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Prepared for terror? One local police agency readies itself for the worst.

The American Enterprise

| January 01, 2003 | Lehrer, Eli | COPYRIGHT 2003 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One rainy Thursday this past November, as prison guards led a man the Washington Post called a "harbinger of terror" to the death chamber at Virginia's Greensville Correctional Center, the lights went out at Pentagon City mall in Arlington, Virginia. For about 30 seconds, total darkness enveloped the tiled floors and soaring palm trees of the mall just outside the nation's capital. Customers screamed. "It was chaos," recalls shopper Monica Burke. The emergency lights flickered on and mall-goers, who had started to stampede toward the exits, began to slow down.

As soon as a report of the blackout crackled over the police radio, Arlington County Police patrol ...

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