- A local FEMA official has said that the
Operation-Last-Dance attacks on Texas are part of training for massive
gun-roundup operations. The FEMA official said that this was the official
wargame scenario of the special forces attack on Kingsville:
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- "Martial law has been declared through
presidential powers and war powers act, and some citizens have refused
to give up their weapons. They have taken over two of the buildings in
Kingsville. The police cannot handle it. So you call these guys in. They
show up and they zap everybody, take all the weapons, and let the local
P.D. clean it up,"
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- I'm afraid I read through the report
too fast and missed the "likely" part in the full text, sorry(!),
which means what the official says there was the LIKELY scenario. It notes
that the FEMA official, Tomas Sanchez is privy to at least one classified
document.
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- Let me know if you hear about these events
in the major media. There was apparently a sentence or two cite in the
Washington Post or Times, but I've not confirmed this. How could these
top-secret-military actions on civilian communities in the U.S. go uncovered
by the media? Assuming for the moment that they are not the Federal Governments
PR office.
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- Any doubts? Yes or no, READ THIS:
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- From: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990215_xex_fear_and_loa.shtml
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- ARMED AND DANGEROUS Fear and
loathing in Kingsville, Texas. Local residents fuming over Army live-fire
exercise
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- By David M. Bresnahan (c) 1999
WorldNetDaily.com
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- A group of Kingsville, Texas, citizens
now plan to pursue action against their city for permitting the Army to
use live ammunition during an exercise in their town known as Operation
Last Dance.
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- Angry citizens are expected to crowd
the next city council and county commission meetings, both scheduled to
be held Feb. 22. At least one citizen is looking into legal action.
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- Some residents said they were terrified
when helicopters swooped into town from the Army Special Operations Command,
Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, last Monday night. One helicopter hit a telephone
pole, which started a fire and horrified residents who saw it happen.
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- At least eight helicopters are reported
to have participated in an assault exercise using live ammunition and explosives
very close to innocent bystanders who were not warned of the planned action.
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- Fire officials confirmed that they responded
to the resulting fire, but had no warning that the exercise would take
place. They were also summoned to put out a building fire caused by explosions
set off during the exercise.
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- It has since been learned from military
sources that the actual group involved in the exercise is known as the
Knight Stalkers, an elite group from the Delta Force. They are trained
to conduct assassination missions, according to several retired military
officers who had served in various special operations assignments.
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- The Army Special Operations Command at
Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, has acknowledged that the event was the kick-off
of a series of similar training operations going on in Kingsville, Corpus
Christi and Fort Sam Houston, but would not confirm that the group was
the Knight Stalkers. Additional training events have been confirmed in
the area.
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- Austin radio station talk show host Alex
Jones went to Kingsville to investigate for WorldNetDaily. He arrived just
in time to find work crews covering up the evidence of the extensive damage
caused by the exercise.
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- A former police station and an old Exxon
office building were nearly destroyed. Evidence of bullet holes in walls,
explosions from grenades, and other explosive charges could be seen. Fire
damage was also extensive in at least one of the buildings.
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- "There was a joint training session
between the United States Army and the Kingsville Police Department,"
Lt. Judy Hayes, third in command at the Kingsville police told Jones.
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- "The Army was doing some sort of
extraction type thing. They used eight helicopters. Our training involved
sealing off the area, as if we were involved in taking care of a hazardous
materials type incident. We were rerouting traffic and making sure there
was no civilian foot traffic in the area. So we got quite a bit of training
in that area.
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- "The only participation on the part
of the Kingsville Police Department was in a hazardous materials training
session. We did not participate in any way with what the Army was doing,"
insisted Hayes.
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- Throughout the interview with Jones,
two men in black SWAT team uniforms stood behind her. Jones believes it
was an attempt to intimidate him.
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- The Kingsville Fire Department was not
given notice of the exercise, and it was not invited to participate in
the alleged hazardous materials training, even though it would be called
in if there were a real even of that kind.
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- The fire department spokesman claimed
officials were not aware of the event until they were called to respond
to the telephone pole fire and the fire at the former police station.
