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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Suicide Bombing=Adoption of US colour-coded Terror Alert System


Thanks to Mr. Peats's helpful resources, the 'New York Times' was able to supply me valuable information on up to date stories coming from Russia. One such story was this article on how the Russian government responded to the suicide bombing in Moscow airport. 
Although the Obama administration has since removed the colour-coded terror alert system from airports, the Russian government has been debating implanting the system for months (since the Moscow subway bombings), this has just given them another idle moment to implement it! 
What is the 'colour-coded alert system'? Well simply, it evaluates the level of risk of a terror attack in a public transit area at anytime. The reason the US abolished the system was because not only was it not accurate, the public didn't know how to respond to it. Russia has implemented the system as it is better than having no warning system in place at all. France and Britain also had sillier systems but Britain has dropped it for the same reasons as the United States. 

Here is the link to the article if you would like to read more. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/world/europe/29russia.html?_r=1&ref=russia
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