
“Training in downtown Minneapolis for urban warfare this week, Black Hawk military helicopters circled low over the Stone Arch Bridge, hovered next to the Fifth Street Towers and landed on the roof of the Federal Reserve building. The helicopters belong to the U.S. Special Operations Command, an elite and secretive military unit based in Florida that is winding up two weeks of training in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Patti Lorenzen, a public affairs spokeswoman for the Federal Reserve, was cryptic when asked about the exercise.”
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/168083496.html
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