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I am posting an article below from NewsMax from July 2002 (nearly TWO years ago!) which continues to disturb me to this day:

FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities

John O. Edwards
Monday, July 15, 2002
FEMA, the federal agency charged with disaster preparedness, is engaged in a crash effort to prepare for multiple mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities - including the creation of sprawling temporary cities to handle millions of displaced persons, NewsMax has learned.
FEMA is readying for nuclear, biological and chemical attacks against U.S. cities, including the possibility of multiple attacks with mass destruction weapons.

The agency has already notified vendors, contractors and consultants that it needs to be prepared to handle the logistics of aiding millions of displaced Americans who will flee from urban areas that may be attacked.

The agency plans to create emergency, makeshift cities that could house hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who may have to flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked.

Ominously, FEMA has been given a deadline of having the cities ready to go by January 2003 – in about six months.

A source familiar with the deadline believes the effort is related to making the U.S. prepared for counterattacks if the U.S. invades Iraq sometime next year.

FEMA is currently seeking bids from major real estate management firms, and plans to name three firms in the near future to handle the logistics and planning for these temporary cities.

FEMA officials have told these firms they already have tents and trailers ordered. The tents and trailers would provide shelter for displaced populations.

The real estate firms are expected to provide engineers and architects to lay the plans for emergency infrastructure needs, such as sewage and electricity.

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I am curious.... has anyone ever determined the location of these evacuation cities are?

Christine

In July of 1998 an article ran in the Miami Herald detailing plans to use Homestead Air Force Base (currently a reserve training base) as one of nine FEMA detention centers to be used in the event of an unnamed catastrophe. Here in Miami, it was assumed that this meant another Mariel boatlift or a mass influx of Haitians. There were protests from the city of Homestead but it never went anywhere and nothing more was ever said. This camp can handle a couple hundred thousand "detainees" at the max. Rather than relocate refugees, I think it would be used to house dissidents or minorities from the inner city who posed a danger of looting in the aftermath of a disaster.

~TINFOIL HAT STARTING TO GLOW; little propeller on top spinning madly~

Dissidents? Patriots identified as freepers; subscribers to gun mags; folks with NRA/GOA/affiliation; folks writing pro 2nd Amendment letters to the editor; former military (especially those from combat related branches) and all CCW permit holders for a start. That's just a start.

~Tinfoil Hat dimming, propeller slows~

"I am curious.... has anyone ever determined the location of these evacuation cities are? "(GorillaMa)

The ones that are not destroyed or rendered useless by an attack(s) will be utilized. We don't really know where the attack(s) will be, but there are contingencies in place.

One would hope they would stay and fight to defend their homes rather than flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked.