Finland to participate in anti-bioterror exercise

Found this at Xinhua China View News:

"HELSINKI, Feb. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Finland will participate in an anti-bioterrorism exercise to be organized under a NATO program on Feb.20-21, the Finnish Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Thursday.

The civil emergency preparedness exercise, called the Green Cloud, aims to improve the government's response to an incident of biological terrorism. The scenario will be a situation in which a dangerous infectious disease has been deliberately spread onboard a cruise vessel visiting several harbors of North Sea and Baltic Sea countries.

The exercise, under the auspices of NATO's Partnership for Peace Program (PfP), will be a simulated map exercise and will be carried out at NATO headquarters in Brussels by national experts within the field.

Earlier civil preparedness exercises organized under the PfP have taken place in the field, many of which Finland has been a participant. This year, however, the exercise will be, for the first time, an indoor simulation for financial reasons in accordance with the civil exercise program approved in 2005.

Sweden, Austria and Switzerland, among other countries, will also attend."

Looks like Scandinavia's having it's own little '84, probably due to it becoming the #1 target of terrorist wrath in recent weeks. Hopefully they publish a nice little international report on how it went. That would be just sooo Scandinavian!