Article: Wounded on 9/11, Wall Street plans for next disaster THREE YEARS ON: Sept. 11, 2001

Landon Thomas
International Herald Tribune
09-10-2004
Senior executives from Wall Street's top investment banks gathered last May at a conference center with a cadre of federal and local law enforcement authorities. Their charge for the day was to simulate, down to the last detail, their reactions to a bomb going off in Midtown Manhattan, followed by explosions in Lower Manhattan. Their scripts, distributed to them that morning, read like a Hollywood screenplay: Electricity was out, telephone lines were severed, employees were evacuating buildings. What do you do? The searing events of 9/11, a day on which 1,400 employees of securities firms lost their lives, forced some changes in and ...

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