http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1486073.htm
Last Update: Wednesday, October 19, 2005. 5:13pm (AEST) Police head praises counter-terrorist exercise Australia's largest counter-terrorism exercise, Mercury 05, is being hailed as a success as the four-day program draws to a close. A number of scenarios have been playing out across the country to test Australia's response capabilities to terrorist threats. Many of the exercises in Victoria have centred on Commonwealth Games scenarios, with a mock kidnapping of athletes. Melbourne's airport and public transport system were also shut down. Victoria's Police Commissioner Christine Nixon says there were a number of challenges, with athletes being held hostage and other extreme situations. "We had a situation where we then had to deal with a number of hostages that were killed and a number of the people involved in trying to rescue them were killed as well and so this is the kind of reality we then have to deal with," he said. "The closure of the public transport system in Melbourne, we had a credible threat and so we then had to work on what would we do with Melbourne once the public transport system was shut down." Commissioner Nixon says the past few days have been successful with the exercises proving valuable across Australia. "Terrorist activity in relating to infrastructure in South Australia, chemicals and explosives were discovered in Western Australia," he said. In Sydney emergency and defence personnel had to deal with an evacuation of the inner city and a complete shut down of the train system. Mercury 05 will finish tomorrow. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
