NY braces for Mumbai-type attack
New York, Oct. 15: With the US officials claiming that an alleged European terror plot was still active, the New York City police conducted a drill that simulated a Mumbai-style attack on civilians on a crowded street in Manhattan’s financial district.
The drill on Thursday simulated an attack in lower Manhattan’s financial district, near Wall Street and Ground Zero, on a mock block that contained a department store, a hotel and a federal regulatory agency. The European authorities view these as the kind of “soft” and financial targets that might be attacked in a commando-style assault. Multiple civilians and officers were “shot” during the drill. “We’ve got some info from one of the perps (slang for one who perpetrates a crime) that the Empire State Building might be next,” one police radio crackled during the drill. As it did, helmeted cops with M4 rifles and M14 assault rifles began stalking the street hunting snipers and assailants.
“What we try to do is stress the system,” the New York Police commissioner, Mr Ray Kelly, said. “We think the unthinkable.” Thursday’s exercise that simulated multiple bombs and shooters, including a bomb under a vehicle, and the police responded with helicopters, dogs, automatic weapons and an armoured car, was the ninth since the Mumbai attack.
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