[CIMC-work] Any coverage of Operation Topoff planned (next week in Chicago and Seattle?)

[Elizabeth Fraser]

There are about two posts on Chicago Indy on this and two on Seattle
(one there looks like part of an official blurb). Is this on the radar?
Any thoughts on what kind of coverage it could/should get?
Elizabeth Fraser
ehf@bookbeast.com
 

chicago sun times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-test07.html

Mock biological terrorism attack to test Chicago's ability to respond 

May 7, 2003

BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter
Members of Chicago's emergency community will hold perhaps its largest
fire drill ever next week when a fake international terrorist group
unleashes a fake biological attack on the city and surrounding areas....

washingtonpost.com 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13847-2003May4

Huge Homeland Security Drill Planned 
'Dirty Bomb' in Seattle, Disease in Chicago Part of Scenario for May 12
Exercise 
By Edward Walsh and John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 5, 2003; Page A09 
This is the scenario: At noon in Seattle, a hidden bomb explodes south
of the central business district, causing more than 100 casualties.
Significant levels of radiation are detected near the site of the
explosion and it soon becomes apparent to local officials that this was
no ordinary bomb, but a radiological dispersal device, commonly known as
a "dirty bomb."
//
The next day and some 2,000 miles to the east, people complaining of
flu-like symptoms begin to trickle into hospitals in the Chicago area.
Over the next 24 hours, the number of arriving patients escalates
dramatically. Local officials diagnose the cause of the illness and ask
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to confirm
their worst fear -- a deadly, biological agent has been released near
Chicago.