Front Range Community College's Westminster campus is closed today after a bomb threat yesterday. The campus at 3645 W. 112th Ave. was shut down "as an exercise of caution," the college's Web site said.
A Westminster dispatcher said police were called to inspect the campus late yesterday. The closure includes College Hill Library and the Children's Place child-care center.
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TSA Worried About 'Things That Look Normal'
August 30, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The seventh floor of Transportation Security Administration headquarters is quiet when we walk in, but behind the calm, a storm is brewing. It's a massive, ominous problem spanning 3.7 million square miles, 9,500 miles of coastline and 2,500 miles of land border with Canada --a government warning that a terror attack may be about to happen somewhere in the U.S. before summer's end.
This warning has put TSA Administrator Kip Hawley in a difficult position. "Staying ahead of the threat and if you look at an environment where the threat picture says there are people interested in doing an attack, but you don't have the specifics on the who, what, where, when and how; what do you do about it?" Hawley says. "How do you put in places security measures that respond to threats that are out there, but you don't know exactly how it's going to come?"
For Hawley, this time period can't be business as usual. He says looking for things out of the ordinary isn't good enough. "We have to pay attention to things that look normal --and that's the hard part."
As a result, TSA's Visible Intermodal Protection and Response teams - or VIPER - and Behavior Detection teams have been put on alert. They patrol Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; bus stations in Houston; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore and more. The VIPER teams usually are made up of two air marshals, one TSA bomb-sniffing-canine team, one or two transportation security inspectors and a local law enforcement officer. It's one of the best tools Hawley's got to go looking for a needle in a haystack.
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I was listening to a radio report last night was cyber surfing and I was listening to this “things that look normal” report.
It made a lot of sense to me.