!
Peter Power and the “Gennifer Flowers” defense
There was much head-scratching as to why a participant at the very centre of the 7/7 drills would decide to ‘go public’ about these exercises, immediately, on that same day.
Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential Campaign alleging that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.There were rumours (at the very least) that some of Clinton’s ex-lovers were proving to be very ‘unlucky’ young women. It was widely speculated that Flowers decided to ‘get it out there’ so that any future accident that might befall her would act against, rather than in favour of, the Clinton interests. She was, it seems, very interested in staying alive.
Likewise, this is the most obvious explanation for Power’s seeming “faux-pas”. He knew he held very dangerous information and feared this made him a possible target of the dark forces of the state…….and this is a man who really understands just how dark those forces can be……so he got the facts out there, pronto!
9/11 Terror drills and war games planned to mask real attacks
Taken from Wiki:
On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The US Military and NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was being held by the National Reconnaissance Office, a Department of Defense agency. The operations, exercises and drills were all canceled following the [September 11, 2001 attacks]
'Ongoing military operations Operation Northern Vigilance, was a NORAD operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada.[1] The operation was a response to a Russian exercise, in which long-range bombers were dispatched to Russia's high north. The operation was one part simulation, one part real world. It was immediately called off after NORAD received word from NEADS that the Federal Aviation Administration had evidence of a hijacking. All simulated information (so called "injects") were purged from computer screens at NORAD headquarters in Colorado. On receiving news of the attacks, the Russians promptly canceled their exercise as well.[2]
Planned military exercises The military exercises (war games) planned for September 11, 2001 included:
[edit] Operation Tripod bioterrorism exercise On September 12, 2001, there was due to take place the second part of an exercise known as Operation Tripod, set up to "test the plan to distribute antibiotics to the entire city population during a bioterrorism attack"[13]Richard Sheirer, director of the New York City mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), had hired "over 1,000 Police Academy cadets and Fire Department trainees to play terrified civilians afflicted with various medical conditions, allergies, and panic attacks." Various individuals were invited to watch, including Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the police and fire commissioners, and representatives of the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[14]Pier 92 was set up as a model distribution station where the "victims" of the mock attack who needed to receive antibiotics would be treated.[13] The exercise was a follow-up to a previous training exercise in New York, called RED Ex, which took place on May 21, 2001.[15] According to the MTI Report Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, "September 11 was going to be a busy day at the OEM. Staff members arrived early to prepare for Operation Tripod."[13]
When the September 11, 2001 attacks began, Operation Tripod was immediately canceled as attentions turned to the real ongoing emergency. Because Pier 92 had been set up ready for the exercise, OEM staff were able to move there and quickly convert it into a large emergency operations center when their original command center (in WTC Building 7) was evacuated and later destroyed. Thus, within 31 hours of the attacks, OEM had a functional facility able to manage the search and rescue effort, just four miles north-northwest of the WTC site.[16] The exercise was later rescheduled and took place on May 22, 2002.[17]
Please note these war game and terror exercises shadowed the real attacks to the extent millitary personal did not know if this was a wargames or a real threat until it was far to late!
