Quote Originally Posted by Mobat555 View Post
If you have a source for this I would really enjoy reading up on it.
I don't wish to hijack the thread (no pun intended) but more information than I care to post about the training exercises can be found with a Google search. Google "Operation Northern Vigilance" and you'll see why so many believe the 9-11 attacks were not just the work of goat herders living in Afghan caves. For the London attacks Google "7-7-05 exercises ". Set some time aside, because you'll be reading for quite a while. Sooner is probably better than later, lest they fall down the memory hole...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...ember_11,_2001
Operation Northern Vigilance, was a NORAD operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada.[1] The operation was a response to a Russian exercise, in which long-range bombers were dispatched to Russia's high north. The operation was one part simulation, one part real world. It was immediately called off after NORAD received word from NEADS that the Federal Aviation Administration had evidence of a hijacking. All simulated information (so called "injects") were purged from computer screens at NORAD headquarters in Colorado. On receiving news of the attacks, the Russians promptly canceled their exercise as well.
http://julyseventh.co.uk/july-7-terror-rehearsal.html

On the afternoon and evening of 7th July 2005, information came to light about a private company running a terror rehearsal operation in London at the time that real explosions were reported to have occurred on the transport network. These revelations came not from an anonymous source but instead from the Managing Director of the private firm running the terror rehearsal operation. The private firm is Visor Consultants and the Managing Director in question is Peter Power. For over three years, the client for whom the terror rehearsal was being organised was not known. Until, that is, 30 September 2008, and more completely on 3 October 2008 (see the comment this J7 blog post), when Peter Power opted to make this information available to the general public. [Please see the section of this document entitled How much more do we know now? for further detail.]