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The EU simulation concerned a biological attack on the upcoming Euro 2012 football championship (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

EU holds anti-terrorist exercise amid reports of al-Qaeda plot

by Matej Hruska, Brussels,

The EU has tested its crisis co-ordination capabilities in a simulated bio-terrorist attack on a European football championship. The exercise comes amid reports of a real al-Qaeda plot targeting Britain, France and Germany and Norway's arrest of three men planning attacks in Oslo and Copenhagen.

The fifth EU-wide exercise of its kind, conducted between 27 and 29 September 2010, was aimed at testing the co-ordination of crisis responses in the areas of health, transport, border control,...

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The EU simulation concerned a biological attack on the upcoming Euro 2012 football championship (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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