Posted on 09/04/2006 6:21:56 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The first hint of calamity came in deceptively routine form: a small fire in a rented Carson warehouse, apparently sparked by welders working on a lunch truck. But an investigation of that blaze turned up alarming details: respirators, a suspicious hookup on the truck, large sacks of rice flour.
Within weeks, those puzzling discoveries would plunge Los Angeles into a whirlwind as a routine fire probe rapidly spun into an international investigation, uncovering a terrorist weapons lab in Mexico and a plan to douse the nation's second-largest city with anthrax and ricin. By the 40th day of the crisis, panic-stricken residents were flooding area hospitals, which buckled under the strain and then reeled as terrorists targeted them as well, poisoning emergency rooms with the same deadly chemicals.
That scenario — all of it hypothetical but built on the actions of real terrorists elsewhere — was presented at an uncommon gathering last week: Ten of the region's leading public officials and anti-terrorism experts convened at The Times to respond to a simulated attack on Greater Los Angeles, testing their personal mettle and the region's systems for investigating and reacting to a deeply destabilizing threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Hmmmm....
Interesting article
I'm sure they're watching season 3 of "24" to get some ideas.
Preparation for terror and terrorists is always a good thing.
P.S. I love that quote.
"...real terrorists elsewhere"
Poison the Burritos...
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