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They popped plastic bags filled with sarin gas and turned Tokyo’s subway into a massive crime scene with 12 dead and 5,500 contaminated or injured. What if terrorists did that to an Army community today? How would you respond? Before you answer, consider one other detail from the Tokyo subway attack: first responders and hospital staff numbered among the contaminated, which degraded the overall response. “These are still dangerous times,” Lieutenant General James D. Thurman noted in the new Army A tit i St t i Pl “It d t tt th t d t k hAntiterrorism Strategic Plan. “It does not matter that we do not know whenor where a terrorist plans to strike… preparation is our focus.”