Why Can't We Tell the Truth About Terror? ; Susan O'keeffe Bbc Panorama Producer

Mail on SundayMay 19, 2004

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It is a curious coincidence that the Government has unveiled a blueprint for the mass evacuation of London in the event of a terrorist attack just two days before the screening of a Panorama documentary on the same subject.

It is strange, too, that Government minister Nick Raynsford announced the contingency plan for an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people would be put into action in the event of chemical or biological attacks.

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Why Can't We Tell the Truth About Terror? ; Susan O'keeffe Bbc Panorama Producer

Tonight's Panorama programme investigates how the capital's emergency services will cope in exactly such a scenario, particularly with a terrorist strike on several targets at once.

Yet even before it was broadcast and without having seen the programme the Home Office attacked it as 'irresponsible and alarmist'.

We never set out to ala...

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