On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The US Military and NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was being held by the National Reconnaissance Office, a Department of Defense agency. The operations, exercises and drills were all canceled following the [September 11, 2001 attacks]
'Ongoing military operations Operation Northern Vigilance, was a NORAD operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada.[1] The operation was a response to a Russian exercise, in which long-range bombers were dispatched to Russia's high north. The operation was one part simulation, one part real world. It was immediately called off after NORAD received word from NEADS that the Federal Aviation Administration had evidence of a hijacking. All simulated information (so called "injects") were purged from computer screens at NORAD headquarters in Colorado. On receiving news of the attacks, the Russians promptly canceled their exercise as well.[2]
Planned military exercises The military exercises (war games) planned for September 11, 2001 included:
- Global Guardian, an annual command-level exercise organized by United States Strategic Command in cooperation with Space Command and NORAD. Primary purpose is to test and validate nuclear command and control and execution procedures. Global Guardian is performed in conjunction with NORAD's Vigilant Guardian and Amalgam Warrior, as well as exercises sponsored by Air Combat Command (Crown Vigilance) and Space Command (Apollo Guardian).[3][4]
- Vigilant Guardian, the semiannual NORAD exercise that had been running in conjunction with Global Guardian for several days and which postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union. Vigilant Guardian is a Command Post Exercise (CPX), meaning it is conducted in offices and with computers, but without actual planes in the air. The exercise involves all NORAD command levels.[5] Out of a range of scenarios being run on September 11, 2001, one was a "traditional" simulated hijacking.[6] According to General Eberhart, after the first attack, "it took about 30 seconds" to make the adjustment to the real-world situation.[7] Because of an increased number of staff, the exercise would prove to be an enabler of rapid military response for NORAD and its NEADS component, as senior officials who were manning NORAD command centers throughout the U.S. were available to make rapid decisions.[8]
- Vigilant Warrior. In his book Against All Enemies, Richard Clarke recounts that there was a NORAD exercise ongoing called Vigilant Warrior.[9] The claim is based on a comment that Richard Myers made to Clarke via a video link on September 11, 2001. However, there is no other record of a NORAD exercise named Vigiliant Warrior. Myers was possibly referring to Vigilant Guardian (the aforementioned yearly NORAD exercise held in conjunction with Global Guardian) or Amalgam Warrior (a large-scale, live-fly, CINCNORAD sponsored exercise which is held twice annually).[10] Vigilant Warrior was also a 1994 operation by the US army in the Persian Gulf region, in response to Iraqi troop movements towards Kuwait.[11]
[edit] Operation Tripod bioterrorism exercise On September 12, 2001, there was due to take place the second part of an exercise known as Operation Tripod, set up to "test the plan to distribute antibiotics to the entire city population during a bioterrorism attack"[13]Richard Sheirer, director of the New York City mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), had hired "over 1,000 Police Academy cadets and Fire Department trainees to play terrified civilians afflicted with various medical conditions, allergies, and panic attacks." Various individuals were invited to watch, including Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the police and fire commissioners, and representatives of the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[14]Pier 92 was set up as a model distribution station where the "victims" of the mock attack who needed to receive antibiotics would be treated.[13] The exercise was a follow-up to a previous training exercise in New York, called RED Ex, which took place on May 21, 2001.[15] According to the MTI Report Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, "September 11 was going to be a busy day at the OEM. Staff members arrived early to prepare for Operation Tripod."[13]
When the September 11, 2001 attacks began, Operation Tripod was immediately canceled as attentions turned to the real ongoing emergency. Because Pier 92 had been set up ready for the exercise, OEM staff were able to move there and quickly convert it into a large emergency operations center when their original command center (in WTC Building 7) was evacuated and later destroyed. Thus, within 31 hours of the attacks, OEM had a functional facility able to manage the search and rescue effort, just four miles north-northwest of the WTC site.[16] The exercise was later rescheduled and took place on May 22, 2002.[17]
Please note these war game and terror exercises shadowed the real attacks to the extent millitary personal did not know if this was a wargames or a real threat until it was far to late!
Olympics terror drills an indication of the next attack
Taken from the mirror
'Bloodied victims are escorted from the Underground during a simulated terror attack on the London Olympics staged today.
In chilling scenes reminiscent of the deadly 7/7 bombings seven years ago the day after London was awarded the right to host the Games, hundreds of people played the role of victims in the aftermath of a terrorist assault.
People were seen fleeing from the disused Aldwych station in central London, while others were carried out on stretchers and given urgent medication at the start of the two-day test called ‘Exercise Forward Defensive’.
In total, 2,500 people were involved, including every emergency service and senior government ministers.
The drill will also check whether lessons have been learned from the 2005 attacks, when four suicide bombers killed 52 innocent people by detonating explosives on three underground trains and a bus.
Howard Collins, London Underground’s chief operating officer, said: “We have certainly picked up a number of recommendations, for example the response for our vehicles are now escorted under blue light conditions to get through London quickly.
“There are a number of other exercises ranging from first aid equipment and how we work together.”
Home Secretary Theresa May, Crime and Security Minister James Brokenshire and other senior ministers are taking part in the exercise.
The exercise will also test the knock-on effects to other 2012 venues in places such as Dorset and Surrey and how command and safety procedures will have to be stepped up.
Much of the rehearsal action is taking place behind closed doors.
The test is being staged to mimic August 8 and 9 which are two very busy days during the Olympics.
The actions of the emergency response teams in dealing with casualties and the crime scene plus the testing of co-ordination and communication systems are areas of focus.
