Olympic Sized Terror

Huge Olympic military deployment shows times have changed since Calgary

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The last time the Olympic Games were held in Canada, the military sent 42 soldiers to operate a logistics and distribution warehouse.

Oh, how times have changed. Back then, the country's solicitor general decided the security threat to the 1988 Calgary Winter Games "was such that security assistance from DND was not required," said a Defence Department briefing note, written in April 2008.

The RCMP and local police made up the security force in Calgary.

It seems quaint now, considering the police in Vancouver will be backed up by Afghanistan-hardened JTF-2 commandos and two battle group-sized formations of regular and reserve troops on land. Many of those troops have already deployed to the mountains and forests overlooking the venues.

There will also be frigates patrolling the waterways, CF-18 jet fighters screaming overhead and high-tech surveillance wizardry in the form of static surveillance balloons that are usually employed on the bomb-laced roadways of Kandahar.

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Get a load of this:

There is co-operation planned with U.S. forces in the border regions of B.C. and through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which will handle air security.

Is this the same NORAD that was on duty on 9-11-01..?...

I wonder what they have planned this time...



[edit on 6-2-2010 by rainfall]

You left out they suspended parlament for this period of time, and the fact that a whole lot of world leaders are sending delegates to represent them, instead of going themselves.........Does make one wonder if they know something in advance?