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Exclusive: New U.S. Government Videotape Simulates Terrorist Attacks
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ABC News has obtained videotapes of dramatic U.S. government field tests of new methods to thwart terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies abroad.
In the videotape tests, government scientists stage real terror attacks -- slamming trucks at high speed into barriers and exploding bombs near buildings.
Multiple camera angles capture the blasts' effects on test dummies, posing as diplomats seated at their desks.
The U.S. Department of State spends $2 million a year to develop better boundary security equipment against such potential assaults.
The tape also shows the results of tests of promising new technology to protect lives.
Watch a clip reel of the tests of new defenses to protect embassy employees abroad.
Here, removable bollards, or waist-high concrete posts used in driveways, resist the impact and the slow motion video shows the strength of the new materials being tested at a 50mph collision with a two-ton truck.
Watch the collision in slow motion.
Watch the collision in real time.
Large, flat bed diesel trucks loaded with barrels and traveling between 50 and 60mph were used in these "anti-ram" tests.
An incredibly strong "super fence" proves to be a formidable barrier against this truck traveling at 50mph.
Watch the truck's collision with the "super fence."
An armored steel beam is the barricade in this video.
Watch the collision with the armored steel beam.
And in the case of a larger explosion, new technologies in wall, door and window protection are in development against terrorist attacks as well. Wall fabrics and polycarb window retentions prevent shrapnel and shattered glass from entering the building, while armored and reinforced doors and walls absorb much of the explosion without collapsing.
Watch how shrapnel does not penetrate the wall fabric.
Watch how the reinforced doors and walls stay standing during the explosion.
One of the new products being tested is a thermoplastic window curtain designed to protect embassy employees sitting at their desks from blown out windows. More than 200 people were killed by flying glass when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998.
Watch how blown out windows have affected embassy employees in the past.
Finally, repeated blows by sledgehammers barely dent this armored window.
Watch how the sledgehammers fail to damage the armored window.
September 12, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (118)
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Great! Once again ABC news under the shield of "freedom of the press" has hand delivered information that any terrorist would love to have.
Thanks ABC for putting us all in danger.
Posted by: Tom | Sep 12, 2006 7:59:07 PM
I appreciate your posting of all of these video clips to go with this report, but do I really have to sit through a commercial before EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM LOADS? A little much don't you think?
Posted by: George | Sep 12, 2006 8:07:05 PM
Watch as the planes are guided by remote control into the twin towers
Watch as the buildings collapse using demolition charges
Watch as the Neo-Cons use terror to retain power and start WWIII
Watch as Brian Ross ignores the obvious
Posted by: Michael | Sep 12, 2006 8:11:05 PM
Once again, ABC sends US security measures to the terrorists in the name of news. Next "exclusive", "ABC has obtained the exact location of personal's desks at U.S. embassies. Click here for the floor plan." Thanks ABC.
Posted by: Eric L. | Sep 12, 2006 8:12:41 PM
why are you publishing this in such detail ? it is nice to know that the government has a plan for dealing with terrorist attacks, but it is disturbing that you present this material so that our enemies can get a hint at our defenses and work to defeat them. reporting the fact that the government has a plan is one thing. revealing it is another.
Posted by: Rick the American | Sep 12, 2006 8:18:58 PM
Golly Brian "Chicken Little" Ross, now we have Sledge Hammers. Say, did you sell the fertilizer from last week story or just spread it around the office at ABC to refill the intelect of your peers?
How about a story of the US Military killing terrorists and how our heros risk their lives to save and protect our?
Posted by: Dave Douglas | Sep 12, 2006 8:24:53 PM
al-Qaida thanks you for your "exclusive". Now they know a little better how to attack our buildings.
Great job.
Posted by: TexasRainmaker.com | Sep 12, 2006 8:34:56 PM
Didn't we see that same video on Disovery channel a few years ago?
This is nothing new and all it's shows is we are doing our job to stop terrorists at every stage of a possible attack.
Posted by: Wil | Sep 12, 2006 8:42:09 PM
What makes this news? Loose lips sink ships. Get with the program.
Posted by: Dan Mack | Sep 12, 2006 8:43:26 PM
Why is this information being made public? Let's just enable the terrorists a little bit more.
Posted by: Julie | Sep 12, 2006 8:56:08 PM
Didn't we see that same video on Disovery channel a few years ago?
This is nothing new and all it's shows is we are doing our job to stop terrorists at every stage of a possible attack.
Posted by: Wil | Sep 12, 2006 8:58:55 PM
This is just another ridiculous example of the press overstepping its bounds. Why on earth does the American public need to know this? The only possible utility it serves is giving notice to terrorists our our counter-terrorism efforts. This is dispicable.
Posted by: Jon | Sep 12, 2006 9:28:15 PM
The commercials to watch these videos are ten times longer than the crash.... don't waste your time.
Besides I can't trust ABC News after that Path to 9/11 thing anyway... shills
Posted by: You gotta be kdding me | Sep 12, 2006 9:38:22 PM
Thanks for sharing the secrets! You satan spawns are great!
Praise Allah!
Posted by: osama bin laden | Sep 12, 2006 10:23:12 PM
Why the hell do you need to report this? Why would we need to know this? This will only tell the terrorists how we plan to thwart their attacks, thereby giving them opprotunity to counter our plans!
Show some responsibility to the people for a change. Use some COMMON SENSE people.
Posted by: Joe | Sep 12, 2006 10:23:44 PM
Practice makes perfect.
Posted by: monica | Sep 12, 2006 10:24:07 PM
Perhaps one needs to ask what value this report has to the average American's understanding of defenses against terrorists VERSUS the value of the article to terrorists planning the most effective ways to overcome the newest American defenses? I think the article more useful to terrorists than to us. So, is this need to know information for Americans or for terrorists? You decide.
Posted by: Don Wenschhof | Sep 12, 2006 10:44:46 PM
And why are we publicizing this? Shouldn't we be keeping these things secret so that our enemies aren't able to keep one step ahead of us?
Come on ABC!
Posted by: Sara | Sep 12, 2006 11:06:59 PM
Once again ABC is giving terrorists valuable information on the capabilities of the US to protect our embassies. Doesn't anyone there care that once these miscrents learn what doesn't work, they will attempt to do something else? But then again it is just another example of the depths to which this anti-Bush, liberally biased organization will stoop. No regard to the safety of our troops and State Dept. personel, only a desire to have another attack so they can once again blame Bush for it. Political stupidity above all else, they would never have done something like this in WWII, or if a Democrat were president.
Posted by: Jim Book | Sep 12, 2006 11:16:40 PM
Why don't you give out more ideas to the terrorists.
Dang, you're a real idiot.
Posted by: David Lowry | Sep 12, 2006 11:42:39 PM
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