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Exercise Anticipates the Worst

(The Washington Post) -- Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the county has received significant federal grants for disaster training and equipment. Local officials have studied how terrorism in the nation's capital could spill over to Howard, just 45 minutes away. A community needs to be self-reliant in a crisis, said Richard M. Krieg, president and chief executive officer of the Columbia-based Horizon Foundation, and chairman of the Community Emergency Response Network (CERN), a coalition of government and community leaders formed in 2003.