Posted July. 04, 2002 22:32,
The White House announced on the 3rd that the US started patrolling flight all over the country to be ready for the possible terror at the 4th of July.
Therefore, the agents of the police and the FBI will be arranged in major places and the National Defense Department of the White House will have special watch system in some 2000 events.
The US intelligence offices keep the alert level at the middle out of the five levels because they do not have any detailed and serious information about any terror at the Independence Day.
There will be 2000 uniformed policemen in Washington DC, and surveillance cameras were installed at the lawn plaza in front of the Capitol where hundreds of thousands of people would gather for the fireworks. Every participant will be checked at the checkpoint. The roads around the White House and the Capitol were closed.
In the meantime, the FBI warned that the terrorists are collecting information about big stadiums in the US and Europe. The manager of the FBI Saint Louise branch office, Bill Eubanks, said, There is a report that some terror organization related people downloaded pictures of the Saint Louise Edward Jones Dome and the Indianapolis RCA Dome, and they will be closed on the 4th.