Australia and Singapore Conduct First Annual Joint Antiterrorism Exercises

Military personnel from Singapore and Australia joined together this week for the two country’s first joint antiterrorism exercise, which is expected to become an annual event, the Singapore Defense Ministry announced today (see GSN, Nov. 10).

“Black Orchid” began Monday and is expected to end tomorrow in Singapore. It involved personnel from the Singapore Armed Forces chemical, biological, radiological and explosives defense group and the Australian Defense Force’s incident response regiment, Agence France-Presse reported.

“This inaugural exercise in the Black Orchid series tested the ... participants in a variety of terrorist activity scenarios,” the Singapore Defense Ministry announced.

The two units also exchanged details of planning and operating procedures for defense against chemical and radiological attacks, the ministry added (Agence France-Presse, Nov. 19).

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