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2500 Federal Employees Leave Washington in Unprecedented Emergency Exercise
Friday, May 14, 2004; Page A23
All Around the Capital, Preparing for an Emergency
 

"It was the unthinkable: A terrorist attempted a suicide bombing at a D.C. Metro station. Two hours later, three Cabinet secretaries were killed in a car accident after attending an event at the National Press Club.

At the same time, airports in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston and Chicago experienced electronic interference in their air traffic control systems. And intelligence reports indicated an imminent threat of a major terrorist attack in Washington.

With that made-up catastrophic scenario in hand, more than 2,500 federal employees from 45 agencies left the Washington area Tuesday night and Wednesday. They headed to more than 100 secret sites to participate in the nation´s first test of how the government could continue operating in the face of a massive terrorist attack.

"There has never been an exercise of this nature or of this magnitude, even during the Cold War," said Michael Brown, the undersecretary for emergency preparedness and response at the Homeland Security Department."
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LONDON (Reuters) - The government says it is preparing mass evacuation
plans to clear large parts of London in the event of a terror attack on
the city.

Entire local populations will be moved out of the city by road and rail
to temporary holding areas elsewhere, and roads will be cleared of
normal traffic to allow swift movement if there is a chemical,
biological or conventional strike.

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