Vancouver prepares for Olympics with mock terror attackclipped by: nuttyriv3r 
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Pretend terrorists released fake radioactive poison here Tuesday in a mock attack staged to prepare authorities for the real thing during the 2010 Olympic Games
The week-long exercise in this western Canadian metropolis also includes flyovers by Canadian and American military jets and an incident Thursday at a railway station.
The mock attack involved as many as 2,000 police officers, firefighters, government specialists and military, said Jaimie Tomlinson of Public Safety Canada.
an attack in which deadly radioactive isotopes were released in some 20 public places, including a shopping mall and in the school field,
Tomlinson said some 140 different agencies will play a role in security for the games in February, including American emergency specialists.
The Games security budget, originally pegged at 175 million dollars after Vancouver was awarded the Olympics, has ballooned to 900 million dollars.
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