The mock-up has been many months in the making and will highlight communications between key strategic decision-makers, who are not used to working together but have specific tie-ups for the Games.
This includes the police National Olympic Co-ordination Centre at Scotland Yard, the transport co-ordination centre and the London 2012 organisers' main operation centre.
Authorities stressed the exercise was not in reaction to any specific terrorist threat.
The current terror threat level is substantial from international and Northern Ireland dissident republican sources.
Planning has been carried out for a severe threat level during the Games with a contingency that it could be stepped up to critical if needed.
Serious crime, protests and natural hazards are other risks to the Games.
Over 400 London Ambulance Services (LAS) paramedics will be deployed during the Games. There will also be 70 ambulances available to respond to calls specifically related to the Games. This is in addition to the 250 ambulances which are provided for London every day.
Jason Killens, the London Ambulance Services' (LAS) deputy director of operations, said the aim is to ensure the emergency services are "as prepared as they can be" the Games.
He said: "We have learned a lot since the London bombings in 2005 and today we are testing some of the changes we have made and seeing that we can work effectively with our partners."
The triage process, the way that medics assess large numbers of patients at the same time, has changed.
LAS has doubled the number of people they deploy to do triage and changed the training for those who do this work so they manage bleeding and obstructed airways.
"This is a change that has happened since 2005. It is to ensure those patients who are seriously injured have the best possible chance of survival," Mr Killens said.
Exerpt taken from the Telegraph-
Elite British security teams took to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics.
The Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit took to the water in rigid inflatables and fast response boats whilst military personnel flew above in a Lynx Navy helicopter.
Armed officers dressed in black were seen racing up to a Thames cruise vessel in their inflatable boats, before storming it and climbing onto its roof.
A helicopter circled close above the boats during the practice operation.
Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, head of the force's security operation for the Games, said: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us.
Taken from the guardian
The government, police and other emergency staff are very positive about their response to a mock July 7-style terror attack on the underground, which was staged as part of a mass security test for the London 2012 Games, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said.
She visited the scene, the disused Aldwych station close to central London's Royal Courts of Justice, on Wednesday after chairing a Cobra meeting as part of the live test. The government's top-level Cobra committee sits in times of emergency and national crisis.
May, who will be continuing to take part in meetings throughout the two-day exercise, said: "We remain ever vigilant. Our security services do a very good job but we must remain ever vigilant and aware of the terrorist threat.
"An awful lot of planning has taken place for the security of the Olympic Games. The planning started before we won the bid in 2005 and it has carried on but it is right that we have a full programme of planning and exercising which enables us to put those plans to the test.
"If there are further lessons to be learned, we will learn those lessons.
"What I have had is a very positive response from the people here today about how the plans have worked. We continue to make sure we are learning lessons that need to be learned so that we can ensure that people can enjoy the Olympics as a great sporting event and we can provide a safe and secure Olympic and Paralympic Games."
Some 2,500 people – spanning everyone from constables to the Cobra committee – were put through their paces by the two-day test, dubbed Forward Defensive. Much of the action is taking place behind closed doors.
The event is being staged to mimic 8 and 9 August, two very busy days during the Olympics.
The prospect of a "lone wolf" attack has particularly been in the minds of police since rightwing Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 69 people in a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utoya in July last year, according to Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe.
He said: "After we saw the attack in Norway by a single individual, that has been part of our planning over the last year. It has been about identifying an individual in this country or abroad and if there is a possibility of someone like that attacking the Olympic event. We think that is very unlikely but obviously it has formed part of our planning this year as we lead up to the Olympics."
He hopes the live exercise, complete with the evacuation of actors pretending to be distressed and wounded victims, will help to reassure the public about security for the Games.
"We are reassuring the public that we have got some good training, some good leadership and any learning we have from today will be fed in to our plans before the Olympics occur," he said.
Suicide bombers killed 52 people in London on 7 July 2005, the day after the city was awarded the right to host the Games. Rescue and emergency workers found that communications was a major problem.
The London mayor, Boris Johnson, said the test had been "very successful in the sense that a partial explosion has cost the loss of two lives but the emergency services have been very satisfied with work they had done to get people out".
He noted: "Exercises like this are incredibly important because they help to establish what would happen in such an eventuality but I want everyone to know that the London Underground network is the safest in Europe.
"What we are looking at is a very extreme risk."
The exercise, which has been many months in the making, is not based on specific intelligence but designed to test responses and decision-making in light of an attack during the Games.
