At Orlando International, officials there said the airport would be “enhancing all security measures” in the wake of the Brussels attack.
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A spokeswoman for Los Angeles International Airport says at this time there are “no specific threats” but as a precaution they have increased the visibility of airport police. He approached the security screening section of the airport – the area created to prevent terrorists from being able to take weapons on airplanes – and attacked the Transportation Security Administration agents working there.
Yet that strategy, which includes a Behavior Detection and Analysis program that the agency says is scientifically substantiated, has always been criticized by passengers, security analysts and civil liberties advocates as flawed and discriminatory.
Travelers were encouraged to arrive at the airport earlier than usual this week, officials said.
This is an example of the post al-Qaeda world, striking at the local level, in very infancy attacks, and grabbing the world stage, the official said. L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell spoke to Eyewitness News about Southern California’s preparedness for a potential terror attack and also stressed that it is members of the public that can help authorities protect communities from terrorism.
The attacks at the worldwide airport and subway station in Brussels killed more than 30 people, and left many injured.
Security measures were also tightened at London’s Gatwick airport, at Germany’s Frankfurt airport, and airports in the Netherlands. When Herald reporter questioned him on the all India alert issued at the global airports and whether he noticed if the security has been intensified he replied in negative. “We stand with Belgium”, Mr Rasmussen said on Twitter.
What are the types of security procedure at airports? Last year, an attack on a Thalys between Brussels and Paris was foiled by three Americans and a Briton traveling on the train.
European leaders held emergency security meetings to toughen security measures, deploying more police, explosives experts, sniffer dogs, and plainclothes officers. “Employees across our operations have been alerted to heighten their vigilance for suspicious activity”.
He said airport screeners need better training to focus on terrorist threats, and said airport workers themselves need to be vetted better to make sure terrorists aren’t able to sneak into sensitive places by infiltrating that workforce.
“Even when you do everything right, bad things still can happen”, Bloom said. The departure and arrival areas outside of airport security usually provide a sizable pool of potential victims who can be attacked without having to sneak weapons past security. “By the time I boarded the plane, we had just gotten the news that people actually died”, Wiley said.
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“The attacks could be duplicated here”, he said.
