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| − | A "'''terror drill'''" (or '''"terror exercise"''') is a rehearsed "[[terrorist]]" attack, purportedly to improve or test readiness of response such an event. As the "[[war on terror]]" has burgeoned, they have multiplied dramatically (and become increasingly gory)<ref>http://www.govtslaves.info/42-actual-graphic-photos-of-the-drill-before-the-recent-terror-attack-at-brussels/</ref>. The general public may or may not be given advanced warning, although local police ''are'' legally required to notify the public in some cases.<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article193865.html</ref>
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| − | Terror drills are intended to help the [[authorities]] respond quickly and effectively to the growing threat of "[[terrorism]]". Even primary [[school]]s should have such exercises. Information about such drills is often of a sensitive nature and so is not generally released publicly. Children may be exposed to such exercises without warning, even fearing for their lives, since withholding the warning allows exercise in order “to be as realistic as possible.”<ref>https://www.courthousenews.com/parents-call-school-drill-abusive-harmful/</ref>
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| − | As of September 2017 [[Wikipedia]] had no page for "Terror drill" or "Terror exercise" and it was not in the disambiguation page of "drill".<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drill_(disambiguation)&oldid=706650352</ref>
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| − | ==Concerns==
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| − | [[image:2016_manchester_drill.jpg|444px|left|thumbnail|The terror drill in 2016 in which the fake bomber used a "religious phrase".]]
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| − | While such events provide a chance to rehearse ''responses'' to atrocities, they also provide similar practice to the perpetrators. Moreover, they provide excellent cover for [[false flag]] events.<ref>See, for example, [[Webster Tarpley]]</ref> Participants may or may not be aware of the possibility that exercises can suddenly "go live" - for example, by the simple expedient of replacing fake [[explosives]] with real explosives. Real explosives ''are'' used in exercises - in 2016, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that a routine check on a US [[school]] bus had spotted explosives which the [[CIA]] stated had been accidentally left there after a training exercise a week beforhttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Terror_drill&action=edite.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/cia-left-explosive-material-on-loudoun-school-bus-after-training-exercise/2016/03/31/428f9824-f78d-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html</ref> The CIA also admits that it lies to its own employees,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/eyewash-how-the-cia-deceives-its-own-workforce-about-operations/2016/01/31/c00f5a78-c53d-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html?tid=a_inl</ref> so should not take much imagination to see that "terror drills" could very easily go live with minimal chance of detection. This conjecture is strengthened by the [[#Co-incident drills and attacks|list of attacks which had coincident drills]]. Evidence that terror drills actually improve responses to a terrorist alert is uncertain; on [[9/11]], many people report confusion about whether an event was actually happening or whether it was only a drill.<ref>http://911blogger.com/news/2015-12-28/united-airlines-held-exercise-so-realistic-its-personnel-had-be-reassured-911-attacks-were-not-drill</ref>
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| − | In 2016, [[UK Police]] publicly apologised after a fake [[Islamist]] [[suicide bomber]] used a "religious phrase" during a drill.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-apologise-for-making-fake-suicide-bomber-shout-allahu-akbar-during-counter-terror-exercise-in-a7022196.html</ref> In 2016 in USA an 'active shooter' drill fatally shot a participant.<ref>http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/08/10/daily-shooter-academy-florida-woman-shot-dead-by-police-during-roleplay-drill/</ref>
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| − | ===2016 Saumur Daesh Cell===
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| − | On 21 September 2016, chance discovery of in a cave in [[France]] revealed an apparent "terrorist" base, complete with audio and video recording equipment, a generator, arabic language newspapers and [[ISIS]] flags. Local police, whom protocol required should have been notified in advance of an exercise,<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article193865.html</ref> denied all knowledge. Information was passed up the chain of command to the [[DGSE]] and the French Ministry of Defence. More than two hours after the first report, a statement was made that it was part of an exercise, a claim which although not substantiated by further details or documentation went almost unquestioned by the {{ccm}} .<ref>http://yournewswire.com/france-isis-false-flag-government-exercise/</ref><ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article193865.html</ref>
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| − | ==Co-incident drills and attacks==
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| − | Various permutations have cropped up, but a large number of attacks, especially those later blamed on "[[Islamic extremist]]s" seem to have co-incident or near co-incident drills. These are sometimes discovered by accident, sometimes admitted in the face of evidence. The cases of [[Peter Power]] ([[7-7]]) and [[Patrick Pelloux]]<ref>http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/14/paris-terror-attack-the-road-so-far/</ref> ([[2015-11 Paris attacks]]) are even more interesting. Both were probably quite familiar with [[false flag attacks]] (Power has an "[[anti-terrorism]]" background while Pelloux reportedly was at the [[Charlie Hebdo Attack]] and informed [[François Hollande]] about it) and may have volunteered the information of an almost concurrent drill as a form of life insurance.
