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"Security Forces Keeping An Eye On Eastern Airports"
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Security Forces Keeping An Eye On Eastern Airports
The Associated Press
Federal security officials are keeping a closer eye on two Hampton Roads
airports.
Security agencies identified several local vantage points where terrorists
with shoulder-fired missile systems could get a clear view of planes leaving
or arriving at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport and Norfolk
International Airport.
The Transportation Security Administration has asked local police
departments in Newport News, York County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach to keep
a special watch on people in those areas.
Local TSA director Donald Bartnik declined to identify the vulnerable
locations, but says they're generally in secluded areas along a straightaway
extending about three miles from the paths of the airports' runways.
The local checks come when anti-terrorism officials are checking the
nation's largest 80 airports to inspect their susceptibility to a
rocket-launcher attack.
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