Communications between key strategic decision-makers, who are not used to working together but have specific tie-ups for the Games, were put under the spotlight.
This includes the police National Olympic Co-ordination Centre at Scotland Yard, the transport co-ordination centre and the London 2012 organisers' main operation centre.
The current terror threat is substantial from international and Northern Ireland sources. Planning has been carried out for a severe threat level during the Games with a contingency that it could be stepped up to critical if needed.
Serious crime, protests and natural hazards are other risks to the Games.
Lessons learned from the 7 July bombings have been fed in to the exercise and security plans for the Games, according to Howard Collins, London Underground's chief operating officer.
He said: "We have certainly picked up a number of recommendations, for example the response for our vehicles are now escorted under blue-light conditions to get through London quickly.
"There are a number of other exercises ranging from first aid equipment and how we work together.
"Obviously there is the initial response, communications and making sure we have one route for all communication and ensuring that the rest of the underground system knows what is happening.
"The most important thing for us, if at all possible, under the guidance of our own transport providers and the police, is to keep moving at all times."
More than 400 London Ambulance Services (LAS) paramedics will be deployed during the Games. There will also be 70 ambulances available to respond to calls specifically related to the Games. This is in addition to the 250 ambulances which are provided for London every day.
Jason Killens, the London Ambulance Service's (LAS) deputy director of operations, said the aim was to ensure the emergency services are "as prepared as they can be" the Games.
He said: "We have learned a lot since the London bombings in 2005 and today we are testing some of the changes we have made and seeing that we can work effectively with our partners."
LAS has increased the number of people it deploys to do triage, or assess large numbers of patients, and changed the training for those who do this work so they manage bleeding and obstructed airways.
"This is a change that has happened since 2005. It is to ensure those patients who are seriously injured have the best possible chance of survival," Killens said.
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Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said the three services would be involved during the Games security operation, with about 7,500 of the armed forces working as security guards checking visitors to Olympic venues.
Another 5,000 military, including a 1,000-strong "quick reaction force" will assist the Met Police operation, which will have 12,000 officers deployed. An extra 1,000 military will provide logistic support.
The Royal Marines, who led the Libya attacks earlier this year, will be based on the Navy's largest ship, HMS Ocean, just off Greenwich.
Additional measures include placing snipers in helicopters, putting rapier air-defence missiles on high alert and positioning fighter jets close to the Olympic site, particularly during the opening and closing ceremonies. Air force jets will be shifted to RAF Northolt to be closer to London.
The total number of people involved in the security operation has been increased to 41,700, forcing a rapid escalation in the total security budget to beyond £1 billion.
"The Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force between them will provide up to 13,500 personnel.
"Up to 7,500 of them will support the smooth running of Olympic sites while the remainder will use their specialist capabilities and equipment to contribute to the delivery of Olympic security."
The number of security staff required at Games venues has risen from an initial estimate of 10,000 to 23,700.
The military contribution of 7,500 staff will be for the 17 days of the Games and costs are expected to be recouped from the £553 million Olympics security budget.
Mr Hammond said: "These numbers will be in addition to the ceremonial role which the armed forces will play during the Olympics, which will showcase our armed forces to the world.
"This defence contribution is on a similar scale to that deployed at other recent Olympic Games and will contribute to ensuring a safe, secure and enjoyable 2012 Olympics."
Mr Hammond stressed that operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere would not be affected by the deployment.
"My priority will remain the troops we have deployed on operations, including in Afghanistan, before, during and after the Olympics."
'Bloodied victims are escorted from the Underground during a simulated terror attack on the London Olympics staged today.
In chilling scenes reminiscent of the deadly 7/7 bombings seven years ago the day after London was awarded the right to host the Games, hundreds of people played the role of victims in the aftermath of a terrorist assault.
People were seen fleeing from the disused Aldwych station in central London, while others were carried out on stretchers and given urgent medication at the start of the two-day test called ‘Exercise Forward Defensive’.
In total, 2,500 people were involved, including every emergency service and senior government ministers.
The drill will also check whether lessons have been learned from the 2005 attacks, when four suicide bombers killed 52 innocent people by detonating explosives on three underground trains and a bus.
Howard Collins, London Underground’s chief operating officer, said: “We have certainly picked up a number of recommendations, for example the response for our vehicles are now escorted under blue light conditions to get through London quickly.
