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UK stages mock hijack exercise

IRNA

London, Nov 7, IRNA -- Hundreds of police are taking part in three 
day mock hijack exercise at Stansted airport, north of London, which 
started Friday. 
Firemen, doctors and civilian police staff were also involved in 
what was described as Britain`s biggest ever anti-hijack operation, 
at a cost of Pnds 2 million (Dlrs 3.4 m). 
According to London`s Evening Standard, Prime Minister Tony Blair 
was being briefed during the exercise was expected to call in crack 
SAS troops to resolve the mock siege of a jumbo jet. 
Stansted airport was used to receive a hijacked Afghan plane in 
February 2000. The airport was also involved in Britain`s previous 
hijack case in 1996, when Iraqis seized a Sudanese Airways Airbus, 
flying from Khartoum to Amman in Jordan, and diverted it to London. 
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