CMX04

From March 4 to March 10, 2004 took place in Madrid and other European capitals antiterrorist exercises of NATO. The scenario was an attack by Al Qaeda with 200 dead and a thousand injured. Completed the exercise, the next day, 191 workers on their way to Madrid to work were killed and thousands wounded in an attack that was first attributed to ETA and then a group of dealers of hashish. The Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, being asked about the relationship between the exercises and the Madrid bombings said it was “mere coincidence”.
These exercises were called, Crisis Management Exercise 2004, for short CMX04.