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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:17 PM
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uh-oh....."exercise" to focus on nuclear attack. Charleston, S.C.
Exercise to focus on nuclear terror scenario
Posted Jun 29, 2005 at 1:00:PM MDT



FORT MONROE, Va. -- Here’s the scenario…A seafaring vessel transporting a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead makes its way into a port off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Terrorists aboard the ship attempt to smuggle the warhead off the ship to detonate it. Is this really a possibility?

Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) here is planning its next exercise on the premise that this crisis is indeed plausible.

Sudden Response 05 will take place this August on Fort Monroe and will be carried out as an internal command post exercise. The exercise is intended to train the JTF-CS staff to plan and execute Consequence Management operations in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV’s response to a nuclear detonation.

http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.showstory&storyid=C9BFBBAC-F3CA-BD2E-008C7B34AFE33114
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:18 PM
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1. If Goose Creek blows, so does half of NC and GA. (nt)
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:29 PM
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7. Oh great. Only about 75% of my family lives within that range.
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 02:29 PM by Ripley
And isn't there something going around about an Israeli intelligence report that the USA will be hit within 90 days?

damn.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:19 PM
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2. Why would they bother to smuggle it off the ship?
Nukes blow up big. Very, very big.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:21 PM
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3. unless they want to go inland with toy
And by the way the exercises are not a bad idea on their own, but these days we all know there are ulterior motives to them
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:25 PM
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5. What ?
Exercises have ulterior motives ?
Like what ?
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:26 PM
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6. c.f. the hijacking exercises on 9/11
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:35 PM
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11. Distraction of personnel
there have been way too many coincidences, if you should get my drift

Read Page 48 of the PNAC plan
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:24 PM
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4. My skin just crawled QuettaKid.
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 02:25 PM by vickiss
Welcome to DU!:toast:



:wtf: :nuke:


Hope there are no more "coincidences".

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:30 PM
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8. Erg. Yeah. I get nervous when we run "exercises".
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:34 PM
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10. this is the line that stands out for me....
""Some external participants may work with JTF-CS during the exercise.""

uh, really?? care to tell us who these "external participants" might be...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:39 PM
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12. mercs?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:32 PM
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9. Charleston is the ongoing site for transfer of processed Uranium between
here and France. Actually it's Nuclear Waste being sent over to France for reprossessing and then it comes back into Charleston and is transported to the Savannah River site.

There was a big to do about it in the Charleston area last year when the ship left for France.

So, I guess it might be credible that a nuclear bomb could be switched somewhere and placed in the returning ship. Maybe could be done in the middle of the night in the Atlantic. Super Spy Black Ops where the "sattelite transmissions are turned off." :tinfoilhat:

Sheesh...these games they play...gives one :scared:
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:40 PM
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13. Oh fer chrissake .
You're scared of an exercise ?

You think the government is using this as cover so they can blow us all up ?

There's not enough tinfoil in the world to protect you from them.

The chem trails are going to kill us all anyway, remember ?
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eallen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:47 PM
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14. There's a nuclear bomb lost in the waters off Savannah
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Lecky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 02:56 PM
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15. I live in Charleston
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 03:01 PM by Lecky
I glanced at the title of this thread and had a slight heart attack.

I'm more afraid of the incoming Christian Exodus to tell you the truth.

It's just an exercise, stop scaring the locals please :P









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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 03:23 PM
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16. Very wise.
The christian invasion is a much more immediate threat than the government boogie-men.

Anybody who has been in the service or has lived near a base is used to exercises.
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