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    The Exercise
    The Exercise
    The Exercise
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    The Exercise

    By D. E. Harrison

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    An attack on a large mall has two teams go down both sides of the mall shooting and tossing grenades. Several calls from JCPenney’s to 911 are some what helpful. They get away with some cleaver tricks.
    Then the exercise is called off and the FBI evaluation teams go through the mockup mall. After they are complete, they will be reassigned. But they are driven by HLS to Fort Lewis south of Seattle for a special project. The 3-teams are told to plan an attack on the airport, ferry system, and the Seattle bus tunnel. The plans go back to DC and are tabled as not necessary.
    The reconstruction team misses a transfer, and both go to Portland to handle security alerts. The two-person planning team makes the transfer cut off.
    One of the security alerts in Portland is the missing of 20 rifles from the army. They were found by accident going to Portland for shipment. A similar batch being shipped out is found to be short several cases of dangerous ordnance for harden targets. Everyone is nervous, and the two planning agents are air shipped to Portland that were on one of the original three teams used by HLS.
    The 4 agents are moved to a safe house which is blown apart right after they sneak out. They take all the safe house’s money and hide. The 4-FBI agents have no idea who they can trust, FBI, CIA, HLS, NSA, or the army.
    They risk trusting the army in Portland because they reported the missing rifles. They determine the target is the Seattle bus tunnel. The very same one they planned the attack on.
    The FBI teams knows their plan but how much has been changed?
    They did not plan on the leader of the raid escaping or they type of explosives that would be used. The army has soldiers as civilians on buses and at every station in the tunnels, waiting for an attack. The attackers appear to be following their plan of putting their armed people in the tunnel.
    When it starts Metro tunnel security is removed in moments and large trucks are easily placed in the south entrance to the tunnels.
    The army will have a vicious battle to stop the well-planned attack.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateDec 31, 2018
    ISBN9780463382783
    The Exercise
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      The Exercise - D. E. Harrison

      The Exercise

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2007 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The Attack

      Chapter 2 Evaluate the Damage

      Chapter 3 Assessing the Targets

      Chapter 4 The Plan is Rejected

      Chapter 5 Reassignment Duties

      Chapter 6 Who is the Hunted and Where Are They

      Chapter 7 Playing Hiding and Seeking

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9 Back to Seattle but Need Some Fire Power

      Chapter 10 Seeking Out the Big Fish

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      Chapter 1 The Attack

      It is a warm summer morning just before 10:30 am on a Saturday. It is forecasted to hit 92 degrees before the day is over. This is a remarkably high temperature for the Seattle area.

      Two panel vans with no Windows both dirty and faded, one blue, one green are at a stop light just before the entrance to the Mall’s parking lot. One says cleaning service, the other floral delivery. The lettering is dirty and smudged on both.

      They drive through the parking lot and stop in front of the four doors at the east entrance to the Mall.

      The back and sliding side doors open. For a moment, no one leaves, until the entrance is empty of people coming or going. Each van disgorges 7 hooded figures each dressed in black. They all have an automatic rifle, a side arm and several grenades hanging from a chest strap.

      The first person from each van holds the doors open as the others rush in.

      The first hooded pair runs into the JC Penney’s store on the left. The second pair runs full speed to the second storefront on the left. The Third pair rushes into the second store on the right. The fourth pair runs toward the third store on the right. The fifth and sixth pairs run down the walkway going deeper into the mall. The pair holding the doors open, now leave the door way and runs into the first store on the right.

      As the outside doors close there is automatic fire coming from the JC Penny’s store. A loud explosion follows the rifle fire and sends debris out from the center of the store. The hooded pair run from the store and leap frog over the next two stores.

      The second store on the left is filled with automatic fire, down its only aisle. The intrudes leave as quickly as they came. They quickly run into the 3td store on the left.

      The first team from JC Penny’s enters the fourth store on the left. It has three aisles and at least 12 customers can be seen in the store. The rifles start to chatter and then a grenade is tossed down an aisle.

      The seventh and last pair to enter the Mall exits the first store on the right and they leap frogs to the fourth store on the right.

      The fifth and sixth pairs are now at the first crosswalk, leading to a north and south entrances. They hear the rifle fire behind them and they empty a clip down the north entrance. The fifth pair starts up the north cross walk, shooting into each store. None of the stores is large enough for a grenade. The 6th pair is doing the same down the south crosswalk.

      Several more explosions are felt as both pairs return to the main walkway from the crosswalk. They fire down the length of the walkway toward the west entrance. They run and fire to the last crosswalk. Here they reload and fire the length of the crosswalk again.

      The teams behind them are leap frogging each other as they proceed up each side of the walkway. The store size determines if they get a grenade or not. This has been planned and practiced many times.

      A security guard is riddled as he shows himself down the second crossway. In two minutes, the last team is beyond the second crossway and is the team that will hold the doors open at the west entrance as they leave.

      A cell phone call from a customer on the third floor of JC Penny’s is made to 911.

      This is 911 what is your emergency?

      There was an explosion and I think I hear gun fire. The air is full of smoke, we must be on fire.

      Where are you madam?

      Ah, third floor of the JC penny’s store send help!

      Madam what is your name?

      Send help, click the connected is broken.

      The call receiver pushes a red button and a red light appears above her call station. On the large map on the wall a red light appears. The supervisor runs over and rehears the conversation. Another call receiver’s light goes red and, on the map, the red dot is now larger, with a black two in the middle of it.

      The second caller to 911 stays on the line, I am still hearing gun shots and explosions from further down the mall. You better call the army.

      The supervisor in the call center picks up a phone, "Chief, the Valley Mall appears to be under attack. We have two callers reporting gunfire and explosions. No Chief we have three calls. I have another red light at the Mall.

      "Yes sir, I will dispatch 10 squad cars to investigate followed by SWAT. The medical and fire people will stay beyond the parking lots until they are given the go ahead.

      The blue and green vans have left the east entrance to the Mall, one going around the Mall on the north loop, the other driving the south loop. They meet each other at the west entrance and pull into empty car stalls. Earlier this morning they had set orange cones, blocking off six stalls in the parking lot. They are 3-stalls from the sidewalk, each of which has cars in them. The cars will act as shields as they leave the Mall and run to the vans. The van taking the north loop is now parked facing south. The other van is facing north. They are not nose-to-nose but there is an empty stall between them and each of them are half way over the line into the next empty stall.

      The drivers get out of the vans with wire cutters. They make four snips under the driver’s side of the van. Then four more snips on the front and other side of the van plus two at the back. They reach under the back of the van, pull up and start to roll the plastic they just cut, up and over the van. In 30 seconds, the covering is stuffed in two large garbage cans also inside the coned off area.

      In another two minutes, the attackers leave by the West entrance. They race to the two vans whose doors are open. They enter, and the doors shut. What are now a bright yellow and red van with smoked windows heads for the north and south freeway entrance. The yellow van heading south passes several squad cars a

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