{"id":25153,"date":"2010-12-26T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T05:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=25153"},"modified":"2011-01-05T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T06:28:46","slug":"us-to-step-up-security-at-soft-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/us-to-step-up-security-at-soft-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"US To Step Up Security At Soft Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United States is stepping up security at &#8220;soft targets&#8221; like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports<!--more-->, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A year after a foiled plot to bomb a US-bound passenger plane, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; program that other places and modes of transportation must now be scrutinized.&#8221;We look at so-called soft targets &#8212; the hotels, shopping malls, for example &#8212; all of which we have reached out to in the past year and have done a fair amount of training for their own employees,&#8221; Napolitano said.Since an attempted bombing on a packed Saturday night in Times Square in May, New York, for example, has installed hundreds of security cameras as part of a plan to triple the number of cameras to 3,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.cdc63f449543115516a6ee1f2c569704.4f1&amp;show_article=1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=0841c1d5-0d50-4884-a3c0-ade362876900\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is stepping up security at &#8220;soft targets&#8221; like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[21,1725,31,6777,1980,1245,3675,27,30,6184,1015,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25283,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions\/25283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}