On June 6, 2013 “Operation Urban Shield
Boston” published videos via its YouTube Channel highlighting the
so-named 2011 and 2012 law enforcement and emergency response drills
that bore a remarkable resemblance to the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon
bombing allegedly carried out by Tamarlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev.
Two days after the videos were distributed the Boston Globe reported
that the entire April 15 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath
indeed played out almost in identical fashion to the Department of
Homeland Security-sponsored terrorist drill scheduled for June of 2013.Boston Urban Shield 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkVS3NRXZk
A foremost project of the Cytel Group Incorporated, Urban Shield designs staged terror drills in major cities throughout the United States.[1] This from the Cytel Group’s website:
Creating secure, prepared and
resilient regions by developing capabilities based on accurate risk
assessments. Ensure coordination, cooperation, collaboration, and
focused effort throughout entire government structures, as well as
private and non-government organizations, to reduce risk and increase
security.
The list of Urban Shield’s “sponsoring agencies”
includes dozens of local and regional US law enforcement entities, in
addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, the Drug
Enforcement Agency, the countries of Brazil, Guam,
Norway, Switzerland, the State of Israel, and the Israeli National
Police.[2] Israeli newspapers reported that a trip by representatives of
the Israeli Police was planned prior to the April 15 attack to
collaborate on such maneuvers.[3]The anticipated June 2013 exercise scenario was painstakingly planned: A homegrown terrorist group called “Free America Citizens,” intending to injure scores of people around Boston, would leave backpacks filled with explosives at Faneuil Hall, the Seaport District, and nearby towns, spreading waves of panic and dread. Detectives then would pursue and catch the culprits. Urban Shield was developed to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together and thwart such a threat.[4]
Boston Urban Shield 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYKIM2AFO0
“The real thing happened before we were able to
execute,” a law enforcement official intimately aware of the planned
exercise said. “We’ve already been tested.” This would have been the
third year for the 24-hour Urban Shield training exercise developed to
test the response of law enforcement and other public safety personnel
in a major emergency. The training is made possible by a $200,000
Homeland Security grant and will probably be rescheduled for early next
year, one official states.
The basic plot involved having members of Free
America Citizens gauge the police response to a bomb scare. The
“terrorists” would plant hoax devices, then stay on the scene to monitor
and record the bomb squad and detectives as they responded. Yet the
participating detectives would not have known they were being observed,
only that they were responding to a real terrorist threat. The goal of
the training was for such personnel to figure out the motives of Free
America Citizens as they investigated the case, a Boston police official
said.[5]
The planned exercise has uncanny similarities to
the April 15 attack and ensuing police investigation that led to the
capture of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, whose images were caught on video cameras and who were
captured after a car chase and shoot-out with police. Officials intend
to repeat Urban Shield at a future date. A police spokeswoman declined
to say what a new training event might look like. “We can’t talk about
what we’re doing for emergency preparedness,” she said. “The people who
participate in this don’t know what the scenario is.”[6]
Notes
[1] Scott Creighton, “Boston Bombing Psyop, Operation Urban Shield, Cytel Group and … Israel,” Willylowman.wordpress.com, June 12, 2013.
[2] “Israeli Police Head to US to Aid in Boston Marathon Bombing Investigation,” RT.com, April 17, 2013.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Maria Cramer, “Police Response Training Planned, But Bombs Hit First,” Boston Globe, June 8, 2013.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
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Copyright © James F. Tracy, Global Research, 2013
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