December 10, 2008
Australia: "Green Terrorist" Exercise Drill Angers Environmentalists
I suppose the police didn't want to offend Muslims so they used "forest activists".
POLICE have apologized for a hypothetical terror exercise in which a forest activist hijacks a plane and threatens to crash it into a pulp mill.The hypothetical scenario - acted out by about 70 police at Devonport airport on Tuesday under the codename Western Approach - angered Australian Greens leader Bob Brown, the Tasmanian Greens and The Wilderness Society.
They called it offensive, unnecessary and irresponsible and made formal complaints to Tasmania police. Acting Assistant Commissioner Steve Bonde later apologised, The Mercury reports.
The scenario involved a forest activist who hijacks an aircraft en route to King Island from Hobart and threatens to damage the Wesley Vale pulp mill before landing the plane and taking the passengers hostage.
After negotiations, the armed offender leaves the building but is shot.
Wilderness Society senior forest campaigner Vica Bayley said the scenario was outrageous. "This exercise is offensive and totally misguided," Mr Bayley said.
I guess a scenario like this could happen, maybe.
