Courthouse security/ Doors to be kept open
Bigger names in global terrorism have been tried in New York's federal
courts before but there has never been this kind of security all at once:
Assault rifle-toting federal guards at every entrance, Homeland Security vans
surrounding the courthouses, searches, metal detectors and sign-ins required
for all trial visitors.
As a terror trial
gets underway for a lone defendant in twin bombings of U.S. embassies nearly
two decades ago, fears over the terror attacks in Paris and unrest a world away
have raised security at the city's federal courthouses to levels not seen since
the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
But even with the
ramped-up security which includes the recording of passing license plates,
courthouse administrators said it was important that the doors be kept open and
that anyone who enter be able to do so without fear of intimidation.
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