Reed Elsevier 7/7 drills: 'spooky coincidence' Peter Power Visor Consultants on CBC

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Peter Power 'exercise' by arms firm consultant Reed Elsevier http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=5274 Peter Power on the Canadian Broadcasting Service In the days after 7th July, rather than face questioning about his role, in conjunction with a 'company of over a thousand people' on the day that 56 were killed on London transport, Power flew to Toronto for the 15th World Conference on Disaster Management. Power appeared on a discussion panel for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news discussion programme CBC News: Sunday, in which the host remarked upon the 'extraordinary' coincidence of Power's rehearsal scenario: Evan Solomon: We've heard something quite extraordinary - could be a coincidence or not - that your firm, on the very day that the bombs went off in London, were running an exercise simulating three bombs going off, in the very same tube stations that they went off. How did this happen? Coincidence, or were you acting on information that you knew? Peter Power: I don't think you could say that we had some special insight into the terrorist network, otherwise I would be under arrest myself. The truth of it is - Solomon: But it is a coincidence. Power: It's a coincidence, and it's a spooky coincidence. Our scenario was very similar - it wasn't totally identical, but it was based on bombs going off, to the time, the locations, all this sort of stuff. But it wasn't an accident, in the sense that London has a history of bombs, and the reason why our emergency services did so well, and prepared probably better than any other city in the world, sadly they have to be. So it wasn't exactly rocket science or totally out of the pale to come up with that scenario unusual though it be to stop the exercise and go into real time, and it worked very well, although there was a few seconds when the audience didn't realise whether it was real or not. Power went on to tell delegates at the disaster management conference that Canadians needed to open their eyes, advising: "You can't just lay back and say, 'Well it's cozy, we've been lucky. We're just nice guys. It won't happen to us. Sorry. The alarm bell is ringing now. When it happens, you don't want to say, 'well that was a wake-up call'.n 'Mock Broadcasts' and the 7/7 terror rehearsal On 8th July 2005, the day after the death and destruction in London, an interview with Peter Power appeared on page 5 of the Manchester Evening News in which Mr Power revealed that, not only had he coincidentally been running a terror rehearsal 'based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened' on 7th July, he had also organised a series of 'mock broadcasts' for the rehearsal operation that were apparently so realistic those participating in the exercise became confused about what was real and what was not: Mr Power said: "I was an inspector at the time of the King's Cross fire and was involved in co-ordinating the operation. "After leaving the Met, I set up my own crisis managment consultancy. Yesterday we were actually in the City working on an exercise involving mock broadcasts when it happened for real. " When news bulletins started coming on, people began to say how realistic our exercise was - not realising there was an attack. We then became involved in a real crisis which we had to manage for the company." Mr Power added: "During the exercise we were working on yesterday, we were looking at a situation where there had been bombs at key London transport locations - although we weren't specifically looking at a scenario where there had been a bomb on a bus. "It's a standard exercise and briefing that we carry out." Source: Manchester Evening News, Page 5 - 8th July 2005 Indeed, rehearsing attacks on public transport networks -- now seemingly known by their Americanised name of 'transit systems' -- are fairly commonplace in the world of State and Corporate terror exercises. On 8th January 2006, the government of Singapore conducted their own "standard exercise and briefing" called Operation Northstar V, a multi-agency civil emergency exercise: http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/july-7-terror-rehearsal.html#cbc