“There are a number of other exercises ranging from first aid equipment and how we work together.”
Home Secretary Theresa May, Crime and Security Minister James Brokenshire and other senior ministers are taking part in the exercise.
The exercise will also test the knock-on effects to other 2012 venues in places such as Dorset and Surrey and how command and safety procedures will have to be stepped up.
Much of the rehearsal action is taking place behind closed doors.
The test is being staged to mimic August 8 and 9 which are two very busy days during the Olympics.
The actions of the emergency response teams in dealing with casualties and the crime scene plus the testing of co-ordination and communication systems are areas of focus.
The mock-up has been many months in the making and will highlight communications between key strategic decision-makers, who are not used to working together but have specific tie-ups for the Games.
This includes the police National Olympic Co-ordination Centre at Scotland Yard, the transport co-ordination centre and the London 2012 organisers' main operation centre.
Authorities stressed the exercise was not in reaction to any specific terrorist threat.
The current terror threat level is substantial from international and Northern Ireland dissident republican sources.
Planning has been carried out for a severe threat level during the Games with a contingency that it could be stepped up to critical if needed.
Serious crime, protests and natural hazards are other risks to the Games.
Over 400 London Ambulance Services (LAS) paramedics will be deployed during the Games. There will also be 70 ambulances available to respond to calls specifically related to the Games. This is in addition to the 250 ambulances which are provided for London every day.
Jason Killens, the London Ambulance Services' (LAS) deputy director of operations, said the aim is to ensure the emergency services are "as prepared as they can be" the Games.
He said: "We have learned a lot since the London bombings in 2005 and today we are testing some of the changes we have made and seeing that we can work effectively with our partners."
The triage process, the way that medics assess large numbers of patients at the same time, has changed.
LAS has doubled the number of people they deploy to do triage and changed the training for those who do this work so they manage bleeding and obstructed airways.
"This is a change that has happened since 2005. It is to ensure those patients who are seriously injured have the best possible chance of survival," Mr Killens said.
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Elite British security teams took to the River Thames as part of a massive security rehearsal to foil terror disaster at the Olympics.
The Metropolitan Police's Marine Policing Unit took to the water in rigid inflatables and fast response boats whilst military personnel flew above in a Lynx Navy helicopter.
Armed officers dressed in black were seen racing up to a Thames cruise vessel in their inflatable boats, before storming it and climbing onto its roof.
A helicopter circled close above the boats during the practice operation.
Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, head of the force's security operation for the Games, said: "All of our planning is designed to mitigate against potential risks during the summer of 2012, and this is an example of where we will be using specialist military capability to support us.
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The government, police and other emergency staff are very positive about their response to a mock July 7-style terror attack on the underground, which was staged as part of a mass security test for the London 2012 Games, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said.
She visited the scene, the disused Aldwych station close to central London's Royal Courts of Justice, on Wednesday after chairing a Cobra meeting as part of the live test. The government's top-level Cobra committee sits in times of emergency and national crisis.
May, who will be continuing to take part in meetings throughout the two-day exercise, said: "We remain ever vigilant. Our security services do a very good job but we must remain ever vigilant and aware of the terrorist threat.
"An awful lot of planning has taken place for the security of the Olympic Games. The planning started before we won the bid in 2005 and it has carried on but it is right that we have a full programme of planning and exercising which enables us to put those plans to the test.
"If there are further lessons to be learned, we will learn those lessons.
"What I have had is a very positive response from the people here today about how the plans have worked. We continue to make sure we are learning lessons that need to be learned so that we can ensure that people can enjoy the Olympics as a great sporting event and we can provide a safe and secure Olympic and Paralympic Games."
Some 2,500 people – spanning everyone from constables to the Cobra committee – were put through their paces by the two-day test, dubbed Forward Defensive. Much of the action is taking place behind closed doors.
The event is being staged to mimic 8 and 9 August, two very busy days during the Olympics.
The prospect of a "lone wolf" attack has particularly been in the minds of police since rightwing Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 69 people in a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utoya in July last year, according to Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe.
He said: "After we saw the attack in Norway by a single individual, that has been part of our planning over the last year. It has been about identifying an individual in this country or abroad and if there is a possibility of someone like that attacking the Olympic event. We think that is very unlikely but obviously it has formed part of our planning this year as we lead up to the Olympics."
