Sensing that New York remains on the terrorist hit-list, the city police simulated a Mumbai-type attack to gauge its preparedness in the event of a similar strike that killed 166 people in India's financial hub more than two years ago.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) was one of the few which sent its team of investigators to Mumbai in the immediate aftermath of the 26/11 attacks to learn lessons from the terrorist strike in which ten gunmen went on a rampage.
Since then NYPD has taken several measures to prevent such an attack and has held several real time exercises, including the one which it conducted early this month.
"The Mumbai attack two years ago was a bit of a game changer," Mitchell Silber, head of the NYPD's intelligence analysis division, told 'The Wall Street Journal'.
"It was a model that most counter-terrorism practitioners hadn't really considered. The armed gunmen roaming around the city taking hostages, that wasn't something, we had seen by any 'jihadist' group. That was a real eye-opener," he said.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
New York Police simulates Mumbai attack
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