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| − | ===1994 MS Estonia sinking===
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| − | On 28 September [[1994]], the ferry [[MS Estonia]] sank in the Baltic Sea, claiming over 800 lives. [[Chris Bollyn]] claims that a remarkably similar terrorist drill was held the day before, and that [[authorities]] hampered his efforts to find out more about this event.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/742</ref>
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| − | ===1999 Russian apartment bombings===
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| − | The [[Russian apartment bombings]] were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in [[Russia]] in September 1999. On 22 September 1999, a similar bomb was found and defused in the Russian city of Ryazan and when the suspected perpetrators were arrested, they produced [[FSB]] identity cards and were released on orders from Moscow.<ref name="shadow">[http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-satter043002.asp The Shadow of Ryazan: Is Putin’s government legitimate?], [[National Review Online]], 30 April 2002</ref><ref name="bbc_ryazan">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/456848.stm |title=Ryazan 'bomb' was security service exercise |publisher=BBC News |date=24 September 1999 |accessdate=29 January 2012}}</ref> Two days later [[Federal Security Service (Russia)|Federal Security Service]] (FSS) Director [[Nikolai Patrushev]] announced that the Ryazan incident had been a training exercise.<ref name=lentaprosecutors>[http://vip.lenta.ru/doc/2002/05/14/prosecutors/ Ответ Генпрокуратуры на депутатский запрос о взрывах в Москве] {{ru icon}}, [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://vip.lenta.ru/doc/2002/05/14/prosecutors/ machine translation].</ref><ref name="nyt_ber">{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EFD8163DF932A35751C0A9649C8B63 |title=Russian Says Kremlin Faked 'Terror Attacks' |work=The New York Times |date=1 February 2002 |accessdate=29 January 2012 |first=Patrick E. |last=Tyler}}</ref> The Ryazan FSB denied any knowledge.<ref name="Lucas">[[Edward Lucas (journalist)|Edward Lucas]], ''The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West '', Palgrave Macmillan (19 February 2008), ISBN 0-230-60612-1, page 25</ref>
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| − | ===2001 September 11th===
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| − | The [[National Reconnaissance Office]] exercise of 9 a.m. September 11, 2001 involved a corporate jet crashing into one of the a towers of the NRO [[Headquarters]] in Chantilly, Virginia. tellingly, it was not made public until almost a year later.<ref>NRO Emergency Response to a Small Aircraft Crash, Exercise Concept, [[9/11 Commission]] Documents, Team 8, Box 16, Misc-Work-Paper-Fdr-NRO-Exercise-Plane-Crash-Into-Building, #809</ref><ref>http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=national_reconnaissance_office</ref> A ''large'' number of other government organisations had "terrorism" exercises that day. Most remarkable was the fact that [[NORAD]] had more exercise on that day than ever before - several of which were involving the hijacking of planes, and lead to not only confusion of employees about what was real and what was an exercise, but a lot of aircraft being elsewhere and so unavailable to intercept the aircraft which crashed into buildings.
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| − | ===2004 Madrid train bombings===
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| − | On March 11, 2004, around 7:40 a.m., ten bombs exploded on four trains in the space of a few minutes, killing 191 people. [[NATO Secretary General]], [[Jaap de Hoop Scheffer]], described it as a "coincidence" that on 4 March 2004, there was an anti-terrorist exercise (CMX-04) in Madrid, which anticipated killing 200 people, finishing just a few hours before the bombings. He reportedly visited Madrid on 1 March 2004, just 3 days before the exercise.<ref>http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/10/nato-link-to-madrid-bombings-of-2004.html</ref>
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| − | ===2005 London bombings===
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| − | |code=JKvkhe3rqtc}}[[Peter Power]], a former Anti-Terrorist Branch [[Metropolitan police]] officer and "crisis management specialist" volunteered the information that on 7-7 that he was working running a drill "based on ''simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning''". In an interview he gave to the ''[[Manchester Evening News]]'' he spoke of "an exercise involving mock broadcasts when it happened for real".<ref>Manchester Evening News "King's Cross Man's Crisis Course", 8 July 2005</ref> [[Peter Clarke]], [[head of the Counter Terrorism Command]] at [[Scotland Yard]] reports that he spent "the weekend before the London bombings of July 7 2005 with my colleagues in the anti-terorism[sic] branch, working through our response to.. multiple simultaneous attacks on the Tube".<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11719684/77-anniversary-Why-we-can-never-stop-tackling-extremism.html</ref>
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| − | ===2015 November Paris attacks===
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| − | [[Patrick Pelloux]], an emergency responder also connected to [[Charlie Hebdo]] volunteered the information that a "multi-site attack exercise" had been planned for November 13th, 2015.<ref>http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/14/paris-terror-attack-the-road-so-far/</ref> [[YouTube]] has at least 2 video interviews<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smq5iQonYeE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avfnLZFp1ys</ref> about this. He was gave a radio interview to the [[BBC]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JmG_kx4Hw</ref>
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