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Comment by truth on July 9, 2010 at 2:53pm

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Comment by truth on July 9, 2010 at 2:52pm

Military claim that foreign soldiers were merely “observers” in Vigilant Guard exercises disproved by Infowars film crew

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Law enforcement and military officials were keen to play down the presence of Polish troops during the recent Operation Vigilant Guard exercises in Chicago, but claims that the foreign personnel were there
merely as “observers” were proven incorrect after they were filmed
participating in drills which revolved around terrorism and mass
casualty disasters.

Infowars reporters Rob Dew and Jason Douglass traveled to Chicago to document the increasing integration of foreign troops with American military and civilian authorities.

At a National Guard exercise being held in Toyota Park, a soccer stadium, Colonel Johnny Miller, the head of the drill, told Dew and Douglass, “Our partner country with Illinois is Poland, so we’ll have
Polish military folks here,” adding that Polish law enforcement
agencies, Polish FBI, as well as Latvian forces, would also be in
attendance.

Miller said that the Polish personnel would be there merely as observers to incorporate what they had witnessed into their own counter-terror and law enforcement programs, a claim later disproved
when the troops were seen participating in the programs.

Moving on to Elk Grove Village for day 3 of the exercise, SFC Mark Ballard of the Illinois National Guard said that the Polish forces would be “integrating into some of the civil military units that are
participating in this exercise” as part of Illinois’ partnership with
the Republic of Poland, a relationship based around “integrative
training” and blending military and civilian forces in the event of a
national emergency, as well as making this process of integration with
foreign troops more “visible”.

The claim that the Polish forces were merely present at the exercises to observe was again proven false during a Homeland Security drill in Bensenville that revolved around a meth lab takedown.

Polish Major Lesniak said that the exercise represented “the next step” in the Polish military’s cooperation with the Illinois National Guard, adding that American forces in Poland were not engaged in
similar exercises, thus confirming that these drills are solely aimed
at preparing Americans to accept the sight of foreign troops conducting
law enforcement duties.

On day 4, volunteers from Boy Scouts of America were brought in to take part in the exercises. This is telling given last year’s announcement of how Homeland Security is training boy s... to take on and disarm “disgruntled veterans” who are described as “terrorists”. This is when it became apparent that gun-toting Polish
BOA forces were directly participating in the exercises, something that
the military officials had earlier mischaracterized.

During a subsequent exercise in the Chicago subway, Jose Santiago, Executive Director of Emergency Management and Communications, was keen to stress that the Polish forces were “observers” only, even after the
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