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- An elderly lady who lives in an apartment
across from where the exercise took place told Jones that she was frightened
to death and crying. She was sitting on a bench in full view of the area
where the helicopters first appeared and where all the shooting took place.
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- "I sit on the bench, and then I
get scared because the noise. It was so terrible and too loud, you know.
They were throwing some bombs. I think they were using some rifles too,
and the other kind of rifles that go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, you know,"
said the elderly woman, identified only as Gracie.
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- She described seeing many black helicopters
with men in black coming out of them. She heard explosions and apparently
machine gun fire. She said it lasted at least two hours.
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- "I was so scared I went back to
my apartment, but I could still hear the noise," Gracie said. She
said she was so scared that she cried and her heart hurt. She said no one
warned her or came to tell her what was going on.
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- Business owners are also complaining.
The police claim they warned businesses in the area of the exercise in
advance. If they did, WorldNetDaily was unable to find any that would confirm
that. The businesses in the area that were open at the time of the exercise
had no idea what was going on.
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- A former police chief and former city
council member have expressed dismay over the incident and are contemplating
filing an official complaint.
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- Police Chief Philipe Garza has been the
object of a number of investigations lately. Currently the U.S. Department
of Justice has been asked to investigate accusations of police abuse. Several
residents, who did not wish to be identified, claim that Garza is very
abusive with citizens and rules by intimidation.
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- Garza claims there are very few complaints
from residents of Kingsville. He says the only complaints are coming from
people in other parts of the country.
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- The head of emergency management for
Kingsville is the Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinator Tomas
Sanchez. He is a highly decorated Navy veteran, wounded in Vietnam and
retired after 30 years of service. He now continues to serve as the head
of the military police unit of the Texas State Guard, which is under the
National Guard.
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- Sanchez has had extensive experience
and training in special operations, and he expressed deep concern to WorldNetDaily
about events in Kingsville. He was asked what was the purpose of the exercise.
He said the plan involved a scenario that required military action because
local police could not deal with civilians effectively.
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- "Martial law has been declared through
presidential powers and war powers act, and some citizens have refused
to give up their weapons. They have taken over two of the buildings in
Kingsville. The police cannot handle it. So you call these guys in. They
show up and they zap everybody, take all the weapons, and let the local
P.D. clean it up," described Sanchez of the scenario the Knight Stalkers
were likely given.
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- Sanchez says the military exercise in
his town was illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act, but he says that Presidential
Decision Directive 25 has given an exception to Special Operations. He
believes the men involved have total immunity from any legal action against
them. Although PDD 25 is top secret, Sanchez has seen it because of his
position with FEMA, and he has a security clearance. He would not provide
a copy to WorldNetDaily.
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- "Some folks are talking about seeking
some legal counsel. Some are asking for the crisis incident stress management
counseling. They would like to see some of that," said Sanchez.
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- "When the helos are right above
the rooftop, and the windows are vibrating, and people are ducking under
the bed, and so on and so forth, they need that," he explained.
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- Sanchez was able to locate some of the
helicopters and some of the soldiers used in Operation Last Dance. He decided
to take a drive to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station and the Corpus
Christi Army Depot where all the helicopters are given maintenance.
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- "Parked between hanger 45 and 46
on the tarmac were four Blackhawk, no marking, helicopters. They've got
it all blocked off with a chain link fence that says ID card required to
gain access. No security guard. One can drive up close enough to look through
the fence and see the Blackhawk helocopters. Only four of them were parked
there," said Sanchez of his findings.
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- He said the men involved are most likely
staying at the bachelor- enlisted quarters, which is a three-story barracks
building. Some of the men have been observed eating in a fast food restaurant
right near the bachelor-enlisted quarters.
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- "You can always tell these guys
because even when they put on civilian clothes they still look like Army
Rangers. White sidewalls we call it. Short crew cut," Sanchez explained.
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- David M. Bresnahan, a contributing editor
for WorldNetDaily.com, is the author of "Cover Up: The Art and Science
of Political Deception," and offers a monthly newsletter "Talk
USA Investigative Reports." He may be reached through email and also
maintains a website.
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- From:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990215_xex_fear_and_loa.shtml
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