He hopes the live exercise, complete with the evacuation of actors pretending to be distressed and wounded victims, will help to reassure the public about security for the Games.
"We are reassuring the public that we have got some good training, some good leadership and any learning we have from today will be fed in to our plans before the Olympics occur," he said.
Suicide bombers killed 52 people in London on 7 July 2005, the day after the city was awarded the right to host the Games. Rescue and emergency workers found that communications was a major problem.
The London mayor, Boris Johnson, said the test had been "very successful in the sense that a partial explosion has cost the loss of two lives but the emergency services have been very satisfied with work they had done to get people out".
He noted: "Exercises like this are incredibly important because they help to establish what would happen in such an eventuality but I want everyone to know that the London Underground network is the safest in Europe.
"What we are looking at is a very extreme risk."
The exercise, which has been many months in the making, is not based on specific intelligence but designed to test responses and decision-making in light of an attack during the Games.
Communications between key strategic decision-makers, who are not used to working together but have specific tie-ups for the Games, were put under the spotlight.
This includes the police National Olympic Co-ordination Centre at Scotland Yard, the transport co-ordination centre and the London 2012 organisers' main operation centre.
The current terror threat is substantial from international and Northern Ireland sources. Planning has been carried out for a severe threat level during the Games with a contingency that it could be stepped up to critical if needed.
Serious crime, protests and natural hazards are other risks to the Games.
Lessons learned from the 7 July bombings have been fed in to the exercise and security plans for the Games, according to Howard Collins, London Underground's chief operating officer.
He said: "We have certainly picked up a number of recommendations, for example the response for our vehicles are now escorted under blue-light conditions to get through London quickly.
"There are a number of other exercises ranging from first aid equipment and how we work together.
"Obviously there is the initial response, communications and making sure we have one route for all communication and ensuring that the rest of the underground system knows what is happening.
"The most important thing for us, if at all possible, under the guidance of our own transport providers and the police, is to keep moving at all times."
More than 400 London Ambulance Services (LAS) paramedics will be deployed during the Games. There will also be 70 ambulances available to respond to calls specifically related to the Games. This is in addition to the 250 ambulances which are provided for London every day.
Jason Killens, the London Ambulance Service's (LAS) deputy director of operations, said the aim was to ensure the emergency services are "as prepared as they can be" the Games.
He said: "We have learned a lot since the London bombings in 2005 and today we are testing some of the changes we have made and seeing that we can work effectively with our partners."
LAS has increased the number of people it deploys to do triage, or assess large numbers of patients, and changed the training for those who do this work so they manage bleeding and obstructed airways.
"This is a change that has happened since 2005. It is to ensure those patients who are seriously injured have the best possible chance of survival," Killens said.
Taken from the Telegrah-
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said the three services would be involved during the Games security operation, with about 7,500 of the armed forces working as security guards checking visitors to Olympic venues.
Another 5,000 military, including a 1,000-strong "quick reaction force" will assist the Met Police operation, which will have 12,000 officers deployed. An extra 1,000 military will provide logistic support.
The Royal Marines, who led the Libya attacks earlier this year, will be based on the Navy's largest ship, HMS Ocean, just off Greenwich.
Additional measures include placing snipers in helicopters, putting rapier air-defence missiles on high alert and positioning fighter jets close to the Olympic site, particularly during the opening and closing ceremonies. Air force jets will be shifted to RAF Northolt to be closer to London.
The total number of people involved in the security operation has been increased to 41,700, forcing a rapid escalation in the total security budget to beyond £1 billion.
"The Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force between them will provide up to 13,500 personnel.
"Up to 7,500 of them will support the smooth running of Olympic sites while the remainder will use their specialist capabilities and equipment to contribute to the delivery of Olympic security."
The number of security staff required at Games venues has risen from an initial estimate of 10,000 to 23,700.
The military contribution of 7,500 staff will be for the 17 days of the Games and costs are expected to be recouped from the £553 million Olympics security budget.
Mr Hammond said: "These numbers will be in addition to the ceremonial role which the armed forces will play during the Olympics, which will showcase our armed forces to the world.
"This defence contribution is on a similar scale to that deployed at other recent Olympic Games and will contribute to ensuring a safe, secure and enjoyable 2012 Olympics."
Mr Hammond stressed that operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere would not be affected by the deployment.
"My priority will remain the troops we have deployed on operations, including in Afghanistan, before, during and after the Olympics."