US Military Plans For (Domestic) Terrorism

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The US military is for the first time making its own plans for

dealing with domestic terrorist attacks.

 

Under the plans, quick-reaction forces will be prepared to deal with

15 potential scenarios, including simultaneous bomb attacks.

 

The civilian authorities would usually expect to plan for and provide

the vast majority of the resources and personnel for major domestic

emergencies.

 

Now military resources such as sniffer dogs will be easier to deploy.

 

The Department of Defense has not traditionally taken a major role in

domestic operations.

 

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents the military from taking part

in any law enforcement, an important part of traditional " states' rights " .

 

The department has stressed that the new plans are just a way of

providing specialist help for the civilian authorities where units are

closer to the scene of an attack or other emergency.

 

The Department for Homeland Security takes the lead in dealing on a

national basis with terrorist attacks.

 

Planning process

 

A Department of Defense spokesman said: " It is vital to the defence of

our nation that we plan for contingencies and actions necessary to

deter, prevent and defeat current and emerging threats at home and abroad.

 

" This planning process is an extremely complex process encompassing

numerous organisations including combatant commands, the Joint Staff,

the Office of the Secretary of Defense and sometimes outside agencies

before the plan is presented to the Secretary of Defense for approval.

 

" Traditionally, DoD resources and capabilities are provided only when

local, state, and federal resources and capabilities have been

exceeded or do not exist. "

 

These resources might typically be sniffer dogs specialising in

detecting explosives or search and rescue teams to find bodies in rubble.

 

Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the Northern Command, was quoted in

the Washington Post as saying: " In my estimation, [in the event of] a

biological, a chemical or nuclear attack in any of the 50 states, the

Department of Defense is best positioned - of the various eight

federal agencies that would be involved - to take the lead. "

 

Comment: We have been saying for many, many months that it would only

be a matter of time before the American people themselves would become

the object of this phony war on terror. Did you really think that we

were joking? That it would NOT happen? Think again, and this time,

think seriously about it, before it is too late.

 

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