Stray Knapsack Stalls Anti-Terrorism Drill
From Times Wire Services
A security exercise in New York was shut down for 20 minutes when an abandoned knapsack was discovered a few blocks from where the anti-terrorism drill was being staged.
“Operation Transit Safe,” an exercise involving 21 agencies that tested the city’s response to an explosion in the subway system, resumed after the bomb squad found the knapsack to be harmless, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management said.
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