Urban Shield 2009: Foreign Cops Take Part in Domestic Terrorism Drill Video

"Urban Shield" will take place in San Francisco from October 23rd to 26th. Urban Shield is a competition designed to challenge the skills and determination of all the 25 police intervention teams (SWAT) from all states of the USA. (http://urbanshield.org/).

- This year, for the first time, the French Police Elite Unit, called the "RAID"* will participate this national police intervention team (SWAT) contest around the Bay Area.

- In 2009, the contest will be international insofar as the RAID is the first non American team involved.

- This is a very high-level contest with real-life situations. In short, there will be 25 8-member teams (+ 1 substitute) doing 25 interventions in 50 hours non-stop. Interventions will go from hostage-taking to neutralization of gangs, shooting exercises, building investing, intervention under NBC threat, information search, etc.

- This competition is organized under the patronage of the Alameda County Sheriffs Department.

Foreign Cops Take Part in Domestic Terrorism Drill in California Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, October 24, 2009
http://www.consulfrance-sanfrancisco.org/spip.php?article1424

Foreign Cops Take Part in Domestic Terrorism Drill in California Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, October 24, 2009
Earlier in the week, Chris Matthews attempted to portray Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers as a paranoid conspiracy nut for suggesting the presence of foreign troops in the United States.

Frances RAID or Les Hommes en Noir — the Men in Black, appropriate for a militarized police unit.
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Matthews, as a supposed news anchor, should read the newswires instead of relying on his CIA Mockingbird script. But then, of course, MSNBC is not interested in reporting the news.

On October 22, two days after his disgraceful attack on the Oath Keepers, The Oakland Tribune reported on just that — foreign troops inside the United States.

Armed officers in full battle gear will be scattered throughout the Bay Area this weekend, rescuing hostages, fighting bank robbers and quelling terrorism at the Oakland Airport, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the NASA Ames Research Center and 22 other high profile sites, writes Sophia Kazmi. For the first time in the three-year history of the Alameda County Sheriffs Department-sponsore d exercise, there will be a foreign team of officers taking part and international observers. An eight-member team representing the French National Polices Research, Assistance, Intervention, and Dissuasion unit will compete (emphasis added).

French police are technically speaking not troops. However, the French RAID unit — Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence) — is a militarized SWAT team that uses special forces techniques. It is accused of triple tapping a mentally disturbed man who took school children hostage in 1993. RAID killed the man while he slept.

It is interesting to note how terrorism is conflated with bank robbery in the article. Its part of a federal effort to characterize all crime — from marijuana possession to bank robbery — as terrorism.

There will be the sound of gunfire and blasts — all part of Urban Shield, one of the biggest domestic terrorism drills in the country. The $1 million, two-day event begins Saturday and will test the training of 27 crack teams from throughout the state, elsewhere in the country and the world, the Tribune article reports.

Urban Shield is funded by the Department of Homeland Security and at least one large corporation — BAE, a death merchant based in Britain. BAE stands accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to secure contracts in Africa and Eastern Europe.

BAEs generous contributions to Urban Shield will get the residents of Alameda County acclimated to the sound of gunfire and blasts and the presence of militarized cops in full battle gear roaming the streets of the Bay Area this weekend.

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