Operation EagleDrill leaves Crist unharmed, state better prepared
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/CAPITOLNEWS/71024023
TALLAHASSEE -- State emergency management chief Craig Fugate had good news and bad news for reporters at a hastily called afternoon press conference in the governor's office on Wednesday.
While 15 of Gov. Charlie Crist's appointed agency heads were killed in a mock explosion, the eternally upbeat governor escaped amazingly unharmed
Response to Operation Eagle, the first unannounced simulation of a terrorist attack or sudden disaster, appeared to be a success. (cont...)
Annual drill highlights disaster readinesshttp://www.gazette.net/stories/102407/bethnew00715_32361.shtml
For Ensign Courtney Claxton, Thursday was no regular day at the office
A nurse intern at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Claxton found himself covered in fake blood, smoke and shrapnel, the pseudo-victim of a simulated dirty bomb explosion at Navy Med.
Claxton was one of more than 60 victims in an emergency drill, coordinated by the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership, to simulate how community hospitals and emergency staffs would operate in the event of a catastrophe (cont...)
Garland Holds 'Emergency Medicine' Drill (TX)
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_297174349.html
(CBS 11 News) GARLAND Today the City of Garland held an emergency preparedness drill of a new sort. City leaders want to make sure that during a public emergency they're able to get critical medicines to those who need it most.Wednesday two buses filled with volunteers hit the streets. The volunteers distributed 2000 bags, filled with surveys to help form a database of medicinal needs for residents.Garland Mayor Ronald Jones says he hopes the data is never needed, but they want to be prepared. "Disasters, both manmade and natural, can actually transform such a beautiful day as this into weeks, and even months, of extraordinary circumstances," he said.The city worked in conjunction with Dallas County Health and Human Services to test their ability to dispense needed medicines to the people. Instead of having residents go to one central location during an emergency, volunteers would come to them. (cont..)
10,000 Basij forces in war games (Iran)
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=28418§ionid=351020101
Basij forces are staging war games in Qom province to show Iran's military capabilities and enhance their combat readiness. The war games are dubbed "Powerful Iran" and started Tuesday night in Qom where forces employed their latest equipment in dealing with hypothetical enemy in defensive and offensive military operations. (cont...)
US war costs could hit $2,400bn
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21458741/
Lockheed Martin co-developing system to predict stability of nations
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2007/10/22/daily30.html
"The system is called the Predicting Stability through Analyzing Germane Events system and will be part of DARPA's Integrated Crises Early Warning System."
Nano-Proprietary, Inc. Awarded Homeland Security Contract for CNT-Based Gas Ionizerhttp://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0319284.htm
FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot
(Bush regime is Al Qaeda, therefore "fire plot" is yet more Govt. terror)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-11-alqaeda-fire_x.htm
PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. (and also another "katrina" to condition the masses to the US military in the streets responding to "disasters")
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