This sounds WAY too similar to the Peter Power circumstances surrounding the 7/7 crappy fake attack in London. Fortunately, if anything actually 'occurs' in Boston, we will have been warned. One of the 'citizens' quoted in the article is an aspiring actor with an absurd name - what a surprise.
Scientists simulate terror attack on Boston subway
Scientists simulate terrorist attack on Mass. subway to craft detection system, responses
AP News - Aug 20, 2010
Scientists are releasing gases and fluorescent particles into Boston's subway tunnels on Friday to study how toxic chemicals and lethal biological agents could spread through the nation's oldest subway system in a terrorist attack.
It's part of a weeklong study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
The scientists are monitoring concentration of the gases -- which are invisible to the naked eye and nontoxic -- and particles as they move throughout the system and then up into the streets above, pushed by turbulence created by trains thundering through the tunnels. Researchers use electronic devices to take air samples at more than 20 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stations and in subway cars.
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Abel Girmai [nice name!], an aspiring actor [yea, there's a real surprise] from Cambridge who rode Boston's Red Line on Friday, said he thinks about the possibility of an attack "all the time" and supports studying how a biological attack would play out in the subway system.
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The study involves 30 researchers from: Argonne, Ill.-based National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.-based Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Arlington, Va.-based ICx Technologies, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory of the United Kingdom and Chemistry Centre of Perth, western Australia.
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/08/20/scie ... -subway-3/