Yes, that's true. I found a photo in which he unfortunately looks a lot like Iran's crazy Ahmadinejad if you take away the smile. He's the one on the left.
Posted on 01/26/2006 12:33:30 PM PST by NorthOf45
Canadian jets muster to protect Super Bowl
Part of norad duties
Terrorist attacks simulated for training exercise
National Post
By Melissa Leong
January 26, 2006
While Windsor, Ont., residents slept early this morning, U.S. and Canadian fighter jets were scheduled to be roaring overhead, running exercises simulating a terrorist attack on next month's Super Bowl XL.
The exercise, launched by the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defence Command, involved about a dozen aircraft and was held in the Windsor-Detroit area in preparation for the football game, which will be held on Feb. 5 at Detroit's Ford Field.
A CH-146 Griffon helicopter out of Kingston, Ont., simulated low-altitude scenarios while a C-21 Learjet acted as a "target" -- perhaps a hijacked plane -- violating airspace.
"This is air space that is restricted. People can't fly in there. If they do, then they might find themselves escorted out," Major Darren Steele, a spokesman for NORAD, said yesterday.
"If there is an aircraft or a blip that's not on our file flight plan, they can send the aircraft to intercept and identify it."
Fighter jets out of Bagotville, Que., Cessna aircrafts, H-65 helicopters, air refuelling tankers and an E-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control System aircraft for command and control support were also scheduled to take to the skies today.
"[We] run through some scenarios. A lot of this stuff helps us iron out any communication bugs," the Winnipeg native said from NORAD headquarters in Colorado.
Maj. Steele declined to go into further detail about the exercises for security reasons. "[Potential attackers] could think: 'If they're guarding against this, we'll do something else,' " he said.
"The scenarios are designed to exercise all of our aspects of co-ordination and communication. In the scenarios, you try to make it much harder than what we're probably going to face in real life."
He said yesterday that he hoped the early-morning training missions would not disturb any slumbering residents, explaining that they were scheduled for a time that would be least disruptive to commercial traffic.
Several agencies will be co-ordinating security measures during the Super Bowl including the RCMP, Transport Canada, Nav Canada and the FBI. Aircraft will patrol the airspace the day of the event.
"With all the different agencies working, folks can go watch the game and not worry ... because there's going to be a lot of people working very hard to make sure the event is safe," Maj. Steele said.
He said NORAD runs many security exercises annually.
"NORAD flies a number of missions [for] things like the Super Bowl, the G8 Summit in Canada, and down in the States, when they have the State of the Union address, and when we have dignarities flying around the country."
The exercises started after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Authorities said NORAD fighters have scrambled or diverted from air patrols over the United States and Canada more than 2,000 times to respond to possible air threats since the air attacks on New York and Washington. Both Canada and the United States share the bill for all exercises.
I think everybody misses my point. Terrorism isn't really much of a treat. All of the "action" is basically over-reaction.
Ahhhhh. Finally someone who understands. Nice to see someone else is awake. I was feeling lonely.
"Terrorism isn't really much of a treat."
I wouldn't think so.
TeeHee. Dang those pesky fingers. ;-D
The bullet? Haven't they upgraded their air force to a shared A-A missile yet? ;-)
(Really, I appreciate that we can run joint exercises with our neighbors to the north. I have heard nothing but good about Canadian military.)
I'm just glad our two countries are working together and hopefully with our new Conservative government things will be alot better between us both. Granted, the rift is our fault.
Does a diaper come with the flight suit in that?
I'm eternally grateful that my military years and the Reagan presidency coincided almost perfectly. It was a great time to be a bluejacket!
I have been down the Detroit river in my family's boat when we lived off Lake St. Claire. It was fun to see Detroit from a distance. One visit to downtown though, and you'd pray to be back on the Canadian side.
" I have heard nothing but good about Canadian military"
Me, too.
> Is that a Sovietski aircraft?
Yup.
> Pocketa, pocketa pocketa!
Close: Polikarpov, Polikarpov, Polikarpov!
Sopwith Camels? You're ignornant! We upgraded to Sopwith Snipes YEARS (2) ago!
Americans!
Too many Americans equate a weak Canadian Military with weak Canadian people. Niether are true. Canada has superb
Canadian Military men/women, severly underfunded by the dolts in Ottawa.
My Father was in the First Special Service Force and the Princess Pat's - so I know what Canada can produce when the government gives them funding and support.
Thanks for your help - from a former Canadian (Calgary) and American Veteran.
This is encouraging to know. I started another thread this morning which poses the question whether Bin Laden's message might be timed to unleash an attack (possibly of the Superbowl) by El Shukrijumah. He stole 180 lbs of nuclear waste in Hamilton, ON a few years ago, and is thought to be the "Mohammed Atta" of a nuclear 9/11. He's a nuclear scientist, pilot, and currently on the loose in Canada, hopefully not carrying a large suitcase.
Here's the thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1565487/posts?page=101,16
Yes, that's true. I found a photo in which he unfortunately looks a lot like Iran's crazy Ahmadinejad if you take away the smile. He's the one on the left.
Sorry for the amount of whale effluva that you have to step through around here. Not all of Canada is looney, and we have our loons here too.
I disagree. I think it is a big threat. Busses full of people could be filled with explosives in the hole.
Not over reacting here. Just a thought.
"I disagree."
That wasn't my comment in quotes; I was having fun with the typo ... "treat" instead of "threat."
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