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...Although the FAA says it has no evidence that the crash was a terrorist attack, New York city went into lockdown mode immediately following the disaster, declaring a "Level 1" alert, shuttering all three city airports, and closing down traffic on bridges and tunnels entering the city. The Bush Administration said it briefly considered shutting down all airports, but ultimately rejected the idea because it felt there was no credible threat to other flights...
...last week wasn't based on specific intelligence at all. Sources tell TIME that Bush Administration officials are increasingly concerned about nuclear terrorism (see next story), primarily because of the perceived vulnerability of the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. With that in mind, on the same day the alert went out from Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission quietly directed plants to bolster their perimeter defenses. Eleven states have already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The FAA also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though...
DANIEL EISENBERG usually writes about business but lately has tackled such subjects as airport security and the so-called moderate Taliban. This week he examines the government's most recent--and controversial--terror alert. Chat with him Thursday...
Observers have been lamenting that had the country only been more alert to world conditions (Islam, Afghanistan, international terrorism) and less enthralled with surface nonsense (O.J., Elian Gonzalez, Monica, Gary Condit), we might have avoided our current troubles. This is to imply that a few canny geopolitical decisions here and there would be all it would take to make America safe and snug...
Snatch the President from his spinners, kill the TelePrompTer, unleash the Everyman within--and George W. Bush knows how to buck up a country. Last week, after getting intelligence that set off a second high alert, Bush ignored the advice of his Secret Service and traveled to Yankee Stadium for the first home game of the World Series. Alone on the pitcher's mound, not an agent in sight, with thousands rooting for him, he took his own sweet time and delivered a clean strike...