SWAT conducts terrorism drill on the rails

By: Import User

Updated: January 7, 2009

SWAT-Team members from across Northwest Arkansas climbed railway engines and cars in a mock terrorist hijacking. Police forces descended on an Arkansas And Missouri train in Crawford County to practice snuffing out mock terrorists. Railroad police chief Ron Sparks said it was the first drill focused on terrorism on the open rail system after most of the Homeland Security Department`s attention has been on the airlines.

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