Moogs
2004-07-03, 09:17
Don't know about you guys, but I saw this one coming. I know people who travel in that part of the world during their summers and I've expressed a concern to all of them to stay away from Greece during the games.
It's never been a particularly safe place for out-of-towners to begin with (relative to other European travel destinations), but now, since our beloved administration has made the world so much "safer" a place by instilling hatred of American policy (and sometimes Americans themselves)... it's a no-brainer. Just stay away.
Hopefully nothing terrible happens but I won't be the least bit surprised if it does.
Intelligence officials who have long feared terrorism at next month's Olympic Games say delays in completing the security apparatus and athletic facilities have left too little time to fully test systems meant to detect or respond to an attack.
Although officials say they have no evidence of a planned attack by terrorist groups, they have constructed a web of protective measures that includes Awacs surveillance planes, NATO sea patrols, radiation detectors and thousands of soldiers and police officers.
But a sophisticated security command center, meant to integrate information from thousands of surveillance cameras as well as sonar in the ports and helicopters overhead, will not be operating completely until mid-July. This will not allow enough time to debug the system and fully train technicians, according to officials from Greece and other countries involved in security planning.
Greek officials have said the American-led consortium building the system has provided defective software and failed to complete work on the command center by the May 28 deadline. The system's developer, Science Applications International Corporation, based in San Diego, declined requests for an interview and did not respond to questions sent by e-mail.
...hmm. I wonder if they're related to United Defense or some other member of the Bush consortium.
It's never been a particularly safe place for out-of-towners to begin with (relative to other European travel destinations), but now, since our beloved administration has made the world so much "safer" a place by instilling hatred of American policy (and sometimes Americans themselves)... it's a no-brainer. Just stay away.
Hopefully nothing terrible happens but I won't be the least bit surprised if it does.
Intelligence officials who have long feared terrorism at next month's Olympic Games say delays in completing the security apparatus and athletic facilities have left too little time to fully test systems meant to detect or respond to an attack.
Although officials say they have no evidence of a planned attack by terrorist groups, they have constructed a web of protective measures that includes Awacs surveillance planes, NATO sea patrols, radiation detectors and thousands of soldiers and police officers.
But a sophisticated security command center, meant to integrate information from thousands of surveillance cameras as well as sonar in the ports and helicopters overhead, will not be operating completely until mid-July. This will not allow enough time to debug the system and fully train technicians, according to officials from Greece and other countries involved in security planning.
Greek officials have said the American-led consortium building the system has provided defective software and failed to complete work on the command center by the May 28 deadline. The system's developer, Science Applications International Corporation, based in San Diego, declined requests for an interview and did not respond to questions sent by e-mail.
...hmm. I wonder if they're related to United Defense or some other member of the Bush consortium.